They closed one lane here. ONE Lane. A lane that ends in a merge 50 feet up the road. This is so they can add one more lane going up to the new UCI parking structure. There you have it…
I’ve seen runways with less signage.
This will be voted on 5/10/2005, call your senators!
Here’s what California Senator Dianne Feinstein said:
Finally, I also am a strong supporter of Operation Gatekeeper and completion of the border fence, which is one of the bill’s provisions.
Now that we live in Communist China, might as well finish the great wall. /sarcasm
Check out Bill Scannell’s site UnRealID.com
I can’t stress enough how bad a national ID system would be.
Please support the EFF by opposing this! Call your senators!
I would have liked to have seen Montana.
… and the number one Drum & Bass album is [drumroll] ‘Rotting Pinata‘. 
Not only is the index still broken after 4 months, but this album has moved to number 1.
How is this possible? I suspect tom-foolery and stupidity:
Has anyone else come across any strange amazon anomalies? Hit the comments.
I guess I’ll just keep getting my suggestions from bassdrive.
Take one oversized truck, add in a 27″ lift and knobby tires. Now go get a latte.
I feel bad that 98% of these trucks will never be used off road. Sure, sometimes my cooky rallycar gets spotted running errands. But she’s seen more dirts roads then this baby will ever see.
Why not buy more gas, make more road noise, shop with the kids, and only drive to work.
Le’sigh…
‘Ghost’, or ‘ghost mode’ in GranTurismo 4 (GT4) is a semi-transparent copy of your fastest run around that particular track. It’s designed to let you see your fastest pace around the track while you drive. You can even load other peoples ‘ghost save’ to pace (or outpace) them through the course.
I’m no doubt sure it’s useful, but I can’t stand it. Semi-transparent or not, it’s another car on the track. No matter how many times I’ve tried to convince myself that I can drive right through it, my brain sees it as ‘another car on the track’ and will try to avoid it. So instead of matching my fastest line through the corner, I late apex without thinking so I can dodge the invisible car on the inside.
There used to be a setting that would turn this feature off. After a few hours of searching (It’s not in the manual, or in ‘Settings’.) I found it: Press UP on the Digital pad while driving. The blue dot on the map will go away along with the problems found with racing against yourself.
Please note that the mechanism to temporarily disable delivery of Windows XP SP2 is only available for a period of 240 days (8 months) from August 16, 2004. At the end of this period (after April 12, 2005), Windows XP SP2 will be delivered to all Windows XP and Windows XP Service Pack 1 systems. link
Microsoft has decided what’s good for you. I hope you like service pack 2! If it causes or fixes problems is not even the issue. The issue lies in a large multinational corporation enacting control over every possible installation of their software. Just because I chose to buy and install XP2 shouldn’t give Microsoft the ultimate power of it’s update and control. You want that control back? Turn off “auto-update” and go off grid.
This morning, BLAMPH I was woken up by the BLAMPH sound of a smoke detector. BLAMPH We have three of these BLAMPH things upstairs alone and I BLAMPH wasn’t sure which one BLAMPH was causing it.
I open the door to the bedroom and listen for the next BLAMPH. This is a beeping chirp-honk that’s being made by a device that’s dying. It certainly want’s to die. As visions of me knocking it directly off the ceiling flash in my sleepy head.
This is apparently a typical smoke detector system. The detectors all get power (120v) as they are wired into the apartment. They have little 9v batteries shoved in them (in case the AC power goes out) and they watch the voltage of that battery to see if it’s dead. If you know anything about electricity, you know that you can’t obtain the voltage of a battery without draining a tiny little bit of it’s remaining charge. This should take years but it’s already happened to 2 of the detectors in our apartment. You know, the apartment we’ve only been at for 5 months. I force it off the ceiling, disconnecting it from house power. IT’S STILL BLAMPH’ing. It does this 3 more times until it dies completely in this wierd 2001 Hal style; BLAM-pee-achh-ooop.
So my question is this? Why can’t we program in self preservation? It defies logic to have my cell phone beep and buzz AND flash, telling me it’s running low on charge. When THAT ITSELF is using up battery power! I think I could get at least 3 more minutes of talk time if it didn’t go BEE-doo “Battery Low!” If the phone or the smoke detector KNEW that I was going to rip out it’s only remaining power source and fling it across the room - it would die a lot quieter battery death.
Yikes. What’s going on there… 
Update: Article on slashdot about Live Journal outage. Looks like they’ll have it back up soon.
I’m hard it work on the ever popular “Kris’s Web Christmas List 2004.html” and I’m popping links off the big retail sites.
I get to Amazon. Sure, I have some favorites that I want. Some Breakbeat Science. Some hip soundtracks, maybe add to my classic rock collection. Let’s see what they have for best sellers. Techno, Trance, Drum & Bass… I’m scrolling down. I recognize the cover art for a grunge band from the 90’s.
Amazon put the band “Sponge” (you may remeber their one hit wonder ‘Plowed - or not…) as the number FOUR best selling D&B album. *chuckle.
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