http://stlouis.craigslist.org/cto/2661934518.html

1997 Honda Passport LX Sport Utility 4WD – $2500 (Maplewood, MO)

Date: 2011-10-27, 8:54AM CDT
Reply to: sale-gbk6j-2661934518@craigslist.org ^{[Errors when replying to ads?]}

UPDATE: Yes, this vehicle is still for sale. I will remove it promptly once someone hands over ca$h money AND I have signed the title over to them AND they drive off with this vehicle!

There have been a lot of tire kickers who only seem to email and ask questions. I have even had extended conversations with a few that seemed really interested. Still waiting on serious buyers to inquire.

Yes, it’s an older car, yes it has a few minor issues that I will tell you fully about. If you are serious about this vehicle, today (Thursday 10/27 or Friday 10/28) is the best day to get over here and take a look. Bring ca$h money, and I’ll sign the title over to you. It’s running fine, I’m doing a ton of errands in this week before moving.

PLEASE include a phone number if you are serious. I’ll call you as soon as I can. I do receive the email on my phone, so I can answer pretty quickly even though I may be mobile.

Thanks for reading, and hopefully serious buyers will contact.

Good running 4 wheel drive vehicle.
- ~125,xxx miles
- 6 cyl
- 4 wd
Body in great shape, needs some work, but runs well.

Contact for more info. Asking $2500 but willing to negotiate for the OBO. Need to sell this by Friday 10/28 if possible.

• Location: Maplewood, MO
• it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

PostingID: 2661934518

Back in the day I thought what Western Sky advertises was called loan sharking. You know the Italian guy you’d meet at the dark corner bar like a Soprano’s episode. How does Western Sky get away with blatantly advertising their loan sharking business? Just something I’m curious about. They flat out say, if you need money now, we are not cheap, but we’ll get it to you. Now say that in an Italian accent like you are from one of those families of NY or NJ.

Doing a little Googling shows that the Western Sky Rates are pretty much in tune to victimizing the person needing $1500 more than anything else. I guess it’s no different than what I use to hear back in the day of when I was in the Navy of $20 for $40, $50 for $75, etc… I guess the full trick in this game is to write it down as such. If you read the above rates sheet, you can see how easily this becomes a legalized loan sharking business.

For the startups out there, I wouldn’t recommend them for your VC/Angel funding round needs, but sometimes some money is better than no money at all. Just be sure you can pay it back, as like the Italians, instead of some broken bones, you might find a few arrows slung your way.

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These are 3 gifts that would really surprise me and delight me if I received them on Christmas. Doubtful that I will be receiving any of these, but if you feel like being Santa, DM or @ ping me. I guess you could call this my Christmas list for Santa or something like that.

Number 3: iPad

I don’t have one, and am holding out for v2, but will take a v1 one gifted to me.

Hey, you can purchase it at Walmart or Target now. I’m sure it won’t be too far behind that they will be available at TJ Maxx, Walgreens, and – Kmart!

For now though, I wouldn’t mind having one if I didn’t have to shell out the cash for one. Especially seeing that v2 is rumored for an April refresh. Now from past experience with Apple products, prices pretty much stay the same.

I’m currently pondering and considering an Android Tablet that I feel might compete and be just as good. Something like the Galaxy Tab by Samsung comes to mind.

Number 2: Macbook Air

I think by now most of the bugs of v1 Air have been worked out or at least optimized fixed somehow. I like the small footprint and when I’m at home, I plug in my regular Macbook to a monitor anyways. When mobile, the lighter, the better. Plus the smaller form factor seems to be a big win.

Number 1: Harley or Honda Goldwing

I found out that my 50cc was just not enough. I originally bought the 50cc to see if I still liked to ride. Not to mention the aggravation of owning a cheap Chinese 50cc, means they break down quicker. Like mine is currently sitting – broken down, needing to be worked on, and no garage or scooter tech in sight.

Figured that spending a little bit of money to see if the ride urge was still there was smarter than going out and plunking down money on a big bike. Well the ride urge still exists, and since I’m older, I want something that rides smooth and not some racing bike.

For now though, I guess I’ll have to find me a 50cc scooter tech to revive and fix my Chinese scooter. I do miss riding places for sure. Now the weather has changed up a bit to the colder variety, but when I returned from NYC last year, I had to retrieve my scooter from the place that was winter storing it in February! I rode home on it on a day that was like ~18 degrees Fahrenheit. Honestly, I would like the scooter fixed so I could ride it for now; that would be alright for this gift item also.

Technically Speaking, I really don’t expect to receive any of the 3, but if you don’t ask, people out there will never know and you’ll never receive!

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Found this over here:

Toyota Rock The Space 2 contest has only 2 days left to submit your demo.

This is Infected Messiah – Wrath Of The Reaper – 6 song Demo CD :

Technically Speaking, you can always read more …

After a year of it being on the market, I happen to be in Target last night looking for a $10 DVD cleaner and ended up walking out with (Nintendo smart marketing tactics – the price hasn’t dropped in over a year!) $89.99 WiiFit. They are not that hard to find nowadays, as I saw 5 of them at a BestBuy a few weeks back. Last evening at Target there was exactly ONE. I summoned the electronics person to unlock the case.

Last night I plugged it in to get my initial body test, and yeah, I could have told you I was overweight and out of shape! Didn’t need the board to tell me that. I figured I’d start the actual exercise part tomorrow (today).

Today, I figured it was time to get in some sort of routine and give it a go. Did I look like the below pictures? Somewhat. I went through each exercise one time to give me a full WiiFit run through. The nice thing, I was able to unlock extra exercises and games. That was cool, so more for tomorrow to try.

Technically Speaking, we’ll see how this works or even motivates me to do other things, such as play some corkball if it ever stops raining!

First off – Happy Cinco De Mayo! Kind of cool that it falls on a Tuesday this year. >:-? If you didn’t know, a little while back a twitter friend of mine said something to the effect of “I guess my sarcasm didn’t come through on twitter?” It didn’t. So I stated, “You should have an emoticon that depicts sarcasm!” That is when I came up with >:-? for her. I now use it all the time when I’m being sarcastic.

What is this new twitter use? For quite a bit now, I have had a contact form on this blog’s contact page. I have also had it on another page which I call Advertise. Both have been great annoying harbors of stupid ridiculous spammers. I tried another form this morning, which just had more spammers hit it almost immediately. That is when the tweet-god went off in my head. “Why not just tell people to connect with me via an @ or DM on twitter?

Technically Speaking, the above isn’t a ground breaking twitter use idea, but for me – at least with twitter I have more control over who follows, who I follow, who I can outright block, and who I converse with via @ or DM. While not ground breaking, twitter just solved a spam problem for me. Feel free to share this idea with others!

Another great find on the blog that never sleeps.

Technically Speaking, if you remember watching the Monkees in first run on television – you’re old! Even if you watched them in first or second re-run, you might be a bit up there!

Woo hoo! The lovely FAIL whale is back! I just received this moments ago on twitter. Must be a busy morning of tweeters out there. With members of congress on board, such as Missouri’s own Claire McCaskill (an active tweeter!), as well as the mayor of San Francisco – twitter isn’t the quiet new kid on the block any longer. Also nice to know that Claire actually does her own tweeting!

Technically Speaking, the whale is cool, the owl creeps me out! btw, be sure to check out my latest siliconANGLE post – I think that needs a good comment thread started!