Pages Tagged “AAA”
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- Driving Costs May Be Exaggerated
Metrolink’s fare calculator compares your train ticket cost to how much it would cost you to drive the same trip…or does it?
- Quick Thoughts on Gas Mileage
Yesterday the Los Angeles Times ran an article about the fact that, in response to soaring gas prices, smaller cars are outselling light trucks (which include SUVs, pickups, and minivans) in the US for the first time since 1996. Last night I was going through old magazines that we’d just tossed in a bag before […]
- For the Terminally DIY-Impaired
We both did a double-take approaching this pick-up truck a few days ago: Once you think about it (though it helps to see the logo on the side of the truck), it’s clearly a AAA service that delivers and installs replacement car batteries. The lack of punctuation makes it easy to read as a service […]
- Triple-Dub
WWW, while convenient to type, is rather unwieldy when spoken (at least in English). “Double-U double-U double-U dot some site dot com” takes a while to say. It’s not like, say, AAA, which can be easily spoken as “Triple-A.” Fortunately, these days most major sites have their servers configured to return the same web with […]