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		<title>Why new Safeway PowerPump Rewards promotion sucks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one sentence: maximum you can save is about 2.27%. Much less then what the promotion hype suggests, isn&#8217;t it? Here&#8217;s how it works. You spend $100 at Safeway. Then, boom! September 30th strikes! End of quarter, your 10c per &#8230; <a href="http://panteev.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/why-new-safeway-powerpump-rewards-promotion-sucks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=panteev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3174927&amp;post=11&amp;subd=panteev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In one sentence: maximum you can save is about 2.27%. Much less then what the promotion hype suggests, isn&#8217;t it?</p>
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<p>Here&#8217;s how it works. You spend $100 at Safeway. Then, boom! September 30th strikes! End of quarter, your 10c per gallon discount is lost. Sorry.</p>
<p>Ok, next time you are smarter. You spend another $100 at Safeway. You keep in mind that you will loose your discount 12/31 if not used. You go to the pump. Oops, no discount&#8230; Why? A-ha, you spent your $100 on liquor, tobacco, postage stamps, services, gift certificates, lottery tickets, fluid dairy products (did they mean MILK?), sales tax, Medicare prescriptions. All of the above does not qualify.</p>
<p>All right, now with all your experience you go and spend your $100 on plain groceries. You know you have your 10c per gallon discount. You know it&#8217;s valid only on one fill-up. Now, how do you get most of it? Of course, you buy as much gas as you can. How you do that? Well, you drive your car until it runs out of gas and then get it towed to your local Safeway gas station with an empty 18 gallon tank. Just kidding. If you are like most people, you will drive in with some gas left, and you will get on average 14 gallons of gas. Congratulations, you just saved $1.40! Wow, that&#8217;s 0.88% off $160 that you spent on groceries and gas! Cool!</p>
<p>What? You have a 100-gallon tank and want to fill it up at Safeway gas station to save more? Sorry, you can purchase only up to $100 per transaction. And if you want to use your Visa card, you have to play by Visa rules, which is $75 per transaction maximum.</p>
<p>You have an idea? You can get free gas with this promotion? Well, let&#8217;s see how you get it. Let&#8217;s say gas is $4.30 per gallon. This means you have to acumulate 43 times 10c discount, which means you have to spend $4300 at Safeway. Yes, all in one calendar quarter. Now you fill up your HUGE 23-gallon tank and get your $100 worth of free gas. What percentage savings is it? 2.27%. And that&#8217;s the absolute maximum you can save from this PR BS. I say we need a law requiring to disclose maximum achievable savings, as well as typical savings IN PERCENT with any discount or promotion. That would save us lots of time &#8217;cause you would not have to read this <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>My Comcast program guide is now (even) worse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually looks like many users have already complained about it. I found some posts dated as far as one year back. Still this bottom advertisement banner is new to me. I don&#8217;t know what the deal is, probably they have &#8230; <a href="http://panteev.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/my-comcast-program-guide-is-now-even-worse/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=panteev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3174927&amp;post=9&amp;subd=panteev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Actually looks like many users have already complained about it. I found some posts dated as far as <a href="http://www.livedigitally.com/2007/04/03/comcast-makes-already-mediocre-dvr-just-a-bit-worse/">one year back</a>. Still this bottom advertisement banner is new to me. I don&#8217;t know what the deal is, probably they have launched it in some areas earlier than in others. Mine has appeared just today. Man, it&#8217;s annoying! Not only it eats up space, it&#8217;s making the guide even less usable! I thought it was inconvinient to scroll down (there is no Page Down button, you have to do it line by line), but I was wrong: as it turns out there is a way to make it worse. Now after each 5 lines I hit the banner and have to press the button again to get to the next page. Thank you, Comcast!</p>
<p>Oh well since I started my rant, here are some other feedback about my set-top box for Comcast: </p>
<p>1) I need ZOOM feature to watch old 4:3 shows on my 16:9 screen without letterbox. And it&#8217;s not just to the left and to the right from the image. Quite often, when a 16:9 show is broadcast on a non-HD channel, it&#8217;s using only about 50% of my screen in the center SURROUNDED by a black frame.</p>
