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EEEK the GEEKS

Special offer from the Geeks. Debranded HP computer for under $200! The thing comes with a 250gig SATA drive, 1gig memory, Lightscribe DVD burner, Athlon 64 X2 dual core 2.2 ghz 4200+ processor and motherboard with integrated video and lan plus 3 pci slots and one pci express slot.

Wow! just what I [...]

It is all American

Is it really?! If I can’t see that for myself, if the sales clown has to point it out, it is probably all bull shit, not all American.

Isn’t it funny how when some folk realize they are selling stuff no one wants to buy, they have to wrap it in Mom, country, and apple [...]

Assembled in America

Sounds better than ‘Made in China’ but does not mean it was made in the United States by U.S. citizens. A common mistake we make is to consider the term America to mean the United States. The United States is just one of many countries located in America.

As long as it is not [...]

Windpower

I hear that windpower can provide about 20 percent of our electrical needs. That means something else must provide the remaining 80 percent.

Assuming that the something else exists, maybe we should spend time and money on it instead of windmills.

It might be easier getting to 100 percent by starting at 80 percent than [...]

Half Off

I hear more than the usual number of ads offering services and product at ‘half off’. I keep wondering ‘half off’ what? My budget is based on dollars American. It has no provisions for including things ‘half off’.

I find it interesting that most of these ‘half off’ deals are on services and [...]

Unfit for Public Consumption

We have been residents of the Richardson Texas area for over thirty years. Until this morning we have maintained an active, land-line, telephone service during those thirty years and never experienced problems until a few months ago.

The first indication of trouble was an additional charge of eight dollars. After investigating the reason for [...]