AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH! Third accident with my car. Second one in the stupid colonial retro traditionalist clusterFUBAR known as the Mashpee Rotary. Seeing as a horse-drawn wagon hasn't been by there in about 70 years, why can't they just rip it up and put in a stupid set of 4-way lights, rather than leave this circular traffic abortion that people from anywhere other than Cape Cod and the UK can't seem to understand or drive properly on? Cape Cod charm? I got yer Cape Cod charm right here sporto.
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Sorry to hear that Patrick. They keep building rotaries down here. People have enough trouble driving without having to figure those out. :)
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Sorry to hear that Patrick. They keep building rotaries down here. People have enough trouble driving without having to figure those out. :)AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH! Third accident with my car. Second one in the stupid colonial retro traditionalist clusterFUBAR known as the Mashpee Rotary. Seeing as a horse-drawn wagon hasn't been by there in about 70 years, why can't they just rip it up and put in a stupid set of 4-way lights, rather than leave this circular traffic abortion that people from anywhere other than Cape Cod and the UK can't seem to understand or drive properly on? Cape Cod charm? I got yer Cape Cod charm right here sporto.
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We call them circles in Jersey. Got em all over! I always like them for intersections with more than 4 ways, anything 4 or under should be a stop light.
Seeing as a horse-drawn wagon hasn't been by there in about 70 years, why can't they just rip it up and put in a stupid set of 4-way lights, rather than leave this circular traffic abortion that people from anywhere other than Cape Cod and the UK can't seem to understand or drive properly on?
We have some of these abominations in Central Oregon. We call them concrete crop circles. They usually have some sort of sculpture in the middle, which ranges from bad to tolerable.
I was taken from just such a circle. In Mwangi, we call them "circles of death that are too scary to have a name."
Ah. I didn't realize other parts of the US were as afflicted as we are here. My condolences. It seems stupid, considering their original purpose was to allow horse-drawn wagons a simple way to take gentle turns, as they weren't good at 90 degree angles. Now ... Not so much of a needed feature. Plus having five exits/entrances with no stop signs or even yield signs leads to massive confusion among those who have never encountered one of the beasties. Someone jacking on their brakes in the pouring rain while traversing one (a definite no-no) is the reason my poor car looks like a Picasso sculpture today >;(
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Ah. I didn't realize other parts of the US were as afflicted as we are here. My condolences. It seems stupid, considering their original purpose was to allow horse-drawn wagons a simple way to take gentle turns, as they weren't good at 90 degree angles. Now ... Not so much of a needed feature.
Maybe people need them for their Hummers. I think they have the same problem with 90 degree angles.
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Ah. I didn't realize other parts of the US were as afflicted as we are here. My condolences. It seems stupid, considering their original purpose was to allow horse-drawn wagons a simple way to take gentle turns, as they weren't good at 90 degree angles. Now ... Not so much of a needed feature.Maybe people need them for their Hummers. I think they have the same problem with 90 degree angles.
And they don't even have turn signals, 'least I've never seen them used on those vehicles.
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And they don't even have turn signals, 'least I've never seen them used on those vehicles.Ah. I didn't realize other parts of the US were as afflicted as we are here. My condolences. It seems stupid, considering their original purpose was to allow horse-drawn wagons a simple way to take gentle turns, as they weren't good at 90 degree angles. Now ... Not so much of a needed feature.Maybe people need them for their Hummers. I think they have the same problem with 90 degree angles.
Don't they disable all turn signals (except mine) on vehicles in Texas?
Worst thing about my job is having to drive through Rice Village. A zillion 5' tall soccer moms in 4 ton SUVs who can't drive. Maybe the dealerships could sell booster seats?
IDK; lotsa California plates here....economic refugees and whatnot.
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Nope. You can't signal in Texas, or the guy in the lane next to you will know to cut you off and just sit there, not going forward or dropping back.We must have a lot of transplants from Texas, then. That's how people drive on I-40 in North Carolina.
No, they just forget to signal after sampling Humboldt and Marin Counties' finest "products"...
I'm clean as a whistle; I just don't signal cos I'll get cut off if I waste the time signaling.
