Comments on: Why car theft is actually a good thing! http://lylium.org/2006/05/21/why-car-theft-is-actually-a-good-thing/ Born and raised on the interweb Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:52:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: jotefa http://lylium.org/2006/05/21/why-car-theft-is-actually-a-good-thing/#comment-606 Tue, 23 May 2006 17:50:23 +0000 http://lylium.org/2006/05/21/why-car-theft-is-actually-a-good-thing/#comment-606 Nothing wrong with being lazy. According to Larry Wall (of the PERL programming language), that’s the first virtue of a great programmer. And if you even use it to regularly practice calculations in the 24/60 system... The clock in my car has (or have I?) a similar problem. It runs a bit fast, about a minute per week. As there is only a single button to advance it, setting it back a couple of minutes means advancing it by almost a day. Fortunately, somebody invented DST, so I have a chance to adjust the clock twice a year. Also fortunately, I’ve got a wide-area wireless networking device in my car which receives the current time, formerly known as radio. Nothing wrong with being lazy. According to Larry Wall (of the PERL programming language), that’s the first virtue of a great programmer. And if you even use it to regularly practice calculations in the 24/60 system…
The clock in my car has (or have I?) a similar problem. It runs a bit fast, about a minute per week. As there is only a single button to advance it, setting it back a couple of minutes means advancing it by almost a day. Fortunately, somebody invented DST, so I have a chance to adjust the clock twice a year. Also fortunately, I’ve got a wide-area wireless networking device in my car which receives the current time, formerly known as radio.

]]> by: Erin Julian http://lylium.org/2006/05/21/why-car-theft-is-actually-a-good-thing/#comment-604 Tue, 23 May 2006 06:39:03 +0000 http://lylium.org/2006/05/21/why-car-theft-is-actually-a-good-thing/#comment-604 Vu - Wow, that really sucks! Both that your wife got run off the road, and that you had such a horrible body shop experience! I feel even more fortunate now. Thanks for sharing your harrowing story. =-o Jotefa - No, no, see... the thing about me and my car is: I leave the lights on. A lot. And then the battery runs down and I have to find some poor soul to help me jump my car. The other thing about me in general (not necessarily just with my car) is that I'm lazy. So when my battery runs out and the clock gets reset, I very rarely take the time to set it back to the right time. (But for some reason I find the time to learn by how many hours the clock is wrong, so I can mentally correct it... hmm...) So anyway, when I noticed that the clock was even in the <em>vicinity</em> of the right time, I knew they must have reset it. ;) Phil - See email. Ian - Thank God indeed! The work on my car would have cost us over a thousand dollars... money that I definitely was not prepared to spend on my car just then! =-o Vu - Wow, that really sucks! Both that your wife got run off the road, and that you had such a horrible body shop experience! I feel even more fortunate now. Thanks for sharing your harrowing story. =-o

Jotefa - No, no, see… the thing about me and my car is: I leave the lights on. A lot. And then the battery runs down and I have to find some poor soul to help me jump my car. The other thing about me in general (not necessarily just with my car) is that I’m lazy. So when my battery runs out and the clock gets reset, I very rarely take the time to set it back to the right time. (But for some reason I find the time to learn by how many hours the clock is wrong, so I can mentally correct it… hmm…) So anyway, when I noticed that the clock was even in the vicinity of the right time, I knew they must have reset it. ;)

Phil - See email.
Ian - Thank God indeed! The work on my car would have cost us over a thousand dollars… money that I definitely was not prepared to spend on my car just then! =-o

]]> by: Ian Gowen http://lylium.org/2006/05/21/why-car-theft-is-actually-a-good-thing/#comment-603 Tue, 23 May 2006 05:16:45 +0000 http://lylium.org/2006/05/21/why-car-theft-is-actually-a-good-thing/#comment-603 Thank God you have good insurance. Body work is *not* cheap. Thank God you have good insurance. Body work is not cheap.

]]> by: Philip http://lylium.org/2006/05/21/why-car-theft-is-actually-a-good-thing/#comment-602 Mon, 22 May 2006 23:43:25 +0000 http://lylium.org/2006/05/21/why-car-theft-is-actually-a-good-thing/#comment-602 which repair shop did you go to? which repair shop did you go to?

]]> by: jotefa http://lylium.org/2006/05/21/why-car-theft-is-actually-a-good-thing/#comment-601 Mon, 22 May 2006 18:55:34 +0000 http://lylium.org/2006/05/21/why-car-theft-is-actually-a-good-thing/#comment-601 They set the clock to the right time? Very attentive. And you noticed that??? (I assume it wasn’t five hours off ;-) Very attentive. They set the clock to the right time? Very attentive.
And you noticed that??? (I assume it wasn’t five hours off ;-) Very attentive.

]]> by: Vu http://lylium.org/2006/05/21/why-car-theft-is-actually-a-good-thing/#comment-600 Mon, 22 May 2006 13:33:19 +0000 http://lylium.org/2006/05/21/why-car-theft-is-actually-a-good-thing/#comment-600 My goodness that is a GREAT body shop! When my wife got run off the road by a rampant semi driver, we needed her back bumper and rear driver side door replaced. Our insurance company was great in directing us to the closest body shop to our location, so being trusting of the insurance company, we dropped it off there... After all was said and done... we spent $500 to pay the deductible (and of course the monthly insurance bill) and we got a dust covered car (interior and all) with a brand spankin used bumper and rear driver side door. To add insult to injury, it looked like they sprayed milk all over the back seat. I guess they left the rear door off while they were working on every other car in Texas that week. Ahh my confidence in the collision repair business and insurance business was not too high that day. Buuuuut I have to look at the bright side... apparently not everyone that goes to a body shop gets treated that way. I'm glad that you got a stupendous body shop to fix your car! PS I hate semi drivers now. My goodness that is a GREAT body shop! When my wife got run off the road by a rampant semi driver, we needed her back bumper and rear driver side door replaced. Our insurance company was great in directing us to the closest body shop to our location, so being trusting of the insurance company, we dropped it off there…

After all was said and done… we spent $500 to pay the deductible (and of course the monthly insurance bill) and we got a dust covered car (interior and all) with a brand spankin used bumper and rear driver side door. To add insult to injury, it looked like they sprayed milk all over the back seat. I guess they left the rear door off while they were working on every other car in Texas that week. Ahh my confidence in the collision repair business and insurance business was not too high that day. Buuuuut I have to look at the bright side… apparently not everyone that goes to a body shop gets treated that way. I’m glad that you got a stupendous body shop to fix your car!

PS I hate semi drivers now.

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