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Apple Genius Is Not So Smart
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My Apple Maps Experience
Everyone has been complaining about Apple Maps. The iOS 6 replacement for Google Maps is largely seen as a huge blunder made by Apple. The reasons are many and valid. Bus routes have disappeared as well as walking directions. The accuracy of the maps as well as the level of detail of the Apple Maps vs Google Maps isn’t even in the same echelon. Apple tries to keep a lot of the same functionality but with the amount of time and money that Google has invested in their Maps experience, Apple’s departing from this standard was destined from the beginning to be sub-standard.
With that being said, I gave Apple Maps a trial run yesterday.
I used the app to get from the office to the football field where the Duke of Ginger was to be playing football later in the day. The trips was mapped nicely with a voice giving me directions that were accurate. With exception of the very end of the trip where the final destination was not exactly where the app said it was (luckily, I already knew where I was going) the experience was good.
However, the drive home was a different story. Again, I already knew where I was going, but I gave it a try to see how it would perform. While directing me through a sketchy part of town can’t be blamed on the app, the final destination was way off. Check out these two screenshots from my iPhone:
If you look at the address in the search field and what is on the map, they are not even close. However, this was a problem I experienced with Google Maps as well and this seems, to me, to be related to the convention of the address. The use of hyphens in the address seems to confuse both Google Maps and Apple Maps alike. Once I removed the hyphen in the address, the proper location showed up:
Okay, so it’s not perfect on the exact location of the destination. However, for the record, the pin location of the arena is correct. It’s the location of George S. Hughes/Southside Arena on the map that is wrong. Tell me how that one works.
I’m going to keep using Apple Maps. It’s not like I am in New York or need it so desperately. This town is small and, for the most part, I know enough for it to tell me where I need to go.
My biggest beef: it doesn’t show the New JeffLand Empire. At all.
Bastards.
Kill Me. Please.
There isn't a problem in this world that can't be solved quicker and easier than when you are drunk. #liquorisquicker
— jeeprøck (@jeeprock) October 4, 2012
Kardashian Logic
MW3 Awesomeness
I’m sure that this has been done countless times before however this is a first for me; getting six kills with a single Stealth Bomber in Modern Warfare 3. If you look in the sidebar of the picture… yeah, I’m Pehrent. It was pretty cool but can be largely attributed to the stupidity of the other team while playing Kill Confirmed.
This Is Going To Be Me This Winter With No NHL
Freaks
So, today, I’m at the grocery store and I walk up to the pharmacy pick up counter. This tall, old and fat Arabic dude marches up to the counter (obviously not seeing me there) and cuts right in front of me. Once standing there, he sees me and looks at me knowing that he’d cut me off, waiting for me to say something. So I am polite and just let him go ahead of me. No big whoop since I’m not in a raging hurry.
As the pharmacists (yes, he needed more than one) help him with his prescriptions, it becomes apparent that he has a really fucked up order where there was supposed to be a refill called in but they have no record of it (blah blah blah)… And on top of that… I think he bought one of everything in the pharmacy. I think they even had to double bag everything with plastic grocery bags. Finally, another pharmacist eventually helped me. Shortly, I was out of there and this dude was still at the counter getting his shit together.
I left the grocery store, got into my car and immediately to my left I saw an old dude, who had just left the store, getting into his vehicle. He was wearing a white dress shirt with a pair of white suspenders and getting into a white mid-90s GMC Sonoma. With the door open, I spied that there was a Club attached to the steering wheel.
My first reaction was, “who the hell would want to steal that POS” but I was really baffled when I saw his wife in the passenger seat, who would have been in the truck the whole time he was in the store. WTF.
The freaks don’t come out at night… they come out from 9 to 5 and they all hang out at grocery stores.
This is so relevant to cooking in the NJLE and I don’t understand why it has to be this way.
6 Great Jeffs In History
…other than me, of course.
Jeff Dunham
It’s Peanut!!
Jefferson Airplane
Follow the white rabbit…
Jeff Daniels
Fast, effective relief.
Thomas Jefferson
Why? I only wrote the fucking Declaration of Independence, bitch!
Jeff Healey
So good that he didn't need sight.
DJ Jazzy Jeff
The guy with Will Smith. Yeah, him.