I got one of these as a door prize at a car dealership's promotion overday. It's about the size of a Hershey's miniature bar and "retails" at about $15. Because it isn't Solid Gold.
Update On Sunday's Content
Mar. 6th, 2012 02:30 pmThere has been a steady stream of potential buyers for the neighbor's Mustang Mach 1 today, including one from a dealership (so I noticed from the dealer license plates on his white, last year's model van).
A friend-of-a-friend name of Chris is selling this car. Contact details and further information are available for serious inquiries. It's in the shape I expect a forty-year-old toy to be in, especially for East Tennessee.
Topic For Monday
Feb. 27th, 2012 12:53 am[Previously posted on my Facebook webpresense:]
It's Publisher Clearinghouse Sweepstakes time. I get a mailing teasing me about a $3 Million Dream Home--but somehow I think I'd be happier with a dozen $250K homes, scattered about the nation/world. What would $250,000 US get a fella where you are?
It's Publisher Clearinghouse Sweepstakes time. I get a mailing teasing me about a $3 Million Dream Home--but somehow I think I'd be happier with a dozen $250K homes, scattered about the nation/world. What would $250,000 US get a fella where you are?
Welcome Reaffirmations
Jan. 6th, 2012 04:28 pmNewport Dry Goods is still open, and still the best place in this part of Tennessee to get a Men's "sport coat".
Maybe if I got one I'd feel better about looking for work again.
Maybe if I got one I'd feel better about looking for work again.
Yes, I Know About That
Dec. 27th, 2011 03:51 pm( Rileys Complaint )
Last year my sister did a lesson for kids titled NOMS 101 (basically about making healthy snacks).
Maybe I should embark on something semi-artistic/cultural/handy. "How To Make Your Misfit Toys Fit".
Last year my sister did a lesson for kids titled NOMS 101 (basically about making healthy snacks).
Maybe I should embark on something semi-artistic/cultural/handy. "How To Make Your Misfit Toys Fit".
I Posted This First On Facebook
Dec. 9th, 2011 07:14 pmAnother Idea I Have NO WAY To Exploit
The other day, the news had a story about two local high school kids who were using a Kinect to develop orthotics (replacement limbs and other such devices) technology.
I just had a more commercial idea, spurred by a conversation at![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ps238principal.
In theory a Kinect can be programmed to take your measurements for apparel sizing. This could even be incorporated into a game software so kids can try being fashion designers. But the "killer app" would be with actual clothiers. They could request this data from customers, and then use it to build virtual mannekins upon which to show off their products.
I don't own an Xbox or a Kinect. I don't know their language. I don't know anybody in the programming or games industry. I do know some people in fashion, but they are all low-tech. Where can I take this idea?
The other day, the news had a story about two local high school kids who were using a Kinect to develop orthotics (replacement limbs and other such devices) technology.
I just had a more commercial idea, spurred by a conversation at
ps238principal.In theory a Kinect can be programmed to take your measurements for apparel sizing. This could even be incorporated into a game software so kids can try being fashion designers. But the "killer app" would be with actual clothiers. They could request this data from customers, and then use it to build virtual mannekins upon which to show off their products.
I don't own an Xbox or a Kinect. I don't know their language. I don't know anybody in the programming or games industry. I do know some people in fashion, but they are all low-tech. Where can I take this idea?
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It Takes Money To Make Money
Oct. 3rd, 2011 03:54 pmOn Facebook this afternoon, I saw an ad for a site called SponsoredWHIPS.com and was curious about it. Their business is that, for a fee (which they don't mention in their ads) they will have your car customized and find a sponsor to advertise on it. Because of my curiosity about it, I applied at Facebook and got a phone call from one of their sales types. They wanted me to arrange payment then and there, over the phone, before doing any further business. As I don't have any income or money, I had to forgo the deal.
If I had the funds, I probably would have done it.
PS: After I wrote the above, I did a websearch and found evidence of loads of dissatisfied former clients, mainly people who paid money up front and for whom SWLLC never delivered what was promised. Thanks but NO THANKS.
If I had the funds, I probably would have done it.
PS: After I wrote the above, I did a websearch and found evidence of loads of dissatisfied former clients, mainly people who paid money up front and for whom SWLLC never delivered what was promised. Thanks but NO THANKS.
One And The Same?
Aug. 5th, 2011 06:48 pmSome of my Dad's e-mail gets forwarded to me.
Mostly his junk. Got a piece the other day from the Warner Brothers video club, since we're sorta signed up with them, in spite of never actually buying anything from them. Header said "Cartoon classics..." Only it wasn't Looney Tunes they were pushing--it was old Hanna-Barbera stuff from the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties. (And I don't mean THEIR really old stuff from the Sixties!)
All of a sudden I wonder if there might be a shotgun marriage in the works between Bugs Bunny and Yogi Bear. Ugh. Why is youth culture in America SO OLD?
Mostly his junk. Got a piece the other day from the Warner Brothers video club, since we're sorta signed up with them, in spite of never actually buying anything from them. Header said "Cartoon classics..." Only it wasn't Looney Tunes they were pushing--it was old Hanna-Barbera stuff from the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties. (And I don't mean THEIR really old stuff from the Sixties!)
All of a sudden I wonder if there might be a shotgun marriage in the works between Bugs Bunny and Yogi Bear. Ugh. Why is youth culture in America SO OLD?
