I’ve always been a huge fan of Howard Stern. I’ve probably got a hundred VHS tapes from recording the shows back on the E! channel. I subscribed to Sirius Satellite Radio for a while just to listen to Howard’s show, but after a while I had to choose between Sirius and the Howard TV OnDemand programming and I chose Howard TV. They could update the OnDemand content alot more frequently than they currently do, but I really enjoy it none the less. The only thing I find completely useless about the programming is this new “Miss Howard Stern Show” that they premiered back in October. Andrea aka “Miss Howard Stern” (pictured above) is one of the most annoying, useless, spoiled whores I’ve ever seen. She’s kind of hot, but the moment she opens her mouth you forget about anything that makes her remotely attractive. Once in a while when there’s nothing new on Howard TV I will go to the Miss Howard Stern section and try to watch an episode. As soon as the episode starts and I hear her speak, I can’t bare to keep watching.

The Miss Howard Stern show actually has great production. It really shows that if the Stern team wanted to create something original and worth watching, they could definitely do it. Too bad the talent is being wasted on something as annoying as Andrea. I would pay good money just to see someone walk up and sucker punch this girl in the throat. Oh yes, it’s that serious.

I just thought that I would share this with everyone.

Here’s a clip for anyone who thinks I’m exaggerating:

Warning: contains foul language.

Timestamp 01:33 - “What exactly is a barbeque?”

After my post a while back regarding the Craigslist and eBay car scam, I was browsing through Craigslist looking for more cheap cars and came across several of them. After contacting a few of the sellers, they all replied with the same type of email as the other scammer! They all claimed they lived in another country and that they would use eBay as the middle man. I guess this scam is alot more common than I thought. Everyone should use caution when buying a vehicle online, especially when it’s not in your local area where you can pick it up and pay in person.

With my landlords being the cheapskates that they are, they’ve bluntly
refused to have my carpet shampooed in the apartment. And since I’m a
cheapskate myself I too can’t afford to call in a professional to get the
job done. So I stumbled on Carol Wright Gifts’ website and found a carpet
shampooer that is easy on the pocket and works like a pro. For just $29.99,
this shampooer used no electricity, is easy to carry around and it comes
with a bottle of shampoo. Great price. You really can’t go wrong with this.

The weekend before last I was at the mall and I purchased 6 t-shirts from Foot Action. I got them in the “tall” version cause the standard version seemed a little too short for my taste. Upon getting the shirts home and trying one of them on, i realized the tall version was so long that it went past my knees. I kept the shirts with all tags on them and returned them to Foot Action this past weekend. I exchanged the shirts for the standard version of the shirts, which are actually cheaper so I ended up with 10 shirts instead of only 6. Well, I got the standard size shirts home and the necks on them are so tight that I just can’t wear them comfortably. So I now have to make yet another trip to return these for something else. What a hassle.

Last week I was browsing through craigslist to see if i could find a reasonably priced vehicle in my area. I came across a silver 2001 Honda Civic EX Coupe for right under $3,000. The price seemed very nice so I contacted the owner via the craigslist sale email address.

The person replied a few days later with the following email message:

Hi there and sorry for the late reply.

The car is still available for sale. This is a 2001 Honda Civic Ex Coupe, 1.7L 4-CYL VTEC, 5-SPEED Manual Transmission, Silver, 112000 MILES, VIN 1HGEM21951L088189.

It is in EXCELLENT condition; the body and paint are great, no scratches and no dents; the interior is clean; it has never been involved in an accident.

Here you can find more pictures with the car:
http://picasaweb.google.com/joel8matrix/Civic

I’m an US Air Force Lieutenant currently stationed in UK. And the car is here with me. It was bought in the US and shipped to Europe, but it was never permanently registered here, the car is still registered in the US.

The car is for sale locally as well, but there are slim chances of this to happen. First of all this is a US model car, with the steering wheel on the left side, as opposed to a UK model, that has the steering wheel on the right side. And second, in order to be able to register this car here in UK the buyer would have to pay very high import/custom taxes that will double the price. So I decided to sell the car back in the US.

As I’m unable to travel in the near future and I don’t have anyone back home to help me with the sale I decided to make this transaction through eBay.

