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Friday 25 August, 2006 @ 17:28:37 by Cafuego
daily / road rage

I think I came pretty close to be accosted by an idiot in a Toyota 4WD in the way home this afternoon.

The person in question had been desperately trying to get me to break the speed limit down our street - it's a 50Km/h street, but it's wide and used to be 60Km/h. I refuse to speed, so was sitting just on 50.

First try, the Toyota attempted to overtake me via the bicycle lane, but as an old lady was getting into her perked car, it had to slam the brake on and stay behind me.

Next try, it insisted on overtaking via the bicycle lane just as I - heh heh - had to indicate I was turning left into my driveway. It then again had to slam the brakes on and came flying past on the tram tracks to my right.

I flipped it the bird as it passed me (as you do). Clearly it had gotten very angry, as it slammed its brakes on and tried to turn around, to supposedly come and have a word with me.

It stopped in the middle of the road, but sadly didn't bother to come and have a chat. The driver looked like he was about half my size and it's been a while since my simply standing up intimidated people so much they just went away. (Yes Queenslanders in the parking lot, I'm talking about you two)

Driving in Melbourne on friday is BAD.

Should I go do Critical mass tonight? >:-)

Monday 21 August, 2006 @ 15:06:05 by Cafuego
daily / bandwidth

Whee! The linode went completely over quota this month, so I'm migrating it to VPSLink. Let's see how we go with that.
Saturday 19 August, 2006 @ 07:55:39 by Cafuego
daily / see it?

Saturday 12 August, 2006 @ 14:34:08 by Cafuego
daily / outage

Gothic-industrial riverdance. It's a wonder we weren't asked to leave.