In this week's blog, Tom discusses two things:  the incredible deals happening for new Toyota vehicles including the 2012 Toyota Camry, and he discusses the long-awaited results of his trip to the 2011 Hood Cook-off.

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The bottom line is that the desktop computer or personal computer (PC)/Mac market is dwindling.  As humanity moves along the crazy train of "I want need it now" at alarmingly quickening speeds, the days of the Jetson's-esque future and implanted mobile telephones seems further and further from science fiction and gets increasingly close to ho-hum reality.  Within a year - yes, in around 365 some odd days - mobile devices ranging from BlackBerry to Android...

Yesterday, October 17, 2011, I posted a question on Handy Toyota of St. Albans, Vermont's Facebook page that asked "what do you think of the new Entune?"  Though only three of the 800 plus of you out there answered the question, the results, lacking scientific merit or not, were disturbing to say the least.  Here were the available answers:

1. It's great!
2. Meh...
3. Not a fan
4. What's that, a new planet?

Obviously sounding...

We have been talking a lot about the upcoming 2012 Toyota Camry, the newly redesigned, sportier, and for lack of a better term, well, better car.  But alongside all that news one thing has been clearly missing:  pricing.  That was not a mistake but rather a purposeful omission, as Toyota Motors and Toyota Motors USA has sent out a gag order to all dealers, holding us to the promise that we would not release information...

Last Friday a cleanup crew and I had the dubious task of cleaning up my fallen tree, compliments of Tropical Storm Irene.  With my assistance we were able to get the mess cleaned up in four hours.  The only lasting damage, aside from the tree, was a sprained wrist, however I could have been injured worse, so all things considered...  While in the process of cleaning up the governor flew by in his helicopter, which…