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7:21 AM - Janice, southbound, comes to a stop at red light. Makes (legal) right on red. White Chevy Malibu begins sounding horn from northbound side of street before turn lane traffic has begun moving. Malibu races up behind Janice and begins tailgating and blowing horn. Tailgating is so close that the car is not visible in the side view mirrors.

7:22 AM - Malibu passes Janice on left over double yellow line. Malibu cuts in front of Janice and brakes suddenly, coming to a complete stop. Janice nearly slams in to Malibu. Seatbelt locks engage. Janice blows horn. Malibu begins to move again. Then stops suddenly again, nearly causing another collision. Plate number is DZZ-1604

7:26 AM - Malibu enters left lane and brakes slowly coming in line with Janice (in the right lane.) Malibu begins drifting into right lane. Driver appears to be pointing something out of the passenger window. When windows are in line, it becomes evident that the driver of the Malibu is leaning over and attempting to take a picture of Janice with his cell phone. Malibu drops back more, behind Janice, continues taking pictures. Malibu passes on left again, taking pictures while passing.

7:30 AM - Malibu passes through light and pulls over. Driver exits car and waves at Janice while taking pictures of Janice stopped at light. Janice proceeds through light and makes left at next light out of fear for safety.

7:31 AM - Malibu appears ahead of Janice (westbound) on Hamilton.

7:35 AM - Janice makes right at light while Malibu proceeds straight at light.

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Filed by AxsDeny at 8:59 am under General, Rants
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I really like my MacBook Pro. It’s a great machine and they’ve made great improvements to their prosumer line of laptops since the Titanium Powerbook. That being said, I am not happy with the poor rigidity of the case in relation to the optical disk drive. For the third time in as many months, I’ve wrecked the burning of a DVD because I made the mistake of (gasp) picking up the laptop. Apparently any movement, even normal use such as moving the machine from the coffee table to my lap, results in the case warping just enough to cause the spinning disk to clatter against the inside of the case. This, of course, causes the disc burning progress bar to immediately scream out that it has lost communication with the disk drive. It’s really irritating. It seems pretty lame that I can’t move the laptop while it’s performing such a trivial task. It’s not like I’m jumping up and down with the machine. Yeesh.

Other than that, I have no complaints about this piece of hardware. 4.9 out of 5.0

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Filed by AxsDeny at 2:15 am under Rants
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Dear CBS Executives,

Your new show “Moonlight” sounds interesting:

“An ‘undead’ private investigator helps the living, instead of feeding on them, by using his acute vampire senses”

I loved this the first time I saw it. When it was called “Angel.”

-Me

PS: TV Guide, why is “undead” in single quotations?

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Filed by AxsDeny at 11:09 pm under Funny, General, Rants
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Seriously. The smoking ban was in affect for all of half a day. I was looking forward to eating at some of the local establishments that generally have the air quality of an ash tray. Too bad. They’ve lost my business for even longer now.

It would be interesting to see a poll of how many people avoid restaurants where smoking is allowed. I know I do so on occasion.

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Filed by AxsDeny at 2:58 pm under General, Rants
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If voting is the most important thing that we can do as citizens in a democracy, why aren’t national elections designated as federal and state holidays to encourage better turnout?

"Left, Right, and Center" by KCRW/NPR on Nov. 3, 2006
Filed by AxsDeny at 8:27 am under General, Politics, Rants
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