Theraflu, Halls, and rest are all I can muster right now. I can’t risk further exposure until I’m better since I’ve got a compromised immune system due to being on CellCept.
A roundabout is where my mom got into the car accident that led to me having to get the car out of impound at the end of last November.
Here’s what the roundabout looks like:
Her accident was in front of the yellow walled house (she ran into a parked car and sheered off the right side front quarter panel on her car).
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Pfft, that isn’t a roundabout…
This is a roundabout. And a lot here still don’t even know how to use them.
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at least u guys dont have a 6 way crosswalk.
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Dual lane roundabouts are super dangerous for inexperienced drivers. The aerial view this pic gives actually aids in helping a driver learn that the inner lane is for navigating the roundabout until you are ready to exit it,the U shaped right lane of each corner is solely for going in a 90º turn, and the left lane of each U shaped area is for exiting the roundabout in that direction. That’s very hard to learn from ground level, but the aerial view allows people to (hopefully) understand that.
The very basic functionality of a roundabout in the US is that you treat it like a freeway merge and any traffic on the left has priority and you have to wait for them. If you and another driver arrive, whichever is the one on the right waits for the one on the left to enter the roundabout and pass (a.k.a. that’s what the yield is for). It’s treated the opposite of a four way intersection in terms of which driver has priority in the case of simultaneous arrivals. Flip it around for the UK or wherever drivers use the left side of the road. My mom couldn’t grasp this concept and ended up with a ticket in the small roundabout a couple miles from my house and had the accident at her roundabout (alcoholism didn’t help).
What makes the roundabout I showed more dangerous are the combination of very, very narrow entry and exit points coupled with the fact that two of the four sides are coming from a downhill decline, making it more challenging for drivers, especially ones not familiar with the area, to slow down in time for. Add in the parking lot style “barriers” and you’ve actually made accidents more likely than just having left that intersection as a four way stop. Also take note of the crosswalks in the one I showed. They’ve very slightly chevron shaped and not straight. That’s a recipe for pedestrian incidents, especially visually impaired pedestrians. And not having a flashing light crosswalk warning system makes that twice as deadly.
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Ran across some old screenshots while looking for something…
March 29, 2015: I won the Stranglethorn Fishing Tournament. I chose the ring.
April 27, 2015: I looted the Raven Lord Mount.
July 19, 2014: I obtained Thunderfury.
July 21, 2006: Me riding around in old Hyjal zone on my Felsteed.
Few other shots of me looking around old Hyjal on different dates.
Oct 26, 2008: MG looted The Headless Horseman’s Reins.
Dec 12, 2009: I won the roll for the Reins of the blue Proto Drake with an 84. The others rolled 64, 44, 9 and 6.
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So aparently john lithgow is pegged to play dumblrdoor in the HP reboot im not sure how i feel on that one.
FaF alpha portion prior to WoW launch (late 2003):
Note the ability to have more than one capital letter in the name, a feature that didn’t make it into the retail client at launch in Nov. 2004.
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Watching 4 nations hockey game canada VS sweeden and were winning.
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Western Digital’s dashboard app sure likes to take its sweet time. I started the extended diganostic for the 14TB HD that BSODs me and it’s at 80%…8.5 hours later. Probably a waste of time and I’ll still have to RMA it or just get a refund. Getting massive Seagate vibes here…
Edit: Yep, definitely sick. 101ºF fever. Since it’s also raining for the next day and a half, I guess I’m housebound. Once it’s safer to travel and I’m somewhat recovered I’ll go back down to San Diego. Until then, it’s chicken noodle soup time. Wish it came with just chicken though, as the noodles are occasionally a choking hazard for me.
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Hope you feel better soon. Also, best of luck dealing with the hard drive issue.
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This was too cute not to share. Also, as a person owned by cats … I can understand her panic.
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It’s now been 12.5 hours with the diagnostic running. It must be going over every sector on the drive one by one. For a datacenter HD it shouldn’t be doing this (acting this way, that is, not the sector by sector thing). I do know that most datacenter HDs use power disable on what is normally the 3.3v pin for the SATA power connector, but that’s easily bypassed by using either a molex to SATA adapter or a backplane, which the X-Dock in my Cosmos II is. My previous 10 TB HGST UltraStar is also SATA PD enabled and works fine this way, so I know it isn’t a PD issue. I may just have a lemon. I can put the 10 TB drive back on either port, be it the SATA or Marvell port (AHCI non-raid mode) and it’ll work fine. 14 TB = BSOD.
I’d be less annoyed if I weren’t sick at the same time. I just wanted a drive for Windows to keep running w/ the computer that holds my media. Not exactly the highest bar to reach there.
Edit: This last 10% has been taking longer than the previous 30%. I’m betting I find a slew of sector errors. Test times should scale linearly and this isn’t doing that. As I said, maaaaaaaaaaassive Seagate vibes here (I’ve never had any real long term reliability from Seagate. I miss Maxtor, the old Maxtor, not the reimagining of the brand as Seagate owns that brand).
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True. Speaking of which though, I haven’t really seen any multilane roundabouts here in Sydney. Either I get lucky and avoid them, or I don’t go anywhere that would have them.
Jeez, that’s a real tight roundabout. There’s a nasty one downtown that I make it a point to stay far away from.
That disc sounds properly borked. I haven’t had a Seagate but now pretty happy I didn’t.
Have all the warm soup! 
I would say it is Friday, but it hasn’t hit midnight yet, so…
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I could never get the hang of Thursdays.
Six inches total snowfall overall from this little bundle of winter. The next batch is due tomorrow night and Saturday - another six inches expected. Whee!
Our morning walk was aborted about two blocks in - the city was just getting started plowing, and it was quite difficult to trudge through the snow. We’ll walk a little extra at lunch and then have another walk after work. Gotta get my five miles a day.
At least, as long as the wind doesn’t pick up too much.
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Morning, just got into work.
Working an extra hour since yesterday since my body is getting stronger going out and about. Got a sniffle and cough this morning though, if it gets worse I’ll take off early.
Gonna admit not a huge fan of being more susceptible to illness, but what can you do.
Happy Friday eve, and hope you all have a good one!
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Yeah, I don’t get how they are supposed to work exactly. Single lane I understand perfectly: Yield to traffic in the roundabout. It’s multiple lanes I’m confused by.
The only one I regularly use is where a 2 lane road is crossed by a 1 lane road, so the roundabout has 2 lanes. I get how to make a right turn. If I want to go straight, I can definitely stay in the right lane, but can I stay in the left? If I am in the left (inner) lane and I want to turn left, when do I switch to the right (outer) lane? I found a discussion about it on local Facebook and there were a lot of different opinions.
This particular one doesn’t cause a lot of problems, I think, because it’s got a shopping center on one side and more shops on the other, and dead ends where the shopping center ends, so people are willing to take it slow and basically treat it as part of the parking lot, instead of wanting to zip through at higher speeds.
I hope they’re teaching these things in driver’s ed now. The US didn’t really have roundabouts (or at least my state sure didn’t) when I was that age so of course they didn’t teach it back then.
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Hope you feel better soon.
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