I loved this photo. Makes me want to buy a new camera and take cool photos of cars.
My 2001 Audi S4 is in need of a new clutch and new turbos. I have 86k on my car now and with a new clutch and turbos it could probably go another 50k with near 500 bhp. Sounds pretty fun to me, or my other option is to think about a new car. less maintenance and to stop modding my car. It’s becoming too much of a money hog and its very addicting. I feel like it might be nicer to break the habit.
The new 2010 Audi S4 is a 3.0li Supercharged engine putting out 333hp. My Current S4 is a Twin Turbo putting out about 350hp but with new turbos could be very close to 500hp.
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I just installed twittertools by Alex King. The plugin connects your blog to your twitter account by posting a tweet when you write a new blog post. If you are reading this via twitter, then it worked. The plugin also works the other way as well. You can choose to have the plugin create a weekly blog post about all your tweets of that week.
This is my first week using this plugin so we’ll see how it goes. Next week I will setup the wordpress all-in-one SEO pack. I hear its the bee’s knees when it comes to wordpress and SEO. SEO is so hot right now.
My credit card statement this month was different for the first time. I had a balance, but the minimum payment was zero dollars. This confused me. How can I have a balance and the minimum payment be zero? I didn’t think much of this and I thought it was a mistake. I setup my payment to pay off my balance in full like I always do. I needed to find out why my minimum payment would be set to zero. So I sent a message to customer service. Chase’s customer service is very good by the way. They always get back to you quickly and accommodate you well.
You can see in the picture above that my statement clearly says I carry a balance, and my minimum payment is zero.
My message to Chase was this, “I am a little confused why my last statement says minimum payment due is 0 dollars?” Here was the response I got from Chase…
Awesome! Thanks for the good news Chase, but this is a total scam. They want me to skip this payment so they can charge me interest. I’m posting this because as soon as I read this email, I had to let everyone know about it. If they allow you to “skip” a payment don’t do it. The minimum payment for my balance would have been about $18. If I had taken Chase up on this wonderful offer I’d be charged $12 dollars in interest. So this only benefits Chase. Maybe if you were really short on cash this could help you out, but for people like me who pay all their balances in full, this is just a scam to try and make a buck off you. I know $12 dollars doesn’t seem like much but multiply that by all the accounts Chase has.
What if you had setup automatic payments? Would this not go off because the minimum payment due is zero? If so, that would really screw people over.
If you liked this, or know anyone that should know about this, please share and let me know what you think below.
I updated the video I posted yesterday because it was filmed at night and you couldn’t see anything. The video was unedited and really crappy looking. The new version, is filmed during the day so you can actually see stuff. I tried to edit this using iMovie on my MacBook, but imovie is so noob, that I don’t know how to use it. So I installed Final Cut and did it that way.
The video is still not very well edited. This is my first time using FC and it’s been 8 years since I’ve touched video editing software.
I don’t really care if the video does well on youtube, I made it for the people I know that wanted to hear what the JHM 2.5 inch exhaust sounded like on an Audi S4. In the video you will see that I need a new clutch pretty bad. After the first launch, or lack or launch, it smelt so bad. Lot of burning clutch. The second launch, I didn’t drop the clutch because it will probably hate me. Until I get a new VAST stage 3 clutch my launches are going to suck.
Enjoy the video, maybe soon, there will be another of my drifting my Audi this past winter in the snow. Check back soon. Thanks! Back to werking for coins.
The Hangover is going to be the most talked about movie this summer. It’s getting great reviews and for good reason. Zach Galifianakia and Ed Helms, also know as Andy Bernard from The Office, are hilarious in the film. Don’t download this or wait for the Blu-Ray, support this movie this summer and go see it. It’s a funny adventure from start to finish, and it’s only 1 hour 40 min. Not super long and it won’t take up your whole night or day.
From the trailer you might miss that Heather Graham is in the movie. Just wanted to point that out.
I gave this movie an ‘A’ rating based on yahoo’s rating system. It’s def outstanding, but not Oscar worthy. My only complaint is that I couldn’t hear somethings because of all the laughter. See it in a movie theater that is really loud so you don’t miss a beat.
This scares me a lot because I drive an 01 Audi S4 that’s faster than that. This one appeared stock. I take my car to the track every so often, but I have never gone over 125 in my car, and probably won’t. Speed is not so much the trill for me, it’s the acceleration. That’s why I go to the drag strip. So I can speed legally.
The driver and 3 passengers of this car survived, and the driver was hit with a fine, and his license was suspended, because of the posting on youtube.com.
Often I see her just watching TV or staring at the wall or something and wonder, “what could she possibly be thinking?” just asking myself that makes me laugh. I don’t know if she is thinking in English even.
I walk in the room to see what she is watching and she said “my favorite.” By favorite she meant Steven Sigal’s Into the sun. Perfect!
Today, I am going to create a twitter background to help get tweople interested in following me. I am sick of the default designated “cool guy” twitter theme. It seems as though every guy I know rocks the same BG because its by far the coolest one. Now its time to branch out and create my own that shows I have several domains and identities on the internet other than twitter.
