richmackey - the blog: 09/01/2008

Barak'Rolled at the RNC

Posted On Monday, September 08, 2008 at at 8:41 AM by Rich

Sometimes I love the digital age... this is a cunning piece of editing, if I do say so myself. I bet the RNC is wishing no one ever got video of their raw blue screen behind McCain where they projected all those patriotic images (and one random image that looked like one of McCain's houses).

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What the heck?

Posted On Saturday, September 06, 2008 at at 8:06 AM by Rich

So Microsoft's new ad campaign for Vista launched... here's the video:

Their ad agency says: Today, we are kicking off a highly visible advertising campaign. The first phase of this campaign is designed to engage consumers and spark a new conversation about Windows - a conversation that will evolve as the campaign progresses, but will always be marked by humor and humanity. The first in this series [...] aims to re-ignite consumer excitement about the broader value of Windows.

I say "WTF?" I suppose if the conversation they want to start is "what the hell does that ad have to do with Windows or Vista?" they've accomplished their goals. Rumored the ads are coming from Crispin Porter, which surprises me. If this is how MS plans to kill Apple, Steve Jobs must feel a lot like Barak Obama after hearing McCain picked Palin. "We can deal with this."

Weird.

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New Car

Posted On Monday, September 01, 2008 at at 12:40 PM by Rich

While I'm on the car thing, we went up to Gebhardt BMW this weekend to get a "pre-turn in estimate" on my car for wear and tear. Overall, it came out pretty good.

Ding in the rear bumper where someone tapped me WAY too hard - $400
Scrapes on 3 of the alloy wheels - $100 ea - $300 total
Scrape on the front bumper - $50ish to buff it out

While we were there drove a GORGEOUS blue 328xi coupe - it drove well, but getting people in and out of the back would be tricky - unless they were small children or little people.

We also drove a maroon 335xi with black interior (pictured above). The car drove like a dream - and was essentially my old 330xi with a different color, bigger engine and lacking navigation - otherwise it was all the same features.

At the end of the day, they forgave the damage on my car due to the low miles (they decided to keep it and sell it instead of send it back to BMW), forgave the last 3 lease payments (this is very common of BMW) and gave us a great deal on the 335xi. So now it's in our garage - and I have a new car.

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Update on the MG

Posted On at at 12:27 PM by Rich

I totally forgot to post this - even though I have a Picasa & Flickr album up for the thing. I spent a week or so in early August home in Iowa working on the MG Midget with my brother. We got it SO CLOSE - almost close enough to bring back to Denver. But... when we were testing the brakes, the master cylinder popped it's seals and *poof* no rear brakes. Front ones worked so we drove it around a bit, but it's still in Iowa. Hoping to get the brakes done and bring it back here soon. Here are a few pics once we got it out of the driveway.