First Phoenix Light Rail Accident?

First Phoenix Light Rail Accident?Driving south on 19th Ave today, I saw this amusing situation. I wasn’t in a position to take a picture except through my mirror as I reached the first stop light. What you can kind of see in the blow up is that the white car has managed to beach itself on the curb that prevents you from driving onto the train tracks. The curb is so high that the car’s tires cannot reach the ground.

It’s a little fun to try to figure out how he managed this stunt. If you look in the main photo, you’ll see on the left the where it is painted yellow. This is the nearest point where it would have been low enough for this guy to get over it. My guess is that he attempted to drive with one wheel on the curb and failed. Otherwise, I’d think his wheels would be showing damage. If he did that, he made about 50 feet before stranding himself.

Seems little likelihood that there’s any way he could be in this predicament without a certain modicum of stupidity being involved.

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How I feel when Windows is in the House


Once again, the comedy duo of Gates and Seinfeld are at it again.

This time, the explain what the commercial is about and the message isn’t good: “Connecting” with people is like an awkward pairing of dysfunctional people trying to live together, which ends with Gates and Seinfeld being kicked out of the house.

Yep, “dysfunctional”, that’s a word we use a lot to describe Microsoft software!

Let’s just pick on a couple things: Gates and Seinfeld are terrible guests (complaining about food, etc) and crooks (essentially stealing the Chinese food rather than paying for it. Who’d be dumb enough to try a dine-and-dash with delivery food? Bill and Jerry. Ace criminals.)

And I love the bit where Bill apparently gives them some fantastic program and reveals that it’s never going to be released. Does that sum up Microsoft, too? No, because I don’t believe they really have any great software in the wings, but it does speak to their business philosophy, doesn’t it? Whatever it is about it is not about quality software.

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