Posts from ‘March, 2009’

Fun with the English language – Diesel t-shirt fabric care

I recently purchased a Diesel T-shirt from Nordstrom. It’s a nice printed T so I wanted to be careful when washing it. Reading the fabric care instructions was both confusing and funny.
It seems I can only wear the shirt inside:
EXPOSED TO EXTREME
AMOUNTS
OF SUNLIGHT COLOR
MAY FADE

And the washing instructions:
THIS GARMENT HAS BEEN TREATED IN
ORDER [...]

Austin Hail Storm, Car Damage – March 25, 2009

On Wednesday evening, I experienced my first “real” hail storm. My car sustained $4500 in damage in less than 10 minutes of bad weather. Luckily I didn’t have any glass damage as the subsequent water damage often totals a car. Hopefully this wasn’t our official welcome to Texas.
Hail measurement:

Here is a video from my [...]

Farewell to Recommendr, Social Shopping – Social Commerce

It has been an amazing ride, but effective today, the Recommendr site has ceased operation.
I’d like to thank everyone who participated in the site and made the site a valuable resource for shoppers. Our developers were fantastic and worked tirelessly to deliver amazing code on schedule. We were amazed by the technical solutions our [...]

Kindle 2 vs. Kindle 1 size comparison WITH cover

There are tons of articles and posts about the new Kindle 2 from Amazon.com. Rather than bore you with the same information and my opinion, here are some photos of the size difference between the two versions WITH the cover.

Since many will be carrying the device with the case, this might be a more [...]