Tag: cars

Golf drivers kind of ruin Golfs

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I like the Volkswagen Golf.  I’ve liked just about every iteration of it, even when it was called the VW Rabbit.  Ultimately, it was the reason why I ended up liking hatchbacks in the first place, and it’s that bias that led me to driving the 5-door hatchback I have now.  I would most definitely would own or would have had a Golf at some point by now, except for the fact that its price point has always eluded me by putting itself into a range that I just simply couldn’t justify for a means to an end like a car.

But it doesn’t mean that I can’t still be an admirer of the car still.  I like its fairly modest appearance, while having a good deal of performance as well as the practicality of spaciousness and storage that most hatchbacks afford.  During the riceboy days, most VW Golfs could compete or best most of their Japanese competition out of the box, provided the levels of trim were appropriately compared.  And the aftermarket part culture was just as favorable and customizable to Golfs as they were anything made by Honda or Nissan.

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Adobe software is a lot like cars

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When Adobe released the CS6 Suite, maybe one entire year after they had just released CS5, I didn’t have high expectations for it, the moment I saw that they had redesigned the software down from the splash graphics to the software’s workspaces.

Recently, I ran into a problem in InDesign CS6, where I couldn’t get a particular file to print, or export to PDF.  Upon attempting to initiate either task, the program would crash.  It was related to a problem in the file itself, as troubleshooting with blank new documents or other projects did not replicate the problem.  After about 20 minutes of frustrating unsuccessful troubleshooting, I realized that I had still not uninstalled CS5.  I saved my problematic file out as an IDML legacy file, and opened it up in InDesign CS5.

It printed without any complications.
It PDF’d without any hesitation.

In conclusion, it didn’t work in CS6, because CS6 is fucking retarded.  I thought about it for a second and chastised myself, because honestly, this was, and shouldn’t ever have been, much of a surprise.

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According to this study, 6% of drivers shouldn’t be allowed to live

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Almost coincidentally just days after I witnessed some sorry excuse for a human being run over a dead dog carcass, this interesting study emerged. Long story short: person conducts experiment where fake animals are placed on the shoulder of a road, and then he watches 1,000 cars drive by to see how many people go out of their way to harm what they think might be a living creature.

94% of people are thankfully, fortunately sane and normal, and do not deliberately make efforts to swerve into the shoulder to run over an animal. Unfortunately, that means 6% of people do. Roughly sixty people out of a thousand feel the need to exhibit their existential superiority over an animal, by killing it; behind the armor of a 2,700+ pound shield of plastics, metals and rubber moving at around 55+ mph.

I won’t elaborate on everything, since it is an interesting read and video, but it’s worth mentioning that out of those sixty worthless fucks, 89% of them were driving SUVs. Much like GMC Yukon.

I won’t wish any further harm on these miserable sacks of shit that get their rocks off on running over animals, but I wouldn’t shed a tear or feel an iota of guilt if any of these people were severely hurt, injured, or killed in a car accident.

I don’t really wish ill will onto others that often

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Contrary to popular belief, I know.  But really, when the days are over, I don’t really want to see anyone get severely hurt or anything.

I’m in a pretty upset mood tonight, and not because the Braves got owned like slavery were legal again, anything work-related, or something trite like that.  I’m upset because I saw a person on the road whom while in front of me, I witnessed as they applied their brakes, and took great care and effort into running over a dead animal on the road.

Honestly, if it were a squirrel or possum, or another common varmint-type of animal, I would have been disturbed by the careful effort in running it over, but the size and fur color of the already-dead roadkill was most definitely a dog.  And the fact that this piece of shit deliberately ran it over, bothered me immensely.  Even he had to know based on the size of the roadkill, that this was no common rodent.  But this waste of human space slowed down, leading me to believe that he was going to turn left or something coming up, but then I saw as he veered slightly, before seeing the carcass being flung upward a few inches after the impact.  I winced as I passed it between my tires, and watched as this asshole in the Yukon proceeded forward.

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The NBA Slam Dunk contest is stupid

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For obvious reasons, one or two of the televisions in the locker room at my gym is always on the NBA Network.  This week, they’ve been systematically broadcasting apparently every single year of the NBA’s dunk contest.  Recently, I got to thinking about just how stupid the dunk contest really is.

As much as I understand the appeal and occasional functionality of dunking, I can’t help but thinking that a contest of dunking without defenders, a clock or any resistance is pretty much the dumbest thing in the world.  And it gets worse with every single year, with players looking to add gimmicks, costumes and props to their foolish exhibitions in order to impress designated judges who assign scores based on, lord knows what.

And with each passing year, much as there are more crowd shots of other players and devastated fans, out of their seats, OHHHHing and making guttural sounds of approval at what they witnessed, there have been more and more people in the locker room glued to the televisions, making much of the same reactions.  And for what?  Guys that are taking a basketball, and doing whatever they can possible in the fractions of a second before they attempt to force it into an uncontested hoop.

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Side batteries are the stupidest pieces of shit on the planet

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Today is one of those days where I wish every living creature on the planet would go fuck themselves.  From a bunch of petulant immature fucks scattered throughout the country, black women who don’t know how to drive, the Atlanta Braves, all the way to people who manufacture side-terminal car batteries.

Seriously, is there anything stupider on the planet than side-terminal car batteries?  I had an episode today, where I was tasked with switching out a battery of a Chrysler Sebring.  No big deal, I’ve swapped batteries on a variety of vehicles in my lifetime before, it’s pretty easy, to be perfectly honest.  That is until I realized that the only replacement battery I could find were side-terminals, despite the fact that the car’s previous battery was top-terminal, like most normal cars have.  But leave it to Wal-Mart to have nothing but side-terminal batteries, for some reason.

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FREE CANDY

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I’d say something about how much it has to suck if you have a van, and you happen to neglect it to where it gets pretty filthy, but considering the part of town in which this FREE CANDY van was sighted, I’m willing to bet that this was done deliberately, for amusement, and that the owner of the van is very much aware of it.  That is, if he/she didn’t do it themselves in the first place.