Posts from 2011.

Before…

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Could switching to GEICO really save you 15% or more…? #badvertising

Yes, but…

“Drivers who switched to _____ saved an average of $_____ a year on car insurance!”

Assuming no changes to coverage or geographical location, this means that in order for a driver to switch from carrier A to carrier B, company B has to sweeten the deal by hundreds of dollars a year. Anything less, and drivers (on average) do not switch.

The higher the dollar amount in the above claim, the worse the car insurance company. …and every car insurance company uses some variant of this claim in their ads!

Twitter FAIL

How to Print a Poster at UCSD

The below information is available in various places on the UCSD poster printing site, but this is my practical synthesis of it (with pictures). (These instructions are specific for Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 running on Windows 7.)

Preliminary step 1) Get a printing account.
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World: I give you…The Coconut Zed. (Malibu and Coke Zero: extremely delicious.)

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To elaborate:

1 shot Captain Morgan
1 shot Malibu
1/2 can Coke Zero
5 ice cubes.

You’re welcome.

Yes!

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Ah the simple things in life.

Double fail: half a penny exta for jalepeño cheese, and groin bagel fail.

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One week.



VAN RAMROD!

Peeps: what type of flower is the yellow flower?

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