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     Kommentar till en text av THE SHIPPS
Ärende: a visit repost 778
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  Msg#: 11                                           Date: 07 Jun 106  10:03:05
  From: Michael Loo                                  
    To: Dale Shipp                                   
  Subj: A Visit With The 778

 -=> Dale Shipp said to Dave Sacerdote <=-

 DSac> Okay, now I'm going to tell The Magellan Story.
 DSac> On Friday night, Burt drove when we went to Empire Buffet.  On the
 DSac> way home, we set up the Magellan and burt punched in my address so
 DSac> we could see how it worked, and it was pretty cool except for a
 DSac> small glitch in the database that wanted to send us around the
 DSac> block instead of into my driveway.  Minor, and up to then pretty
 DS> Magellan and every other mapping program I have seen has problems
 DS> with exact locations of street addresses.  Our house number is
 DS> 5351, but Magellan, MS Streets and Trips, and Delorme all put that
 DS> address a couple hundred yards away from where it really is.  You
 DS> can see what I mean if you have a mapping program.  The correct
 DS> location is at the intersection of Iron Pen and Hesperus.

This drives me up the wall. Or into Hap's neighbor's front yard,
which the Hertz Neverlost tried to do to Benita and me a few
years back. Another problem is when a street has directional
branches (such as west and east: Central Avenue in Albuquerque
comes to mind, as MSST put our hotel about 2 miles east of where
it really is, which confused us at first when we tried to scope
out the restaurants near the hotel).

 DSac> much the only flaw I saw in the software.  I was pretty impressed,
 DSac> actually, to the point of checking out prices (it wouldn't be a
 DSac> necessity for me, though, just a toy, so I can't justify it.)
 DS> There are other flaws, and not unique to Magellan.  We also have a
 DS> Delorme GPS program.   It has a tendency to map you off of the road
 DS> you are traveling on.  Sometimes it tells you to turn when there is
 DS> not turn to be had.   Both errors are passed off by them as being
 DS> inaccuracies in the map.   They would probably have you attempt to
 DS> cross the river on that bridge that has not been there since the
 DS> 30's:-}}

I can see Burt bobbing in the Connecticut.

 DSac> Anyway, the next day, to go to Essex, I suggested that we bring
 DSac> the Magellan with us since I remembered last year and having a
 DSac> little difficulty finding the place back then.  The only thing
 DSac> Madge needs is a powerpoint - it's completely portable.
 DS> Ours is called Marty:-}}  There is a version that runs on batteries
 DS> and is really portable -- e.g. you could take it back packing.

Thanks for letting us know that the Delorme database appears
to have similar errors to the Microsoft one - I was thinking
of abandoning Streets and Trips and going back to Street
Atlas USA (I still have the 1.0 version from around 1990, but
it doesn't run on anything newer than Windows 3.1), but now
I guess I won't.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.00

      Title: Dutch Oven Pot Roast
 Categories: Pot roast, Meats, Beef
      Yield: 6 servings

      5 lb Round bone pot roast
      2 T  Shortening
    1/2 c  Apple cider
      6 ea Large potatoes **
      8 oz Fresh okra ***
      2 t  Salt
    1/2 c  Barbecue sauce (your choice)
      8 ea Carrots; pared *
      2 ea Onions, sliced

  *     Carrots should be peeled and cut into 2-inch chunks. ** Potatoes
  should be peeled and quartered. ***   One 10 oz pkg of frozen okra
  can be substituted.

  Rub meat with salt.  Melt Shortening in Dutch oven; add meat and
  cook over medium heat, turning once.  Reduce heat; pour barbeque
  sauce and cider over meat.  Cover and simmer on top of range or in
  325 degree F. oven for 3 to 4 hours.  Add carrots, potatoes and
  onions 1 1/2 hours before end of cookign time.  Add okra 15 minutes
  before end of cooking time.

  Source unknown. Of course okra can be omitted.

MMMMM

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