Time to upgrade and go high efficiency in the laundry. You bet I will keep a close eye on whether or not the new laundry units cut some cost and eradicate our clothes of dirt having paid over $2500 bucks for the new LG units.
Perfect timing we thought with the Sears Grand store doing out of business in our local neighborhood and thus fire sales to accompany the closing. For all intents and purposes we received a great deal on the 2 Algerienne capable units.
Funny to say but I was greedy to run the first load and anticipated the day of delivery. The units arrived with little fanfare and the installers were professional, efficient, and quick. They tested the units briefly to make sure all connections were ready for industrial loads....or so we thought.
I again beat the wife to the first load, loaded the darks and preceded to head outside for some yard work. No sooner had I started the mower and Tiffany ran out to let me know that the washer was leaking from our upstairs bedroom to the kitchen below!!! The water was coming out of the light fixtures!
Through further investigation it turns out that the exhaust hosed installed with the washer was burnt, the hose was melted in a half dozen places, and water was flying out of the holes at the back of the unit.
You could say the fiasco was well on its way'; stopping the load midstream. moving the unit for investigation, cleaning up the water in the kitchen, and investigating to what extent the water had damaged the house.
Then came the necessary calls, to the salesman, the sears delivery service, customer service, claims.....and the list goes on and on.
Through hours of discussion with sears they thought it best to send the delivery team out the very next day and I specifically told then the issues and requested they send the delivery team with a new hose. They arrived and NO hoses were in hand! They said they were not authorized to work on the units and only came to investigate; so that they could tell the technical team the issue...more wasted time....they concurred as I had relayed a day before that there were YES in fact holes in the hose. Thanks Einstein.
More calls were made and in those calls I insisted on getting the current unit repaired but also replaced. I was not going to have a $1500 unit in my house that may in fact have issues with its electrical system...shoot maybe it burns the house down next.
They agreed to send a technical team out to replace the hose but could/would not get out to the house for 3 more days. PS. Clothes are still sitting in washer with water...mmm the smell. They also arranged for a new washer to be delivered 2 weeks later...not having one local to swap out sooner.
After 24 hours of this fiasco the clothes started to muster a distinct mold smell and why I proceeded to ring all the clothes in the tub and then move them to the dryer.
While drying the clothes that evening I came upstairs after the clothes had been in the dryer for about 30 minutes and upon entering the room there was a haze of dust and extreme warmth coming from the laundry room. Looking at the units (they are red by the way) the tops of the units were coated with what looked like ashes from nuclear fall out (my assumption from seeing movies about the day after etc.) NOW WHAT!!?
Turns out the exhaust hose for the dryer was not installed properly and was pumping right back into our laundry room. Oh the joy.
The best part of all of this, if you recall the water in the kitchen, I have been trying for weeks, now over a month, for the claims department to call me back to have our kitchen ceiling investigated. Time and time again I am hearing the claims agent is on vacation..would call me the very next day, then he is taking a break or something, he will call me that DAY, and as far as I know he or she is again on vacation again and I am next in line!
At this point and time Sear's service would be rated as a zero and the claims agent should quite possibly be let go....shoot that leaves him more time for the vacations he/she seems to be on so they should be happy.
I can honestly say I now understandwhy Sears Grand, and maybe the sears brand, will be one of the past. Their service is non-exsistent and I refuse to spend this kind of money with a company that has little to no follow-through with their consumers.
Stay away from Sears at all costs ...even if there is a GREAT deal because of the inevitable going out of business signs.
Signed- Sears customer service.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Memes Galore...that's why!
Ok so give me a break with this....stab at blogging. Very first and quite possibly my very last.
Currently it is 2:15 am on a Thursday night and I was compelled to create a account and get all of this "neural nuisance" off of my mind! I am sure it will return again and again and why I have embraced this fact and will remind myself daily with my tagged heading.
I am sure this wave of thought started over a year ago with my dive into the "laws of attraction" but I find the need to focus on the here and now.
I found out 4 weeks ago that a Meme is an idea, behavior or style that moves from person to person in a culture. I came to know this term from my introduction to an individual we will call Rich the savant. So at some level I will blame my insomnia on him and the Mocha latte I had at 6:30 this evening. Idiot.
