Thursday, February 23, 2006
Haha - what a letter!
In response to Martha's comment on blaming Donald for her failed apprentice show...
Dear Martha: It's about time you started taking responsibility for your failed version of The Apprentice. Your performance was terrible in that the show lacked mood, temperament and just about everything else a show needs for success. I knew it would fail as soon as I first saw it — and your low ratings bore me out.
Between your daughter, with her one word statements, your letter writing and, most importantly, your totally unconvincing demeanor, it never had a chance — much as your daytime show is not exactly setting records.
Despite this, I did nothing but positively promote you. Your only response to your failed show was that, "I thought that I was supposed to fire Donald Trump?" You knew this was not true — NBC would never fire me when The Apprentice was, for a good period of time, the #1 show on television and my recent finale, where I hired Randal, was the #2 show for the week, easily beating the competing finale of Amazing Race and others. Even Mark Burnett said, "Thank God that didn't happen" when asked about firing Donald Trump.
Essentially, you made this firing up just as you made up your sell order of ImClone. The only difference is — that was more obvious. Putting your show on the air was a mistake for everybody — especially NBC. In any event, my great loyalty to you has gone totally unappreciated.
Sincerely, Donald J. Trump.
p.s. Be careful or I will do a syndicated daytime show, perhaps called The Boardroom, and further destroy the meager ratings you already have!
He's got a sharp tongue!
In response to Martha's comment on blaming Donald for her failed apprentice show...
Dear Martha: It's about time you started taking responsibility for your failed version of The Apprentice. Your performance was terrible in that the show lacked mood, temperament and just about everything else a show needs for success. I knew it would fail as soon as I first saw it — and your low ratings bore me out.
Between your daughter, with her one word statements, your letter writing and, most importantly, your totally unconvincing demeanor, it never had a chance — much as your daytime show is not exactly setting records.
Despite this, I did nothing but positively promote you. Your only response to your failed show was that, "I thought that I was supposed to fire Donald Trump?" You knew this was not true — NBC would never fire me when The Apprentice was, for a good period of time, the #1 show on television and my recent finale, where I hired Randal, was the #2 show for the week, easily beating the competing finale of Amazing Race and others. Even Mark Burnett said, "Thank God that didn't happen" when asked about firing Donald Trump.
Essentially, you made this firing up just as you made up your sell order of ImClone. The only difference is — that was more obvious. Putting your show on the air was a mistake for everybody — especially NBC. In any event, my great loyalty to you has gone totally unappreciated.
Sincerely, Donald J. Trump.
p.s. Be careful or I will do a syndicated daytime show, perhaps called The Boardroom, and further destroy the meager ratings you already have!
He's got a sharp tongue!
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Monday, February 13, 2006
Neato.
5 on the 1-10 scale of 'neato'
234 on the 1-10 scale of 'neato'
5 on the 1-10 scale of 'neato'
234 on the 1-10 scale of 'neato'
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AT LEAST 234 on the scale. This is unreal. I want one NOW.
Friday, February 10, 2006
I'm a big fan of google.com. In fact, I just loaded their mapping software on my Sony Ericsson K750. It works well and their mapping service found 6 Target stores around the city for me and gave me directions to the nearest one automatically.
That ranks about a 45 on the 1-10 cool scale.
The whole 'search across computers' feature isn't as neat though. In fact, it may be detrimental to your legal health if the government gets their hands on it.
Read up on this article for more info.
That ranks about a 45 on the 1-10 cool scale.
The whole 'search across computers' feature isn't as neat though. In fact, it may be detrimental to your legal health if the government gets their hands on it.
Read up on this article for more info.
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Thursday, February 09, 2006
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Monday, February 06, 2006
So I just had my tranny flushed. Haha - uhhhhhhh no, I do not have my own personal transvestite. What I'm talking about is my car's transmission! The guy at the dealership recommended that I flush the fluid but from what I found online, it may not be the best thing to do right off the bat if you're interested in treating your car right.
Keep in mind that ATF in this story is not about the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms organization. It's an acronym for automatic tramission fluid.
Here's the story.
