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Summary: it took about an hour to go from boarding the bus for Avis rentals, to getting into my car at the Avis lot. National > Avis any day.

Details:

When I boarded the Avis bus at the MIA terminal, it was already fairly filled up (no seats were left / standing room only / most of the luggage racks were full). Several people then continued to fill in behind me. After we were already filled to what had to be capacity, the driver then proceeded to ask each passenger for his/her last name to enter them into the computer – while he left the doors open at the terminal. Each time he couldn’t find someone by name, he would ask to see their Avis card and do a lookup by wizard number. Since the doors were open, additional people crammed onto the bus – and the driver would get back up, walk back to the new people, ask them for their names, and begin the process again. This repeated several times as folks crammed tighter and tighter onto the bus. During this time, the busses for National, Hertz, and others made at least three passes of the terminal while we stood packed into the bus.

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For some reason, I woke up at around 5am and have yet to get back to sleep. When I first couldn’t get to sleep, I looked for something to do and decided to try to figure out why my “recent comments” sidebar hasn’t been showing up, and maybe look at why I was seeing some other weirdness when posting lately. This lead me down a long winding path: (more…)

An update has been posted with some changes that I wanted, plus some from comment requests.

1.1.0 Changes:

• Hardware volume buttons now change Media Player (and therefore the click) volume
• Louder overall click
• The trackball can now be used to make the click

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As requested by by Dana – Clicker

This is a very simple app to emulate a clicker used for pet training; useful for when you don’t want to carry a real clicker at all times. Volume is set by the phone’s Media Volume.

For information on the training style, search for “Clicker Training” online.

Future plans:
Volume Control
A better picture/icon
Different Clicker sounds

I wish my panic button actually did something…

Magically pulled from the depths of Bekit’s Flickr Photos.

Magically pulled from the depths of Bekit’s Flickr Photos.

Just off of Stonehaven, Scotland.

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I’ll be in Aberdeen, Scotland (or on a plane in-between) from Saturday afternoon (January 3rd, 2009) till Sunday evening (January 11th, 2009). In the effort of maintaining my geek status, I’m attempting to make this a fairly wired trip (partially thanks to my Android Dev Phone 1).

Theoretically, you should be able to reach me simply by calling my grand central number (719.266.2591). This is set up to forward to Gizmo (so I can answer it on my PC when I’m connected), which is set up to forward to an international cell phone. No clue on if this will work as well as I’m hoping, but you should at least be able to leave a voicemail with grand central, and I will be able to get to it via email and try to find a way of getting back in touch.

Also, once I have a data plan in place on my phone, and assuming that my ADP1 works as well as I hope, you should also be able to track where I am located by going to Where is Brint?.

Even if things do work as planned, consider me unreachable from Saturday afternoon till about Sunday afternoon – but feel free to leave a message on the number above.

Walking to work in DC has an interesting view.

Magically pulled from the depths of Bekit’s Flickr Photos.