Massive traffic jam on 10 Freeway becomes Caltrans scandal

On 02/22/2012 11:23 AM, jgar the jorrible wrote:

> On Feb 22, 9:23 am, The Real > wrote:
>>
>> It's worse than that. By simply getting into a line, I can make cash
>> registers break down. If I was to be given some special power, I'm
>> pretty sure I wouldn't have chosen this one.
>
> lol, I have that power too. Was helpful when I did software support,
> including proving bugs. Mechanics seem to have kryptonite for it,
> though, cars never show problems for them.
>
> Supermarket self-serve barcode readers and the associated tasks are
> particularly annoying for me, as they are close enough to some of my
> work I feel I know how they are designed wrong.

I've found that if I lunge the product at the reader it works better
than passing it over the sensor. Prhaps fear is involved.


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What if there were no hypothetical questions?

> > On Feb 18, 7:01 pm, "Paul D. DeRocco" > wrote:
> >
> > If the alternative is an eight-hour wait in an eight-lane parking lot,
> > you
> > could detour through El Centro and San Diego and still get to Los
> > Angeles
> > sooner.
> >
> > I _usually_ take 247 to 18 to El Mirage, etc. because most of the trip
> > is on
> > an empty road with very little traffic.

> "jgar the jorrible" > wrote
>
> The problem is, how do you know it is going to be an eight-hour wait?

In that particular situation, since the 247 to 18 alternative is only an
hour longer, and much more pleasant anyway, I only need to know that the
traffic is stopped, as indicated by a red color on Google Nav. But I suspect
that particular traffic jam was all over the radio news at the time.

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In article > , Paul D.
DeRocco says...


> > The problem is, how do you know it is going to be an eight-hour
wait?
>
> In that particular situation, since the 247 to 18 alternative is only an
> hour longer, and much more pleasant anyway, I only need to know that the
> traffic is stopped, as indicated by a red color on Google Nav. But I suspect
> that particular traffic jam was all over the radio news at the time.

Much more pleasant?

Seriously?


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Steve Sobol - Programming/WebDev/IT Support

>> Paul D. DeRocco says...
>>
>> In that particular situation, since the 247 to 18 alternative is only an
>> hour longer, and much more pleasant anyway, I only need to know that the
>> traffic is stopped, as indicated by a red color on Google Nav. But I
>> suspect
>> that particular traffic jam was all over the radio news at the time.
>

> "Steve Sobol" > wrote
>
> Much more pleasant?
>
> Seriously?

Well, maybe I'm weird, but I love driving across the vast quiet desert on
straight empty roads, even at night. The only mildly annoying parts are bits
of Apple Valley and Palmdale. I'll take that over heavy, agressive traffic
on CA-60 or I-10 or I-210 any day.

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Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco
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In article >, Paul D.
DeRocco says...
>
> >> Paul D. DeRocco says...
> >>
> >> In that particular situation, since the 247 to 18 alternative is only an
> >> hour longer, and much more pleasant anyway, I only need to know that the
> >> traffic is stopped, as indicated by a red color on Google Nav. But I
> >> suspect
> >> that particular traffic jam was all over the radio news at the time.
> >
>
> > "Steve Sobol" > wrote
> >
> > Much more pleasant?
> >
> > Seriously?
>
> Well, maybe I'm weird, but I love driving across the vast quiet desert on
> straight empty roads, even at night. The only mildly annoying parts are bits
> of Apple Valley and Palmdale. I'll take that over heavy, agressive traffic
> on CA-60 or I-10 or I-210 any day.

Relaxing, maybe. Pleasant... I don't know. The desert is so....
desolate.

WRT the more heavily occupied bits of Apple Valley, let me say that I
moved out here and ended up living on the edge of town, with almost no
one living outside our immediate neighborhood, and I hated it.

I live near the hospital now, and it's nice to be in the middle of
everything.

YM, of course, MV.

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