Archive for December, 2006

15,000 Visitors In The Last 24 Hours: Got Digg-ed

After uploading the post titled “Gasoline Prices: Why $2.189 and not $2.19; Why The Third Decimal Place?” on late Thursday night, I tried to check my website yesterday around noon and kept getting error messages. I was just about to lodge a complaint with Dreamhost when I read this email from Dreamhost Tech Support:
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How To Flush $299 Down The Toilet

Here is a funny product, the purpose of which I don’t really understand (other than to flush $299 down the toilet): The Fish n’ Flush Aquarium. Marketed by fishnflush.com, this doodad of a toilet has the water tank in the form of an aquarium. Here is an image of the product.

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Gasoline Prices: Why $2.189 and not $2.19; Why The Third Decimal Place?

This follows from my last post where the image displays the price as $1.379 per gallon but I write it as $1.38 in the post for a couple of times.
Almost everyone has seen this…and some of us must have observed this too. Gas stations always advertise prices with the third decimal place displayed (albeit […]

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$1.38 A Gallon Gasoline At This Gas Station

During our holiday driving in the past few days, we came across this large advertisement on a state highway..made us slow down and pull into the gas station to see if we can benefit from the ultra-low prices

Disapointment was quick and expected. The gas terminals at the station seemed unused for a long […]

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Still Travelling; Will Be Back On Thursday

We are practically spending more time in our car than at our residence. We are now 120 miles from home and will be travelling another 300~350 miles before heading home late tomorrow night. Our 104,000 miles old Nissan is keeping up with the rigor without so much as a whimper.
The story so far for […]

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