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IDK; lotsa California plates here....economic refugees and whatnot.
True, it generally isn't the TEXANS that cannot drive, it's the transplants. Boston being the worst supplier of crappy drivers in my experience...
Damned economic refugees. Stay home and vote in business friendly pols, don't come down here and ruin it for us!
It's pretty rare to meet someone or drive with someone that's actually from New York City in New York City. The one person I met was like,"Yeah, I don't want to talk about it." Some big secret.
But one way or another, if you are not racing through that intersection on your rear two wheels when that light turns we will MURDER YOU, YOU SLOW BASTARD.
Excuse me, I have a bike messenger caught on my bumper. Off to get the snow shovel.
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I crossed the road on foot in Gainesville, Florida 25 years ago; I'm like a teenager then;
Halfway across the 4 lane road, the "don't walk" sign starts flashing.
This broad leans out the window; "get tha hell awda tha raowd!"
her friend does the same thing...."we can't help it....we're fram Neeyawk!"
So I flipped them off......"that's so youse feel at home, eyy!!!"
I crossed the road on foot in Gainesville, Florida 25 years ago; I'm like a teenager then;
Halfway across the 4 lane road, the "don't walk" sign starts flashing.This broad leans out the window; "get tha hell awda tha raowd!"
her friend does the same thing...."we can't help it....we're fram Neeyawk!"So I flipped them off......"that's so youse feel at home, eyy!!!"
Textbook example of the appropriate response.
- Almost hit by a cab?
-Flip the bird.
-Asked for directions?
-Flip the bird.
-Offered a copy of The Watchtower?
-Flip two birds.
-See a celebrity?
-Flip the bird, inform them that they sucked in that one movie.
-See a clown crying?
-Offer them a kind word and continue on your way.
Good idea; the clown might be John Wayne Gasey.
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AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH! Third accident with my car. Second one in the stupid colonial retro traditionalist clusterFUBAR known as the Mashpee Rotary. Seeing as a horse-drawn wagon hasn't been by there in about 70 years, why can't they just rip it up and put in a stupid set of 4-way lights, rather than leave this circular traffic abortion that people from anywhere other than Cape Cod and the UK can't seem to understand or drive properly on? Cape Cod charm? I got yer Cape Cod charm right here sporto.
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They got one of those in downtown Ticonderoga. The only reason there aren't more accidents is because of the low population.
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More suck: SCAD freshmeat orientation. I was about as oriented as I was ever going to be as soon as I walked in, and I certainly didn't need another two days of pointless ice-breaking exercises to fit myself in. Besides, in Georgia, the ice melts before it breaks.
On top of all that, SCAD TECH SUPPORT KILLED MY E-MAIL ACCOUNT. I spent the better part of today (about eight hours) dicking around with e-mail software. I finally got things fixed about twenty minutes ago.
If anyone wants to contact me (doubtful), my new e-mail address is:
It's bad enough that I'm not going to see my girlfriend for another two months, even without all of my shit falling apart.
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I remember a time when what was written on the actual cards made sense without having to first consult a several hundred page comprehensive rules and glossary document to attempt to work out what it does and how you're supposed to deal with timing. The flavour text on this card seems almost an ironic comment on the general direction the game seems to have recently been heading in with escalating card power, escalating card price of singles over the counter, and escalating rules jargon with increasingly arcane (hah!) workings...
And that is why I stopped playing Magic (or at least, buying cards) after Ravnica block came out.
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More suck: SCAD freshmeat orientation. I was about as oriented as I was ever going to be as soon as I walked in, and I certainly didn't need another two days of pointless ice-breaking exercises to fit myself in. Besides, in Georgia, the ice melts before it breaks.
On top of all that, SCAD TECH SUPPORT KILLED MY E-MAIL ACCOUNT. I spent the better part of today (about eight hours) dicking around with e-mail software. I finally got things fixed about twenty minutes ago.
If anyone wants to contact me (doubtful), my new e-mail address is:** spoiler omitted **
It's bad enough that I'm not going to see my girlfriend for another two months, even without all of my s&%# falling apart.
