Andy's Blog
Dec 11th, 2008
Blogs usually are written works that talk about things that bothered the writer’s day. Ranting and blabbering enough so when the reader is finished with it, he can say: “Damn, who pissed in your cereal this morning”. Well this one is no different from any other blog out there, what pisses me off today? Let us find out.
-People who say I do not have time.
My ass you do not have time. There is always time. With the proper time management, one can achieve anything. (Don’t get into technicalities)I am a full time student at university (biology, anatomy). I do all my essays and homework and study. I also teach science classes in different schools around the region of Montreal/Laval. I have to prepare those classes and take the time to get there, 3-5 times per week. I also am the Head Coach of the Local Speed Skating Club managing the coaching staff and giving the practices of the advanced group. 6-12 hours per week plus class preparations. I also have this site to maintain/update, and manage (with Annie’s help) Curves On A Cube. I also have a wonderful girlfriend who I spend time with (not as much as I would like to). I have friends whom I see as well (not as much as I would like to). To top it off, I am living on my own in a little apartment; that means I have to cook, do groceries, laundry and clean. That’s 3 part time jobs with full time student schedule. So unless you can match my rough schedule then I will accept the “I have no time” excuse. On a side note, I still have time to play EVE Online, and read books (GASP!).
-An 1 inch thick coating of ice on my car
‘nuff said
-An 6 inch thick coating of snow over the 1 inch thick coating of ice on my car
‘nuff said
-Other Drivers in Winter
It seems that some people do not realize there is snow on the ground. Why would you go 80km/h in a blizzard when the roads are not cleared, traction is absent and visibility is less than 3m. Think a bit. When you know that it is slippery don’t stick to the trunk of my car. You will just end up IN it at the next red light. For me, driving in bad conditions, with slippery surfaces is fun. But when you have to start driving for other morons on the road who can’t seem to grasp reality, hey bud there is black ice EVERYWHERE!, it just becomes annoying and stressful. I have seen 2 people now who pass me going 80km/h on a 50km road and I see them later in a ditch or running sliding through red lights.
Alright, that’s enough for today, I need to get back to study for my Biology final exam (sigh)
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Oct 7th, 2008
Andy's BMW-CT golden rules
(Bus, Metro, Walk,-Car and Train)
being on the run most of the day traveling from here to there back here turn there, you get into a habit of things and sometimes you just get so annoyed that you make some patterns. These patterns i made them into rules
1. As a pedestrian, I ALWAYS have priority regardless what you are crossing.
2. If you are on a bicycle, you are a pedestrian and/or a vehicle whichever suits you best at that moment
3. Your maximum speed on a bicycle (on a flat surface with no wind) is your minimum speed at all times when you are driving except in school/park zones (see rule 4)
4. 30km/h in a school/park zone only during business hours
5. Only take the bus if all other options are exausted
6 People who drive faster than you are dangerous maniacs, and people who drive slower than you don't know how to drive.
7. Under any circumstances should a bus be going faster than a car
8. Trucks are the devil
(specially if you drive a small car like an echo or a smart)
9. Trucks have priority over anything whenever wherever, its your life that is at risk.
10. Do not touch anything in the metro
11. Metro is the fastest way to get around downtown
12. The train is your god, it is never late (and if it is it was intended and its excusable) it has AC in the summer and heating in winter, it goes all the way to the middle of downtown where you can take the metro (without even having to go outside) and its comfortable.
13. Potholes are to be avoided at all costs regardless of how deep they SEEM to be, you might end up in a crater with 2 flat tires and only 1 spare
14. Reading directions while driving is more dangerous than talking on your cell phone and driving
15. DO NOT drink and drive
16. If something smells like dead animal in your car, use fabreeze.
17. If something smells like dead animal in your car, there probably is a dead animal in your car and should not attempt to find it because you might make it worse, (refer to rule #16)
18. if something smells like dead animal in the bus, its the guy/girl beside you (use fabreeze)
19. if something smells like dead animal in the metro, it was the homeless person who slept there last night and you should switch carts or better yet get out at the nearest station)
20. if something smells like dead animal in the train. its there on purpose, do not question your god.
21. if something smells like dead animal as you walk, watch your step.
(more to come)
Sept 17th 2008
Public transportation... advertised by the government as the best way to get to work/school on time, stress free and reduce the pollution cause by vehicle exhaust. I would tend to disagree on at least 2 of those points, in fact it is the quite the opposite.
