RevMike's Journal: Finally a purpose for the intraweb

The internet finally lives up to its potential!

The Cracker Barrel website has a nifty tool at http://direct.where2getit.com/cwc/apps/w2gi.php?template=searchatw&client=cracker3 that will generate driving directions annotated with all the Cracker Barrel locations along the route!

Praise the lo-ahd!

[TheConfusedOne]

I can finally leave the house again without the fear of being Cracker Barrel'less. :-D

Every time you think you've hit bottom on this Intar-Web thang someone charges past you with a shovel.

In their defense

[Ethelred Unraed]

...I tried a route from my parents' home in Minnesota to my brother's in Virginia, and it does not appear to change the route to go closer to additional Cracker Barrel stores. ;-)

I had been imagining something like that MSN map glitch a couple years ago, where someone driving from IIRC Durham to London was routed via Scandinavia. (I don't remember the exact details, but it was something like that.)

Sort of like, hey, there's a Cracker Barrel in Kentucky only 200 miles from the direct route! Let's send h

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[RevMike]

Every time you think you've hit bottom on this Intar-Web thang someone charges past you with a shovel.

Your response makes me think that you thought I was being sarcastic. I was engaging in a little bit of hyperbole, but this is a really cool tool. I'm embarking today, in fact, on a 1100 mile, 22 hour drive to Orlando, FL. This tool allows me to better plan my stops. I can, at a glance, figure out whether to stop for a meal now, or push another 75 miles.

Tongue in cheek

[TheConfusedOne]

Really it's not the worst thing out there and could be a tad useful. It's probably just a refinement of the way you can mark things on Mapquest maps too.

Just think how anonymous the Donner family would have been if they had a rest stop map before they set off on their road trip. :-D

damn!

[btlzu2]

i want some of those biscuits and gravy now... i love that heart attack on a plate!

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[Servo]

First of all, the intended purpose is kumimonster.com, not ashleyrenee.com!

Second of all, given the choice between Waffle House and Cracker Barrel I'd rather eat at Waffle House. Cracker Barrel is for tourists. Waffle House is the real deal.

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[TechnoLust]

Isn't saying CB is a tourist location like saying McDonald's is a tourist location? I mean, I consider tourist locations to be things that are unique to that area. I mean, aren't CBs everywhere?

Disclaimer: I've never eaten at a Waffle House while sober.

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[Servo]

The difference is that tourists drive out of their way to go to the same cookie cutter Cracker Barrel. People go to Mcdonalds because its cheap and they know what to expect.

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

Cracker Barrel is for tourists. Waffle House is the real deal.

But if you want true, unabashed racism with your pancakes, you have to go all the way to Lincoln City, OR- where the last "Lil' Black Sambo's" is still serving them up with melted tigers and the original children's story available in the gift shop.