I'm trying to shop for car insurance. Why are all these websites broken at the same time? I don't just mean "don't work on one browser and one OS", but completely inaccessible by any means.
Maybe it's just me (every company I've worked for has aimed for a 99.999% uptime for at least their main page *) but being 2007 and all, I expect better.
( see for yourself )
Finally, I found one that works: esurance. I'm reading reviews now to see if they're any good, but they probably have my business.
EDIT: OK. I take that back. http://www.amazon.com/ is now ( down as well ), although it spring back to life by the time I updated this post.
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My friend got me thinking about moving to SF once again. I looked at a few apartments and as I expected, anything I like is upwards of $1500/person.
Meanwhile, I had a great idea. Why not just rent a crashpad in the city? So, I've been looking at craigslist listings for cheapo rooms (all I ask is that it be a real bedroom, and not a rented out living room) and I found a few under $550/month. I think I am going to try a place out for a few months. Yay for two apartments! I get to enjoy the best of both worlds, while sticking to approximately the same total budget I think I'd have with a livable permanent place in SF. I'm really excited to do this and if I want, I can do it right away starting this month. Being a guy, I can pretty much live out of my laptop bag with a couple of clean tee shirts and underwear in it.
Some current ads that caught my eye:
$375 One bedroom (mission district)
Hello!
I have a small bedroom on the second-story of a home in the Mission. The bathroom and kitchen is shared with two awesome folks: 24 yr.old male and a 23 yr. old female. I want to sublet the space until January 2008. The rent is cheap only $375, utilities are shared between roommates.
*If anyone is interested we also have a larger room for $500.*
The house is located on Florida & 22nd street near mission/24th street Bart Station, BUS 14, 49, 9, 27, 12, 48, and not far from grocery store, the culture center, downtown and nightlife.
$390 Small Furnished room in Mission/Bernal for 1 month (7/1-8/1) (mission district)
I have one very small furnished (twin bed) room for rent in Mission/Bernal Heights area for one month only, from July 1st to August 1st. Nice house, three rooms, the other roomates are two mellow females in their 20's who are hardly ever home but when they are they are super sweet. The house is near the 14, 49, and one block away from the J-Line. Near 30th and Mission right below Bernal Hill. I am out of town for the month but can arrange to show you the room. no deposit, no nothing, just 390, hopefully you are a nice, considerate, personal space respecting individual.
24 kingston at Mission google map yahoo map
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I can't decide who embarrassed themselves more, but what a jerk and what a fool!
http://www.betterloverseminar.com/desi_wife_catches_husband.php
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I hereby crown thee the WORLD'S WORST INSTALLER.
I left this feedback on the help page for the mac installer for flash player that claims to help with the problem with "Error "creating file: 1008:5, -5000 Access Denied Error"
YOU BASTARDS. YOU FORGOT THUNDERBIRD.APP. [Part 1/2]
First, why doesn't this stupid installer ask for the sudo password
unlike all others and then run as root?
Next, why won't it tell me which file it's having trouble with when it
prints "access denied"? Would it kill you to do that?
YOU BASTARDS. YOU FORGOT THUNDERBIRD.APP. [Part 2/2]
Finally,howcome youconveniently forgottomentionThunderbird.app!?
A mailappTHATIDONTEVENUSE. Whycanttheinstallfail gracefully?
Youmademeusektraceand thenweedthrough megsofstrings.IHATEYOU.
Youreallysuck.Andwhythis300 characterfeedbacklimit?
For anyone else who finds this rant, this is what I had to use to install flash player 9:
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$ sudo chown -R $USER /Applications/{Opera,Camino,Fire*,Thunderbird}.app /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins
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Run the flash installer
$ sudo chown -R root /Applications/{Opera,Camino,Fire*,Thunderbird}.app /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins
OK, now I can finally use the god-awesome google maps street to figure out what the outside of the Eureka Theatre looks like.
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I saw Spiderman 3 yesterday on opening night (free tickets!). Yeah, the reviews have been miserable all over the internets, but I loved it! So what if every bit of the plot was completely predictable?
This movie is also being dubbed in Bhojpuri (Indian hillbilly-speak, so to say)!
Dawn of the Dead, was every bit as good as it was supposed to be. I saw this movie alone, so I could enjoy watching Shaun of the Dead and then, Hot Fuzz. Besides the story-line, I loved the cinematography. Nothing like a zombie movie shot in broad daylight. Blood looks best in the sun :)
I watched Shaun of the Dead with a friend (who thought he had seen DotD, so only joined me later). Absolutely hilarious. "You got red on you".
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 Drove a lot today. Plans were to drive straight to SF from Walnut Creek, where I spent the night, but I ended up having to drive home to Sunnyvale first (because of the bay bridge collapse scare, although it wasn't going to affect me, but mostly because the lousy handyman broke the water supply in my parents' house).
The drive to SF was lovely in 75-degree top-down weather (down from the 90 degree heat I drove through yesterday) but it became 53-degree chilly as we drove through clouds into the city.
 Thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) luckymonk3y, I decided to take Yelp seriously and picked a restaurant based on its reviews. Lahore Karahi was a hit with both my friends! After I dragged them both up 6 city blocks from Union Square, the shall we say - modest - appearance of the exterior and the lack of customers almost made me scream out "stupid yelp!". But how can 143 people be wrong? And indeed, the food was awesome. Great looking fluffy nans. No white-boy spice-levels for my spice-loving caucasian homies. Great tasting stuff. Great pricing ($6 entrees!). Funny waiter. I'll maybe yelp out a detailed review myself. Too bad we had to rush out to catch the show, or else I would have had their Rass Malai for dessert.
The highlight of the evening - the fire dance by the Temple of Poi troops in Union Square was awesome, just like last year. I'll post pictures later and upload a couple videos on youtube.
 Post-event munchies at Segafredo Zanetti: I had a dark chocolate-raspberry cake and a latte. Decent, I guess, but certainly doesn't compare to Coupa Cafe.
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