Holy Crap

[GentleGiant]

Interesting... I experienced a little bit of the "Starbucks everywhere" when I was in Santa Monica. But looking at the map of all of LA (yes, I know Santa Monica isn't really part of LA), I just saw that pretty much all of the Starbucks in LA are located in or very near Santa Monica

Mmmm, and I like their Chai (I don't drink coffee)

 

[Greylock]

Wierd. I know I have a crap computer. It's getting old, and is pathetically out-of-date. Hoping it survives the next year or so...

But, I opened the link above, checked it out, exited, changed my mind and clicked it again. IE siezed up, again, and my pc crashed. Now, ever since I got it back on, my screen has a thin, red line right across the middle of my monitor. Even at the DOS screen.

This means I'm doomed, doesn't it.

 

[reanjr]

Yeah. That was my impression when I saw it, too.

 

[reanjr]

Oooh oooh

Fun new google game!! (inspired by the Starbucks posts)

Type in your hometown.

Type in Starbucks.

Who gets the tightest zoom on ten Starbucks? I get 7 from the bottom.

I'm only half-kidding.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Well, Mapquest just went out of business.

 

[reanjr]

My brother-in-law sent us this earlier and I've been playing around with it a bit. In the word(s) of Napolean Dynamite, "Sweet!"

I mapped my route to work and then scrolled from home (MI) down to Virginia, then back up to Manhatten, then over to Canada.

 

[reanjr]

Google 1, Yahoo 0. Google may steal me as a portal site yet....

Ummm... I don't think Google is considered a portal. In fact, it's kind of the anti-portal. Which is why people use it.

Interestingly, in all my time using the web, I have rarely seen anyone "switch to" Yahoo or MSN search or AltaVista or Lycos. They use what is default for their browser or ISP or they use google.

 

[reanjr]

Oh, Google sold me a _long_ time ago.

Lots of options like in http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html
It's a dictionary too! A really good one! And a calculator!
Try typing:
speed of light in furlongs per minute
Or:
speed of sound in yards per hour
Or for something more conventional:
quarts in 2.5 gallons
I used it today because I needed to know
63418 centimeters in feet

I had to use it once to find:
radius of Earth in meters
for a Physics problem I was working.

The best is range search. Once when designing a city forrole-playing I needed to get a concept of what kind of city or town would have a population of 20,000. So I looked to 10000..50000 population Michigan ro come up with local cities with populations between 10 and 50 thousand. Worked out nicely.

 

[reanjr]

Gmail is the best internet mail ever.

Maybe the best web mail;not the best internet mail. Nothing beats a personal IMAP server running Spam Assassin, IMO.

 

[reanjr]

Well, Mapquest just went out of business.

Not quite yet. Google's is still in Beta. There are certain combinations of cities, etc. that you will get faulty, misleading, or no information for.