You see Rich, compelled by his own mind, has been at work trying to quite the noise of his mind by listening to what it has been asking him to do. (Hold tight because this is where my mind started warping earlier this evening with this line of thinking)
Rich by my accounts, and many others, is a genius. A genius of the mathematician type- a beautiful minder if you will. His mind noise (I am sure there are others noises besides math but feel this to be the loudest in my interpretation) is about equations- math equations.
These equations, or algorithms, are trying to answer the ultimate question...out of all questions definitely the most widely asked; the question "WHY". Why this? Why that? Why me? Why is it raining? Why did she cheat on me....Hey Rich ask one of your eguations to tell me why I am writing this at 2:30 am. LOL.
Ok this is where the cohesion in my thoughts may break down a bit but stick with me here.
Rich is into neural networks ( A neural network acquires knowledge through learning) Think of your brain as the ultimate Neural network. IT learns through learning - observing, listening etc.
and for the general population let's just say that his bent is in SOCIAL MEDIA of the research kind and how neural networks play a part in this growing phenomonon.
All algorithms, whether in Rich's mind or some other genius', are trying to do one thing and one thing only and that is answer a question..again the question why and they are using US for their purpose.
Well Rich's wants to know why us humans do what we, why are we motivated to have behaviors, why do we communicate the way that they do, why did we buy this, why didn't we buy that and ultimately knowing WHY to an nth degree to understand how influences, at certain times, cause behavior/action.
Before I met Rich the only understanding, or at least I thought, I had of social networks was what I saw on facebook, linkedin etc. You know a place online where people could trade information whether that be for personal reasons or business.
Well as I have peeled back the onion Social Networks (social media) maybe the hottest topic since The Davinci Code, or Anna Nicole Smith......
Social media are primarily Internet-based tools for sharing and discussing information among human beings. Twitter, facebook, linkedin, tweetdeck, and the list goes on and on and on.
With this onslaught of social networks everybody and there mom are trying to harness the power of these networks (mainly business) for the purposes of understanding more about consumer sentiment, opinion, behaviors, via popularity or "BUZZ" with the belief that the more they know of these profiles the better they can be sold too, the better they can optimize their websites and buying experiences and thus optimize the selling of their goods and services.
and Because of where social media technology is today the best companies can hope to gain is an idea on how popular or unpopular they are, how consumers are behaving relative to their brand, and what may be some influences for what they do based on macro profiling. ie. 20 something, Female, Insomniac etc.
Well you've heard of disruptive technology correct? Well the savant, yes he has disrupted my mind, has created such a technology. I direct you back to the question of WHY. What if I told you that the black box Rich ( ENGINE for the Social Media phenomonon) has built can answer the questions WHY? Why is what drives behavior, why brings you true understanding to what will and what will not influence, the answers to WHY are what EVERYONE wants to know because if you know this you can SOLVE anything. A PURPOSE answers WHY. And when you have pupose you have everything. Without it you are a ship without a rutter
Think about it. What would every great science like to know? and what do they all try to answer? the reason for this or that THE WHY. The answer to why is the root, and knowing the root makes all the difference in the world.
As I mentioned earlier. Memes are an idea, style, behavior etc that is transfered from person to person, that makes Human beings a replicator of these- styles, habits ,etc. They replicate through neural networks--the brain learning, listening etc. from the past. Call us MEME Machines.
I think that you will all agree has humans have replicated all things through the years from fashion to music, We replicate those things we like, as well as bad things- behaviors etc..but why?
We have also created machines and technology to help in that replication. Stay with me here.
What is happening, and what Rich has figured out, is that machines are beginning to understand neural networks---like the human brain- he has created (he would say by his will alone but I believe the algorithms had some say in it and used him) a TECHNOLOGICAL neural network engine.
This engine is understanding how the brain works and is learning things about people/consumers that we do all day long and take for granted. Can you say AI? oooooooo
This engine is thus understanding WHY we do what we do. These machines want to know this because that is their purpose; to make our lives more convienient and to continue to use us to replicate them, advance THEM. The more they understand the WHY the better they can use us to replicate and solve those answers to Why. Ok that's spooky-matrix shit.
