More random crap
Aug. 9th, 2006 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drwexI have a rule of roadtrips: don't go on a trip where time spent at the destination fails to exceed total travel time (there and back again).
Yesterday I violated this by approximately a factor of five. This leads me to observe that sometimes you need to throw out the rules because there's something more important going on.
The "factor of five" was due almost entirely to the fact that maps.google.com sucks LARGE HAIRY ROCKS and has twice failed to give me directions that were even approximately right. New rule: don't use maps.google for anything more than amusement value.
Maps.google was not just wrong by a trivial thing like missing a one-way street; it was wrong by a couple of TOWNS. As in "No, town B is NOT next to town A. In fact, town B is on the other side of D, which is next to C, which is next to A." At least it was exceedingly pleasant driving weather.
Speaking of "driving weather" it was apparently raining penguins on a Texas highway. No, really. Poor penguins. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4776449.stm
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catya pointed to this Canadian gem (also linked in Neil Gaiman's blog): http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060806.wr-rogers07/BNStory/Business/home
A court has decided that it will apply ordinary rules of grammar and enforce a contract termination clause based on the placement (or mis-placement depending on which side you ask) of a comma. My inner grammar authoritarian is cackling with absolute glee.
Yesterday I violated this by approximately a factor of five. This leads me to observe that sometimes you need to throw out the rules because there's something more important going on.
The "factor of five" was due almost entirely to the fact that maps.google.com sucks LARGE HAIRY ROCKS and has twice failed to give me directions that were even approximately right. New rule: don't use maps.google for anything more than amusement value.
Maps.google was not just wrong by a trivial thing like missing a one-way street; it was wrong by a couple of TOWNS. As in "No, town B is NOT next to town A. In fact, town B is on the other side of D, which is next to C, which is next to A." At least it was exceedingly pleasant driving weather.
Speaking of "driving weather" it was apparently raining penguins on a Texas highway. No, really. Poor penguins. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4776449.stm
And finally,
catya pointed to this Canadian gem (also linked in Neil Gaiman's blog): http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060806.wr-rogers07/BNStory/Business/homeA court has decided that it will apply ordinary rules of grammar and enforce a contract termination clause based on the placement (or mis-placement depending on which side you ask) of a comma. My inner grammar authoritarian is cackling with absolute glee.
