Google's Auto-Update Screws Mac Users Over

Have a Mac running Google Earth 5?

Is it black?

If so, it's because Google's demands for updates have caused it to download a bad build, disabling the Earth layer!

Help thread here

If you have something to hate about Google, this could be it!

UPDATE: It turns out that the culprit may have been an auto-update feature on Mac OS 10.6.x. We'll try to get more information!

Vista Ridge Mall

I went here over five years ago (May 2004) after playing with my orchestra at Sandy Lake Amusement Park in Carrollton, Texas (suburb of Dallas). After the event and a day of fun, we went to a nearby mall, where we ate dinner. I got a guide to SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition here, a meal at Burger King, and a smoothie from Frullati Café. Regrettably, an Orange Julius was here, which I did not try (grrr) and I do not recall the interior much (it wasn't anything special).

But I DID get the directory, which I have faithfully scanned here.

Apologies for the wrinkly paper (I could have used Photoshop but I don't have Photoshop).

The listing of stores is also in black and white (it was originally the green on the front, but an automatic setting made it B&W)





Enjoy!

Sgt. Pepperoni's Pizza

This is a restaurant I visited in January 2007 but it is sadly gone now (as of early 2010). The name is derived from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and like the album, it was pretty good. There are other Sgt. Pepperoni's in the USA, but they aren't related. Anyway, the place had good pizza rolls, arcade games (I think? There was definitely another room), and ceilings out of another era.

It was a pit stop after driving on a long road in the county that stretched 32 miles, starting as a hilly rural road, crossing a railroad, becoming an urban four-lane road, crossing the highway, before doubling back on itself, crossing the highway and the railroad again, before going through cotton fields and ending at Texas 105.

That's about where Sgt. Pepperoni's was.

Here is the menu:

What? No anchovies?


So is the pizza man frowning? Or is that just his chin?
update Nov '13: cleaning up