But again think about it. Back to this engine. If a business owner, that wants and needs to sell a good or service to survive, can truly understand , without doubts, why or why you will not purchase the good or service (without assumption which is what is sold by all social media today- Radian6, Spiral16, Cymfony, etc,/) think about the power of influence that can be had with that answer. Think about how business would & could adjust their approach to selling their good or service.
Again WHY is the key:
Think psychiatry - always trying to find out why this or that then they can solve it!
Cancer- Currently attacking the behavior because they don't know the why thus do not know the how to defeat it. Much like social media. Behavior happens after why!
Humans - why am I here? What is my purpose. having and knowing purpose brings about joy and is what we all strive for.
Just like any great business must have a Mission statement and purpose and reason to WHY? The greater the company mission is impressed upon its employees and the consumers knowledge of the businesses sole purpose the great the company.
Think about men and woman- remember Men are from Mars Woman venus. That really only serves to profile at a macro level and why. What if you truly knew why Men act the way they do and woman the same and they were both in on it? I am not talking sex differences here. I am talking nature and nuture stuff MEME stuff; their upbring, their parents upbringing, what in our past is replicating in our lives today etc etc.
The WHY! its not just because we are male or female.
Ok so what does all this shit mean? it means I believe I can go to sleep now that this is all out of my head. At least I think most of it is.
...I will have more tomorrow on this topic.
Just a glimps: A baseball (eventhough inanimate) has purpose. IT either wants to be hit or not hit (or because of the law or gravity) it will be on the ground. It uses US to replicate the best it can be....being hit out of the park or striking a batter out. We again are the meme machine.
Im a freak. LOL
Currently it is 2:15 am on a Thursday night and I was compelled to create a account and get all of this "neural nuisance" off of my mind! I am sure it will return again and again and why I have embraced this fact and will remind myself daily with my tagged heading.
I am sure this wave of thought started over a year ago with my dive into the "laws of attraction" but I find the need to focus on the here and now.
I found out 4 weeks ago that a Meme is an idea, behavior or style that moves from person to person in a culture. I came to know this term from my introduction to an individual we will call Rich the savant. So at some level I will blame my insomnia on him and the Mocha latte I had at 6:30 this evening. Idiot.
You see Rich, compelled by his own mind, has been at work trying to quite the noise of his mind by listening to what it has been asking him to do. (Hold tight because this is where my mind started warping earlier this evening with this line of thinking)
Rich by my accounts, and many others, is a genius. A genius of the mathematician type- a beautiful minder if you will. His mind noise (I am sure there are others noises besides math but feel this to be the loudest in my interpretation) is about equations- math equations.
These equations, or algorithms, are trying to answer the ultimate question...out of all questions definitely the most widely asked; the question "WHY". Why this? Why that? Why me? Why is it raining? Why did she cheat on me....Hey Rich ask one of your eguations to tell me why I am writing this at 2:30 am. LOL.
Ok this is where the cohesion in my thoughts may break down a bit but stick with me here.
Rich is into neural networks ( A neural network acquires knowledge through learning) Think of your brain as the ultimate Neural network. IT learns through learning - observing, listening etc.
and for the general population let's just say that his bent is in SOCIAL MEDIA of the research kind and how neural networks play a part in this growing phenomonon.
All algorithms, whether in Rich's mind or some other genius', are trying to do one thing and one thing only and that is answer a question..again the question why and they are using US for their purpose.
Well Rich's wants to know why us humans do what we, why are we motivated to have behaviors, why do we communicate the way that they do, why did we buy this, why didn't we buy that and ultimately knowing WHY to an nth degree to understand how influences, at certain times, cause behavior/action.
Before I met Rich the only understanding, or at least I thought, I had of social networks was what I saw on facebook, linkedin etc. You know a place online where people could trade information whether that be for personal reasons or business.
Well as I have peeled back the onion Social Networks (social media) maybe the hottest topic since The Davinci Code, or Anna Nicole Smith......
