There is an old adage: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. After being royally screwed by the TV show Top Gear (I don’t watch that show anymore) during a segment on the Tesla Roadster, where it was really set to fail. Elon Musk and his crew learned their lesson when it comes to lending one of their cars for a press road test by double checking the log files once the review comes out.
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Was looking at the design of the “fuel gauge” of the Nissan Leaf, where an electronic bar gauge shows the state of your charge. This had my obsessive compulsive side kicking in with the thought that this line of thinking looks out of date and should be upgraded already for this mode of technology.
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One of the subreddits, at the social aggregator site known as reddit that I like to frequent is the Buy it for Life subreddit. There users post about which products they like because of their quality, usefulness and penchant for lasting long. You can read more about them from their mission statement.
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A couple months back I had the sad experience of having to have to cut a tree down in our house. The reason behind that was because our neighbor complained that the branches could damage their house. Another reason was because the tree’s massive root system could damage the wall of the neighbors. Not that I’m blaming our neighbors as their fears were well within reason.
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It’s been a few months since I last dined in the SM Food Court so I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the tenants selling food there had switched from using plastic cups to the more environment friendly wax lined paper cups when serving beverages.
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