Friday, September 09, 2005
right now i am listening to a song called frog machine. to me, it is a great song. it is right up my alley. to you, it means nothing, because you don't know who its by or what album it is from. but you should. frog machine isn't even my favorite song on the album. maybe 4th or 5th favorite.
oh well. 5 points to you if you figure out who the song is by and what album it is from. 10 extra bonus points if you obtain said album through legal or illegal means, and 20 bonus points if you like it. there is 35 point at stake here, you better get crackin...
at work when i am driving, i try to take a new street or stretch of street i have never taken before every day. it doesn't count if i am going somewhere i haven't been before, it has to be a new route to somewhere i know. sometimes it back fires. sometimes it gets me there faster. what it really does is create clusters of streets i know in every area i go to. eventually the clusters get big enough that they overlap, and more new routes are formed. i was talking to matt when the reality of my job became clear to me after i first started my job. i thought i would be able to get by knowing the freeways and the main streets. i realized this wasn't true very early, and we came to the conclusion that i just have to know every street in every city. i said it as a joke, but only half jokingly. the joke was that i thought this task would be completely impossible, even with my map book. i thought i would get lost several times a day. now, i don't get lost, and the map in my head is getting larger and larger. so, if you need to know how to get from Wall street in everett (or seattle, or tacoma) to NW pacific elm drive in issaquah, you know who to call. i'm all over it.
back to the frog machine.
oh well. 5 points to you if you figure out who the song is by and what album it is from. 10 extra bonus points if you obtain said album through legal or illegal means, and 20 bonus points if you like it. there is 35 point at stake here, you better get crackin...
at work when i am driving, i try to take a new street or stretch of street i have never taken before every day. it doesn't count if i am going somewhere i haven't been before, it has to be a new route to somewhere i know. sometimes it back fires. sometimes it gets me there faster. what it really does is create clusters of streets i know in every area i go to. eventually the clusters get big enough that they overlap, and more new routes are formed. i was talking to matt when the reality of my job became clear to me after i first started my job. i thought i would be able to get by knowing the freeways and the main streets. i realized this wasn't true very early, and we came to the conclusion that i just have to know every street in every city. i said it as a joke, but only half jokingly. the joke was that i thought this task would be completely impossible, even with my map book. i thought i would get lost several times a day. now, i don't get lost, and the map in my head is getting larger and larger. so, if you need to know how to get from Wall street in everett (or seattle, or tacoma) to NW pacific elm drive in issaquah, you know who to call. i'm all over it.
back to the frog machine.
