tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1377385119326285192.post7023878740438133581..comments2024-02-23T00:27:41.196-08:00Comments on Refugees From the City: Cars, Trains and FeetJohn the Scientisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03467337009577733553noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1377385119326285192.post-14678556736143033472009-04-17T05:55:00.000-07:002009-04-17T05:55:00.000-07:00Oh, man, how I am not looking forward to getting b...Oh, man, how I am not looking forward to getting back to this routine when I repatriate!Ilyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379167075203188111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1377385119326285192.post-62174186118083891782009-04-10T07:29:00.000-07:002009-04-10T07:29:00.000-07:00I must admit that I love driving on the NJ Tpk whe...I must admit that I love driving on the NJ Tpk when it isn't trafficy -- it can really move...neurondochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12155027993661209263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1377385119326285192.post-40708304866992373022009-04-09T19:37:00.000-07:002009-04-09T19:37:00.000-07:00Remind me, CW, to tell about my plan for legalizin...Remind me, CW, to tell about my plan for legalizing highway shootings. Think of it as evolution in action. The unfit shall be left rotting along the side of the road as a deterrent to others.<BR/><BR/>Though I admit that I like your idea for orbiting lasers and kinetic kill weapons - though I'm not sure a 15' crater could be distinguished from a Jersey Turnpike pothole.Jim Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1377385119326285192.post-23006053164076741372009-04-09T19:07:00.000-07:002009-04-09T19:07:00.000-07:00That's a pretty good rant, John. I feel your pain....That's a pretty good rant, John. I feel your pain. I felt your pain, at one point, and walked away from more than one career because I didn't want to feel it any more. I don't commute any more. I travel, which has its own suckage, but I will not commute. Ironically, one of my best friends out here in the country is a guy from your neck of the woods who moved down here to get away from it as well. He routinely hears the same rant from his friends (who may be your neighbors) who can't afford to walk away from their high-dollar jobs in the city.<BR/><BR/>You're right about the recent Motorola products - and I used to be a huge Motorola fan. They've lost it. I'm still a big Nokia fan.<BR/><BR/>When you are the Commissar for Technology Enforcement I will provide you with the Lethal Weapon That Nobody Sees. Violators will be visited by a little girl who looks like Anna Paquin in the Microsoft commercial who will say "please stop doing bad things". Then if they don't stop, they'll be vaporized by the orbiting laser. If their crime is particularly heinous, they'll get the deorbited canister round instead of the laser. The 15' crater will serve as a deterrent to other Jersey drivers.CWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1377385119326285192.post-1680002791855540052009-04-09T19:00:00.000-07:002009-04-09T19:00:00.000-07:00I like driving carefully in snowy weather for seve...I like driving carefully in snowy weather for several reasons, not the least of which, it makes me more likely to arrive at my destination in one piece. 4WD vehicles will blow past me in that kind of weather, because of course they are invincible, because their car, truck, whatever, has 4WD. I derive that sneaky evil pleasure from seeing one of those idjits spun around into a ditch a mile or so on, simply because they drive like asswipes.neurondochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12155027993661209263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1377385119326285192.post-47787125397692604112009-04-09T16:52:00.000-07:002009-04-09T16:52:00.000-07:001) John, if you're going to get a Nokia, do not ge...1) John, if you're going to get a Nokia, do not get a 6133. I have it, and all in all, it's not a bad phone, but the battery life sucks and my previous 6133 completely crapped out recently after I had it for a little over a year. Thank heavens for cell phone insurance.<BR/><BR/>2) My philosophy for walking, driving and life in general is, "Get the hell out of the way." Too bad it's not a more widely held philosophy. <BR/><BR/>3) Nathan, I like the cut of your jib. I've done that myself in the past. 'Cause heaven knows there are a lot of self-important drivers in Los Angeles who don't realize that their BMWs and Lexuses (Lexii?) and monster SUVs do not mean they're better than anyone else.<BR/><BR/>Nicely ranted, John.Carol Elainehttp://ordinarygoddess.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1377385119326285192.post-20370201167575603362009-04-09T13:02:00.000-07:002009-04-09T13:02:00.000-07:00OK, true story. If you're driving south on the FD...OK, true story. If you're driving south on the FDR Drive, sometimes there's a big line backed up in the right lane for the Brooklyn Bridge exit. Of course, there are a bunch of assholes who think they're entitled to drive to the front of the line in the middle lane and then just cut somebody off to get onto the exit ramp. I hate these people with all of the passion that hatred of asshole selfish drivers can generate.<BR/><BR/>A few years ago, I was crawling along approaching the exit when one of these guys starts trying to edge over in front of me. I kept inching forward so that I was almost touching the bumper of the guy in front of me and simultaneously moving as far left as possible without leaving the exit lane. There was no way I was letting this dick in. Eventually, the front bumper of my car was almost touching the concrete divider where the ramp completely separated from the highway, and douchebag was almost touching my driver door but he wasn't going anywhere. And guess what? All of the other assholes trying to do the same thing were jammed up behind him while the folks in the exit lane just moved by my right side without any interference. There was a fair amount of cheering from them too. I stayed there for a couple of minutes just to make the point and then when I finally moved on, I could see that the people behind me were continuing to block them out as well.<BR/><BR/>I take my cheap satisfactions where I can find them.Nathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00648438549121320566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1377385119326285192.post-13860015880866581672009-04-09T11:04:00.000-07:002009-04-09T11:04:00.000-07:00When Jim rules the world and I am Commissar for Te...<I>When Jim rules the world and I am Commissar for Technology Enforcement, some Motorola engineers and I are going to have a little talk. And that dog and pony show is going to involve topics like “Listening to your customers”, “Too many useless features”, “The new requirement that you use the devices you design for 2 years” and “The Commissar’s favorite negative reinforcement tool – the Tabasco and sriracha enema”.</I><BR/><BR/>Negative, John, when I rule the world and you are Commissar for Technology Enforcement, the standard technique will be to just keep punching people in the face until they figure stuff out for themselves. Motorola being in the top five on the list of people we're going to start with - if ever there was a company who once made superior products now utterly bent on running themselves out of business by making complete shit, they're it (Now that Magellan the GPS maker is out of business that is).<BR/><BR/>Sorry, Konstantin, the Razor is a total piece of shit. All gloss and no function - no matter who the carrier is. People buy them because the phone looks cool and it has a cool name - then they spend the next year until the contract expires shaking the thing and screaming "What? What?!" into the mouthpiece. Then, like me they go buy something, anything else, and never buy Motorola again.<BR/><BR/>Which reminds me, I keep intending to do "Things that chap my ass about cell phones."<BR/><BR/>Great rant John, I didn't know you had it in you ;)Jim Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1377385119326285192.post-57435271128606698692009-04-09T08:40:00.000-07:002009-04-09T08:40:00.000-07:00RAZR actually was not a badly build phone. Yes it ...RAZR actually was not a badly build phone. Yes it had it's set of problems (like a lack of 3mm phone jack), but overall a good phone. Now, the software that's on you phone is a completely different story. Motorola do not write the software. That's done by the eggheads of your carrier company. While here are of course similarities, there are a lot of differences. <BR/><BR/>The rest of the stuff is just too funny, sorry it rubs you the wrong way.Some dude stuck in the Midwesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00852056495927941030noreply@blogger.com