Al's Blog-o-Sphere

Dear Volkswagon,

What’s up with your commercials? You don’t get to punch someone for a Tiguan. And it’s called Punch Bug, not Punch Dub.

What’s with the “dub” business anyway? Dub is a form of music, based on Reggae.

Look, it’s a childish game that we’ve all played, but your marketing department doesn’t get to change the rules to suit your ad campaign. It’s a pop culture thing, and manipulating it to suit your sales ought to be a big flop.

Leave it to Wikipedia to have the whole story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_buggy

And what’s up with the name Tiguan. Tiger and Iguana? Oh yeah, that’s the image I want my car to suggest…

I’ve been using Windows 7 for a while now on several computers and have to admit, I’m pretty happy with it, despite the fact that, even with all the hype, it’s really what Vista should have been, maybe after a service pack.

You must have seen the annoying commercials like the one above, where people seem to think that Microsoft actually listened to them and took their advice on some little nitpicky thing. Well, Microsoft, here’s My Idea (TM). Continue Reading…

I had an interesting trip home from Cleveland this afternoon.

Do you know how when you’re traveling on a highway, you often see another car going your way and seem to follow them for miles and miles? I saw a SUV with New York plates in Ohio on Route 90 not long after leaving Cleveland. I assumed we were both heading towards NY. So I kind of hung back and followed him.

He was making pretty good time, passing semi-trailers and slower traffic. I won’t say we were speeding, but we might have pushed the “Speedometer error” excuse a little. Sometimes I was a little behind. Other times I was maybe a quarter-mile back with several cars in between. It was working out fine.

Somewhere in Pennsylvania, another car from NY comes up from behind us. They sort of joined in our little caravan. But this car had those extra-bright extra-white headlights. You’ve seen them. They’re probably after-market bulbs someone put in the vehicle. Some of them ore okay, others are too bright and should be illegal. Continue Reading…

In amongst all the self-congratulatory baloney at the Oscars last night, an award was given for Best Short Film. They showed clips of past winners and the films their makers went on to do after they had won this endorsement. It seem that the short film Oscar is the touch of gold for a budding director. Let’s hope so, because I’d like to see more of this…

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