Like many lubricants, ATF has detergents and additives to help keep wear and tear contaminants in suspension (to prevent accelerated wear) and also to clean and clear up sludge that tends to build up over time. Draining and refilling removes some of those particulate suspensions and also of the sludge as well (much like Dawn dish soap removing a coat of cooked-on meat and fat from a cooking pan). If you neglect your A/T w/o changing any fluid, the particulates just stay in there causing damage (esp. when the fluid's capacity to buffer particulates has reached a maximal level), while thicker and thicker sludge layers start coating your valve body, torque converter, and some parts of your transmission line--as the detergents will slowly stop doing their cleaning chemical work miles back (like any detergent, you can only clean up so much). Say you let this go on for 70k miles, then do a full ATF changeover. Here's what happens: 1) yes, you do get most of the particulates in suspension out and then some--which is good, but. . . 2) you have all new ATF with strong detergents that will start working right away at cleaning up the sludge buildup. Now envision something, back to the cooked-on meat remanants from the cooking pan and you just put on some Dawn, what's going to happen? Some of it will slowly dissolve and go into suspension--fine--but some of the cooked on sludge layers will come off in solid chunks--some sooner, some later. What's going to happen to these solid chunks? Clog up lines, get into the gears, get into the valve body, clog up a filter (depending on your filter design), resulting in a transmission that will overheat and eventually fail. That's why I recommend a few drain and refills initially if your car hasn't been serviced in a while (or if you don't know the service history or the ATF is just plain brown or black), so you initially only have some gentle cleaning, and slowly work a little bit of sludge loose (and eventually over the course of a few weeks or so, the ATF will clean those small bits of solid sludge by dissolving them directly into a safe liquid suspension) instead of a strong shock of all new ATF (which will get a lot of the solid chunks of sludge off, but too fast and the chunks too large, which causes the aforementioned damage). After the initial drain and refill, then change the ATF over the course of the next oil changes, to slowly get the particulates and sludge out and chemically into solution. Eventually (maybe after 7 drain and refills later), assuming you start off with dark brown/black ATF in your car), you'll get a clean raspberry colored ATF, and a cleaner A/T without risking damage to your car that could have resulted from an ATF flush.
For about $10 per drain and refill, are you going to take risk to rebuild a $6k transmission? If I was in that postiion, it's not worth the risk. Further, an additional 5 min of manintenance to change the ATF is good insurance to keep my car's transmission running smooth and clean for years to come.
Keep in mind that ATF in this story is not about the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms organization. It's an acronym for automatic tramission fluid.
Here's the story.
Like many lubricants, ATF has detergents and additives to help keep wear and tear contaminants in suspension (to prevent accelerated wear) and also to clean and clear up sludge that tends to build up over time. Draining and refilling removes some of those particulate suspensions and also of the sludge as well (much like Dawn dish soap removing a coat of cooked-on meat and fat from a cooking pan). If you neglect your A/T w/o changing any fluid, the particulates just stay in there causing damage (esp. when the fluid's capacity to buffer particulates has reached a maximal level), while thicker and thicker sludge layers start coating your valve body, torque converter, and some parts of your transmission line--as the detergents will slowly stop doing their cleaning chemical work miles back (like any detergent, you can only clean up so much). Say you let this go on for 70k miles, then do a full ATF changeover. Here's what happens: 1) yes, you do get most of the particulates in suspension out and then some--which is good, but. . . 2) you have all new ATF with strong detergents that will start working right away at cleaning up the sludge buildup. Now envision something, back to the cooked-on meat remanants from the cooking pan and you just put on some Dawn, what's going to happen? Some of it will slowly dissolve and go into suspension--fine--but some of the cooked on sludge layers will come off in solid chunks--some sooner, some later. What's going to happen to these solid chunks? Clog up lines, get into the gears, get into the valve body, clog up a filter (depending on your filter design), resulting in a transmission that will overheat and eventually fail. That's why I recommend a few drain and refills initially if your car hasn't been serviced in a while (or if you don't know the service history or the ATF is just plain brown or black), so you initially only have some gentle cleaning, and slowly work a little bit of sludge loose (and eventually over the course of a few weeks or so, the ATF will clean those small bits of solid sludge by dissolving them directly into a safe liquid suspension) instead of a strong shock of all new ATF (which will get a lot of the solid chunks of sludge off, but too fast and the chunks too large, which causes the aforementioned damage). After the initial drain and refill, then change the ATF over the course of the next oil changes, to slowly get the particulates and sludge out and chemically into solution. Eventually (maybe after 7 drain and refills later), assuming you start off with dark brown/black ATF in your car), you'll get a clean raspberry colored ATF, and a cleaner A/T without risking damage to your car that could have resulted from an ATF flush.
For about $10 per drain and refill, are you going to take risk to rebuild a $6k transmission? If I was in that postiion, it's not worth the risk. Further, an additional 5 min of manintenance to change the ATF is good insurance to keep my car's transmission running smooth and clean for years to come.
