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how hard would it be?

adrian — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:28:52 +0000

My rental car this weekend seems[1] to have a feature where the radio gets louder when you go faster (and the engine/ car noise goes up). It works pretty well, but not perfectly.

But, really, how hard would it be to put a beat detector on the radio and sync the turn signals up with it? I’m pretty sure the turn signals are already run off of a microprocessor (through probably a FET) in modern cars, so it’d just be another sensor and a bit more code.

[1] I can’t find anything about the Chevy Cobalt doing this online but I’m pretty sure it does?

I’m watching the boston fireworks on TV

adrian — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:08:02 +0000

(Shipping Up to Boston makes me feel very nostalgic for the city even though it was recorded years after I left the town.)

That’s my celebration of the 4th, I guess.

I’m back in San Diego, this time I’m here to attend a friend’s wedding.

A main problem of traveling on holidays is that nothing is open. Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade circa 1988. Couldn’t find a place open to use the bathroom for what seemed like hours.

This evening, I went to find dinner. The place I intended to go was closed, of course, so I went across the strip mall to look for something else. This is perhaps the longest strip mall ever made. I walked across perhaps half a mile of parking lot. This place was big enough to have a TGI Fridays, a Boston Market, a Marshall’s, a Mervins, a Shoe Pavillion, a Payless Shoes, a Barnes and Nobles, an In N Out, and probably 50 more establishments….I got brisket at Joey’s BBQ.

Then I saw Wall E. It was really good. Pretty interesting concept for a film–and impressive that they made a compelling film about robots virtually without dialog.

this looks funny

adrian — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:53:13 +0000

Watch out! Bad language!

GO AMERICA

adrian — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:52:24 +0000

Did you eat meat today? Preferably prepared on a fire?

That’s what an American would do…

thumsup!

adrian — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:05:45 +0000

The other day, I saw a ThumsUp! while eating at an Indian restaurant. I decided to have it with my Desi chicken flatbread wrap.

This is my rating:

It tasted old timey–like Coke with sugar or Pepsi Retro. I like that old time taste!

postcards

adrian — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:21:58 +0000

Two postcards were in my mailbox yesterday.

One from my friend Gums from Darjeeling and addressed to me, San Francisco
One from Donegal address to Stockton-on-Tees ,Cleveland. That’s not even in this country! How did it get here? To me? I can think of no reasonable explanation.

questions

adrian — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:08:18 +0000

Don’t read on if you like knowing things and you don’t have time to waste. Seriously, Colin, stop reading.

Via Ken Jennings’ blog is Sporcle a trivia-set game site. It has games where it asks you to name anything from the planets to Time people of the year.

I did as expect in some and worse than I expected in others. I got all the US States but blanked on much of the Balkan region in the countries of Europe. (And West Africa is hard).

I did much better on the MLB teams than the NFL.

tickets

adrian — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:21:09 +0000

I’m going to my first (regular season Steelers game in Pittsburgh) on December 28. Woooo.

the quiet

adrian — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:05:53 +0000

26th and Noe: I like the city for having things around and it’s quieter than Taipei. But I miss the quiet sometimes. At a touch after midnight, it’s quiet here, so quiet that I could think I was in a different city. But I’m only a few blocks away from louder blocks.

…

26th and Guerrero: It’s getting louder now.

agreeing with my mom before she can say anything

adrian — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:18:28 +0000

I literally groaned when my alarm when off this morning. Time to get more sleep, I think.