My Preference

I was really excited when Google came out with Google Maps, but I'm sticking with Mapquest until Google improves. Twice I have had trouble with Google directions and I have never had trouble with Mapquest.

For all direction services, please get rid of the "slight left 0.0 miles" and crud like that... just put "follow signs to...."

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Sideways

In a fit of movie watching that proved my complete lack of pop-cultural I.Q., I watched the movie Sideways (that's the title, not the orientation of my head while I was watching it, although I have noticed that I have no trouble watching movies while lying in my bed with my head oriented in a horizontal sort of way...)

I have not seen the best picture winner (Million Dollar Baby) but I have seen Hotel Rwanda, which was not even in the same league as this pile of crap. The academy awards are worse off for allowing this movie to put on it's cover "Nominated for 3 Academy Awards..." and now, if it won any "winner..."

Strange

After Houston fell to the Mavs, Yao has made a rather interesting decision:

'Yao Ming will not play for the Chinese national team this year and plans to spend his summer in Houston on holiday.
"I just want to relax," Yao said. "I don't want to do anything. I'm not too used to being relaxed."'

Not that we really think China is a Communist country anymore, but it is nice to see them let Yao take some time off... I wonder if it is because of the rise of capitalism over there, or if they want him to have a break because they think the only reason he doesn't have a title is because they are making him play so much?

Uh oh!

So I took this quiz... Looks like I'm not very in tune with Lutheranism... I think my %ages may be screwed up, because I put a low priority on most of the things I answered, and on things like baptism, since they worded it as "what is the correct belief concerning baptism" and each of the answers was exclusive, I answered "Not Sure" and put a high priority on it...

I think it is pretty neat that I am so high on so many denominations...

1: Anglican/Episcopal/Church of England (100%)
2: Pentecostal/Charismatic/Assemblies of God (100%)
3: Congregational/United Church of Christ (91%)
4: Eastern Orthodox (91%)
5: Seventh-Day Adventist (91%)
6: Methodist/Wesleyan/Nazarene (88%)
7: Presbyterian/Reformed (88%)
8: Baptist (Reformed/Particular/Calvinistic) (85%)
9: Anabaptist (Mennonite/Quaker etc.) (82%)
10: Baptist (non-Calvinistic)/Plymouth Brethren/Fundamentalist (70%)
11: Lutheran (70%)
12: Roman Catholic (52%)
13: Church of Christ/Campbellite (38%)

Movin on up (to the east side).

I'm loaded. It's official. I'm the 860,388,099 richest person on earth! How rich are you? >>

Doesn't sound like much until you think of the 5+billion people below me on the list... I just guessed my annual income... I'll probably earn more than 5,000 this year...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

It's my car!

It's got a lot of miles! (But that 392 is how much I've driven it... on 12ish gallons of gas...)

I broke the antenna, and the clear coat is mostly gone... but it sure is ugly where it is left...

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Driving is Fun!

Well, I drove back up to Bel Air (where I bought my car) yesterday. This car is a dream to drive, and it gets 33 miles per gallon. My dad (and others) will be glad to note that, because of the high miles on the car, I'm taking it easy on accelleration, and traveling at the speed limit, instead of 3-5 MPH over... (also, after 55, the rpm per mph goes up quickly, ruining my gas mileage.) The only thing that could make driving this car more pleasureable would be if the sunroof opened.

Yesterday was a pretty fun day. In lab we played kickball against the other lab class that meets on Wed. Our team killed the other team, but they put on a good rally that fell short. It is really fun kicking a single and then stealing second (and maybe even third) while people are looking at the person who just ran home from third...

We played from around 2 till our class picture at 3:45... then I played handball... fun game, but we lost. We only had 5 players and the other team would put 6 in until they were comfortably ahead, and then take one out, then put one back in when we started catching up...

Then I left to pick up Josh's wallet... (That's why I drove back to Bel Air anyway...) There is no convinient way to get through Baltimore without paying a toll...

Safari 2.0

Safari 2 is much better than the old Safari so far. I used to open about 10 tabs, each to a different comic site and the whole application would not respond for about 3-4 minutes... now it loads them faster than I can read them...

Over all, Tiger seems faster, but there have been a few times that it seems to grind... that will probably be fixed in the next release (or if not then, when I get a new computer...)

New Car

Well, I got my car. It is a '93 Volvo 850GLT... It has bunches of miles (200K+) but it came at the right price, and it is a solid car as far as I can tell. I'll post some pictures later (it is in free parking right now, grocery store parking lot...)

Tiger

Just got Tiger (OS X 10.4)!

Trying to get Mail working... everything probably would have gone smoother if I hadn't deleted everything and started with a new installation, but I decided to so that I would only install applications that I use and get rid of old pref files and stuff that I don't use...

Oh, for cute now...

No Car (Yet)

Well, yesterday was a pretty long day. I went to pick up my car in northern NJ (took about 5 hours to get there because a moving truck burnt down on I-95). I drove it around the block and payed and signed the title. But then as I was driving off, I got to the last intersection before I got back on major highways and the car stalled out. luckily I was right beside a shell station with a mechanic. He checked the car out and told me there was no coolant in the car and it was overheating. I called my Uncle Tom (family mechanical genius) to figure out what I should do. As I was trying to drive the car back (after about 30 minutes for lunch, and to allow it to cool off,) I couldn't even get it to back out of a parking spot (it was slightly uphill) so I drove back to see if I could get a refund. The people who sold it to me decided to go ahead and relist it since I was so far away. I think the mechanical problem was repairable (I think it was a leak in the coolant system, but it had to be a pretty big leak.) So I'm looking for newer cars that are closer to Annapolis...