It’s Here!!!
October 16th, 2009
It’s at the dealership. My dad will drive it around for a week before I retrieve it and make the drive back home to Davis… YAY!!!!
Posted in: Gadgets
floor mats, part deux
October 10th, 2009
Oh yes, so this is sort of old news, but Toyota has issued a recall for something like 38 million vehicles because they contain floor mats which could jam the accelerator and lead to fatal crashes. The 2010 Prius is not in that list, but I’m paranoid enough to think that that’s merely because not enough people have the vehicle yet.
They want me to pay 200 on top of MSRP for pieces of rubber which could lead to my demise? Thank you, but I’d rather die from a bacon overdose if you don’t mind.
And here’s hoping I made the right call in waiting for the dark gray prius instead of settling for a dark blue one today…
Posted in: Gaaaaaaah!!!
three words
Ferrero Rocher Gelato.
(Ghiradelli Chocolate Festival in SF. Pic taken by Francis, whose gelato cone I’ve hijacked.)
Posted in: Out and About, Tasty
and now we wait
September 7th, 2009
placed a deposit for a 2010 winter grey metallic prius II with misty grey interior this weekend.
No more, hopefully, dealing with car salesmen! I can’t stand it when they blatantly lie. Come on dude, don’t you think I know how to google and look things up??
Posted in: Gadgets
you want how much?
Who the hell do these asshats think they are, charging 200 dollars for floormats? It’s a piece of rubber that you step on. $200. Really?? REALLY? I mean, do these floor mats massage your feet and self clean or something? Are they perhaps coated in teflon and, in an emergency or accident, magically protect you from harm?
No. They’re ordinary pieces of rubber that are meant to catch the dirt. So why… WHY IN THE NAME OF ANYTHING REASONABLE would I pay $200???
Posted in: Gaaaaaaah!!!
Red, blue, gray?
August 15th, 2009
Ooooook. It’s getting closer to the time when I have to make my final decision on a color for the 2010 Prius. The color I had in mind initially was dark metallic gray, but on further consideration, the red and blue don’t look too shabby either. The prob. with the red is that I can’t remember if it’s a darker, richer red or if it’s closer to primary red (which I would not want.) The blue is nice, but somehow it doesn’t seem like… me. It’s just too sports-car-wanna-be.
The nicest thing with the dark metallic gray is that it hides dirt well. Living in Davis, one thing you realize is that your car collects a LOT of dirt.
Decisions, decisions, decisions.
Posted in: Gadgets
the other half
I keep intending to do food related posts, since the majority of the pictures on my camera are of food. I spend the weekend in SF with a friend from Wellesley. After brunch, we headed towards Union Square for some shopping to lighten both our wallets and weight. (What is it about being a twenty-something and all of a sudden feeling this adoration and love for all sorts of kitchen gadgetry and equipment?)
We stopped by a Forever 21, and there I saw the saddest looking man (pictured) sitting near the dressing rooms, presumably waiting for his female counterpart to reemerge. I couldn’t help being amused despite pitying him. There he was, surrounded by gaudy scarves and sales racks, nearly immobile from boredom as lines and lines of young women waited with their loot. He was not alone in his misery. On another floor, I saw a young man looking quite shell shocked as he stood motionless against a wall. Later, as I waited for my friend at the checkout, I saw yet another young man sitting on the bottom shelf of something or other, trying to amuse himself and ignoring the wild colors and patterns around him.
Poor, poor guys. I hope they made it out ok. If I, as a female, cannot tolerate the chaos that is Forever 21, how can they?
Posted in: Easily Amused, Out and About
colors
July 16th, 2009
I thought I had my heart set on Winter Metallic Gray for the 2010 Prius, but now I’m having second thoughts and considering the Barcelona Red…
Why don’t they have one that’s mostly gray or white with lime green accents? (Because I’d probably regret it in a few years, but in my love for all things lime green phase, I am blind to sense.)
And traffic was awful today. A commute that should have taken me 10 min at most took more than half an hour. Most of the hold up was due to the fact that they shut down one lane of Page Mill, really close to where the Alma traffic merges on to it… (That area’s already a bottleneck for traffic.) I should have just WALKED.
Posted in: Gaaaaaaah!!!
safari can kiss my ass
July 10th, 2009
As a Macbook pro owner, I do try to use some of the Apple software that they try, not so subtly, to ram down my throat. Some of these include Quicktime, which is a piece of shit, but is apparently crucial to Itunes, yet another pile of steaming turds. When you install Itunes, it inevitably wants to install Bonjour and Mobileme and Quicktime. All I want to do is transfer some music to my iPod. I don’t need those other little floaters that add bloat!! But I digress… after all, the subject of my fury today is Safari.
Read more…
Posted in: Gaaaaaaah!!!, Gadgets
it’s like that scene in Wall-e
July 7th, 2009
I stopped by a Shell station on my way home for gas (as luck would have it, the gas guzzling Acura requires premium only) and had just done the whole credit card, zip code thing when the previously silent screen above me suddenly greeted me. To be honest, I mostly ignored it until I heard someone else’s screen greet them. At that point, I thought about Wall-e.
There’s a scene in Wall-e where he’s wheeling himself home, and every time he passes by a screen it suddenly flickers to life and spouts some advertisement. This benign greeting at Shell is a taste of what’s to come, I’m sure. Wall-e like advertisements with proximity sensors are the future billboards of tomorrow. Perhaps they’ll rely on solar or wind energy to keep themselves fully charged, with some sort of light sensor to alter volume controls. Silence will be a thing of the past.
Hacking these ads will be the next generation of graffiti…
Posted in: Easily Amused