Monthly Archives: June 2004

Ten Things That Annoy You When You Drive – Ten on Tuesday

Summer’s here, and that means road trips, driving with your window open, and hot and heavy traffic. I’m from California, and almost every time I’m on the road I’ve got a gripe about someone or something…What annoys you the most when you’re on the road?

  1. People not using their blinkers .
  2. People getting upset when people don’t move in the first 2.3 seconds when the light changes
  3. Streets magically changing direction (but if you go straight your on a different street) without good sign-age. This Allen Park street allenparkroadschanges by several 30 degree angles over a few mile span…
  4. Not labeled intersections
  5. Streets with more than one name but only shows one.
  6. Multiple streets with the same name (in Lansing we had three streets same name, I don’t think the Drive/Lane/Street was different, and a few were one direction and and the other in another.
  7. Construction
  8. People chatting on the phones when their kids are in the cars.
  9. People honking when you don’t turn on a ‘no right on red sign’ (heck, I don’t need to turn even if there isn’t a sign)
  10. People not using their blinkers.

From Ten on Tuesday

$1,000,000 – qotw

And the Question of the Week is…

If you were a contestant on a trivia-style game show, what category would you most want to see displayed when it came down to the million-dollar question?
Alex, I’ll take “20th Century Computers” for a million dollars.

RE: Blogs – 8

1. Most of us pay for hosting our domains in which to blog on – – however, under what circumstances would you shell out hard earned cash so that you can use the blogging platform (i.e. your blogging application). Considering Movable Type’s recent license fees – – would you? If yes, why – – If no, why not?
For the right tool, I’ll pay! I love Ecto (paid) for managing my blogs off-line and Transmit for FTP/textediting but I need to see if I need to pay for that one (or if I have).
2. RE: Linkage – – I’ve seen many a trick to increase traffic and ratings in certain ecosystem offerings. For example – a few I’ve seen have one or two domains as a mirror to their main one and register all domains with TTLB – – so every post that you make is mirrored on the ’secondary domain’ – and each post is linked to the ‘primary domain’ which is recorded by the ecosystem as an inbound link….which could, for examle, bring your inbound links from 100 to 400 – depending. Do you have methods you use to ‘trick’ the ecosystem to skew your results to give you a higher rating? Care to share them? What tricks do you use?
No but I’m making notes… Actually i guess I’m doing something similar (but it’s to keep what little I’ve got, not generate more), I decided to modify my url so I started changing it previously to start moving some traffic and now that I’m using it I’ve slowing been changing the blocks of links (images, archives, main root, etc.) it hopes to have my traffic move with (I just don’t want to disappear from the blogosphere). From your logic maybe I’ll stretch out the process a little longer… I don’t want a higher rating, I want more visitors….
3. RE: Templates – – show off some of your extra add-ons you’ve been working on with your templates. What’cha been up to, huh? huh?
My image (as of this post) on the background is a live ariel view of Dearborn, MI (everytime you refresh it’s updated). The colors match the blue and green of the Earth. At dawn and sunset and other times during the day you can see the dividing line between light and dark (it must have a name?). I was doing the moon, but it was tooooo sloooooww.
4. RE: Other blogs – – Show us some of the newer blogs you’ve linked to recently, in the past week, or so. We all like seeing new blogs and fresh material. Who are they – and why’d ya link ‘em?
Okay, clearly this is going to be a regular thing and I need to get prepared for it. On my blog I’ve been running a scrolling sidebar (well it might not scroll in all browsers, but it should atlease be there) for “Interesting Recent Sites” (so check it out), I did just change the date format, so it’s not consistent but it’ll be oklay in a day or three (I only keep the last 30 or so). I’ve got a script to grab the URL and title or highlighted text and add the date and ftp it up (it get’s included via PHP).

From RE: Blogs .

Week 70 – Unconscious Mutterings

I say and you think:

  1. Charity:: Faith
  2. Scale:: Weight
  3. Jennifer Lopez::
  4. Coercion:: Force
  5. Meter:: Yard
  6. Pressure:: Water
  7. June:: July
  8. Infestation:: Bugs
  9. Serial killer:: Neil Gaiman*
  10. Anguish:: Grief

From Unconscious Mutterings

*In a story Neil has a Cereal Convention which is really a Serial (Killer) Convention.

Chasing Liberty

chasing liberty movie posterSo I finally saw Chasing Liberty, not a big Mandy Moore fan, not really sure what she sings (actually wasn’t 100% she didn’t do any songs in the movie until I saw the credits). I just always thought the previews looked cute. It was fun, pretty much exactly what you’d expect. Nice scenery since it takes place in several countries and getting lost and separated is always what makes up part of these movies. I just kept looking at Ms. Moore and those huge dimples and thinking how much she made me think of Julia Stiles. Of course I can’t find two photos that illustrate that but if you see it you’ll know.

A lot of people you’ll recognize and it’s always fun figuring out who they are…

An Auto-biography – Sunday Brunch

1. Who taught you how to drive?
My step-father taught me how to drive a motorcycle when I was younger (8?) that with I suppose with watching and sitting on someone’s lap when I was little, it was pretty simple to learn to drive. I took driver’s education classes but pretty much had it figured out before then. But all the extra stuff like merging politely and parking were from the class.
2. How old were you when you got your driver’s license?
Sixteen and a half.
3. What kind of vehicle(s) do you own?
Sebring convertible. I love it! I don’t ever want to have to own a non-convertible car again.
4. Is it an automatic or stick shift?
Automatic. Stick is way more fun, but it’s only fun when you’re not stuck in trtaffic…
5. Do you keep the inside of your vehicle sparkly clean, fairly clean or pretty much messy?
Mostly messy. In the summer I keep it a little cleaner for two reasons: Stuff tends to blow out (self-cleaning car) and if I keep it clean I know what’s in it so I can leave the roof down when I run into a store (etc.).

From Sunday Brunch

Movable Type in 24 Hours

I finally saw a copy of ‘Teach Yourself Movable Type in 24 Hours’ at the store and it’s mine! Mine! Mine! I’ll do a short review later. But I’m notoriously bad at doing book followups….

Chinese Restaurants

Why are so many Chinese and Thai type restaurants closed on Sunday? I’m at Red Robin instead…. :(

Do you think they just call them “Restaurants” in China?