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Missing My Vette

Submitted by Garry Egan on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 1:11am

So my Vette is in the shop for 3 weeks because some douchebag decided to try and draft me while I was driving down the road and when I went to turn into a parking lot slammed me with his F250 Super-Steel truck.....of course my Vette was munched but his truck was unscathed.

I've got this shitty Dodge Charger that is supposed to hold me off for 21 days and it's barely doing its job. I contemplated renting a Vette for 3 weeks but they wanted $200 a day to rent it and it was a red automatic which really would suck. I am not sure what's worse: having no Vette or a red automatic Vette.

I am still trying to come up with an idea that will give me my reward of a new 2012 ZR1 in gun-metal grey. I really want that new Vette badly. I dream of it all of the time...what song I'll play when I get it, what road I'll drive...who'll I will bring with me on it's maiden voyage...how fast it will go.

At $114,000, it will be my most expensive car to date and frivolous by most people's standards (even mine). In this day and age, is it wise to spend $114K on a car? My thought is yes. Here is why. We are only on this planet a short time. You need to do shit that makes you happy. Period.

Sure, it's only a car. But those who have driven with me and spent the night hanging out with me usually have a story to tell for the rest of their life...and that was just one night for you....I get to do that shit every day. That's worth more money that you can imagine. Memories. They're expensive.

Almost everyone that I have graced with a night in the Vette and hanging out has had such an epic time that I hear from them for years. It's most of the time the best night of their lives. How can a car produce so many good times? I don't know. It just does. Top down. A few drinks. A freeway onramp. A good CD. IT all comes together in a beautiful cacophony of ordered chaos. It's hard to imagine unless you've been there.

Search Engine Ranking Reports Free Service

Submitted by Garry Egan on Wed, 01/06/2010 - 10:46pm

What was once a spendy monthly service is now free to the public thanks to a new company.

Search Engine Reports LLC, based out of the Pacific Northwest, saw a problem. A seemingly simple concept of using an API was costing users hundreds of dollars per year per domain.

The concept we are referring to are 'search engine ranking report.' You see, webmasters have many domains and they need to monitor their positions on the search engines on a regular basis but using a complicated interface and spending money each month quickly became the defacto standard within this industry.

So me an a partner built a follow up to Article Checker, a web plagiarism checker. This is a great improvement to the old Article Checker. I call it AC II but that's because I'm kind of geeky like that.