you would think that by taking the bus, you will get to work on time due to them having express lanes no? well figure this, 3/4 of the roads are under construction, so not only your express lane is not usable, the other 2 out of 3 lanes for regular vehicles are also closed for construction. So you end up in "rush hour" on a main boulevard for nearly 2 hours just because there is only 1 lane available for trucks, cars, city buses, school buses, mail trucks, cyclists and possibly pedestrians. But hold on, i am getting ahead of myself, i am assuming we are already in the bus. There are advertising posters in the bus saying how they are improving the service at later hours and weekends, and they added 93 000 hours of service, what i think they forgot was to add the buses to those hours since only 1 bus out of 3 will actually pass, and when they do they have to pick up the people waiting for those 2 other that did not show. So arriving on time to work? (FAIL)
Now that we are on a packed bus in the middle of traffic STRESSED because we are going to be late, or because there is just to many people around you, you soon realize that its darned hot, and there is no way out of that bus since the next stop is about 30 minutes away in that traffic, to make it worse, there is an old lady that you courteously gave your spot to who refuses to open the window because she will catch a cold. So now you are at a point where you are sweating because its hot and the person beside you , who i may say is uncomfortably close to you, smells like he has not taken a shower this month. you have a presentation due in 30 minutes, you are going to arrive late, all sweaty and smelling like a mixture of sweat, gas, cigarettes, humidity, old lady fart and possibly like animal droppings. Stress free? (FAIL)
at the beginning of September there was a survey done in Montreal and the results where that 50% of Montrealers would trade their cars for public transportation. Clearly they do not realize the implication of their claims. If i could afford it, i would go to work in a H2 Hummer vehicle with heated seats (or AC depending on the season) comfortably sitting down listening to the radio (or mp3 music) with my GPS tracker that has live trafic reports, temperature, weather forecast and the joke of the day, and with my hands free phone to talk without interference with my colleagues or friends. I would get to work on time, fresh, clean, stress free, updated on all the recent news and smelling like a million bucks ready to start the day.
now you might say " ohh its just during rush hour, if you take it during normal hours its not that bad" maybe... but then other factors come into play. Bus drivers are Asshole kings and many of the passengers have IQs lower than that of a spoon. If i happen to be in your way because your stop is coming up and you need to get to the door DO NOT ASK ME TO LET GO OF THE HANDLE BAR, you KNOW that the bus driver will purposely hit the brakes abruptly once you think the bus is completely stopped forcing a violent tug towards the front of the bus and then (due to laws of physics) it will jerk back and if you are not holding on to something you will end up some way or another on the floor or on top of that baby stroller
I wanted to put to the test the common sense of some passengers. i happen to be close to the door and due to the lack of places i ended up standing up. The bus started to slow down because the stop was coming up. the person behind me wanted to get out at the next stop, so he started to push me out of the way (kind of rude if you ask me) so i timed it to move out of the way right before the bus driver did his asshole routine of slamming breaks just to see if that rude person would actually let go of his handle bars. to my surprise, he actually did let go as the bus jerked forward and, he fell flat on his face his school bag over his head. (of course i helped him up, but i did ask him (in a mocking way) why he let go if he knew the bus was gonna violently tug forward?)
"Common sense is not all that common" (anonymous)
N.B i just took the bus as an example. the metro on the other hand is much better. 1 metro every 3 minutes during rush hour, 6 minutes at meal times and 10 minutes every other time. but all that got ruined this week, 4 time the metro service was stopped this week, Monday morning rush hour, Tuesday morning rush hour, Monday evening rush hour, Tuesday evening rush hour. newspapers estimated it at 300 000 passengers stranded in the metro. (that's 300 000 people late for work or class...FAIL...)
Andy
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Sept 02, 2008
Hello everyone,
I am Andy, co-founder of Curves on a Cube. I take care
mostly of the webpage, image editing, and i do the 3D abstract art.
Today is the launch of CoaC, and let me tell you, what a launch it
was... Most of you are familiar with Murphy's law? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law
- Murphy's law is an adage in Western culture that broadly states, "if anything can go wrong, it will." It is also cited as: "If there's more than one possible outcome of a job or task, and one of those outcomes will result in disaster or an undesirable consequence, then somebody will do it that way"; "Anything that can go wrong, will," the similar "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong"; or, "Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way". The saying is sometimes referred to as Sod's law or Finagle's law.
well at launch day, things just went wrong. the home page stopped working. the links got all mixed up, the server lost synchronization. Hell, i even had to go get my backup files to get this site running.
all in all, 95% of it has been fixed, the rest are aesthetics that will be improved over time. (such as comic fonts and sizing) whoot!!!
I think i must be writing rants and things that happened recently, so here i go...
like the news says
I accidentally fell out of a fighter jet while a rogue agency was flying me over Antarctica to catch the golden penguin and I somehow got magically sucked into a wormhole that sent me to a different planet. It took me quite a few hours to get back, but alas i made it and managed to come back in time to fix the million problems that arose and activate the site.
i would like to take the opportunity to thank Adje for his constructive feedback, and Tess, for pointing out how he uses a ridiculous resolution that less than 5% of the population use (and also constructive feedback) and Huntress for helping me out to test out the forums while in beta stage. if you helped me on this site and i forgot to thank you that means you did not help me enough for me to remember your contribution, nonetheless i thank those who i forgot to thank. (very redundant phrase... i know)
happy labor day to all, and hope to see you often.
/me waves good bye
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