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[wickedflea]

Wow--Netscape is now based on Firefox rather than regular Mozilla. Not that anyone gives a shit. Remember when Netscape was pretty much the only web browser anyone used? I loved the "Navigator" thing--it made you feel like it was really considering things and figuring out the best route to the goat porn you'd selected.

When did you start using the internet? It was early 1997 for me. I was somewhat late actually getting on the web, but I was accessing Compuserve and BBSs on my excellent Commodore 64 as early as 1985--but when I started playing guitar and drinking rum, computers kind of went by the wayside for a decade or so.

Let's make this into a poll.

[Poll #471114]

I'm digging my Carlin icon. Check out how many of my icons feature fucked-up faces. F'real.

Good lord, I've gotten into a legal discussion of jaywalking.

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[theodicy.livejournal.com]

Christ, jaywalking! "If I walk in front of you and you hit me, it must be your fault. Even if I'm drunk, blind and insane." Riiiight.

(Still, a PT colleague of the B's ended up bankrupt in a judgment b/c he hit some drunk homeless dude who walked in front of him while he was driving a rental car. Without extra insurance coverage - which would have paid the judgment.)

But I digress. Clearly, you need to garage the car and ride a bike to work. With a wee shrieky 70's bell and a pink basket and streamers. ;-D

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Seriously! I'm not going to say that I never jaywalk, but I'm not going to claim that I have legal justification to be lolligagging across a major thoroughfare.

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

How about, "If I stand in the middle of the street for no damn reason, it's your fault if I get hit." Exqueeze me?

;)

Out here, some people take their damn time crossing in the middle of the street, even with traffic zooming by. Sorry, but 30 cars are not going to come to a screeching halt because some lazyass can't be bothered to find a crosswalk down the block.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Yep, same people I'm talking about! And I see some people doing it as they're pushing BABY CARRIAGES.

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

I see that out here, too! Gah, what are people smoking? Another thing I've noticed is that some pedestrians think they have all day just because they have a crosswalk. I don't usually bother unless there's a signal (unless the traffic is so light that I have plenty of time to cross).