Al's Blog-o-Sphere

I buy a few things online. Let’s face it, there are good deals out there, especially in specialty items that you’d have to drive 25 miles to some local store that has a limited selection.

So there are a number of sites that I have used to either but something, or just shop around at. They all seem to want to personalize their ‘experience’ and make it ‘better’ for you. I wish they’d just skip it, because it usually backfires. Continue Reading…

One of the most irritating things to me is cell phone commercials. They really treat us like morons. So condescending.

Maybe it’s just me. I just refuse to be a slave to them. I remember back in the 80’s telling my wife “If I were cheating on you, do you know how you could tell? I’d have a cell phone!” It was a joke we laughed about at the time. But it was really true. I had no need to get an expensive electronic device to do what I could just as easily do from my home phone. Continue Reading…