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Argh! This hot weather doesn't want to end! Another scorcher is forecasted for today. *sweats* Hey, apparently there's going to be roller hockey on both days of the weekend! Madness! Also, I forgot to throw up a link from MJO (ages ago) in regards to that mental illness test I took a week ago.
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Well, it's finally gone. Sparky's page that is. Gone gone. Gone the way of the Dodo. Gone. Wow. Good luck out there kiddo! *salutes*
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On the drive back to work, I felt (and saw) something strike my arm before falling on my leg. Looking down, I noticed a rather large funny looking bug crawling on my pants. I wasted no time in grabbing some facial tissue and engulfing the vermin in a cloud of cottony soft kleenex and tore it away from my limb. That's when I looked up and realized that I was still moving towards the large red (and now stationary) Dodge 4 by 4 in front of me. Fortunately I wasn't going particularly fast and didn't have any passangers screaming at me so I came to a very calm stop. *stares at wad of tissue* You could've gotten me killed! *throws wad away*
Okay, off to badminton. Hopefully I won't get wet.
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I go to bed, with sinful wishes..
Man is it ever hot out there. Anyway, badminton went fairly well. I ended up playing most games against weaker opponents, so I didn't tire myself out as much as I had expected (which is good because I know I'll be killing myself this weekend).
Ah well, one more day and then we've got a weekend to endur.. enjoy.
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I did my usual rounds at the ShackNews and came across two interesting links. The first.. well, you'll have to check it out for yourself if you want to understand what it is to be a technical virgin(check out the commercials!). You know, I know of one person would would not be willing to try.
The second is an interesting look at traffic jams. I personally go by the "coast" technique due to my ever constant need to reduce my fuel consumption (although I did end up turning on my air conditioner the past couple of days). But I have to disagree with his analysis of breaking a jam by inducing a traffic gap. The act of inducing a traffic gap comes at the cost of creating a traffic jam behind you! (And it there already was one, it'd just extend it!) Further, his theories only apply if there's a constant amount of traffic coming in/out of the jam. This is usually not the case during rush hour (when most jams occur) since the traffic flow is highly ununiform (until you're in a jam at which case everybody's moving uniformly - at zero kph). The two second rule is good for safety, but it isn't the end all and be all for stopping jams. For example, in his analysis of a merging lane, if people stayed a bit more than a car length apart (for example) then technically it's possible for the two traffic streams to merge at high speed. But what if the lane merges again? Now you don't have the gap (since you used it up with the previous merge) and you end up with a jam. Now if you slow down to create a gap in between the cars, you've just caused a jam behind you (or at least a slowdown). It's a no-win situation.
This guy has nice ideals, but it definitely won't work in practice even if we all did abide by these philosophies. (The fact that we generally don't exacerbates the traffic jam problems we're having but they're pretty much a given unless traffic volume is decreased.)
