Category Archives: Shopping

Over the years, I've developed an interest in naming and numbering. And, as it happens, I'm in the market for a new car (station wagon or the like) since the lease on my current one expires soon. So it's interesting to read that the US's supply of VIN numbers is running out.

Jill Hunter Pellettieri of Slate offers up timely advice in Eat a Peach – How do you choose the sweetest, ripest summer fruit?. Of course all the fruit at our local Publix which is larger than a grape tomato is also rock hard, so this article is more useful for daydreaming than actual shopping, but still…

It seems I am not the only person around who thinks that Best Buy is Evil.