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posted by tim caynes » Friday July 11, 2008 » Permalink
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after a day where it was so nice you simply had to go out and sit in the searing heat to eat your lunchtime noodles where you catch up on community gardening and feedback mechanisms and then find a flexible place to discuss javascript widgets and third-party deployments over embedded apis its about time to drive meaninglessly around the countryside before you end up in a hotel bar drinking $4 wine with teresa and putting the world straight or something like that but not necessarily in that order but still you find yourself in pinecliffe waiting for 17 miles of train to pass by while you watch the woman behind you write her shopping list on the steering wheel of a dodge ubertruck as you take photos of yourself in the rear view mirror and think about prototyping systems using netbeans and video editing yourself falling off a chair that will never get used but only the previous friday seemed like a good idea and now you have a suitcase full of audiovisual gubbins that's just enjoying the air miles that incidentally you'll not be able to use to buy a flight on any route the might be appropriate for humans.
the question of lite implementations crosses your mind as mile 14 trundles across the tracks and you have a brief epiphany which is the answer to all the questions you've had about this project for the last 6 months but at that precise moment the crossing barriers go up and shopping list lady is trying to pass you on the outside and you've instantly forgotten everything including that fact that the car you're in is automatic and you're actually sitting on the left and you're now wondering how long you must have been asleep.
the peak to peak highway is a quite different place in june than it is in february meaning a car like the one I'm in will actually get from one end of it to the other which right now is handy as I'm kind of at the wrong end of it and I can smell the beer in broomfield so I floor the accellerator and get, ooh, 60 miles an hour out of the mustang which is probably just as well because I'm not looking where I'm going even though there's nobody else on the road and I'm thinking it's not at all like the M3 at camberley but maybe a little bit like the blackwater valley route was when it first opened and I had the s40 which had zero suspension unlike this car which has 200% suspension which means I'm not so much sticking to the road, but gliding on a cushion like that thing in star wars that luke skywalker had but with wheels that actually touch the ground which of course is what that thing luke skywalker had had but I'm not airbrushing mine out at least I don't think I am.
if you've read this far, you probably got here slower than I wrote it. I probably stopped a couple of times but I didn't have to re-read bits of it to make it make sense because I'm aware it doesn't. and why would you.
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