Blog of Josh Hall

Truck got hit.  I was in the right lane, doing about 35mph, someone in the left lane wanted to exit, but the problem was, they had to get through me to get to that exit.  The scraped and dented my whole left side.  And then took off.  MOTHER EFFER.  This was about 2:30 am saturday night, so i’m pretty sure they were drunk and didnt stop to avoid the cops.  I have a $1,000 deductable, so i’m going to have to pay for it pretty much.  ballz.

Luke Ravenstaul was out celebrating cinco de mayo saturday.  His wife was not present.  He tried to pick up 2 girls minding their own business at a table with "you two look lonely."  Wow.  He totally should have been like,  "I’m the mayor of pittsburgh, I’d like to give welcome you to my city with a ride inside my limo."  I mean, that’s how i’d do it anyway.  He was certainly getting his drink on.  Almost felt bad for him.

europe in 10 days!

"Why be a second-rate Ravel when you can be a first rate Gershwin?"

strange how 32 characters can bring out such drama.  http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/05/02/0235228.shtml

When are roads going to start using technology?  Right now, they’re just poured concrete.  Technology could make them safer, better, easier.  They could make GPS navigation more efficient.  If sensors were place on the edges of roads, it could detect a car slowly getting off onto the shoulder to replace a tire, and maybe something in the car, like an onstar system could ask if the driver needs assistance.  Or, at least check that the driver hasn’t fallen asleep at the wheel.  If the car leaves the road at a high speed, ambulances and police could be alerted instantly of an accident, and those precious seconds and minutes before someone would pass by and call it in, and try and give a location could save lives.  When deer and such come onto the road, lights could flash or even just turn on to scare it away and make drivers aware of their presence sooner.  Statistics for traffic would be available telling real time congestion and which roads are traveled more frequently.  Speeding could be enforced easier.  once cars starting matching the technology of the road system, you could track stolen vehicles, or someone else could give directions to the driver by logging into a webpage and figuring out where the other person is.  Icy or wet road conditions would be able to be tracked.  and maybe even your car could guide itselt to it’s destination.

i was reading the lord of the flies this weekend, and came upon a sentence that struck me as awkward as it started out.  "Here there were waves that beat against the sandy shore."  Awkward, because of the first three words.  Here.  There.  Were.  3 words, that look aesthetically the same, but phonetically are completely different.  That’s just stupid.  At least "we’re" wasn’t included somewhere in there.  I swear that the english language causes 10% of suicides directly or indirectly.  It’s just such a time consuming thing, and no one will ever master it completely, I think, at least, not by the english langauage alone.  You’d have to master the root languages of Latin and the like.  Inconsistencies are ubiquitous in the english language, and i want no part of it anymore.

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