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[psipsy]

As expected, this year's road trip was much more scaled back than last year's. I went north into the New England area, taking aichan95. Weather was acceptable when I started, and then only got worse, so I didn't see any point in continuing. The general area is a lot smaller than I expected. I was able to go from upper NH to Maine and back home in a day.

I think it's time to rent storage again. This is part of a larger plan, more than just "finding a place for stuff".

Got a new phone, went with the Galaxy S4 Active, because of the waterproof thing. After hundreds of thousands of different phone models that have come out over the years, someone (in this case, Samsung) finally picked up the clue that maybe people don't like having to replace their phone or store it in a bag of rice just because it got the slightest bit wet.

Got to see a Tesla car up close and personal. They're still out of my price range, the support infrastructure has a lot of growing to do, and the cars themselves are incredibly heavy (4600lbs x_x) but I see potential. And damn, I wish I knew about their stock 4 months ago and bought into it then...

The itch to build a new computer comes around now and then. My current PC is almost 6 years old, and I have no idea how long it's going to last. It could crap out tomorrow, or it could rock on for another 6 years. I don't know. I've seen newer computers completely fizzle, and I've seen older computers keep going.

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[resonant.livejournal.com]

It's not that expensive to apply conformal coating to electronics, especially in high volumes. I wonder why it's not standard (aside from the fact that soaked phones = more sales).

[psipsy.livejournal.com]

Probably the bean counters pointed out that omitting the coating would make as much as a whole cent more in profit per phone.

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

Waterproof phone? Awww, yeah.

I am also totally with you on Tesla. I knew about them 4 months ago (or more), but I'm pretty sure their stock was still too high. :/ Plus, I can't, in all good conscience, buy an electric car until they have solar-electric cars. You know, the kind that can be charged by a power-plug if needed, but generally uses solar panels on the body to keep the battery "topped off" constantly. I mean, it's a car...which is always outside. And the sun is outside. It makes total sense but I don't know why people aren't on that like white on rice. No one's going to want to wait a half-hour to recharge their cars at a "filling" station.

[psipsy.livejournal.com]

Four months ago, their stock was in the 30-40 range, now it's somewhere past $120. It'll have to split or something before I'd get on board with that.

Electric cars seem to be right around where gasoline cars were about 100 years ago. The technology will mature a little, and the prices will come down a little, and it'll go back and forth like that until the prices come down from the "wealthy early adopter" stage. Then we'll see some real changes.

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

Well, shit. I didn't even look at their stock because I was so sure it was out of my price range. Of course, you can't just get a few, can you? Don't you have to buy like 100 shares?

[psipsy.livejournal.com]

I think it's possible to just buy a couple shares but I haven't tried it.

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

I have no idea. My only experience with stocks is Ron's Prudential stock....we have 9 shares because that's what his life insurance policy was 'worth' at the time they went public. They tell us we can buy more, but it has to be enough to bring us up to 100 shares, and then we have to buy in increments of 100 after that. :P