"It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend you pick one up." At least, that's what my wife has been saying over and over again for the past several days. Sunday night, we finally bought her new car. We wound up getting a new Volkswagen Passat from Stevens Creek Volkswagen. (Meredith says she's been waiting to use that line since she was 13.) The car is really nice. The only problem is that the CD player they installed for us doesn't seem to actually have any connection to the amplifier. Oops. At least that should be easily fixed. Stevens Creek VW (a) was pleasant to deal with, (b) had the color Meredith wanted. This is the same color that one dealer told us wasn't in stock anywhere in the Bay Area, and another dealer (Bob Lewis VW on Capitol Expressway) said didn't exist at all with the options that Meredith's car, in fact, has. The salesman we talked to at Bob Lewis VW was the personification of sleazy car salesman. Oh well. At least it's over. Now to sell her old Honda Accord...
It's a bird -- it's a plane -- it's ... on the bird The 3.5 release of the UltimateTV software finally shipped. Shipping a new rev of UTV means that it gets sent to the DirecTV satellite, where it's beamed to everyone's home to enjoy. The feedback we've gotten about the update has been very positive, which is always nice. It's always nice to ship.
Movable Blogs After using Pivot initially with my blog, I decided to switch to Movable Type. I initially chose Pivot because my old hosting provider didn't support one of the Perl modules required for MT. My new hosting provider does, however, and Pivot, while nice (nicer in some regards than MT) has a few bizarre bugs that had been pretty annoying. So, I figured I'd try MT for a while. A lot of people I know are using Movable Type and say good things about it, so...
"It's the pedal on the left, damnit!" An empty American Airlines Boeing 767 rolled away from a maintenance hanger at LAX, stopping after going through a fence and sticking out over a nearby road. Airport officials claim that the problem stemmed from some kind of mechanical error. Sounds like the error was that someone forgot to set the brake.
"Well sir, there's nothin' on earth like a genuine, bonafide, electrified, six-car monorail! What'd I say?" What to do if you just really, really like monorails? Build your own in your backyard. I'm sure the Old Mountain View Neighborhood Association would just love it if I tried this. (Not that it would fit in our postage-stamp-sized back yard. But still.) Freaky...
Posted by Mike at April 11, 2002 10:30 AM