2 posts tagged “google maps”
Okay, so obviously there are an infinite amount of things that are great about the internet. Today, the internet brought us "Chuck Facts", but it also brought us a sadder story, allow me to explain.
Google Maps has a feature that allows you to peruse locations on a real "street" level view. Normally a great feature if you think about the complexity of a project like that. However, after checking my childhood home street address on a whim, I am struck with sadness:
For any of you who ever visited this address, you will instantly understand what I mean. My childhood home looks like SHIT.
In 2001 my parents sold this house to a family before moving to Washington State. We haven't really kept touch with the people that moved in, but I can only hope that this isn't the same family living there now... because this place really looks like a dump now.
Plastic chairs littering the front lawn? Portable basketball hoop? Empty boxes blocking the garage doors? A GIANT dead lawn? It even looks like there is a TOILET in the driveway!!! No wait, IT IS A TOILET. What in THE HELL is going on over there?
I don't swear a lot, but I am ashamed of this SHIT SHOW.
I was welcomed home from my recent vacation with a DOWNPOUR of rain. That is to say, on my way to work, it rained so much (and so hard) that i had to sit in my cube without shoes and socks on. My entire being had been soaked to the bone and felt like I had just gotten out of a pool after someone had "accidentally" pushed me in as a joke. The pool being New York, the pusher being New York, and the accident being me in New York.
Somehow the phone in my pocket continued to chug along for a few more days. But eventually it sputtered to death, unable to register a charge no matter how long it's been plugged in. And that was over three weeks ago.
The good news is that the phone itself still works. The bad news is that now I want a new one. And that's ridiculous. All I have to do is install the new battery I bought off Amazon for $7 bucks and I'm EXACTLY where I was a month ago. Instead I'm toying with the notion of the iPhone.
I certainly don't covet the thing. It's just the first time I have been intrigued by a phone/PDA in about 5 years. All of that aside, it's a HORRIBLE idea to get it. How long does the battery last? How much is the data plan going to cost? Will the screen get scratched like the most recent iPod? How heavy is it?
And most importantly:
What happens if I get caught in the rain again?
So do I go the $7 route or the $600 + activation + monthly fees route?
I think I'd rather get a dog.
