I regret not getting a place with central air. I also regret getting a car with a black interior. It’s been in the 90s and even worse down on the peninsula at work. Yesterday in the time between when I got to work and when I went to lunch, the inside of my car got hot enough that my FasTrack pass fell off the windshield because its sticky velcro melted. I wish I had one of those sunroofs with the solar fan in it, although I don’t know if they really work or that’s just a gimmick to get people to feel better about buying a Prius.
Speaking of Prius, I guess the Honda CR-Z is out now, or at least its web page is out. I am still debating whether or not these things are cool or ugly. I think it’s one of those things where it depends on the angle you look at it, which basically means it depends on the placement of the cupholders and knobs and whatnot. The Yaris, for being a cheap-ass car, has an impressive number of cupholders: 8. I know it sounds cliche, but go rent a car with no cupholders and spend two hours a day in it and then tell me how stupid it is to want less than eight cupholders. So that means I can’t graduate to a car with worse fuel economy, and I can’t move to something with less than eight cupholders. Also, I would not want to step back from the iPod aux in jack, and actually have to revert to one of those goofy cassette shells with a wire hanging out of it, or the thing where you tune the radio to 88.1 and your tunes get drowned out by the traffic advisory channel when you pass too close to the entrance to a theme park.
It turns out my stupid HP all-in-one scanner/printer does not scan in OSX 10.6. The only thing this printer does well is get me on HP spam lists. I made the mistake of doing the online register thing when I installed it, and every three weeks, I get another “welcome to HP!” email and hourly reminders to use their worthless proprietary software to print greeting cards for Arbor Day or Ramadan or whatever the hell holiday they can swindle people into making color copies for ten bucks each. HP is like the Classmates.com of spam email. And the sad thing is, if I ditch this printer and go get another one, it’s probably going to be another HP. I mean, what other choices do I have? Pay $100 extra to get a rebadged Dell printer? Go on eBay and get a NeXT printer? Maybe I should get a Canon. I’m not in a rush to get a new printer, but I am in a rush to get a new desk, which will cause a domino effect of all peripherals and cables.
I’ve pretty much memorized the Ikea catalog in an attempt to find a new desk solution that is similar to their secretary desk I have, except with more storage and taller. They designed their hutch-type desk (Jasper? I forget the stupid name) so that it’s exactly four inches too short to hold a real monitor inside. If I had an extra thousand square feet, I’d rush over to AnthroCart or Ergotron or one of those other companies that sound like a pretentious droid from the 25th century and throw open my wallet for some giant motorized articulated RoboCop of a desk that held seven monitors and had more adjustments than a high-end hospital bed for a wealthy paraplegic. But I don’t have the space, so I need something that can fold up and vanish, and yet still has enough space for someone larger than a four year old.
I should wrap this up. My car has air conditioning, which makes me look forward to my commute.