Archive for the ‘cars’ Category

Crazy Drivers

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

I’m driving the scooter to work this morning, around 5am, and I come to a stop at a red light.  The little crosswalk countdown starts, so I know I have 14 seconds-ish before it’s my turn.  A car in the green direction comes up to the intersection and comes to a complete stop.  He sits there, scooting forward a few inches and then braking, several times.  When the light turns yellow, he floors it across the intersection, triggering the red light camera on himself.

All-right-y then.  I’m going in this direction, thank goodness…you keep going in that direction.

Stupid Like A Lemon Man

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

This ranks right up there with the guy who put lemon-juice on his face, because he thought it would make him invisible to security cameras….

A motorcyclist in Seattle got a ticket for driving in bicycle lane, so he went back the next morning with spray paint and a camera, and wrote “motorcycles only” in the bike lane, and took a picture. Like when he went to court, the judge was going to say “oh, there’s your evidence of a brand new class of lane that has no legislative history”…I’m pretty sure what he is going to say is, “oh, so you committed vandalism and fraud, as well as riding in the wrong lane, eh moron?”…but that’s just a guess.

Dream Head (unit)

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Car stereo that connects to ipod as if it were a bluetooth headset.

There are lots of car stereos that will act as a speakerphone for your iphone.  I want to be able to get in my car, hit the blue-connect button on my car stereo, and start playing music from the ipad, without having to take it out of my gear-bag, just like how it auto-plays when I turn on my bluetooth headset.

Lamborghini at the UW

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Whoda thunk that Lambo would put a materials lab way out here in Seattle, at the UW?  No  me, but someone did, and now it’s here.   Might have to zip out of work early to go look at the zoom zoom cars.