5 minutes to a better price – Buying a new car…

This guy is amazing. The highlight for me…

“…you’ll feel like and asshole, that’s normal–it means you’re doing it right”

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Why the iPhone update changed my mind

After impulse buying a 600$ (plus tax) piece of Apple foolishness, I have the ritualistic remorse that always follows such impulse purchasing. While it is nice to whip the iPhone out, and have friends and family ogle it, and ask you all sorts of questions– deep down,it’s hard to shake feeling a bit silly for having dropped 600$ (plus tax) on a phone.That all changed for me today. (Technically, it changed about 4 days ago with the iPhone 1.01 update– but it wasn’t until I read this post on iLounge that I realized it).Apple will tell you that the new iPhone update was basically a security fix update…but it turns out it also fixed a bunch of other stuff:

• Always BCC added to email settings so you can carbon copy yourself
• Battery diplay updates to provide more accurate display of charge
• Passcode lock can have a longer timeout– prevents you having to enter your passcode EVERY time the phone goes into standby mode– instead allows you to picke a time frame to allow the phone to wait before it requires a passcode
• Audio out now works on many popular stereo docks and adaptors

So, back to the regret part…I really only listen to music in my car. Until this update my iPhone just couldn’t take the place of my iPod– it had iPod features, but no audio out to my car’s iPod setup. Read more…

My car is back

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After:

Today’s Collision– I would recommend them to anyone.

Pappy done gone and got hisself a new car!

So my dad decided to leave behind the VW fold, and venture forth to Infinity (and beyond?)

Anyway, here are some shots of the new car…it’s hot! I really like the front end, it’s agressive without looking to over the top

Southwest airlines paid for my car…

For those of you who don’t know (or do know– but have never seen it) I was chosen to be in a Southwest Airlines TV commercial, which to date has almost singlehandedly paid for my car loan. It was a great time– I was flown out to Philly on U.S. Air, put up in a hotel, sat around most of the day, and was on camera for probably a total of 25 minutes.

So without further delay, and in the interest of burning thru some bandwidth…here’s my TV commercial