Friday, November 6, 2026

Phoenix Airport Parking Alternative: PreFlight

Phoenix Airport parking has never been easier with PreFlight! Make your Sky Harbor parking a breeze with quick shuttle services and location amenities to make your Sky Harbor travel as convenient as possible. PreFlight Airport Parking PHX is an off-airport parking at Sky Harbor, offering cheaper rates and better benefits than Phoenix Sky Harbor parking. From free location amenities to unmatched stay convenience, you know you are secure! PreFlight PHX offers complimentary beverages, tire inflation, and free battery jump services to keep your vehicle in top shape before you hit the road again. For those with electric vehicles, we have charging stations available; just remember to bring your own charging cable to utilize this service. Shuttles to Sky Harbor are only a 4-7 minute ride directly to your terminal. PreFlight PHX is a three-story parking garage with an additional outdoor section. There are four types of Phoenix Sky Harbor parking and other details which you can read about on the link.

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Thursday, November 5, 2026

Tip re Framing Search Questions

Seemingly similar search questions can produce dramatically different results. For example, if your search is framed as "How do I set the stop charging time on my Prius Prime Plugin Hybrid," you will get instructions that won't work; but if your search is framed as "Does my Prius Prime Plugin Hybrid have a stop charging time," you will the correct answer which is "No." Similarly, if your search is framed as "How do I change the miles left on the battery on my Prius Prime Plugin Hybrid to the % left, "you will get instructions that don't work; but if your search is framed as "Can my Prius Prime Plugin Hybrid display the charge left in % rather than in miles," you will get the correct answer which is "No."

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Two Kinds of People

Generally speaking, while everyone is a mix of both along a curve, at the extremes, there are two kinds of people: Those who see life as something to experience and those who see life as problems to be solved. 

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Is This a Dip in the Stock Market to Buy On?

I'm sure there are no shortage of opinions, but I can safely say I have no clue. It could be a fantastic buying opportunity or you might be catching a huge and very sharp falling knife. What I do believe is this (and I haven't gotten this from Paul Krugman but I'm sure he would agree): If this is the beginning of an AI bubble bursting, just as some of the key banks were considered too big too fail because they were too important to everything when the housing market bubble burst in 2008, some of the AI players have become too big to fail because they are too important to everything (including the economy and national security). So, just as there was a bank bailout in 2008, maybe the triggering point to dive into this market full-bore and head-first is when there is an AI bailout.

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URL Shorteners

For years I've used URL Shortener as seen on the left below. Lately, it's gotten buggy. So, I've switched to URL Shortener for Chrome which takes one extra step but seems to work fine.

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Windows One Drive Setting to Change to Free Up Storage and Speed Up the Computer

As this article explains, by default, Microsoft turns on OneDrive in a way to store photos and videos in a way that they need not be stored and doing so fills up the computer's storage needlessly and slows down the computer. The article then takes you through the easy steps to correct this.

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No Need for Estate Purposes (at Least in Arizona) to Title a Car in One's Trust

Titling a car in one's trust can be a hassle both when buying and when selling. A recent change by the Arizona legislature makes doing so unnecessary unless the car is worth over $200K. Specifically, the legislature moved the small estate exemption up to $200,000.  As a result, a car can be transferred 30 days after someone passes away with a stroke of a pen if it is under $200K.  

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Wednesday, November 4, 2026

The Election and the Polls

No one can tell me that the public polls showed the glorious rout that we have seen. To make this simple, if someone predicted that 25 coin tosses were toss-ups, and they came up all heads, you can't tell me that prediction got it right.

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The Election and the Stock Market

While there's nothing Trump understands, he watches the stock market as a thing that grades him (at least when it goes up). Wednesday's broad and substantial market surge has to mean, even to Trump the denier, that it took him at his word and considered him to be on the ballot.

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The Election and a Plea to the Dems

Please don't F this up. You can do corruption stuff, but more important is to press legislation aimed at affordability (like ending the tariffs and stopping the war). Trump's will veto them for sure, but it should set up nicely to increase the chance of a Dem wining the WH in 2028.

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