Monday March 29, 2004 at 07:00 pm
March 29th, 2004 by shinzu
Ah.. another weekend passing by, and this time without spring break! Well you know kiddos in school appreciate it while you can .. gr…hehe.
Anyways this past weekend I test drove the acura tl and the tsx. When taking the tl around, the salesman didn’t really say anything. However when I was in the tsx, he was talking a lot.. hmm.. sounds like he wanted to pitch that car instead hehe.
Well what’s pretty kewl about the tsx is the audio navi. The navigation system can listen to voice commands so while you are driving you can say “temperature 78 degrees” and it’ll change the temperature. Or if you say “find nearest chinese restaurants” it’ll find em. Pretty trippy stuff. The guy really started joking around when he said “find nearest blowjob” and it listed a bunch of motels. I guess those programmers had a field day creating those commands hehe.
The tl obviously is more powerful than the tsx, but is definetely heavier despite having more horsepower. Both cars only come with one option from the factory.. navi or no navi. If you don’t get navi, you get osme ugly-ass display screen that shows you the temperature and the alpha tuning readings from tv stations.
After looking at tsx forums, you can actually hack the lcd where you can plug in a video input source. I saw some guy hookup a dreamcast to the lcd in his tsx… dope…
I was just thinking on a random note.. how come Subway doesn’t toast their subs to compete with Quizno’s? I mean.. honestly how HARD is it for them to get toasters and toast the bread before wrapping it up? Did the executives at Subway just happen to overlook this issue?
On another note, I just finished reading The Da Vinci Code. Dang, this book is a Catholic bashing book. I guess the main controversy in this book is whether or not you believe the facts presented in it. Despite that, I think they ended the book pretty well with this quote..
“Religious allegories have become apart of the fabric of reality. And living in that reality helps millions of people cope and be better people”
This is a very interesting statement. Let’s just say for example some of Christiantiy and Catholicism was based on something completely untrue. But, believing in those beliefs makes people better. Is this ok for people to believe even though the root ideal was based on bad info? This is very similar to an episode of the Simpsons, where Lisa uncovered that Jebediah Smith was actually a very bad person. However, the whole town loved Jebediah Smith; they regarded him as the local town hero. At the end where Lisa was about to reveal the low-down on Jebediah, she saw that everyone was happy and quite patriotic about their local hero, thus making the people feel better. She chose at the end not to reveal the secrets, knowing that his presence, even though bad in truth made people better.
However there is a difference between a local folk hero and religion. I believe in religion we should try to seek the ‘truth’ in the manner. But if we find something we believe is strongly flawed, do we go around telling others our revelations or keep the status quo? Decisions like thsese often are never black and white when approached.
I’ll end the post with a small story from work. We had a meeting where they were discussing architectural changes to the system. At one point, they were discussing a MAJOR architectural change that would delay the program by 1-2 years. It’s funny how my boss responded to a question if this change was possible..
“Yea we can do that. That’s what so great about software. You give us enough time and enough money and we can do anything.”
Ben, Me, Doan, Khang (my cousin), Duy (my other cousin from Canada) at Century. It was Duy’s first time at a club in LA. Damn guy is tri-lingual (English, French, and Vietnamese). I should use him as a wing-man hehe.