PS I have sold my car and now free to bicycle to work. I use Scoop on a rainy day and Waze Rider(2 free rides for signing up) and Uber as a backup.
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Free Taxi or carpool
On your cellphone install Uber invite code 1f4m6, Scoop Promo: RALF8D4, Lyft: RALF4
PS I have sold my car and now free to bicycle to work. I use Scoop on a rainy day and Waze Rider(2 free rides for signing up) and Uber as a backup.
PS I have sold my car and now free to bicycle to work. I use Scoop on a rainy day and Waze Rider(2 free rides for signing up) and Uber as a backup.
Monday, June 20, 2016
Free Cell Service
Seems too good to be true, but it is, RingPlus will give you free cell service, ad supported during the outgoing ringtone. You don't loose any time and it is really free cell service. There is a initial top up fee that most plans have, depending on when you sign up there are different promos running and you better have an unlocked Sprint capable phone ready to do this, or sometimes they might have some inventory to sell in their store or Classifieds but these phones are not as great as what you might get on eBay. Just last week there was a Nexus 6 for $180 on eBay. You can order SIM cards from Sprint.com right they will work on RingPlus, or they also have them on eBay. The setup is easy, if you have a compatible phone, just enter the ICC ID and IMEI on the RingPlus website and service can be running in minutes. There is a higher tier of Member Plus where you get some extra services like support, otherwise you can pretty much find all the help you need by googling the forums and it is a community of users helping other users. You are expected to do social media to spread the word, which I guess I am doing right now.
Anyhow all in all it is a great deal if you don't mind listening to a short ad until someone answers the phone. If you have good Sprint coverage where you are going to use this, it should work great for you. On the downside the voice calls have some lag and are not of the highest quality, however are usable. You can also connect your SIP phone to the ring plus number for more calling possibilities.
There is a history of the company and a WikiPedia page now, based Karl's post, "RingPlus grew from 5,000 to over 91,000 subscribers in a year ",this is the fastest growing carrier in the country right now.
2/21/2017: Update, our accounts were moved to Ting with a $35 credit. So my first sentence stands, it was too good to be true we didn't meet the target of 500,000 users to get the ad inventory.
Anyhow all in all it is a great deal if you don't mind listening to a short ad until someone answers the phone. If you have good Sprint coverage where you are going to use this, it should work great for you. On the downside the voice calls have some lag and are not of the highest quality, however are usable. You can also connect your SIP phone to the ring plus number for more calling possibilities.
There is a history of the company and a WikiPedia page now, based Karl's post, "RingPlus grew from 5,000 to over 91,000 subscribers in a year ",this is the fastest growing carrier in the country right now.
2/21/2017: Update, our accounts were moved to Ting with a $35 credit. So my first sentence stands, it was too good to be true we didn't meet the target of 500,000 users to get the ad inventory.
Friday, October 9, 2015
Why blog
It is cool from time to time to spill out your innermost thoughts to the world and see what comments come back, but this blog doesn't generate any interesting comments, in fact I have no idea who even reads it. Quite often you can find help or inspiration from others.
I was quite inspired looking at a the Adam Savage interview video about The Martian. I would recommend reading the book before watching the movie. The way he published the book was cool, wish my dad would try the same way, but I guess he started too late and won't blog.
I was quite inspired looking at a the Adam Savage interview video about The Martian. I would recommend reading the book before watching the movie. The way he published the book was cool, wish my dad would try the same way, but I guess he started too late and won't blog.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Saturday, July 18, 2015
daydreaming
Weekend, yay, don't have to work, however I still wake up before dawn today and it is nice and quiet at that time so I can think and play 16384 which has cured my addiction to 2048, by giving me a harder puzzle. It feels like you are very creative when you just wake up and perhaps I should setup the blog earlier and type rather than play, who knows maybe some ideas will be useful.
Today I was thinking about how to better do sustainability and use prison labor to feed itself, after all they got nothing bit time to work on farming. I guess that was the logic behind prison ships to Australia. Maybe someday we will colonize the universe the same way. I am not sure why in this age of technology we still burn fossil fuels to move tractors and food to cities. I often wonder what life would be like in the countryside, if we were tech workers there. There is no reason we need to commute to our tech jobs. But farming isn't easy and we probably don't have the skills so back to my premise of farming prisoners, might be a good way to reform people by teaching them farming and tech out in the countryside.
Last night watched Shark Tank for a few min, than 20/20 had an interesting case, that they managed to work into the morning news, oh TV what a wasteland of commercials and factory built programs, but it is easy to turn on and you get so much content on an antenna these days.
Not quite sure anymore who I am writing for, I know the ads on a blog don't get you any money.
Today I was thinking about how to better do sustainability and use prison labor to feed itself, after all they got nothing bit time to work on farming. I guess that was the logic behind prison ships to Australia. Maybe someday we will colonize the universe the same way. I am not sure why in this age of technology we still burn fossil fuels to move tractors and food to cities. I often wonder what life would be like in the countryside, if we were tech workers there. There is no reason we need to commute to our tech jobs. But farming isn't easy and we probably don't have the skills so back to my premise of farming prisoners, might be a good way to reform people by teaching them farming and tech out in the countryside.
