Hit the Road, Zach

Not long ago, I mentioned how I wanted a carputer, so I made one.
“Actually,” points out Attractive Girl teasingly, “it was quite a while ago. Like, six months ago.”
Fine. Long ago, I talked about how I built a friggin’ sweet carputer.
But just having a bunch of properly connected hardware is only half the battle. [...]

As promised long ago, I need to detail the process of building and installing the carputer, my faithful companion and aide for my bajillions of miles of driving.

Why a Carputer?
Besides the obvious reason that it’s friggin’ sweet, why install a carputer in a 1987 Ford? First of all, consider the fact that I was [...]

Okay, let’s give this another shot. Narrative devices, are you all set to not interrupt me?
“That’s right!” they all say together.
Great. So, Washington DC! The trip to the city began with a visit to my host, an awesome CS dude named Francis Kim. He had a very nice place right at [...]

The state of New Hampshire, which I’m sure has many redeeming virtues, completely let me down. Usually I am able to keep busy due to the people that contact me in a given state, but not a single person from New Hampshire contacted me.
“Quit whining,” says AG. “No one likes a whiner.”
True that. [...]

Some non-critical updates for you.
A Technical Update
At the suggestion of my good friend Matthew Campagna, I have begun integrating Shadowbox, an excellent standards-compliant media viewing solution, into this blag.
Presently it seems to be working on the home page, but not individual post pages, although the page code is identical. ????
Check it out on this [...]

a.k.a. my car, a.k.a. a major reason I haven’t left yet. It really does need a cool name, though. It’s a Crown Victoria, so the ideal name would have something about Vic, and of course Love. But the name can’t be “The Love Vic” because that’s just stupid. It also seems [...]