Archive for July, 2006

Google Homepage

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

So I accidentally went to the main google homepage today – and it looked like this:

Google Homepage
What is up with that?!? I tried it in Safari, no dice – I get the expected Google white page I always did. Don’t have a windows machine handy to try it there either – any other confirmations?

Update – turns out I had a greasemonky script installed. Looks like I fooled myself into thinking something weird was happening. I need to figure out a better way for wordpress to insert thumbnails – that thing looks horrible!

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I bought a car

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

Yup, you read it right. I bought a car – a new car. I had not intended to do so today, but I got a good enough deal on a car that was close enough to what I wanted that I said okay. Actually, I think I said “sure, let’s do it” which seemed to make the guy as giddy as a school-girl (I don’t think he had sold a car yet in the day, and it was 17:30). I settled on the [drum-roll] Mazda3 5-door Grand Touring. The one thing about it that wasn’t exactly what I wanted from the Mazda3 was the color. Silver is not a color I dislike (I had a car that was close to the same color before – and I chose specifically to get said car painted with the color), but there was a color I really liked the 5-Door in, and they didn’t have one with the trim/transmission that I wanted. And since we’re at the end of the model year, I don’t get to be as picky with those sorts of things. Oh well, I’ll be picky with my next car…in several years.

Time to have some fun with the “zoom-zoom” package I was told about – anyone up for a ride? I don’t really care where we go!

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