Last night watched Shark Tank for a few min, than 20/20 had an interesting case, that they managed to work into the morning news, oh TV what a wasteland of commercials and factory built programs, but it is easy to turn on and you get so much content on an antenna these days.
Not quite sure anymore who I am writing for, I know the ads on a blog don't get you any money.
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
IoT
I had a great followup session on IoT using the Electric Imp. Result is I can now do stuff like: https://agent.electricimp.com/cX92T3zQwb4l/set?state=off and a light turns off on my Imp. Or the next iteration was curl https://agent.electricimp.com/cX92T3zQwb4l/set?state=1 -H "x-api-key: somepassword" because we do need to have security built in :)
We even touched on the Rocky Framework.
We even touched on the Rocky Framework.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Lyft
I usually bicycle around Silicon Valley leaving my car parked. It usually starts, but sometimes it seems the starter just spins, oh well, with a manual transmision it isn't the end of the world to have to push it on. However yesterday I decided to try 10 of the $20 rides that Lyft gave me, thanks it now feel like I have to blog about this. Get your $20 with code: ralf4 I wanted to go to Docker, Kubernetes, CoreOS and Big Data in Apache CloudStack (Hosted at Apple) so there were 8 cars swarming around and one came in 9 min, didn't show up in the right driveway so I walked a bit, but a quick call solved it.
Once you get there you get a clear email showing you what was charged.
Had no bag, just to travel light, but given the way this works, it is pretty good, can bring a few people, cars usually have 4 empty seats, maybe 3, not sure, but it works well fast and I can rely on it, costs are higher than driving yourself, of course.
Keep in mind the prices below are in Silicon Valley, look up your pricing.
It is rather annoying that you can't use Lyft or Uber on the computer, as Chrome also has location available, it should be seem less to hail your ride from the computer to than move the experience to mobile when you leave your desk. So this is smart phone only. Lyft works on iOS and Android, haven't tried it on a tablets it seems to be discouraged due to worst GPS and connectivity.
You come to realize that future versions of Taxi's will be self driving, after all the cost of this would so sink if you had electric self driving cars parked at a charger while they wait for you to summon them. These app based taxi companies seem like the perfect place to try them first.
So I could drink beer at my meeting or wine, no problem, 4 min after asking for a Lyft, one was roaming the parking lot. My second driver also had an Uber phone as did the 3rd driver, seems common.
So try them while they are viciously giving out the free rides, this is better and cheaper than a taxi, although it is P2P so you really depend on the algorithms to weed out the bad players. However is it worst than a taxi in that sense, I think not, the rating system should weed out bad players and the rally bad players, there are a small percentage of people anyhow, they could just as easily drive a taxi.
Once you get there you get a clear email showing you what was charged.
Thanks for riding with Bachson!
Ride ending February 24 at 6:04 PM
 |
| Ride 11.0 mi & 41 min: | $28.19 |
| Trust & Safety Fee: | $1.50 |
| Tip: | $2.00 |
| Lyft Credits: | -$20.00 |
| - | |
|
| $11.69 |
Keep in mind the prices below are in Silicon Valley, look up your pricing.
Lyft Pricing
| Base Charge | $2.25 |
|---|---|
| Cancel Penalty | $5.00 |
| Cost Minimum | $5.00 |
| Cost Per Mile | $1.35 |
| Cost Per Minute | $0.27 |
| Trust And Safety Fee | $1.50 |
Plus Pricing
| Base Charge | $3.37 |
|---|---|
| Cancel Penalty | $5.00 |
| Cost Minimum | $7.00 |
| Cost Per Mile | $2.02 |
| Cost Per Minute | $0.40 |
| Trust And Safety Fee | $1.50 |
It is rather annoying that you can't use Lyft or Uber on the computer, as Chrome also has location available, it should be seem less to hail your ride from the computer to than move the experience to mobile when you leave your desk. So this is smart phone only. Lyft works on iOS and Android, haven't tried it on a tablets it seems to be discouraged due to worst GPS and connectivity.
You come to realize that future versions of Taxi's will be self driving, after all the cost of this would so sink if you had electric self driving cars parked at a charger while they wait for you to summon them. These app based taxi companies seem like the perfect place to try them first.
So I could drink beer at my meeting or wine, no problem, 4 min after asking for a Lyft, one was roaming the parking lot. My second driver also had an Uber phone as did the 3rd driver, seems common.
| Ride 7.9 mi & 22 min: | $18.95 |
| Trust & Safety Fee: | $1.50 |
| Tip: | $3.00 |
| Lyft Credits: | -$20.00 |
| - |
| Total charged to credit card ***xxxx: | $3.45 |
So try them while they are viciously giving out the free rides, this is better and cheaper than a taxi, although it is P2P so you really depend on the algorithms to weed out the bad players. However is it worst than a taxi in that sense, I think not, the rating system should weed out bad players and the rally bad players, there are a small percentage of people anyhow, they could just as easily drive a taxi.
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