Thursday, December 30, 2004

Today's on-the-road podcast, with more wrong things with the iPod, Tony Kahn's query, a tech design problem, and a killer idea for the iPod.  

In today's podcast I noted the good and bad of the south. Good: The food is spicy and rich. Bad: And fattening. Neither good or bad: People are s-l-o-w-e-r. At first, to a person from one of the coasts this can be maddening, but you get used to it. (That's based on memory.) Bad: Conventional wisdom has it that east coast drivers are aggressive and west coast drivers are passive. But southern drivers can be mindless, and every so often there's a bubba with a huge fwd pickup who weaves in and out of traffic as if the other cars were slalom poles. Bad: Church groups in hotels. A bus pulls up to a hotel with 25 kids and 2 adults, rents four rooms (always on the floor I'm on) and then uses the hallway as if it were the common area between their rooms. As a bonus they arrive at eleven and don't go to sleep until 2AM. 

Driving across the Mississippi River at Vicksburg movie. 

Pictures of Old Man River taken from a bluff above the river at Vicksburg, the site of one of the major Civil War battles. 

Scoble has a good roundup of news on the earthquake and tsunami. 

BBC: Podcasts bring DIY radio to the web. 

I'm writing this from a restaurant in northeast Louisiana. Just a truck stop. But the food is excellent. Just the right amount of spice. Fresh vegetables, greens, okra, beans. Ice tea. I miss eating in the south. I told the waitress I was driving from Seattle to Miami. She was unimpressed.