Always strive to learn something useful. --Sophocles

I read this a week ago or so. Scott Adams took his BMW in for repairs to the dealer. Dealer says there's a high demand for his car, and he can make a great offer. Adams gives him permission to look over the car and make an offer. Dealer calls back: car is worth salvage value.

He had previously taken it in to a tire shop, and they'd recorded the mileage as 30,000. Then later as 80,000. Actual miles: 50,000. The information was uploaded to CarFax and their system said the odometer had been tampered with, therefore the car was worth nothing.

Yesterday I got the oil in Russet's car changed. Today I went to log it in my spreadsheet, and I noticed something weird. All of a sudden my spreadsheet said that it had been 15,000 miles since the last oil change, which was blatantly wrong. Then I looked more closely at the invoice: they recorded the mileage as 124,000. Actual miles on the car: 141,000.

I called them up to get this corrected before it could spread and ruin the trade-in value of the car, turns out that the incoming mileage was recorded wrong, either written down wrong by the tech or fat-fingered when entered in to the computer. The mileage was correctly recorded when the service was completed, so we're probably good.

So keep an eye on those service invoices when your car is worked on! Apparently it can be fixed, but Adams doesn't have the paperwork to prove the tire company was wrong.

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/157447106751/the-paperwork-mistake-that-made-my-luxury-car

"Everybody who attacks me is doomed."
—Donald Trump

Wiley has been doing an interesting series in his NonSequitur comic:
http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2015/09/9
http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2015/09/11
http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2015/09/12
(unfortunately I can't directly link the images)

And here it is, in a nutshell. All of the Republican candidates are talking like they're going to be elected emperor, not president. While Fox Newts and scores of other pundits have tried to make Obama look like an autocrat who is dictating what the country does, the truth is that for the most part he's tried to work through congress, albeit unsuccessfully, while using his other powers as president within its prescribed limits (and those usurpedused by his predecessor).

For a couple of examples, the 'Repeal Obamacare!' without having a replacement or mentioning the amount of legislative rewriting that would be required to do it. Or Scott Walker talking about eliminating unions nationwide and also eliminating the division of government that monitors them.

On other fronts, The Daily Beast interviewed Scott Adams about his ongoing examination of Trump using neurolinguistic programming to make himself appear, at least for now, the messiah of the masses.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/14/dilbert-creator-on-how-trump-is-like-the-founding-fathers-jesus.html