I saw this a few days ago, and then today my sister did it, so I guess it’s about time. Here’s a nifty map of states I’ve visited:
create your own visited states map
You can also generate a map of all the countries you’ve been to, but it was sort of depressing to see only the U.S., Mexico, and western Europe highlighted. I need to get out of the country way more often! Of course, to do that, I need to make a lot more money…
So I finally have my new cell phone. It came on Monday, along with the battery (I ordered the phone and battery from two different Ebay sellers). However, when I opened the package with the battery, it was a battery for some Nextel phone–not the Samsung that I’d bought! Grr. With ebay, it’s always such a crapshoot anyway. However, the guy I bought it from was very agreeable, and I was able to call him, tell him the problem, and he sent the correct battery Monday night, and it arrived yesterday! Woohoo. So my lovely new phone is working wonderfully. My only complaint is that it has no normal ringtones. Everything is a song, there’s no simple “ring ring” option. So I downloaded a couple less annoying tones from the T-Mobile website. Did you know you can actually get your phone to ring with an actual song now?? Like, John Mayer singing “Bigger than my Body”, instead of the muzak version. I didn’t download that one yet, but it was tempting.
Rich came in this morning with the good news that the people at Kennedy found the part that fell off their airplane back before Christmas. The bad news is that they found it in a slightly different place than we told them they would. Now, this is bad news not because we were wrong, because we probably weren’t completely wrong; it’s much more likely that we were wrong because the initial conditions we were given were wrong. It’s all about the assumptions. However, unless we can come up with a new IC, people will wonder why we couldn’t predict the impact point. Silly people.
Yesterday afternoon in the 5 minutes between looking out George’s office window and actually making it downstairs to walk to my car, it started to pour down rain. I have never cursed Houston as much as I did yesterday, as I got soaked on my way to the car, soaked on my way into the UPS store to mail some packages, and soaked on the way back to the car. Stupid, stupid rain.
There’s a funny article in the Times today, about how computer-saavy people are less and less sympathetic to the people who don’t know enough to avoid spreading computer viruses. Funniest line: “Many of the computationally confused say they suffer from genuine intimidation and even panic over how to handle the mysterious machines they have come to rely on for so much of daily life.”
Everyone around here is complaining that they’re sick. I think they’re all big wusses.
Ok. That’s enough for today.
