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Garmin just announced this a few days ago. With the house and everything else I don’t think I’ll be pulling one of these off this year… but next year… yes… next year it will be mine!
Garmin: StreetPilot 2610/2650
Garmin has raised the bar for portable automotive navigation with two new products: the StreetPilot 2610 and 2650.
Just choose your destination using StreetPilot’s touch screen or remote control to be automatically guided with turn-by-turn directions and voice prompts. Both the 2610 and 2650 feature color displays, built-in maps, and everything needed to download additional map detail and look up points of interest and addresses in seconds. Select maps and transfer data directly to the unit through a USB connection and onto a standard CompactFlash® memory card. These products are powered using the external speaker with 12/24-volt adapter cable or A/C power adapter (both are included in the purchase).
The StreetPilot 2650 also has dead reckoning capabilities, so you’ll continue to get navigation guidance even if you lose GPS reception, such as in intense urban environments with tall buildings and tunnels. To achieve dead reckoning, the 2650 features an internal angular rate sensor, an external speed sensor input, and an external reverse light sensor input. (Please note: The StreetPilot 2650 can only be purchased through auhorized installation dealers because the product requires a connection to a vehicle’s speedometer and backup lights. Customers will not be able to buy this product over the counter or install it themselves.)
Someone else had the same thought I did after hearing Blair’s speech the other day. But unlike me, they made a cool little website…
http://blair2004.com/
Between the babbling of George W. Bush on the right, the blathering of the anti-war left, and the cluck-clucking of media hens everywhere, stands Tony Blair, articulate and principled.
Many Americans understand and support Iraqi Freedom because of the leadership provided by Mr. Blair, and many of us would feel much safer if Mr. Blair occupied the White House.
Tony Blair took a considerable political risk in supporting Iraqi Freedom, and for that we would like to thank him and promote him to chief executive in charge of the world’s greatest super power, President of the United States of America.
I didn’t actually agree with Blair ont he war, but I do think he would make a much better President than W. Citizenship? Pshaw! I’d vote for him! :-)
(via Samizdata)
He had me all blocked into a corner and in what looked like a hopeless situation to me, and I was down to 10 seconds on the clock… but I managed to slither away and then get some material, and then get more material, and work on my advantage until I won. Yea!
[Event ICC 2 12]
[Site Internet Chess Club]
[Date 2003.07.22]
[Round -]
[White Abulsme]
[Black K2Q]
[Result 1-0]
[ICCResult Black resigns]
[WhiteElo 1089]
[BlackElo 1010]
[Opening Philidor’s defense]
[ECO C41]
[NIC KP.10]
[Time 00:10:27]
[TimeControl 120+12]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bd3 Bg4 4. O-O Nc6 5. b3 Nd4 6. Be2 Nxe2+ 7. Qxe2 Qf6
8. Qe3 h5 9. Bb2 h4 10. h3 Qg6 11. Nxh4 Rxh4 12. hxg4 Qxg4 13. f3 Qg3 14.
Nc3 Nf6 15. Ne2 Qh2+ 16. Kf2 Rh3 17. Rg1 Nh5 18. Qg5 Be7 19. Qg4 Bh4+ 20.
Ke3 Nf4 21. Qxg7 Nxg2+ 22. Qxg2 Rxf3+ 23. Qxf3 O-O-O 24. Qg4+ Kb8 25. Ng3 d5
26. Nf5 d4+ 27. Kd3 a6 28. Qxh4 Qf2 29. Qxf2 b5 30. c3 c5 31. cxd4 cxd4 32.
Ne7 Re8 33. Nc6+ Kb7 34. Na5+ Kb6 35. Qxf7 Rc8 36. Qb7+ Kxa5 37. Qxc8
{Black resigns}
1-0
Of course, I didn’t post the earlier game from last week when I lost after like 12 moves when I failed to notice a simple checkmate that I could easily have blocked. Oh well! Hey, I’m not a GOOD player, I just have fun. :-)
Just sent this to Rebecca. Thought I would share here too.
Initial estimate is $1000, although they will visit in person and give a better estimate Friday. That is more than I really wanted to pay.
I am going to ask how much less it would be if they don’t do the storage space too, or if they ONLY do the furniture.
Cause I have three weeks to move. I can do all the boxes and loose stuff myself no problem, even if I had no help from any friends, which I know I will have at least some of. Maybe ten trips with my Saturn fully loaded would get all of my stuff over there. Maybe even less.