Social media are primarily Internet-based tools for sharing and discussing information among human beings. Twitter, facebook, linkedin, tweetdeck, and the list goes on and on and on.
With this onslaught of social networks everybody and there mom are trying to harness the power of these networks (mainly business) for the purposes of understanding more about consumer sentiment, opinion, behaviors, via popularity or "BUZZ" with the belief that the more they know of these profiles the better they can be sold too, the better they can optimize their websites and buying experiences and thus optimize the selling of their goods and services.
and Because of where social media technology is today the best companies can hope to gain is an idea on how popular or unpopular they are, how consumers are behaving relative to their brand, and what may be some influences for what they do based on macro profiling. ie. 20 something, Female, Insomniac etc.
Well you've heard of disruptive technology correct? Well the savant, yes he has disrupted my mind, has created such a technology. I direct you back to the question of WHY. What if I told you that the black box Rich ( ENGINE for the Social Media phenomonon) has built can answer the questions WHY? Why is what drives behavior, why brings you true understanding to what will and what will not influence, the answers to WHY are what EVERYONE wants to know because if you know this you can SOLVE anything. A PURPOSE answers WHY. And when you have pupose you have everything. Without it you are a ship without a rutter
Think about it. What would every great science like to know? and what do they all try to answer? the reason for this or that THE WHY. The answer to why is the root, and knowing the root makes all the difference in the world.
As I mentioned earlier. Memes are an idea, style, behavior etc that is transfered from person to person, that makes Human beings a replicator of these- styles, habits ,etc. They replicate through neural networks--the brain learning, listening etc. from the past. Call us MEME Machines.
I think that you will all agree has humans have replicated all things through the years from fashion to music, We replicate those things we like, as well as bad things- behaviors etc..but why?
We have also created machines and technology to help in that replication. Stay with me here.
What is happening, and what Rich has figured out, is that machines are beginning to understand neural networks---like the human brain- he has created (he would say by his will alone but I believe the algorithms had some say in it and used him) a TECHNOLOGICAL neural network engine.
This engine is understanding how the brain works and is learning things about people/consumers that we do all day long and take for granted. Can you say AI? oooooooo
This engine is thus understanding WHY we do what we do. These machines want to know this because that is their purpose; to make our lives more convienient and to continue to use us to replicate them, advance THEM. The more they understand the WHY the better they can use us to replicate and solve those answers to Why. Ok that's spooky-matrix shit.
But again think about it. Back to this engine. If a business owner, that wants and needs to sell a good or service to survive, can truly understand , without doubts, why or why you will not purchase the good or service (without assumption which is what is sold by all social media today- Radian6, Spiral16, Cymfony, etc,/) think about the power of influence that can be had with that answer. Think about how business would & could adjust their approach to selling their good or service.
Again WHY is the key:
Think psychiatry - always trying to find out why this or that then they can solve it!
Cancer- Currently attacking the behavior because they don't know the why thus do not know the how to defeat it. Much like social media. Behavior happens after why!
Humans - why am I here? What is my purpose. having and knowing purpose brings about joy and is what we all strive for.
Just like any great business must have a Mission statement and purpose and reason to WHY? The greater the company mission is impressed upon its employees and the consumers knowledge of the businesses sole purpose the great the company.
Think about men and woman- remember Men are from Mars Woman venus. That really only serves to profile at a macro level and why. What if you truly knew why Men act the way they do and woman the same and they were both in on it? I am not talking sex differences here. I am talking nature and nuture stuff MEME stuff; their upbring, their parents upbringing, what in our past is replicating in our lives today etc etc.
The WHY! its not just because we are male or female.
Ok so what does all this shit mean? it means I believe I can go to sleep now that this is all out of my head. At least I think most of it is.
...I will have more tomorrow on this topic.
Just a glimps: A baseball (eventhough inanimate) has purpose. IT either wants to be hit or not hit (or because of the law or gravity) it will be on the ground. It uses US to replicate the best it can be....being hit out of the park or striking a batter out. We again are the meme machine.
Im a freak. LOL
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