Listen people. The great woman Florence Lawrence, although her name rhymed, she invented one of the most useful things in automobiles except for the whole engine and brakes thing. It was first implemented by Buick Automobiles and then spread to be the standard in every car. It comes in every car, but is for some reason not known to me people are not using them. If you are in a car you are bound to use them at any stop or turn...
Can you guess what it is? I hope you know what I am talking about...
Turn signals damnit. Holy shit is it that hard to flip a damn lever on the side of your steering wheel when you are about to turn. I cannot tell you how many retards I have seen on the roads that never use what great Lawrence gave to us!
Have you ever been in the situation where you are in the left lane and the driver in front of you starts to slow down for no reason? God I know I have, and the usual response goes something like this "What are you doiinnnggg," only to find out that the driver is trying to make a turn into the Starbucks and is too busy for a turn signal. While the person in front of you is just about stopped you are trying to find an opening in the right lane pleading for an opening and just as you get in the clear of the other lane the turning car makes his turn as you switch lanes...
Just to let you know. That shit pisses me off if you couldn't tell already...
I have separated the perpetrators into 4 parts.
1. Ignorant Ass: These are the people that really don't realize that not using your turn signal is a detriment to other peoples driving. These blithering idiots probably just think using their turn signals are a waste of time...
2. Premature Dipshit: These are the people who do use their turn signals which is very cool. But they turn it on a half-mile before their actual turn which in turn hurts you because you are trying to change lanes while at the same time figuring out if he is ever going to turn the wheel.
3. Postmature Ass clown : These are the people that stop dead in the road for no reason and then turn on their signal. These people are the absolute worst and just make my blood boil along with the first ones.
4. Pure Tards in a Cart: These are the people that either 1. Use the wrong direction or 2. They have their signals on for about 20 miles as they go up the expressway. These guys create havoc at times and are downright stupid.
So that sums up my first tick stay tuned for more...
-Bill
Friday, December 29, 2006
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Blogger Beta
Appealing to a wider range of folk Blogger expanded their user interface to include easy changes to bloggers template. Clever bastards. What they created is very impressive and it makes changing a templates style, color and structure as easy as a couple clicks. Being a slightly more inclined user it makes my work seem pointless. Why take time structuring out the way a page should look when you can use this crafty tool to do it in 5 seconds.
Yeah well it is easier and I don't really like it. When I started blogging again I promised myself it wouldn't turn into the past blogging days of xanga. But it seems like Blogger now joining forces with Google wants to attract more customers like the plague. I'm not saying this is a bad thing I'm just saying it takes away from learning. (But hell who wants to learn now anyways) When I created this blog I was in the midst of finishing learning CSS and I seemed to learn even more from this. I was able to create a pretty functional template.
Then Beta comes along and makes a better template that took me a long time to do. I'm really just bitter that Blogger is better than me. Shit.
-Bill
Yeah well it is easier and I don't really like it. When I started blogging again I promised myself it wouldn't turn into the past blogging days of xanga. But it seems like Blogger now joining forces with Google wants to attract more customers like the plague. I'm not saying this is a bad thing I'm just saying it takes away from learning. (But hell who wants to learn now anyways) When I created this blog I was in the midst of finishing learning CSS and I seemed to learn even more from this. I was able to create a pretty functional template.
Then Beta comes along and makes a better template that took me a long time to do. I'm really just bitter that Blogger is better than me. Shit.
-Bill
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Road Rage? Probably.
Story time!
This weekend I went to visit my girlfriend in Maryland. During the drive home I had an encounter with a woman and her minivan which still makes me a tad angry. The scenario is that we were blatantly in an ass load of traffic. It was a two lane road that really was not moving very fast. I was very irritable and tired after driving the three hours back from Maryland and I really just wanted to get home. I am now in the right lane seeing that in the upcoming light my lane becomes a turning lane. Great, now I have to merge following the car in front's lead I attempt to merge with the traffic to our left. Unfortunately it wasn't that easy to merge for me as it was for the guy in front of me because a minivan decided to accelerate into the hole that i tried to get into every time. Now some people know me as not the safest driver. Often being quoted as "why so I do such dumb things," I don't have the best reputation to say the less. At this point we are in the intersection as i try and try to desperately fit into this lane that is dwindling down as we roll along. At this point I am beyond frustrated as we come to the end of the intersection as I hear this woman beep at me from the side.
Then I kinda lost it.
I kept going. I went along the shoulder barely fitting between her car and the guardrail. As she lays on her horn I turn around look her right in the eye and give her some of my Christmas cheer from none other than my middle finger. Well that did it. She let me in.
Now I realize that it I had made a mistake by being in the turning lane. But I don't think I deserved what that woman did. Its not like my lane was moving faster than hers and I was trying to pull a fast one like some other jerk offs. I just wanted to merge thats it I wasn't asking for much was I. But when someone beeps at me. Thats when things go wrong. Now I have never given the finger to a person in a car and never have I meant it more in that moment. But I still feel slightly justified for what I did even though it was road rage.
What I did not mention is that the car I was driving was not mine. And that my girlfriend was yelling at me the whole time. I feel less justified. Why do I do such dumb things?
God damn minivan.
