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August 27, 2005
New Car, and a Road Trip
Yesterday I picked up my new car. It's a 2005 Mazda 6 GS with the "Sport" package. So it has a fairly nice stereo, and its a 5-speed standard. I love driving standard. I've played around with it a little, and it can go 50km in fifth gear at 1250 rpm and it still has enough juice to go up minor hills. I can also go from stopped in second gear. Overall, I think that I'll be able to get really good gas mileage out of it by driving in higher gears.
One thing I'm a little irritated about: it's non-trivial to put in an alternative stereo system due to the front panel style. I really wish sales people would bother to tell people about this sort of thing when I made it perfectly clear that I was interested in upgrading the stereo system. As well, the instruction manual is incredibly poor. It says nothing about how to use the "SAT" button to get satelite radio working. GRR.
We're going to be leaving for Virginia tomorrow morning. The family is coming along with me as well as Shabnam Tashakor a good friend of ours who is going to observe me at work. She's studying adult education and is interested in the type of things I'm doing as an agile coach. I'm hoping that she will be able to apprentice to me and start to deliver courses. We'll see.
Posted by mishkin at 05:38 PM
August 23, 2005
My Friend Danio
Danio has a blog! He actually writes in it and puts effort into his posts! I'm never going to be able to read back through all of them. Hi Danio!
Posted by mishkin at 08:35 AM
August 11, 2005
2005 Mazda 6 GS Stick Shift
I'm going to lease a car. I have driven so many different rental cars for work it has become very difficult for me to be in a crappy car. I decided that my business would lease a car for me to use for work in the states. So I got a Mazda 6. Actually, I haven't heard back yet about the financing... hopefully today. Then it will take a little while longer to actually get the car. I'm hoping by Monday :-) but that's probably optimistic.
My dad has been visiting since Sunday night. We've been super busy. He's helped me out with my Agile Work Seminar that I'm presenting for the first time as a coherent whole on Friday. I've done the bits before, but this is my first time putting them all together. Fun!
Dad also has lots of photos from his trip to visit Alexei in Beijing. I've only seen some of them so far...
Posted by mishkin at 09:43 AM
August 07, 2005
Lot's of bits
My mom is visiting from Sudbury. She loves the fact that Alexei, Cal and I all write music. She says my music is very experimental/abstract/intellectual.
Really great article on web apps.
I've been reading "Foreign Affairs" and this news about a vaccine is timely.
Posted by mishkin at 11:16 AM
August 04, 2005
Stickmen
Christian showed me this amazing flash stuff: stickmen fighting.
Posted by mishkin at 08:45 AM
Twisted but very funny
My brother Benja has a web site with lots of Flash animations: www.freewebs.com/fiveskateboardsnewgames/ - they are mostly very violent - CAUTION!
Posted by mishkin at 12:59 AM