Technology & MSG

Although I’ve been to New Jersey plenty of times, this past trip I noticed a subtle difference in how things operate when you pull in to fill up with gasoline.
If you pull up in a car, the attendant will ask what they can get you. Regular, you say. The attendant then takes your credit card [...]

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I was cleaning out the starred items in Google Reader and found one of Snay’s posts wherein he calculated the cost of his daily commute. He commutes via the Washington Metro system — a combination of bus and rail — at a cost of $5.40 per day.
A year later, I decided to figure it out [...]

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When you drive to work every day, the buck stops with you. You know from experience how long it takes to get home, probably down to the minute. You know that if you leave the house 3 minutes later it’ll take an extra 17 minutes to get to the office. You’ve got a good handle [...]

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Isn’t gas usually more expensive the closer you get to a city?
At the Shell on the corner of Riva Road and West Street (in Annapolis), gas was $3.89 a gallon today. I thought that was a pretty good price, perhaps indicative that prices may be falling a bit since it’s the first I’ve seen under [...]

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I haven’t been driving as much these days which is better for my wallet. I noodled with the idea of taking the bus to work, so I did some quick calculations. It’s sad, but I determined that it is more cost effective for me to drive to work than to take mass transportation.
Bummer.
In other news, [...]

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People are going out to the movies less due to gas prices. That fact has been all over the media. I haven’t seen any stories and photos about the gas lines at the wholesale clubs, but they’re there. With gas prices hovering at $4 per gallon, people have also begun to realize the cost of [...]

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