I figured out people work 9 to 5 so they are not killed driving around by all the old retired people driving like befuddled old people. We should really make sure people are not suffering from dementia after a certain age.
A few days ago (Yes, it has been that warm) I almost got squished by an old person while riding my bike when they gave me the go-ahead at an intersection, then gunned the engine anyway and peeled out within inches of my bike. Old person malice or Alzheimer's?
Almost certainly malice. Unfortunately I'm usually delivering parts when the old people are out, but they either don't live around my part of the city or don't live in Louisville at all.
Fail: Everyone in Troy is trying to fucking ram my car constantly. I've been in 5 near misses since Wednesday, another this morning, and none have been remotely my fault. This includes a bloated white woman who suddenly whipped across the lane to the shoulder, jumped out of her car, and started doing what I can only describe as a 'come at me, bro' dance at some other car that was passing her.
This morning, a guy basically floored it from a parked spot on the side of the road without any signal and without lights, and then stopped right in the lane. I, and the four cars behind me, all slammed on our brakes, and I was liberal with the horn and the double-duce.
I swear, I'm going to start rollerskating to work.
On the upside, Mazda brakes are awesome aren't they? A lesser car would have plowed into that guy that jumped in front of you. :P
I figured out people work 9 to 5 so they are not killed driving around by all the old retired people driving like befuddled old people. We should really make sure people are not suffering from dementia after a certain age.
Oh the horrors that I have seen between 9 and 5. I work in Ocean County, and while I can't find a source for the statistic, once read something about it having the highest density of seniors in the entire country. Makes sense with Jersey being dense as it is, and old people moving just out of the NYC commutable range where living expenses plummet.
Leaving work to go to lunch can be a big mistake. I was once trapped in a parking lot by 3 cars, all driven by seniors, when one apparently fell asleep at the wheel in the middle of an intersection and the other two didn't know what to do. Tip: go around him.
One of the biggest mistakes I ever made in my life was to enter a grocery store during the day on a weekday.
THE HORROR.
Funny you should mention though, that story took place many years ago when I first started work. It was in the parking lot of the grocery store closest to my office b/c people swore they had a good (for the money) hot food and salad bar. Never again.
A few days ago (Yes, it has been that warm) I almost got squished by an old person while riding my bike when they gave me the go-ahead at an intersection, then gunned the engine anyway and peeled out within inches of my bike. Old person malice or Alzheimer's?
Neither? There are natural mental degradations. Alzheimer's and dementia aren't that common. Old people being incapable of driving usually just means their sensory systems are borked.
Boo-Yah: Andrew Jackson Jihad are playing a gig in Allston in April. Fail: It's 18+ Double Boo-Yah: They're playing another show the day after that's all ages Double Fail: That day is a Tuesday and it's in Rhode Island.
I think I have to figure out which is more feasible: fake ID, or getting to the RI show.
As many people in the Geeknights IRC channel might know, I've been having issues with network stability. It seems that today, we found the culprit. The EU government gave out boxes to test Internet speed, and compare it to what ISPs claim they provide. This box slowed the entire network down, dropping around 50% of packets and introducing horrible latency (upwards of 1000ms) when they did arrive.
Boo-yah: Found a site that uses peer-reviewed sources to basically call out the Ancient Aliens show as utter BS. It even has a documentary they made (free for download) where they point out everything that was wrong with the show. Not that I didn't know it was BS before, but it's good to have a reference should I end up in some sort of debate with a nutjob who does believe in that crap.
BTW, this kinda goes back to how, much like Scott and Rym, I was also big into ghosts and aliens and stuff like that when I was a kid. Nowadays, I tend to be more on the Randi side of interest in these things though.
Fail: The site is run by a hardcore fundie Chrisitian young Earth creationist/Biblical literalist who's just as crazy as the Ancient Aliens folks, just a slightly different flavor of crazy. In fact, he only made the site/documentary because AA disagreed with his Christian worldview...
Fail - the Mighty van was brought low by what I thought was a throttle cable. Turns out it wasn't a throttle cable - one of my throttle bars was doing a respectable imitation of a pretzel, and it's fucked-upness was catching the throttle cable when it was operated. Also, the ignition primer pump was hanging by a thread, the carby was all fucked up, and one of my carby vacuum hoses was gone. Not in the sense of being perished, cracked or broken, but in the sense of being completely AWOL.
Boo-yah - It's not fixed, cheaper than expected(since I did a decent chunk of the work), and she's running better than ever. Literally, this fixed some long-term problems.
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I had a license the day I turned 16, and had been driving regularly since I was 14 on a learner's permit.
Anecdotally, the people who cause problems directly for me when I drive are almost invariably, in order of occurrence:
1. Middle-aged women in SUVs
2. The elderly
3. 20-ish year old men in any model of Lexus
4. All other age/gender/car combinations
Leaving work to go to lunch can be a big mistake. I was once trapped in a parking lot by 3 cars, all driven by seniors, when one apparently fell asleep at the wheel in the middle of an intersection and the other two didn't know what to do. Tip: go around him.
Funny you should mention though, that story took place many years ago when I first started work. It was in the parking lot of the grocery store closest to my office b/c people swore they had a good (for the money) hot food and salad bar. Never again.
Fail: It's 18+
Double Boo-Yah: They're playing another show the day after that's all ages
Double Fail: That day is a Tuesday and it's in Rhode Island.
I think I have to figure out which is more feasible: fake ID, or getting to the RI show.
Booh-Yah & Fail: The pain continues...
http://tinyurl.com/a2pu48k
... we fixed it today.
Boo-yah: Went back after re-equipping myself and found diamond. Now I've got the stuff to go to the nether.
Boo-yah: I finally fulfilled my secret santa duties.
BTW, this kinda goes back to how, much like Scott and Rym, I was also big into ghosts and aliens and stuff like that when I was a kid. Nowadays, I tend to be more on the Randi side of interest in these things though.
Fail: The site is run by a hardcore fundie Chrisitian young Earth creationist/Biblical literalist who's just as crazy as the Ancient Aliens folks, just a slightly different flavor of crazy. In fact, he only made the site/documentary because AA disagreed with his Christian worldview...
Fail: Just had my first hot shower in two weeks.
Boo-yah - It's not fixed, cheaper than expected(since I did a decent chunk of the work), and she's running better than ever. Literally, this fixed some long-term problems.