Driving Me Crazy

So few things get me wired in the morning like seeing justice doled out to the ignorant masses that were unwittingly graced with a driver's license.

There are two intersections on my route to work that have Turn and Straight only lanes. The first intersection (Street A and Street B) has a Right Lane Must Turn Right sign (when traveling on A, crossing past B). There is also another sign, on the stop light, with an arrow pointing to the right and the word 'ONLY' beneath it. It is clear that if you are in the right lane of A, you -must- turn right onto B. Apparently, there are those in the world issued "Traffic Signs Are Suggestions" licenses. People will back up the right lane on A because they feel that going straight is an option, and are among the privileged few to ignore said signs. Two such cars did it this morning.

The second intersection is a much larger one. In this case we will call them Street C and Street D. Street C has 3 lanes crossing over 4 lanes of Street D. C's lanes are marked as follows:
Left Lane — Left Turn Only
Middle Lane — Straight Only
Right Lane — Straight Only (the right turn is well before the intersection)
Now there are (coincidentally) 2 cars who are in the middle lane that were issued the "TSAS" license. Car #1 takes a left from the middle lane almost colliding with a car from the left lane, who was turning left as "suggested". Obviously, the left lane driver was in the wrong. Had he known Car #1 possessed a "TSAS", he most certainly would have yielded the right-of-way. Still, he felt obligated to honk his horn in what was, most likely, an apology for getting in Car #1's way. Car #2 is about 2-3 cars behind Car #1. He sees the action taken by #1 and decides he needed to turn left as well. As he does (with surprisingly no interference from other vehicles from the left lane) a motorcycle cop spies the activity. Cherries are lit up with a quaint little "breep-breep" of the siren. Clearly, #2 does not possess a "TSAS" and the officer knew this immediately. Now, I know, #1 got away with it because the officer most likely wasn't looking in the direction at the time. Kudos to the honking driver for getting the officer's attention.

SPeCks now has two — TWO — complete issues!!!! You can check out Page 6 here. This weekend I will be hashing out the rough ideas for Issue03. I know what the main objective is, just need to script the story more.

Last night, I went to Barnes&Noble and bought Zeldman's book, Designing with Web Standards, and a Rob Dougan CD, Furious Angels. Zeldman has some status among web designers/developers and most of his practice can be seen at A List Apart. Dougan's music has been heard in all the Matrix movies and a few other commercial properties and should not be overlooked. I really like his version of electronica/dance. To me, his style is best described as classical meets techno. I feel it is classical (orchestral) music for my generation.

I am seriously considering making these posts more relevant to design. Rest assured, it is merely on the table for consideration.

Quote of the day: "Do you know what nemesis means? A righteous infliction of retribution, manifested in an appropriate agent. Personified, in this case, by an ornery cunt. Me" –Brick Top Polford, Snatch.