I am also going to look into new wordpress themes. I’ve been rocking the same one made by Chris Harrison for a while now. It’s done very well and it was really nice to work with, but I think I need a more 2009 wordpress theme. My buddy Adam Elliot Fields, just purchased two domains which I will be hosting, so be sure to check him out at adamelliotfields.com and iwanttobeformal.com. You should also follow him on twitter @fieldsy4life. He is an online personality that’s for sure, and you will be fully entertained following him around to whatever he does.
I’ve made some headway on my iPhone app today. Yay! I’ve been creating a simple move stuff around and drop stuff app for a demo for my company, but its turned into a passion project for me now. It started off simple, but then I turned it into a cool game that I hope is addicting! The bare bones version will be finished This Friday, but I hope to work on it more and make it my first iphone game to put on the app store. Shout out to @dr1337 for the instant help when I’m stuck with syntax. Thanks!
So I’ve decided to start posting the dumb(funny) things that Brenda, my mother in case you don’t know me personally, does on a daily basis. She is the BEST. Literally no other mom can top her, ask all my friends. She is hilarious and she doesn’t even know why. For a little background, she was born in the Philippines and moved to the states when she was 23 years old. She still has whicked(Im from Boston) broken English and she speaks entirely in her own made up catch phrases. I could go months talking to her just in her own catch phrases and she wouldn’t even know I was doing anything different. So in the near future be sure to check back on the funny things she says and the funny things she does. I’ll start to name my posts in her catch phrases even though they are NOT SEO’d. I don’t care about SEO anymore it’s over hyped. I care more about MBO, micro blogging optimization.
via MoneyAnswerTree.com Over the past 6th months I’ve seen my credit card interest rates drop to as low as 9.24%, just to be raised again in anticipation of the new credit card bill passed by President Obama, the “Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act.” The bill is intended to help consumers against credit card interest rate hikes by the banks. If this bill is supposed to help consumers against interest rate hikes why did mine just go up?
What does this mean for current card holders?
In the next several months you should be getting letters in the mail from your credit card companies explaining new changes to your terms & conditions. You will see higher interest rates and fees because they will no longer be able to change the APR’s on existing balances under the new bill.
What does this mean for new credit card offers?
It will be much harder to get approved for a credit card. They are tightening up who they allow credit. If you do get accepted, you will see a lower credit limit than what you would expect. For those who are 21 years and under will need to show they have an independent source of income or will need a cosigner. This is particularly good because credit card companies would prey on college students often getting them into debt before they graduate. Under this new bill it also helps protect young people from being irresponsible.
How does this effect the communication between the consumer and the credit card company?
Credit issuers will no longer be able to raise interest rates on existing balances. In a case when a payment is 60 days late they are allowed to raise the rates as high as they want. Not much has changed here right? The only difference is they are required to inform you 45 days in advance and explain the reason for the increase. In addition, your statements will be sent at least 21 days before your payment is due.
To help card holders stay away from debt, statements will clearly show how much it’s costing you to borrow and how long it will take to pay off a balance if you are making the minimum payments. If you can avoid it, never pay the minimum, always pay more. If you are paying the minimum payments now, you will see when these updated statements come, that by paying only the minimum payments, you are often further in debt the next bill cycle.
Im starting now. Planning for retirement. I think it would be a sick goal to retire at age 32 to have a long time to do cool things before I eventually get bored and probably start working again at age 35. So maybe it will be more like an extended vacation. Either way I plan to live it up.
How will I do this?
It’s simple, I need to invent something cool, start a movement and make money off it, or somehow plant a money tree in my back yard. I am leaning towards inventing something cool. I have some smart friends and I am very confident that we can come up with something. No way am I going to work 9-5 for the rest of my life. It’s not my style and its not what my generation will do. I want to be money rich and time rich. So far I am on my way
I have to use up 4 weeks of PTO at work, and I am never sick. That means I have 4 weeks to burn. Its almost April now and I haven’t used any yet. So I think I’m going to take some time off soon and go back to california and skateboard. My friend Dan lives out in San Jose and said I could stay with him. I have to talk to him before I book my flight. So far the price seems right! The week I plan to go is really cheep. Its the week after april vacation for more HS students. The flight round trip is $260 through expedia.com.* I hope I can check my board on the plane.
How is everyones extra 20 dollars in their paychecks? Pretty sweet.
Its pretty simple, they were made for it. Watch out, I’m gonna start blogging about the ecconomy and what I hate about it over at moneyanswertree.com. I just have so much to say(at the moment) about how I feel about wallstreet and the people there. Some can agree or disagree but I hope its entertaining.
I need to also redo the look of that side and just make it blog style or Q&A style. I would like to make it Q&A style that would be cool, but maybe the focus there is wrong and I need to go in a different direction, we’ll see.
Just posted a new video link on funny4me. First posts in a long time. Its pretty funny. It’s the video of the numa numa guy singing the whos watching me song from the Geico commercials. I love the little gecko in the background.
Got my new snowboard boots today and wore them all night. Pretty sweet. Okay I need to start getting more sleep.
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Over the past 6th months I’ve seen my credit card interest rates drop to as low as 9.24%, just to be raised again in anticipation of the new credit card bill passed by President Obama, the “Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act.” The bill is intended to help consumers against credit card interest rate hikes by the banks. If this bill is supposed to help consumers against interest rate hikes why did mine just go up?
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