Are you in Savannah or Atlanta SCAD? One of my customers just got back from installing his son at SCAD in Savannah, he's going for computer graphics/animation or something, but he's a frosh as well.
Girl trouble, always the girl trouble. Friendship that feels like more than friendship despite the constant reminders. Mixed feelings. Distance.
Passive-aggressive notes and emails from roomates. Why can't we talk face to face like "civilized people"?
Girl trouble, always the girl trouble. Friendship that feels like more than friendship despite the constant reminders. Mixed feelings. Distance.
Passive-aggressive notes and emails from roomates. Why can't we talk face to face like "civilized people"?
Good luck. The internet, texting, etc. has both brought people closer together and pushed them further apart at the same time. Face to face is tough, especially when the subject is 'bad'. Weird times. Ahh, the good old days when a group of people actually got together.
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It's pretty rare to meet someone or drive with someone that's actually from New York City in New York City. The one person I met was like,"Yeah, I don't want to talk about it." Some big secret.
But one way or another, if you are not racing through that intersection on your rear two wheels when that light turns we will MURDER YOU, YOU SLOW BASTARD.
Excuse me, I have a bike messenger caught on my bumper. Off to get the snow shovel.
I've driven in Manhattan, and in Boston (and Cape Cod with their dastardly rotaries everywhere). Neither holds a candle to Pescara, Italy.
There I remember pulling up to a stop sign signalling to turn right. I didn't even come to a complete stop - it was a "Jersey stop" (i.e. roll-through), but it was too much for the people behind me. Somebody skirted around the left side of my car and made a right turn in front of me. It's like a big game of "chicken" - you'll have two cars heading toward each other, waiting to see who moves out of the way first. Right of way is for little girls.
I exhibit a zen-like calm whenever I drive anywhere, which is the only way I can do it without killing people. Everyone I drive with is amazed by my Obama-like calm when driving in the craziest of situations.
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Things in life that suck:
Road work
Apparently all of the local politicians in Rochester ran out of fresh ideas on what to do with their stimulus money and put it all into roadwork. This, in a blighted rustbelt city with decrepit schools, abandoned city blocks, and crumbling infrastructure. I could have told them plenty of things they could do with that money, but instead it seems like they're just repaving all the roads.
I have 4 or 5 different routes I can take to work, and they all more-or-less take the same amount of time. They all have construction work. Every last one of them has a stretch of lane closures. No exaggeration. If they were going to pump all of their stimulus money into roadwork, they could at least have staggered it so that every road isn't clogged at the same time.
It's *almost* enough to shake my aforementioned calm.
Almost.
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Things in life that suck part 2:
The printers at work
So, let me tell you about this printer. My company has a relatively small number of clients on an old product offering that we continue to support on a "grandfathered" basis. It's a mainframe system, and I'm one of only a few people that uses this system (it's a tiny part of what I do.) That system has one printer in the entire building that it can communicate with, but it doesn't work very well.
For the last two years, at least, every time we have to print something (which is often - outdated system), we print, get a system error, restart the printer, call IT to clear the print queue, and then print again. Seriously. That's just what you have to do every time. For the last two years.
Now even that isn't working so well, and most of the time things just don't print at all. And we can't do our work because you can't view reports on that system, only print them. Support claims it is a hardware issue, not a network issue, while our hardware guy insists it is a network issue, and the hardware is fine.
And that's how it's been.
For 2 years.
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Support claims it is a hardware issue, not a network issue, while our hardware guy insists it is a network issue, and the hardware is fine.
And that's how it's been.
For 2 years.
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Yeah, that´s what I always hear from IT as well. We have rented the printers from an external company, and one copy/printing machine has a ghost in the machine. The company claims it has to be a network problem, our networkers say that everything is fine there, it has to be the hardware... The contract with that company is good for another three years...
Stefan
IT Canned Responses -
1. User Error.
2. If it's a network error, blame hardware.
3. If it's a hardware error, blame network.
4. Additional funding will always fix the problem, until 2 or 3 pop up again.
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I've driven in Manhattan, and in Boston (and Cape Cod with their dastardly rotaries everywhere). Neither holds a candle to Pescara, Italy.
