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<title>Attention, LA Cyclists</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Watch out for <a href="http://laist.com/2007/09/24/hollywood_bus_d.php">idiot bus drivers on Hollywood Boulevard</a>.</p>

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<p>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.</p>

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<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>]]></description>
<link>http://chrislawson.net/blog/archives/000936.php</link>
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<category>two-wheeling</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:39:27 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Christmas Wish List Redux</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>I need a <a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gigantic-diy/buy-a-gutted-747-and-do-whatever-you-want-with-it-300030.php">gutted 747</a> and a couple acres of land to put it on. Best. House. EVAR.</p>

<p>I'd make the maid dress in a flight attendant uniform from the 1950s, too.</p>]]></description>
<link>http://chrislawson.net/blog/archives/000935.php</link>
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<category>aviation</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:45:16 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Channeling Chris Rock</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ol%27_Dirty_Bastard#Legal_troubles">The ODB</a> couldn'tve <em>possibly</em> committed all those crimes. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolio">Coolio</a> did some of that shit."</p>

<p>And now we have <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0911072toes1.html">proof</a>.</p>

<p>This has been another public service announcement reminding you to stay off the crack.</p>]]></description>
<link>http://chrislawson.net/blog/archives/000934.php</link>
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<category>humour</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:00:24 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Bugs are Crunchy</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>And full of protein. Smokey's <a href="http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2007/09/07/taking-stock-of-bugs/">recent post</a> inspired me to take a look at the bugs I'd <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;emailreporter1=1&amp;emailtype1=substring&amp;email1=%40chrislawson.net">filed</a> or <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;resolution=FIXED&amp;emailassigned_to1=1&amp;emailtype1=substring&amp;email1=%40chrislawson.net">fixed</a> in Bugzilla as well.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>]]></description>
<link>http://chrislawson.net/blog/archives/000933.php</link>
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<category>computing</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:45:05 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The FAA Funding &quot;Debate&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>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 <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6977136.stm">the 2002 mid-air collision over Switzerland</a> 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.</p>

<p>(There was also an element of pilot error involved; the pilots of the Russian cargo plane ignored a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCAS">TCAS</a> resolution advisory that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashkirian_Airlines_Flight_2937">likely would have saved both planes</a> and instead complied with the controller's mistaken instruction to continue descending.)</p>]]></description>
<link>http://chrislawson.net/blog/archives/000931.php</link>
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<category>aviation</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:44:41 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>&quot;Eudora&quot; 8.0b1</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2007/september#mon-03-eudora_penelope">John Gruber, on the new Eudora beta</a>:</p>

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<p>I hope it’s awesome. I suspect it’s going to blow.</p>

</blockquote>

<p>Let me save everyone the suspense: it blows.</p>

<p>Exhibit A: the import dialog you get upon first launch.</p>

<p><img src="/new-eudora/import.png" width="441" height="352" alt="Eudora's first-run import dialog, which must be seen to be believed" /></p>

<p>Note the choices of mail clients from which mail and preferences can be imported.</p>

<p>Note that the number of previous versions of Eudora listed in this dialog is <em>zero</em>.</p>

<p>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&trade;, which is of course the Mac Way&trade;.</p>

<p>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".</p>

<p>If your mind hasn't boggled yet, you're probably a lost cause.</p>

<p>To paraphrase <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Bentsen#1988_Vice_Presidential_candidate">Lloyd Bentsen</a>'s most famous line: I knew Eudora. I used Eudora. Eudora was a friend of mine, and you, sir, are no Eudora.</p>]]></description>
<link>http://chrislawson.net/blog/archives/000930.php</link>
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<category>computing</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:56:16 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Just Not Getting It</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Marshall Fitzpatrick, <a href="http://www.wwmt.com/news/cigarettes_37748___article.html/state_fitzpatrick.html">firefighter and cigarette smoker</a>:</p>

<blockquote>

<p>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.</p>

</blockquote>

<p>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.</p>]]></description>
<link>http://chrislawson.net/blog/archives/000929.php</link>
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<category>general</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:34:01 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Things I Wish I Could Say</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>This just showed up in my inbox:</p>

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<p>Hello chris<br />
Are you really satisfied with your p*enis size?</p>

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<p>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.</p>

<p>She also said to get a haircut, take a shower, and move the fuck out of her basement.</p>]]></description>
<link>http://chrislawson.net/blog/archives/000928.php</link>
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<category>general</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:29:19 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Story Lead of the Year</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>"<a href="http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070814/NEWS07/70814083/1118/rss">Judge files appeal notice in $54-million missing pants suit</a>":</p>

<blockquote>

<p>A judge who lost a $54 million lawsuit against a dry cleaner over a missing pair of pants continues to press his suit.</p>

