Parks Pages dot com

So there I was checking directions using Google Maps, and boom! I found that my house was hit by Street View:

Yep. That's my car. It was last summer, but there it is.

Couple this with the fact that I just applied for my passport and there's no denying it:

The Man. The Man has my number.

When I got my driver's license at age 18, I felt like I'd given away my freedom to the government. From then on out, they had all my info -- my name, number, height, weight, address, etc. etc.

I feel kinda like Big Brother has his hand on my shoulder.

Okay, so my wife doesn't understand this whole "download Firefox 3" thing I'm doing. She doesn't understand why I'm so excited about it. She supports me, but I think it perplexes her.

Maybe she doesn't understand just how utterly useful Firefox really is. (I mean, she might, but it's not that big a deal to her -- she's been using it for over a year and you only miss the ones you love when they're gone, so if she lost it, boy would she miss it.)

Firefox is:

• The fastest browser
• Uses the least amount of memory
• The most extensible (and handles add-ons the best)
  

So I realized that todays the day that Firefox 3 is being released, but when, in my excited state, I clicked on the links to get to the download as fast as I could, I found that nothing had changed since yesterday: FF3 is not yet available.

So what gives? Why can't I jump in and contribute to setting a World record for the most software downloads in a 24-hour period, and get the best browser on the market at the same time?

Apparently, they're not releasing it until 10:00 AM PDT -- 1:00 PM my time. And I'll be at a meeting then, so I'll have to wait even longer.

Ugh. I don't even like the way they've "integrated" it's look with the OS X theme -- I prefer Qute.

Oh, well. I'll have to wait until Qute's 'ported to FF3, and I'll have to wait until later today to get my copy of Firefox 3 itself.

An-ti-ci-pation is making me wait.

"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three."
- Alice Kahn

Well, it's Father's Day. I'm not one for holidays, even those that are supposed to celebrate people like me, a father.

I will say, however, that it was a fine one. Three grandparents came out and we went and saw my daughter's gymnastics exhibition, which was great. It wasn't too long, it was nearby, and it included a lot of explanation of what the kids have been studying. Good stuff.

We then came back and got some BBQ ribs and chicken from the pizza joint at the end of my street. We have lived here for over 9 years and bought literally hundreds of pizzas from this locally-owned and run business, but we have never partaken of their ribs or chicken. Boy, have we been missing out. They were delicious! We had some cole slaw, garlic bread sticks, and french fries with them, along with some homemade noodle salad and some potato salad and stuff my brother's wife brought over. All in all, a great meal. I was, and am, highly satisfied.