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Call me Nostradamus, cause I can predict the future, baby! Or at least the very near present. I was TiVoing through some commercials yesterday, after I wrote my last blog post, and I saw a glimpse of a Mac commercial. Well, I decided I’d watch it and sure enough, Mac is ripping on PC because Microsoft has promised to fix the problems with their last OS on every new OS they make.

Hm…this review of the new Apple ads happened yesterday at 8:30 PM, which was around the time I saw the ads, and those little CNET guys are usually on top of stuff. I wish I could know if I did indeed predict the future or if I was merely ignorant of the present. Well, if the ads did get shown before I wrote my last blog post, I guess I didn’t predict the future. But now, I’m going to make plenty of predictions so I can be right on something in teh future.

Obama will be re-elected with less of a majority than he had during the first election. He will be running against a white guy who is going to tout that “Not all Republicans are like Bush” at every opportunity. The stock market will drop below 9,000 points again in 2010 when everyone realizes that no new jobs equals no real sustained growth. And lastly, your mother-in-law will  drop some pumpkin pie on her blouse this Thanksgiving.

As for Windows 7, I bet that it will be a gigantic hit with 90% of consumers and businesses alike, and it will have some minor problems that Mac will tout as major ones.

Enough about that. Here’s some info on how to Live Largely on the Cheap:

I was watching Mythbuster’s the other day, and I saw this great little episode where they were trying to improve a vehicle’s gas mileage by putting golf-ball-like dimples in it to reduce drag. Turns out, it helped 11% at 55 mph. That’s great!

I saw another Mythbuster’s on a completely seperate day where they tried driving behind a semi in order to reduce drag and increase gas mileage. As it turns out, it caused their miles per gallon to increase to 40-odd percent better than without drafting behind a truck!

Now I’ve become obsessed. I’ve been thinking about hundereds of ways to gain gas mileage; everything short of putting the entire nation’s free-way system in a giant vacuum to eliminate air resistance. I would have actually considered it except for the fact that, unless the cars were completely air-tight and pressurized, the drop in pressure and lack of air would be unkind to your body. Ok, so what would help reduce drag, besides golf-ball-like dimples and drafting? Actually, let’s skip drafting because it is dangerous.

In the search to answer my own question, I came across this great site about modding cars to make them more fuel efficient, and they had a lot of great ideas about how to reduce wind resistance. In fact, I’ll just pique your interest and let you take a look for yourself. Keep it cheap and keep it real!