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<link>http://chrislawson.net/blog/archives/000927.php</link>
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<category>humour</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:17:06 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Capitalism in the Car Business</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>I just had a brilliant insight. The reason none of the car dealers in south Florida are interested in selling cars is because they're all run by Cubans who don't understand the free-market economy.</p>

<p>This is excusable, considering they came from a country that has been communist for the last 50 years, where airport security workers make $10 per month and airline pilots for Cubana make the staggering salary of $30 per month, and where a can of Coke costs a week's salary for most people.</p>

<p>Here's the proof.</p>]]></description>
<link>http://chrislawson.net/blog/archives/000926.php</link>
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<category>car</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 10:31:12 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Buying a Car Sucks</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>In news that should surprise approximately nobody, buying a car is the most complicated, time-wasting, ridiculous process ever. And apparently car dealers in south Florida are in the business of...well, I'm not entirely sure <em>what</em> they're in the business of, besides "not selling cars".</p>]]></description>
<link>http://chrislawson.net/blog/archives/000925.php</link>
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<category>car</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:08:23 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Crack Kills</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>In the <a href="/blog/archives/000857.php">Continuing Misadventures of People Who Are High On Crack</a>, an as-yet-unnamed 25-year-old motorist <a href="http://www.woodtv.com/global/story.asp?s=6907309">shot himself in the head</a> <em>while driving his Chevy Blazer</em> after leading police on a highway chase during which he brandished a revolver, smoked crack, and laughed at the officers chasing him.</p>

<p>CLN salutes you, Mr. Crack Smoking Highway Multitasker, with the coveted Dumbass of the Day Award.</p>

<p><?php include_once '/homepages/16/d93546748/htdocs/RFDR.php'; redFormanDumbassRating(5); ?></p>]]></description>
<link>http://chrislawson.net/blog/archives/000924.php</link>
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<category>humour</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:47:09 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>It&apos;s a Joke, People</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>For you Spanish speakers out there:</p>

<p>Hay un hombre de España que está de vacaciones en la Republica Dominicana, y necesita tomar un autobus. Le pregunta al nativo, ¿Dónde puedo cojer un autobus? y el nativo responda, "<a href="http://jalopnik.com/cars/get-your-motor-runnin/sex-with-cars-a-tutorial-285522.php">Por el múfler</a>."</p>

<p>Warning: not even remotely safe for work.</p>

<p>For those of you who are not Spanish speakers, the crux of the joke is that the word "cojer" in Spain and much of the Caribbean and South America (but not in Mexico, most of the rest of Central America, or the Dominican Republic) means "to catch", in the sense of "to catch a bus" (which is what our Spaniard friend is attempting to ask). In Mexico, most of Central America, and the Dominican Republic, the predominant usage is vulgar, essentially equivalent to the English "to fuck". The Dominican understands the Spaniard's question as the latter meaning, and tells him, "In the muffler".</p>

<p>Except that's a joke. No one is suggesting that the Spaniard then went off to find a nice warm tailpipe in which to relieve himself. But there apparently exists that contingent of society -- and this is why I both love and hate the Internet, where any random nutjob with an opinion out in left field can publish a how-to guide for the most bizarre fetish -- who actually loves their vehicles so much that they wish to copulate with them.</p>

<p>I really wish I were kidding.</p>]]></description>
<link>http://chrislawson.net/blog/archives/000923.php</link>
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<category>car</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:18:18 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Mixed-Up Priorities</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>ABC News:</p>

<blockquote>

<p><a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3443674&page=1">Bridge Collapse: Who's at Fault?</a> It's Still Too Soon to Know If Anyone Is Legally Responsible for the Disaster</p>

</blockquote>

<p>How about instead of trying to assign blame somewhere, you spend your time, money, and efforts figuring out how to ensure this doesn't happen again?</p>

<p>Sometimes, I really hate American society.</p>]]></description>
<link>http://chrislawson.net/blog/archives/000922.php</link>
<guid>http://chrislawson.net/blog/archives/000922.php</guid>
<category>sci-tech</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:14:45 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Meet Some Ladies</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Just learn how to dance and you'll have them all over you.</p>

<p><a href="/img/spider.png"><img src="/img/spider.png" width="495" height="367" alt="Spider mating dance video with funny sponsor ads" /></a></p>

<p>Not sure those are the kind of ladies I'd want to meet, though. (Click for full-size image.)</p>

<p>(via <a href="http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/2007/07/why-we-apprecia.html">Dave Barry</a>)</p>]]></description>
<link>http://chrislawson.net/blog/archives/000921.php</link>
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<category>humour</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:17:19 -0500</pubDate>
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