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Watch out for idiot bus drivers on Hollywood Boulevard.

The bus driver backs up, turns the bus into the boulevard and comes back at the cyclist who is now standing behind his bike. She comes a bit faster and pushes the bus against the cyclist until the bike is now wedged under the right front bumper of the bus.

Yeah, seriously. The bus driver first honked at the cyclist, then told him he had no right to the road, then ran over his bike. Twice.

And the LAPD, in their infinite wisdom, have said the cyclist may be the one to receive a ticket and have taken no action whatsoever against the bus driver, who obviously doesn’t have any business with a driver’s license as she doesn’t understand the rules of the road.

I need a gutted 747 and a couple acres of land to put it on. Best. House. EVAR.

I’d make the maid dress in a flight attendant uniform from the 1950s, too.

“The ODB couldn’tve possibly committed all those crimes. Coolio did some of that shit.”

And now we have proof.

This has been another public service announcement reminding you to stay off the crack.

And full of protein. Smokey’s recent post inspired me to take a look at the bugs I’d filed or fixed in Bugzilla as well.

I’ve filed 122 bugs so far, of which I’ve personally fixed 12. It’s always good to clean up your own mess ;) Of the 45 still open, five are still UNCONFIRMED and four are assigned to me. Of the 77 filed bugs that have been resolved, I’ve filed six INVALID, 11 WONTFIX, three WORKSFORME, and 11 duplicates, making a total of 86 valid bugs out of the 122 filed so far (conservatively assuming the five UNCOs don’t ever get confirmed). That’s a .705 batting average, which is a lot better than most of our users but not as high as it probably ought to be considering I’m on the triage and development teams.

The good news is that a total of 51 bugs assigned to me have been fixed (although I think a couple were fixed by someone else without the assignee changing), giving me about a 2.4:1 filed-to-ASSIGNED/FIXED ratio, and that’s something I’m much happier with. Ideally it’d be something like 1:1, but the only people I can think of who might come close to that figure are doing this sort of thing as a full-time job. We don’t have any paid developers on the Camino team at all.

The so-called “FAA funding debate” shouldn’t even be a debate. The airspace over the United States is a public resource, and control of that resource should be in the hands of the taxpayers via a taxpayer-funded organization like the FAA. Because when it isn’t, you get stuff like the 2002 mid-air collision over Switzerland that killed 71 people, which was a direct result of the controllers having too high a workload thanks to management trying to cut corners and save money.

(There was also an element of pilot error involved; the pilots of the Russian cargo plane ignored a TCAS resolution advisory that likely would have saved both planes and instead complied with the controller’s mistaken instruction to continue descending.)

John Gruber, on the new Eudora beta:

I hope it’s awesome. I suspect it’s going to blow.

Let me save everyone the suspense: it blows.

Exhibit A: the import dialog you get upon first launch.

Note the choices of mail clients from which mail and preferences can be imported.

Note that the number of previous versions of Eudora listed in this dialog is zero.

Remember that every single previous version of Eudora was backwards compatible with previous settings files and mail storage, at least enough that simply launching the new version made things Just Work™, which is of course the Mac Way™.

Ponder the number of people who will try this beta release who are not either die-hard Eudora users or Thunderbird users (also conspicuously absent from the import dialog). Hint: that number is somewhat south of both “significant” and “able to be counted on two hands”.

If your mind hasn’t boggled yet, you’re probably a lost cause.

To paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen’s most famous line: I knew Eudora. I used Eudora. Eudora was a friend of mine, and you, sir, are no Eudora.

Marshall Fitzpatrick, firefighter and cigarette smoker:

That’s $40 in groceries and $40 toward the electric bill, that’s $40 toward whatever. When you put both of us together, that’s $80 we’ve saved [by buying cigarettes in Indiana instead of Michigan] going toward our bills which helps us out.

How about you and your girlfriend save even more by, you know, quitting smoking entirely? You choose to smoke, and Michigan chooses to tax your vice. Give up the vice or quit your bitching.

This just showed up in my inbox:

Hello chris
Are you really satisfied with your p*enis size?

Yes, in fact, both I and your mother are quite satisfied with my penis size. Thanks for asking. Your mother appreciates your looking out for her sexual well-being, too.

She also said to get a haircut, take a shower, and move the fuck out of her basement.