Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
In the history of parking lots, this is changing everything. How many times have you pulled into a lot and drove endlessly looking for a spot. You think you’re smart so you decide to pull over and try and wait for someone to come out, only to wait and wait and wait, until you feel helpless since you’re not moving and being pro-active. The Century City mall has a solution. Lights. From far away, you can see where there are spots available. Genius and so simple. Green lights? Go there. Why didn’t this exist 30 years ago? It’s a light, and a big one too. I’m sure they could have used something much more similar. Perhaps just using green lights only to signify which are open, rather than waste the power on the red lights. Either way, this is the way to go. Imagine how much gas, energy, and anger people will save. The only worry, people looking at the lights and not at other cars or the road.
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E-Waste disposal is interesting. You can load it into your car but you can't unload it from your car. They don't want you taking it out yourself. They even stand there waiting for people to pull in. Why is that? I got rid of many pounds of gear. Old beige Macs and monitors. All working actually, but just so out of date that you can't put any new OS into it. It's strange to have to dump perfectly...
E-Waste disposal is interesting. You can load it into your car but you can’t unload it from your car. They don’t want you taking it out yourself. They even stand there waiting for people to pull in. Why is that? I got rid of many pounds of gear. Old beige Macs and monitors. All working actually, but just so out of date that you can’t put any new OS into it. It’s strange to have to dump perfectly working gear, just because it’s old. I’d feel better if it were broken. The limit for gear is 6 pieces, but they said more is fine, as long as you don’t pull in a truck load. I could tell the dudes unloading the gear were taking a look at it, perhaps wondering if it could still sell, but these? I doubt it. Mac 8500? 9600? I don’t think so. Until this drop off, I had a pretty hard to beat Mac collection. 7100, 8500, 9600, g3, g4s, g4 cube, g5, Imacs, various laptops, and slowly i’m getting rid of the ones that are useless.
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Ball State! Here's a sampling of the folks who were there. Ball State has a small Asian population, many are from other places, but it all works when you listen to GR. Our magazine is international in content. And when we mentioned a name like Stephen Chau, I saw some fists pump. A photo of Rain elicited some smiles. People know, and that's pretty cool how international the Asian stars have...
Ball State! Here’s a sampling of the folks who were there. Ball State has a small Asian population, many are from other places, but it all works when you listen to GR. Our magazine is international in content. And when we mentioned a name like Stephen Chau, I saw some fists pump. A photo of Rain elicited some smiles. People know, and that’s pretty cool how international the Asian stars have become. These yoyos are $100 each. They belong to this man. Ranked #4 in the world. He’s quite great at this “sport”. Noel was the “warm-up” act to our talk. He does shred at the yoyo. Insane tricks. Pizza, it was late night, and yes, pizza works. Sarah #1, strikes the pose with a bowling ball. Her shirt says Tokyo or Bust! That’s Tim Hugh on the left who made the trip from Chicago. He’s quite the bowler, until he had to use public bowling balls.
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