So how this actually works? Simple: the buyer sends the payment to eBay and they hold the money until the car is delivered; I ship the car to US; I get my money only after the buyer receives the car and makes sure everything is as agreed. I believe this protects both buyer and seller and it’s the right way to do this.

The final price is $2,999 including shipping from Europe to the US and delivery to your home address.

So if you decide to buy this car or need further information please get back to me as soon as possible.

Thank you and have a great day,
Lt. Joel Miller
joel8matrix@hotmail.com

At first it seemed like a very good deal. A great car for an even greater price. I even got a Carfax check on it and everything looked good.

I then replied to the person and asked for more details regarding exactly how it works, going through eBay and all. They replied with pretty much the same information that was in their first email. It seemed a bit vague, so I started getting a little suspicious.

I told him I would give it a shot and I went ahead and emailed him my address and contact information. Shortly after sending him my information, I received 2 emails, both appearing to be from eBay Motors. The emails looked very legit and included my information, a picture of the car and the sellers information.

The thing I noticed, however, was the email addressed they were sent from. They werent sent from eBay.com or any subdomain of eBay.com. The emails were sent from protection-ebaymotors.net. I forwarded the emails to eBay’s spoof department and just as I suspected, the guy is a scammer. He almost got me for $3,000 dollars.

There is no telling how many people actually fall for scams like this. Posting a car or other item that is worth far more than your asking price, just to get alot of replies, making it easy to scam unsuspecting internet shoppers such as myself.

If you receive any emails from protection-ebaymotors.net or any other email address that you suspect may be fraudulent, forward the emails to spoof@ebay.com. They will review the email and tell you if it’s a legit eBay email or if its fake.

> Email this story to a friend so that they don’t fall victim to this same kind of scam!

The other day, my friends air conditioner in his car decided to stop working. He has an older car so the newer type of freeon doesnt work in his car. He had to pay around $200 just to switch over to the new air conditioner system to be able to use the new kind of freeon. Thats pretty ridiculous, but I guess the newer freeon is safer for the environment.

A friend of mine was at a drive-thru window recently and a sign fell and hit his car, leaving a very noticable dent and some paint damage. The owner of the restaurant will not take any responsibility in the matter and is refusing to pay for the damages to my friends car. That’s pretty ridiculous if you ask me. I’m trying to talk my friend into taking them to small claims court over it.

I recently upgraded a few of my websites with the latest version of a few different scripts, and well, I went back a few minutes after the upgrades and manually downgraded it all back to the previous versions. The scripts supposedly had better functions and “security fixes”, but what the upgrades actually did was garble half of my old posts and other things. I should have known better than to believe the “fixes” would actually fix anything.

I just felt like ranting about this for a minute, as I wasted alot of my time fixing it all.

I was at a stop light yesterday and I saw this guy, probably in his early 20’s with some pretty loud music in his car, bass, ect. The man in the car in front of him got out of his car, walked back to the kid and told the kid to turn his music down and informed the kid that there is a law against loud music and he would call the police. As soon as the man walked back to his car, the kid turned his music back on. The man then proceeded to pick up his cell phone, to show the kid he would call the police. This was at a green light by the way, holding up lots of cars. Well, the man got back into his vehicle, started going, then changed lanes and pulled over, as though he was trying to let the kid pass him so he could get the lisence plate number. The kid didn’t pass him, though. The kid stopped right next to him and said “we can stay stopped here all day…” and the man gave up and pulled out.

Some people really need to lighten up when it comes to loud music. Its really a petty thing to complain about. Trains and motorcycles are much louder than 99% of any car stereo systems i have ever heard. Not to mention the man had no idea who the kid was. The kid could have pulled out a gun or got out of his car and whooped the guy.

I just wanted to post this, as I found it pretty interesting.

I recently visited a new dentist and after filling out the paperwork, I laid back in the chair awaiting an extraction on a tooth that was a pain in the you-know-what. Just as the dentist was about to do start the extraction, his receptionist walked in and stopped the proceedings informing him that my insurance didn’t cover that. Would you believe that the dentist only prescribed painkillers and then sent me on my way? Would it have killed him to do a good deed for someone and extract that tooth? Karma is a bitch. He’ll get his.