<p>2) The set-top box is soo SLOW. It&#8217;s as if it is solving some kind of a moral dilemma before responding to each press of a button on the remote.</p>
<p>3) Work on the interface! People say TiVo is good, follow the lead!</p>
<p>4) Does the font have to be so big? Can&#8217;t you make it adjustable? My screen is capable of showing so much more then 5 lines of program guide!</p>
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		<title>Bored? Run a 10K!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Русский перевод внизу &#124; Russian translation below] Saturday noon. No plans. Those Half Marathon runners last week sure had fun. Ever since I’ve been wondering how much of running endurance is left in me. Last time I run any significant distance was &#8230; <a href="http://panteev.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/bored-run-a-10k/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=panteev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3174927&amp;post=3&amp;subd=panteev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p style="margin:0 0 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri">Saturday noon. No plans. Those <a href="http://www.mercerislandhalf.com/">Half Marathon runners last week </a>sure had fun. Ever since I’ve been wondering how much of running endurance is left in me. Last time I run any significant distance was twenty years ago in the fifth grade.<span>  </span>Last weekend they had a choice of 5K, 10K and half marathon. I almost joined them, but $45 fee put <a href="http://panteev.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/rocky460.jpg" title="rocky460.jpg"></a>me off. But hey, the trails and roads are still there, the maps are <a href="http://www.mercerislandhalf.com/coursemaps.html">here</a>. Now, which distance should I try? 10K sounds doable.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0 0 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri">Here I go. The weather is perfect: calm, cool and cloudy. The orange markings for 10K course are still on the asphalt. Mercer Island looks empty compared to the crowd I saw here a week ago. Shouldn’t be too hard… Damn laces. One mile marker.<span>  </span>Piece of cake. Two miles. That’s where I usually get off my treadmill… My legs start complaining. Three miles, half is done. I wonder if I will last the other half. Arrows on the asphalt split up, what the hell? I look into my map &#8211; here, 62<sup>nd</sup> Ave. Glimpse of Lake Washington. Under I-90. U-turn point in a quiet cul-de-sac. I imagine a dozen of runners from last weekend and a volunteer encouraging them “Good job! No cheating, run around the marker! You are almost there!” What do you know, in half a mile a real person shouts me “Good job!” from behind the wheel. Obviously he is local and knows the course. Thank you, stranger! OK, after that hill I will see the crowd with cameras and the finish line. My toes join my legs and now they complain together. Shut up. I remember distorted faces from the pictures I took a week ago. I wonder what kind of grimace is on my face. OK I am on top of the hill and see the imaginary crowd, now where do I put my imaginary finish banner? There must be still a sign on the asphalt. There it is! I made it! Now I am Rocky Balboa on top of the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. </font><font face="Calibri">It’s a good thing I have my imagination.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0 0 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://panteev.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/rocky460.jpg" title="rocky460.jpg"><img src="http://panteev.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/rocky460.thumbnail.jpg?w=500" alt="rocky460.jpg" /></a></p>
<p style="margin:0 0 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri">I look at my cell phone – 1 hour and 3 minutes. When I am back at home, I compare my time with others. It puts me somewhere 405<sup>th</sup> out of 649 recorded results. I can live with it. Now back to TV and computer monitor to accumulate some guilt towards my next spontaneous energy outburst.</font></p>
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<hr /><span><font face="Calibri"><span><font size="5"><font color="#365f91"><font face="Cambria"><strong>От нечего делать&#8230; пробежал кросс.</strong></font></font></font></span></font></span></p>