-Bill
This weekend I went to visit my girlfriend in Maryland. During the drive home I had an encounter with a woman and her minivan which still makes me a tad angry. The scenario is that we were blatantly in an ass load of traffic. It was a two lane road that really was not moving very fast. I was very irritable and tired after driving the three hours back from Maryland and I really just wanted to get home. I am now in the right lane seeing that in the upcoming light my lane becomes a turning lane. Great, now I have to merge following the car in front's lead I attempt to merge with the traffic to our left. Unfortunately it wasn't that easy to merge for me as it was for the guy in front of me because a minivan decided to accelerate into the hole that i tried to get into every time. Now some people know me as not the safest driver. Often being quoted as "why so I do such dumb things," I don't have the best reputation to say the less. At this point we are in the intersection as i try and try to desperately fit into this lane that is dwindling down as we roll along. At this point I am beyond frustrated as we come to the end of the intersection as I hear this woman beep at me from the side.
Then I kinda lost it.
I kept going. I went along the shoulder barely fitting between her car and the guardrail. As she lays on her horn I turn around look her right in the eye and give her some of my Christmas cheer from none other than my middle finger. Well that did it. She let me in.
Now I realize that it I had made a mistake by being in the turning lane. But I don't think I deserved what that woman did. Its not like my lane was moving faster than hers and I was trying to pull a fast one like some other jerk offs. I just wanted to merge thats it I wasn't asking for much was I. But when someone beeps at me. Thats when things go wrong. Now I have never given the finger to a person in a car and never have I meant it more in that moment. But I still feel slightly justified for what I did even though it was road rage.
What I did not mention is that the car I was driving was not mine. And that my girlfriend was yelling at me the whole time. I feel less justified. Why do I do such dumb things?
God damn minivan.
-Bill
Monday, December 11, 2006
Google Intern
What if I was a Google Intern...
Wishful thinking you say?
Sort of...
I was looking today on Google as I do about 5 million times a day. And I saw a small link under the search bar advertising Google job openings. Intrigued about my new finding I immediately clicked on it. I saw an internship option to apply and immediately my mind raced to me working at Google...The requirements they listed were "A computer science major or the like" and "A good worker with a determined attitude to learn" This made me even more excited. I was now on the hunt to beat other people to this opportunity. I even made my resume the night before it was like it was meant to be. I then looked up the locations of the jobs and I was shot down.
Mountain View, CA
Mountain View, CA
Pittsburgh, PA
Other assorted nowheres...
Curses! Arghh...
I brought myself back to reality went back to what I was doing before, exploring Google...Seriously one could spend hours in Google's plethora of services, speaking of, I made my first Google Gadget for The Personalized Home Google page. If you go to your personalized home page click add stuff all the way to the right then add by URL I think it is you can paste this in...
http://bill.weaston.googlepages.com/first.xml
Yeah so time for finals...
-Bill
Wishful thinking you say?
Sort of...
I was looking today on Google as I do about 5 million times a day. And I saw a small link under the search bar advertising Google job openings. Intrigued about my new finding I immediately clicked on it. I saw an internship option to apply and immediately my mind raced to me working at Google...The requirements they listed were "A computer science major or the like" and "A good worker with a determined attitude to learn" This made me even more excited. I was now on the hunt to beat other people to this opportunity. I even made my resume the night before it was like it was meant to be. I then looked up the locations of the jobs and I was shot down.
Mountain View, CA
Mountain View, CA
Pittsburgh, PA
Other assorted nowheres...
Curses! Arghh...
I brought myself back to reality went back to what I was doing before, exploring Google...Seriously one could spend hours in Google's plethora of services, speaking of, I made my first Google Gadget for The Personalized Home Google page. If you go to your personalized home page click add stuff all the way to the right then add by URL I think it is you can paste this in...
http://bill.weaston.googlepages.com/first.xml
Yeah so time for finals...
-Bill
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Google is Taking Over
Google is ridiculous. And by ridiculous I mean awesome. I was thinking to myself a couple weeks ago if Google had dabbled into the web-blog industry because that is pretty much the only internet based section that Google hasn't touched yet. Holy shit. They did.
Google has surpassed all of my expectations of just being a search engine. Ever since they started hosting my email it has grown considerably to accommodate almost everything I do on the internet. Google is my email client, it is where I backup most of my documents, it's where I store pictures for my website, it is where I have my calender, it is where I can check up on my groups and feeds that I subscribe to, it is my Instant messaging client and now it is where I can sign into Blogger not to mention programs that organize my files, picture, desktop, earth, direction and so on. What is Google's potential for the future? Google Air? Google Skynet? Google Space Station? The possibilities are endless. Just a thought from a guy who hasn't posted in a blog seriously in years...
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-Bill
Google has surpassed all of my expectations of just being a search engine. Ever since they started hosting my email it has grown considerably to accommodate almost everything I do on the internet. Google is my email client, it is where I backup most of my documents, it's where I store pictures for my website, it is where I have my calender, it is where I can check up on my groups and feeds that I subscribe to, it is my Instant messaging client and now it is where I can sign into Blogger not to mention programs that organize my files, picture, desktop, earth, direction and so on. What is Google's potential for the future? Google Air? Google Skynet? Google Space Station? The possibilities are endless. Just a thought from a guy who hasn't posted in a blog seriously in years...
Powered by the big G,
-Bill
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