I just REALLY don’t want to deal with the furniture myself or even ask my friends to do that. :-(
But if they can’t get it low enough, perhaps I will canvas the local friends to see who was actually serious about helping me move. :-)
Or maybe I really will decide to just trash all the furniture and start out living on the floor and then get all new stuff. :-)
Oh, and nothing from the stressful stuff I mentioned yesterday has been resolved yet. :-( Still waiting for good phonecalls on those things. :-(
So today, a few things on the house got glitched. Got word last week that the appraisal was done. It was supposed to arrive Friday or today, so that the official Mortgage Approval could be done. (The current one is contingient on the appraisal… if it appraises for less than my offer price, I may have to come up with the difference in cash.) But the appraisal did not arrive. So we have to do an addendum to the agreement asking the seller for a little more time to get that. Potentially the seller could back out because of this. They probably won’t, but… it makes me real nervous, and will until it is all settled.
At the same time, we were supposed to have a copy of the condo agreement by now, but don’t. It is supposedly in the mail. I need the agreement to know which things are not covered by the condo association, so I know what insurance I have to get. ARRGH!
Ont he other side of things: I’ve arranged for the time off for closing and moving. Marilyn’s ticket to come the weekend after closing is bought. The guy to replace the locks is scheduled for the day after closing. I’ve played phone tag with a moving company to get an estimate, but have not connected yet. Etc.
My stress levels are increasing rapidly.
I just updated the “Mail” section with the results for June 2003’s Top Ten email contest.
Top Ten for June 2003
So this month Ivan and Chad manage to claw their way back up onto the top ten, in the process shoving Cynthia and Greg off the bottom. Brandy continues to clean up with more than twice as month as the next competitor. I must admit though, some of that was related to her being my agent as I try to buy my new townhouse. Oh well. That should die down shortly after I close in August. Most of the emails were personal though, so it is legit that she counts.
Other than that though, kind of a slow month. Only two people over 100 messages for the month. Just sort of the usual from everybody. Ron drops back down from his unusually high performance in May to a more normal level. Al and Chris also quiet down a bit. I guess there were no major multi-side conversations on random subjects in June. Which is not necessarily a bad thing.
Got an email from Brandy this morning about her having looked at my redesigned site. I had seen her look in at the camera a variety of times, but last night I noticed her go to the front page for the first time since I redid it. At least I think it was… checking the logs real quick…
Yup, before today at 01:49 UTC, the last time Brandy had looked at the home page (at least from her home where I recognize the address) was June 24th. So this was the first time since the redesign. She might have looked another time from work or somewhere, but if so I haven’t learned to recognize that as her yet.
So Brandy becomes the first one from the last year of top tens to look at the new front page and send me an email commenting on it.
But I had said I was excluding Brandy and Greg from my “who will notice first” thing, since both of them knew I was working on the blog software that day and I had recently told Brandy to look at the site to answer a question she asked.
But thought I would mention it anyway. We’ll see who is next.
But right now I think I am going to get up and ready for the day, then perhaps work on counting June’s Top Ten list for a bit before doing the delayed suit shopping with Kelly.
Had my first video chat with the iSight today. Emailed Ivan and told him to install and hook up his video camera. It worked very well. Quite nice. Quite impressive. Now I just need to have more people on my buddy list with Macs and cameras. Right now Ivan is the only one. Jon has audio only but no camera. And that is it. Nobody else multi-media capable yet. Hopefully that will improve over time.
The quality was great though. (Once we put on headphones to eliminate feedback.) Almost as good as a phone call… but with video.
I was going to go suit shopping with Kelly today. But by the time I got up, finished talking to Marilyn about Idaho and her visit her to help me unpack, and was putting my shoes on, I hadn’t yet called my dealer about the car, and Kelly called, ready for me to come meet her for the suit shopping.
I told her about the car overheating and leaking and making lots of smoke and that I hadn’t gotten to take it in yet. She suggested perhaps we could go suit shopping tomorrow instead. That worked for me. I figured I could get the car fixed today, and be all ready for suit shopping tomorrow.
Then I called the Saturn dealer. They probably couldn’t get to my car until Monday. And the rental car people left at noon and wouldn’t be back until Monday. So it would probably be better if I just waited to take the car in Monday.
Sigh. OK. Kelly said she could pick me up for the suit shopping. And while I probably COULD drive the car a bit without it exploding, I’d rather not. So I guess I’m staying home and/or walking or biking.
Hmmm… biking. I haven’t done that in a bit. Perhaps I should. But I was thinking of walking over to the little restaurant at the golf course. I have never gone there in all the years I have been here. So I thought perhaps I would walk over there today.
I think I’ll do that.
Planning for the Idaho random trip is starting to solidify. It looked like it was going to be me, Marilyn and Chad. But a couple days ago out of the blue I got an email from my cousin Seth saying he would like to join us. So it looks like it may be the four of us.
So next we are picking which dates to go. The suggestion currently on the table from Marilyn is August 30th to September 7th, so as to use the Labor Day vacation day. Sounded fine to me. Waiting for feedback from Chad and Seth. Then if we settle the dates, tickets will be bought, and it will be time to start figuring out where we will stay.
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