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I wrote yesterday about picking a car, and Dan Lyke pointed out that The thing to remember about driving a Subaru: Lesbians get the chicks.
That’s a good point, Dan, but I wonder what kind of chicks it would get me.
In any case, I ended up going with the Blazer. More ground clearance for getting through snow on the way to mom’s in the winter, more hauling capacity for projects around the house and tailgating, and as I think about it, my desire for a wagon was based on wanting one car to do everything. If I keep the Camaro and fix it up as time and money permit, I don’t need a compromise. As Jim said, You had conflicting needs and went with the most practical thing for what you needed.
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It’s not a perfect vehicle. I suspect the gas mileage isn’t as good as I’d like (the factory numbers for the 2004 are 15/19, and mine’s a 2001, so it might be even worse), though I’ll find out for sure later in the weekend when I drive up to mom’s. The center of gravity is higher than I like, and it’s going to take me a while to quit trying to throttle through corners (on the Camaro, if done correctly, powering through the corner makes the car dig-in and corner better, on the Blazer, it makes it feel like it’s going to roll over). But I’m relatively sure I won’t end up actively hating it, and that’s good enough for me.
Oh, and it sure is purty. The biggest remaining worry I have is that now that I have a truck, I’m going to be spending weekends helping people haul stuff instead of napping on the couch. Oh well, as long as they have the traditional payment for such work on hand, I guess that’s okay.
- The spam situation has gotten bad enough that Net Rivals Embrace to Fight Spam, as Microsoft and Yahoo! are working on separate ideas to eliminate spam. In the long run, sendmail is probably a bigger key, since sendmail is over half of the email servers out there. [wired]
- In the battle against spam, When Software Fails to Stop Spam, It’s Time to Bring In the Detectives to track down the spammers so they can be prosecuted or sued. This article profiles one of the detectives who works for Microsoft. [nyt]
- When you send an email, Who Got the Message? There’s a Way to Know says the New York Times. Except that way depends on sending the email in HTML format with a web-bug from DidTheyReadIt.com. For those of us who never read HTML email (my server automatically files such mail as spam), it won’t ever know that the email has been read. [nyt]
- When you die, and leave a computer full of stuff, Whose Data Is It, Anyway? Well, that depends. If you didn’t make any provisions for it in your will, it’ll go to your estate, but the executor will need to recover it and sort through the data. Few people think about that when preparing a will. [nyt]
- In yesterday’s comments on pending draft legislation, I repeated the line from the original article that the administration was trying to push the legislation through. That turns out to be unsupported (if not just outright false). The legislation is all sponsored by Democrats, many of them from the barking-moonbat wing of the party. Thanks to Marshall and Vinnie for pointing that out.
- Finally, Mitch has a list of Things That Would Get Me Thrown Out Of A GOP Meeting that surprisingly enough matches my major problems with the GOP.