matt | October 31, 2004
- So Liz (my g/f) is happy that I've grown up and gotten a real car.
- Something is wrong with the driver side lower door speaker. It's either a loose connection, or something screwed up with the tape deck adapter (it doesn't seem to do it with the radio). So, I'm going to use the [...]
matt | October 30, 2004
- All cars should be German and turbocharged
- New car smell is overrated. At least nowadays, it smells like adhesives and plasticizers.
- 80mph doesn't seem that fast anymore
- Somehow, magically, when I climbed into this car, the road became overclogged with pokey drivers.
- I like the fact that when you take a corner, the body [...]
matt | October 28, 2004
Was feeling well enough that I went to the dealership. We took the TDI Golf for a test drive. Much tighter than the Jetta (or at least, the '05 Golf is tighter than the '04 Jetta). Final price was $20,700, including the mud flaps. Okay, okay, I know I said I wouldn't budge on the [...]
matt | October 28, 2004
Hey folks…
Have some time to update this because I'm home sick these past couple days. Spending time sleeping, reading, playing video games, drinking Vitaminized OJ (the Tropicana Immunity Defense stuff) and eating chicken soup (Liz brought me the OJ and soup; she's so good to me.)
I was going to start playing Max Payne 2, except [...]
matt | October 20, 2004
Henceforth, I will no longer make the claim that I can drive a standard.
After discussing manual vs. automatic in various VW discussion forums, I got Liz to let me take the beetle for a spin around the parking lot surrounding my apartment.
After stalling the car 5 times, ending up in third when I wanted to [...]
matt | October 17, 2004
We put in Liz's new car stereo, now with iPod integration!
Happy autumn, folks!
matt | October 13, 2004
Been busy for a bit. We did a housewarming this weekend. Good turnout. Lot of work, though.
I am currently reading The Underground History of American Education, by John Taylor Gatto. It basically lays out, in fairly comprehensive detail, the theory that modern forced schooling is not designed to educate, but to pacify the intellect and [...]
matt | October 9, 2004
3rd party candidates arrested for crossing police barricades at the Presidential debate
matt | October 5, 2004
Let's see, lots of stuff. Howsabout chronological order?
1.) The work situation seems to have worked itself out. For those of you who weren't aware by my previous posts, I was growing increasingly frustrated at work. Well, as part of the reorganizing, I am going to be replaced as Software Engineering Manager (this is okay, I [...]
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