I racked up too much windshield time today, way too much. My GPS says I put in just shy of seven and a half hours. My butt, a truck seat, seven and a half hours. I think I now know all of Clutch. Oh, and my GPS gets all naggy and pissy when I know where I’m going and am not dutifully following the damned things orders. I get a chuckle every time I hear it mumble “recalculating”.
The lights of the chemical plants reflecting in the river of Charleston, West “By God” Virginia was quite beutiful. I especially liked the tall skinny towers with tall yellow flames at the top. I was reminded of scenes from Bladerunner. I think that was the best part of my journey today. A fleeting moment, captured in my mind at 70 mph.
I’m kind of bumed about one thing. I don’t think it’s legal to put aircraft landing lights on my car, so I’ll have to settle for some H-4’s I’m definately going to put them in the mains, and I’ll probably upgrade the driving/fog lights as well. If the 14 wasn’t so stock, I’d love to have a pair of rally lights and go for the “wall of light” effect with those bluish halogens. Yeah, that’d be awesome.
What a day. The first thought that comes to mind is “the best laid plans of mice and men.” That’s what today was. Sure, I planned on driving to West By God, but not as late as I did. Nope, not gonna break rule 1, other than to say that I’m pretty tired right now, and I got some O rings comming. They still have Shoney’s out here, unlike back home.
The people here are very nice. Kind of strange, but welcome at the same time.
I tried uploading some new pix, and the FTP kept crapping out. Seems like the webhost servers’ home drive has filled up. I got my pix uploaded by deleting some unneeded files and quickly uploaded what I needed to. Hopefully the admins are aware of this and they get some bigger drives soon.
I guess it’s all part of the game, but I’m at the DMV. Number’s almost up.
And it’s gonna stay that way. No more Live Gold account, and no more system updates. Yes, I’m a tad bitter about the whole non-optional system updates that M$ pushes out to the 360’s, cause I had two get bricked from updates. The latest one is slated to get pushed tomorrow, but not to mine. Here’s a taste of arrogance from M$:
| Q | Is the Update optional? Can I keep my old interface if I want to? |
| A | Why would you want to? The New Xbox Experience is the same experience you had before and so much more! As a matter fact, the blades that people have come to know and love are integrated directly in to the guide button so that every aspect of the Xbox experience is always only one button click away. The new Xbox experience is built with community as its foundation and requires everyone to upgrade. |
I love that first sentence. Why would I want to? Uh, cause I don’t trust M$, maybe. Kind of reminds me of a DRE, the doc don’t stop at the first digit. “Here, you thought sliced bread was tha bomb, try this… And yes, I am gonna hold this gun to your head while you do.”
Over at Kotaku, they’re just like little kids over this update. Sukkas.
Be happy. That’s all I got.