From Hoopty Rides, a car culture blog that one of my favorite sites, Chanfles turned me onto:
Everything you love, everything meaningful with depth and history, all passionate authentic experiences will be appropriated, mishandled, watered down, cheapened, repackaged, marketed and sold to the people you hate.
Ain’t it the truth. Preach on, Mister Jalopy.
Also, he is selling [...]

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I received warning and, finally, confirmation that the wonderful coffee of Mocca Club will soon be gone.

I have no idea of the reasons, as it seemed fairly popular, but I can confess to my lack of support. Despite the fact that the Mocca Club served the best coffee in Vienna, I just couldn’t make myself [...]

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I’ve decided to force myself to type some shit with my new work laptop because the keyboard is fucking weird and I can’t get used to it. It’s got keys in weird places, sort of like the face goiters around here.
It’s a Siemens. While I appreciate the fact that my work entrusts me to have [...]

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In what must surely be a plot to alleviate my family from its cumbersome life savings and alleviate our worries about achieving retirement goals, a site dedicated to Craftsman, Arts & Crafts, Mission and Prairie School design points out that I could literally spend all of my money in one day.
My wife and [...]

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Reason number 634 that having an iPod rocks. I can shut out all the noise at work.
Reason number 635 that iPod rocks. When one listens to “Filmore Jive” by Pavement (from Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain) while working on a document titled “Software Candidate Matrix for Project POC”, the little piece of your soul that [...]

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It has shipped.
My conversion is nearly complete. By this time next week, I will have switched my computing platform to the above-depicted Apple. I will not be a Mac User, I will be The Mack User. I could contain my consumer indulgence reflex no longer, and I single-clicked her from [...]

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If you’ve got the limit on your credit cards, check out Zingerman’s.

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Inspired by several that I have noticed around the web, being cheap as I am, being a UNIX nerd, and having just drooled over the new 20” iMac, I have decided to start a switcher fund. However, this is a different repetition of the motif.
I’m not begging for donations from the general public, as [...]

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So my neighborhood coffee shop is okay, but the espresso there is not very good. That’s a problem.
To rectify, I’m thinking about entering the obscene world of home espresso machines. In all of my obsessive ways, I have researched the hell out of it and arrived at this beauty:

But I really, really like [...]

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My latest consumer fetish…

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I was going through some old college photos and found this gem.

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I want this car.Of course, I’d feel like an asshole driving it, and I’d never pay more than $20K for a new car, and there are even more limiting factors—like the fact that I’d look like a man in the throes of a wickedly painful midlife crisis and that I don’t really like to buy [...]

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Consumer Cravings Arise—but this time, they’re politically motivated.
I want this. I’ve heard nothing but great comments about the latest Mac products and especially OS X.
I was the resident “Mac Expert” at my first ISP job back in ‘95 even though I’d never really used one for anything other than writing some papers [...]

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