Leave Zurich Friday August 15 @ 10:00
Arrive San Diego Friday August 15 @ 18:29
Leave Atlanta Saturday August 30 @ 16:35
Arrive Zurich Sunday August 31 @ 07:55
Somewhere around August 19 I’m coming to IL as well. Not tix yet though.
yay, wordpress on my own domain!
holy crap, i can post to my livejournal from google docs.
i don’t know why that is surprising.
holy crap, i can post to my livejournal from google docs.
i don’t know why that is surprising.
http://www.andiamnotlying.com/2008/murky-coffee-arlington-hold-that-espresso-between-your-knees
A lot of the comments are saying things like “Starbucks wouldn’t be so popular if baristas like this guy weren’t such dicks.” I don’t think that’s true; I think it’s popular because:
– They intentially prepare their coffee in a very specific way that makes their coffee taste very dark (i.e. burned). Like McDonalds food can never be mistaken for anything else.
– A lot of people seem to care more about familiarity than finding the -best thing- or -unique local thing-. I was shocked to learn that a friend of mine went on vacation and ate at TGIFriday’s several times. Some people just like to do what they know, not trying unknown things. Also known as the Applebees Effect.
– Because it is more expensive than regular coffee.
For me, SB is still the best cafe outside the Uni simply because they are the only smoke-free place in Zurich. Lame.
Adding a network printer in windows vista is a stupefying experience.
First the add printer wizard asks whether you want to add a local or network printer. Amazingly, you have to choose local, then create a new “local” port, which is actually the IP address of your printer.
You then have to choose the appropriate printer driver from a window that has two panes, make and model. Inexplicably, this window is tiny, so it only shows about 4 printers at a time and it IS NOT RESIZABLE. So if you’re adding, say, an HP printer, you have to slowly scroll through the list of about 700 similarly-named printer models looking for the one you have. Then finally realize that they didn’t include any drivers for printers that were made in the last 5 years, so you have to go to the manufacturers web site and re-download them manually anyway.
The thing is, this process is *exactly the same as in windows xp*. In other words, it *still* blows goats, as it has for many years now. No improvement whatsoever.