Category: miscellaneous

I still love my 2006 Jetta TDI (44.5 MPG over the past 36,300 miles) and can’t see why the Detroit auto makers don’t try to get something going in this market.  For all the attention paid to hybrids, it is still the case that for most American’s a Diesel would be a better alternative than…

From the cat walk in Nashville Originally uploaded by aakelley

IMAG0038.jpg Originally uploaded by aakelley Wesley Woodyard…he’ll play on Sunday Baja Beach Bums divx

.!. A little after Christmas Italian dinner with the family Originally uploaded by aakelley

Merry Christmas from the choir Originally uploaded by aakelley white oleander online

Well, well.  How things change in 24 hours.  I have no idea whether it was due to my post yesterday about my big problems with Amazon telling me 5 days before Christmas that my kids wouldn’t be getting their presents until February (although I would like to think that it was ;-)), but today I…

After looking at all the options on my kids Christmas lists, my wife and I decided that the Pleo was the best overall option.  So we went to their site to find out where we could buy a couple a few weeks ago.  There were 5 stores offered on the official site: Amazon, Best Buy,…

Not blogging too much this next two weeks, but I am keeping up with things in Google Reader and came across this post from csven and though it was another interesting example of a fairly traditional manufacturing firm dipping their toes in the virtual waters of SL. It feels to me that we are emerging…

Yet another example of the social production meme leaking out of IT into the manufactured goods we use every day.  This time it’s beenie babies (no trademark infringement intended): Plushie: easy design system for plush toys – Boing Boing Itty Bitty Titty Committee release