mandatory driving rant

top 5 things that really piss me off when driving:
1. Turn signals - apparently, you didn't purchase this option when you picked out your 3000 lb. steel death machine. But you're probably right, no one really needs to know what territory your monstrosity is about to occupy...even if it does currently belong to a Toyota Camry.
2. Left lane dwellers - Is the view nicer from the left hand side? Apparently so, since you've been riding there for the past 10 miles RIGHT NEXT TO ANOTHER CAR. Do you have any sense of awareness whatsoever? You're probably the same guy who sits down at my bar, finishes a drink, and orders another one not realizing that I watched you finish your drink and have your next one poured and sitting in front of you already. Open your eyes please.
3. Stupid aggressive drivers - now aggressive driving I don't have a big problem with as long as it doesn't cause me to slow down. But when someone is behind me and decides to gun it around me only to come right back into my lane in front of me so that they can make the next turn, it really makes me angry. A car is what, 18 feet long...tops. Congratulations jackass, you just saved yourself 9/1000ths of a second.
4. Inconsistent speed - fine, not all cars have cruise control (see tsandhol.blogger.com for a rant on this one) but have some sense of how fast you're going. You see the really big gauge in front of you with all the numbers? That tells you how fast you're going. Try to keep it on one number. Hills can slow you down or speed you up. Your engine, contrary to what you might believe, is capable of compensating for minor variations in incline with judicious use of the gas pedal. In short, pull your head out of your ass and PAY ATTENTION!
5. Parking - cars are to go between the yellow lines. End of story. If you think you have some spectacular specimen of automotive engineering, then park way the hell out in the parking lot so you don't appear to be the pretentious, self-centered, insecure dickhead that you are. Either that or DON'T GO GROCERY SHOPPING WITH IT!

routers

i realized how big of a geek i am and what company i keep when i walked into work this morning. we were talking about the weekend when i mentioned i had purchased a new router and how tough it was to set up. being the software engineers that we all are, they started asking troubleshooting questions: was WEP enabled? did i go to the web interface to configure it? did i check that the cable was plugged into the right port?

umm...guys...i bought a DeWalt.