Speaking of the Cape Cod, I spent 3 hours in traffic yesterday trying to get out of there. THREE HOURS to move about 6 miles because some idiots decided rush hour was a good time to block off multiple lanes for construction...
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IT Canned Responses -
1. User Error.
2. If it's a network error, blame hardware.
3. If it's a hardware error, blame network.
4. Additional funding will always fix the problem, until 2 or 3 pop up again.
SCAD tech support is similar. For example, I've been having problems with my college e-mail account. Their response: "If you can't access your e-mail, e-mail us."
*facepalm*
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Are you in Savannah or Atlanta SCAD? One of my customers just got back from installing his son at SCAD in Savannah, he's going for computer graphics/animation or something, but he's a frosh as well.Savannah. Who was the customer?
I don't remember his name, but next time he comes in I'll ask.
How big a school is it, and how many freshmen are from Houston?
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Are you in Savannah or Atlanta SCAD? One of my customers just got back from installing his son at SCAD in Savannah, he's going for computer graphics/animation or something, but he's a frosh as well.Savannah. Who was the customer?I don't remember his name, but next time he comes in I'll ask.
How big a school is it, and how many freshmen are from Houston?
It's got about 10,000 students, and there are a freakin' ton of freshmen from Texas. I don't know about Houston, though.
I've driven in Manhattan, and in Boston (and Cape Cod with their dastardly rotaries everywhere). Neither holds a candle to Pescara, Italy.Speaking of the Cape Cod, I spent 3 hours in traffic yesterday trying to get out of there. THREE HOURS to move about 6 miles because some idiots decided rush hour was a good time to block off multiple lanes for construction...
Oh Jumpin Jesus on a pogo stick I just heard they are taking the Sagamore Bridge down to one lane ALL FALL AND SPRING. Today they had 5 mi stop and go traffic on the highway. The businesspeople are screaming, as the late-season tourism is doubly important this year after the tough economy and the shark scare earlier this month..
5 mile backups for like 2 months on either side of Winter. I know I ain't gonna go over the bridge for a while ...
PS: Should told me you were on Cape CJ, would have had the missus make you a snack to eat while waiting in traffic, LOL :P
I had to spend close to $160.00 on art supplies today, and I have a sneaking suspicion that I'm going to end up not using a lot of them. f&!%ing price gouging...
Welcome to college. Buy a book for $100 , sell it for $9.95 at the end of the semester ...
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I had to spend close to $160.00 on art supplies today, and I have a sneaking suspicion that I'm going to end up not using a lot of them. f&!%ing price gouging...Welcome to college. Buy a book for $100 , sell it for $9.95 at the end of the semester ...
I heard once that the average college bookstore is one the only campus departments that almost always makes money.
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Oh Jumpin Jesus on a pogo stick I just heard they are taking the Sagamore Bridge down to one lane ALL FALL AND SPRING. Today they had 5 mi stop and go traffic on the highway. The businesspeople are screaming, as the late-season tourism is doubly important this year after the tough economy and the shark scare earlier this month..
5 mile backups for like 2 months on either side of Winter. I know I ain't gonna go over the bridge for a while ...
PS: Should told me you were on Cape CJ, would have had the missus make you a snack to eat while waiting in traffic, LOL :P
If that doesn't kill the Cape's business, I would be surprised. If you know you have a 2-3 hour traffic gridlock waiting for you every time you go, why bother?
Aghh, I meant to ask you if there were any good gaming/comic stores in the area but I kept forgetting to make a post. I could have used a snack too. :)
If that doesn't kill the Cape's business, I would be surprised. If you know you have a 2-3 hour traffic gridlock waiting for you every time you go, why bother?
Aghh, I meant to ask you if there were any good gaming/comic stores in the area but I kept forgetting to make a post. I could have used a snack too. :)
Yeah, we're screwed now. I don't know what the fnck we're going to do until Halloween with that bridge all jacked (no offense LOL) up.
As for LGS, only a small minatures and CC place in Centerville that doesn't carry any TT RPG stuff on Cape, least that I've found. I buy most of my stuff here or eBay for the older stuff. And I'm sure my wife would've whipped up some brownies...