Useless News
Aug. 2nd, 2011 01:42 pmJust south of Corbin, Kentucky on Highway 25E, at the used car dealership named Slusher's, there is a Chevy Astro van painted up as Scooby-Doo's "Mystery Machine" in all its quasi-hippie glory. I didn't stop to see whether it was for sale, or if so what the asking price is, when I went by there Sunday.
Mad Dogs And/Or Murdochs
Jul. 19th, 2011 08:29 pmIf there's a moral to be found: too often these days the fathers of commerce tell the underlings "we need results!--How you get them is your business, not ours!" And so they morally support the methods of the underlings' activities regardless of the risks. But the dice will always come up snakeeyes, eventually. "Plausible denial" ("Oh, we never asked how they got the information beyond verifying the sources") is no excuse anymore. At least, nobody is going to accept that as an excuse anymore.
Phone Rings
Jul. 5th, 2011 07:37 pmPhone Rings...
The party on the other end may or not may be recorded. She talks fast in a carefully-constructed statement words to the effect that you won a prize and that you have to call back to a 1-800 number (with an extension) to claim the prize. You don't hear what the prize is, who the prize is intended for, or how come they have your number. (She made have said something, but it isn't very clear on this end.) There is no possibility that you can get her to repeat the information or just push a button on the phone to switch it to the number/extension she means.
How is this supposed to succeed?
The party on the other end may or not may be recorded. She talks fast in a carefully-constructed statement words to the effect that you won a prize and that you have to call back to a 1-800 number (with an extension) to claim the prize. You don't hear what the prize is, who the prize is intended for, or how come they have your number. (She made have said something, but it isn't very clear on this end.) There is no possibility that you can get her to repeat the information or just push a button on the phone to switch it to the number/extension she means.
How is this supposed to succeed?
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A Little Mystery Solved
Jun. 18th, 2011 11:45 pmhttp://www.theearlhayspress.com/index.html
You'd have to be about my age or older to understand.
It's all about product placement. The rules were a little different in movies and TV prior to the 1980s. The studios used to have to pay and pay big money to include branded products on screen. So instead of doing that, they'd hire somebody, the above link for a very big example, to fake it.
The "Nacy L. Courey's" beer can was an unintended icon of the late Seventies/early Eighties dramedy show. I have no idea where it first appeared, but it appeared frequently on The Rockford Files and Eight Is Enough and a lot of other genre shows.
Now the world has reversed; companies compete with one another to appear in big movies, and now, when a studio does a fake like this it's more likely for satirical intent. But it's still enough to keep The Earl Hay's Press open and busy.
Now I want to design a race car livery celebrating Courey's Age-Dated Beer. After I do one for Schleppo, of course.
Errant Errands
Jun. 11th, 2011 09:25 pmToday I had a vendor table at HobbyTown's gamer bazaar for probably the last time. I didn't move much stuff (a figure and eight back issues of Knights of the Dinner Table) nor make much money doing it, so what else that is gamerish that I have to sell I'll do over a Yahoo!Group to which I'm subscribed.
Tough Times
May. 27th, 2011 04:42 pmTook Mum to Knoville today so we could visit Virtual Interactive Center (our ISP) and talk to Josh (our service rep). The bad news:
VIC is also discontinuing their e-mail and web hosting services. Mum's mail will be phased out in a few months and her website will need new hosting probably in less than a year.
Since Mum has accounts with other webservices we can migrate her e-mail pretty easily, but doing something about her website is going to take some creativity.
It's a shame that VIC is dropping our business because in our view they've always been a class operation and we like them just as much now as we did in 1997 when we started.
PS: I bought my box set of Wings of War: Fire In The Sky. Going to open it this evening.
VIC is also discontinuing their e-mail and web hosting services. Mum's mail will be phased out in a few months and her website will need new hosting probably in less than a year.
Since Mum has accounts with other webservices we can migrate her e-mail pretty easily, but doing something about her website is going to take some creativity.
It's a shame that VIC is dropping our business because in our view they've always been a class operation and we like them just as much now as we did in 1997 when we started.
PS: I bought my box set of Wings of War: Fire In The Sky. Going to open it this evening.
Rerun Of An Old Useless Fact
Feb. 27th, 2011 03:26 pmA Barrel of Oil is 31.5 Gallons (4032 ounces, or 56 six-packs). Don't ask me who decided this matter.
$97.88/Barrel equals $3.11/Gallon of Crude. Refine it, take stuff out of it, put more stuff in it, add sales taxes and maybe a nickle or two of profits to the individual gas station, and there you have it.
Told you it was useless.
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$97.88/Barrel equals $3.11/Gallon of Crude. Refine it, take stuff out of it, put more stuff in it, add sales taxes and maybe a nickle or two of profits to the individual gas station, and there you have it.
Told you it was useless.
FP
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The Sticker
Feb. 19th, 2011 09:35 pm
It's only a couple inches across.
Why?
1) Grayson is one of the major car dealers in Knoxville. They used to be the main Pontiac dealer, and in past years, their sticker included the arrowhead of the Pontiac logo. Now that Pontiac is gone, they just have the checkerboard that evokes both BMW (which is their main business now) and the University of Tennessee (which often has checkerboard motifs for their sports teams).
2) In David Weber's Honorverse, Grayson is a star nation, centered in the Yeltsin system, which is important to the saga and one of my favorite factions, so I just had to have one of these. Mine will go on my tool chest, not Moonshine's tail.
3) Grayson is the name of the toddler child of my high school classmate Chuck Oppermann, so I had to get one for him as well.
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