<p><span><font face="Calibri"><span></span>Суббота, полдень. Никаких планов на сегодня нет. Все думаю про <a href="http://www.mercerislandhalf.com/">полумарафон <span> </span>что был на прошлых выходных</a>. Интересно, сколько во мне выносливости? Последний раз я серъезно бегал лет двадцать назад, в пятом классе. А на прошлых выходных участники могли выбрать: 5 км, 10 км и полумарафон. Я почти было решил принять участие, но платить $45 за то чтобы побегать – это как-то неправильно. Тем более что дорога никуда не денется, а карты есть <a href="http://www.mercerislandhalf.com/coursemaps.html">здесь</a>. Какую дистанцию попробовать? 10км должен потянуть.</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0 0 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span><font face="Calibri">Поехали. Погода идеальная: тихо, прохладно, облачно. На асфальте сохранились оранжевые стрелки указывающие десятикилометровый маршрут. Остров Мерсер кажется пустым по сравнению с толпой <span> </span>что была тут на прошлых выходных. Справлюсь. Черт, шнурки развязались. Одна миля. Легко. Две мили. Именно столько я обычно бегаю на тренажере. Ноги начинают болеть. Три мили – половина позади. Интересно, выдержу ли еще столько? Что за ерунда, стрелки на асфальте показывают в разные стороны! Смотрю в карту: ага, 62-я авеню, мне сюда. На полминуты открылся вид на озеро Вашингтон. Под автостраду. Точка разворота. Представляются десятки бегунов с прошлых выходных и подбадривающий их волонтер: «Молодцы! Не срезать, все бегут вокруг отметки! Совсем немного осталось!». И что бы вы думали, через пол мили какой-то незнакомец <span> </span>на самом деле меня подбодрил прямо из машины: «Так держать!». Он конечно местный и знает этот маршрут. Спасибо, незнакомец! Так, за этим холмом будет уже видна толпа с фотоаппаратами и финишная прямая. Теперь болят еще и пальцы на ногах. Ничего-ничего! Вспоминаются физиономии бегунов с прошлой недели. На моем лице тоже наверно та еще гримаса. Ну вот я уже вижу воображаемую толпу. А где же воображаемый плакат «Финиш»? На асфальте должно быть отмечено. Вот он! Выдержал! Теперь я воображаю себя Рокки Бальбоа в тот момент когда он триумфально одолел те самые ступени (как выяснилось ступени Музея Искусств г. Филадельфия). Все-таки воображение – хорошая штука.</font></span></p>
<p><span><font face="Calibri"><img src="http://panteev.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/rocky460.thumbnail.jpg?w=500" alt="rocky460.jpg" /></font></span></p>
<p><span><font face="Calibri"></font></span><span><font face="Calibri">Смотрю на часы: я бежал 1 час и 3 минуты. Дома сверяюсь с результатами бегунов с прошлой недели. Получается что я был бы где-то 405-м из 649 финишировавших участников. Вот тебе и американцы, страдающие ожирением. Сойдет. Теперь можно обратно садится за компьютер и телевизор и копить чувство вины для следующего забега, заплыва или заезда. Что получится.</font></span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Русский перевод внизу &#124; Russian translation below] Russians have to get used to lots of things in America. For example, I got used to filing my annual tax return. I even got used to the fact that I can call IRS and &#8230; <a href="http://panteev.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/economic-stimulus-payment/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=panteev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3174927&amp;post=7&amp;subd=panteev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p style="margin:0 0 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><font size="2">[Русский перевод внизу | Russian translation below]</font></font></p>
<p style="margin:0 0 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri">Russians have to get used to lots of things in America. For example, I got used to filing my annual tax return. I even got used to the fact that I can call IRS and they will help me fill in the form. I got used to the fact that they give advices on tax refunds that I am entitled to. They will even correct my mistakes if it means I pay less tax. They will return a portion of my tax if I overpaid during the year.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0 0 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri">But wait; now the government gives me six hundred bucks in the middle of the year! <a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j0JeV2tycpeHWizSFX_aAZ6n_WMg">And this is supposed to help nation’s economy!</a> Huh? This is something new for me, I’ve been trying to get used to it for one month, but still can’t. God bless America!</font></p>
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<hr /><span><font size="5"><font color="#365f91"><font face="Cambria"><strong>Комплекс мер по стимулированию экономики США</strong></font></font></font></span></p>
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<p><span><font face="Calibri">Русским в Америке ко многому приходится привыкать. Допустим я уже привык что каждый американец каждый год должен заполнить налоговую декларацию. Я даже привык что в налоговую можно позвонить по телефону и они помогут тебе ее заполнить. Я привык что они <u>сами</u> подскажут какими налоговыми льготами я могу воспользоваться. И даже исправят ошибки <u>в мою пользу</u> если найдут. И возвратят налоги если я переплатил в течение года.</font></span><span><font face="Calibri">Но что вот так вот с бухты-барахты мне налоговая выдаст чек на шестьсот долларов? И <a href="http://www.lenta.ru/news/2008/02/13/bush/">это должно помочь экономике </a>страны?! К этому мне еще нужно привыкнуть.</font></span><span><font face="Calibri"></font></span> </p>
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