becoming dependent on technology...
Jun. 3rd, 2005 05:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dianec42I've come to depend on my car's satellite navigation thingy a lot more than I had thought. I learned this today when I had to take the car to the dealer for its regular maintenance and got a loaner... without sat nav. This led to some interesting discoveries.
(1) I *do* remember how to get to the freeway from that bit of Santa Monica.
(2) The freeway is, amazingly, not horrible right there at 8:30 in the morning.
(3) NONE of the internet mapping thingies I tried (Yahoo, Google, Mapquest) has an option for getting directions that AVOID FREEWAYS. I *KNOW* Yahoo and Mapquest used to have this. What am I, crazy enough to take the 405 to the 10 in rush hour?!
Luckily, I came up with an ingenious way to cheat. This morning, on the way to the dealership, I got the sat nav to show me a useful route along surface streets... so this afternoon, when it came time to go back to the dealer, I just got off the 405 as if I were going home, and then took the same route to the dealership as I did this morning. (-:
Oh, and (re)discovery (4): It's always SO NICE to get your own car back after a day of driving around something strange.
Bonus discovery (5): 93.1 "Jack FM" plays the greatest hits of my misspent youth. Wow. (Thomas Dolby, Wang Chung, slightly too much Doobie Brothers, Falco... wow, just wow.)
I also hate getting up at 6:30 in the morning, but I already knew that.
(1) I *do* remember how to get to the freeway from that bit of Santa Monica.
(2) The freeway is, amazingly, not horrible right there at 8:30 in the morning.
(3) NONE of the internet mapping thingies I tried (Yahoo, Google, Mapquest) has an option for getting directions that AVOID FREEWAYS. I *KNOW* Yahoo and Mapquest used to have this. What am I, crazy enough to take the 405 to the 10 in rush hour?!
Luckily, I came up with an ingenious way to cheat. This morning, on the way to the dealership, I got the sat nav to show me a useful route along surface streets... so this afternoon, when it came time to go back to the dealer, I just got off the 405 as if I were going home, and then took the same route to the dealership as I did this morning. (-:
Oh, and (re)discovery (4): It's always SO NICE to get your own car back after a day of driving around something strange.
Bonus discovery (5): 93.1 "Jack FM" plays the greatest hits of my misspent youth. Wow. (Thomas Dolby, Wang Chung, slightly too much Doobie Brothers, Falco... wow, just wow.)
I also hate getting up at 6:30 in the morning, but I already knew that.
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Date: 2005-06-04 02:40 am (UTC)The secret is ginormous play-lists. You can listen to such a station for two weeks before hearing a repeat. It seems to be one of the few radio formats that isn't losing listenership to satellite radio.
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Date: 2005-06-05 03:29 am (UTC)OT1H: my big beef with oldies and "classic rock" stations in the past is that with decades of music to choose from, I shouldn't hear the same songs every shift, and this format addresses that.
OTOH: the local "alternative" station does a better job of mixing good old and new music, and one of the local college radio stations does an even better job still. Though I may wind up tuning in "Jack" once in a while for the *mumble*yeahIlikedthat*mumble* parts of the repertoire that, well, bring back memories even if I can see why they're not played much on the better stations. And because (*grumble*) of the three I've mentioned, it's the only one easy to tune in in my bedroom. (Fortunately I can now get the college radio station in the kitchen.)
OTGH: regardless of how well they do it, the generification of radio bugs me at a whole 'nuther level.