Carmaggedon

[mklotz]

steamer,

oooh, white stuff - fie. I spent four godforsaken years in Taxachussetts and I miss it the same way I miss mispronounced vowels. When I graduated I picked job offers by their great circle distance from Boston.

Nevertheless, I intend to take your advice - make some martinis in the cement mixer, turn on the big screen and wallow in the carnage.

 

[steamer]

That's the Spirit! Think of it as the Great "405" Blizzard of 2011!

Buy irrational quantities of bread and milk, break out the generator to run the AC and your in like Flynn!

They'll be talking about this storm for YEARS!... :big:

 

[stevehuckss396]

How about a picture of what that area looks like in January?

Same as it looks in march, and june, and september. What's your point?

 

[Tin Falcon]

I work and more or less live in the infamous North East corridor between Baltimore and NY. I frequently travel on the GS partway I295 I95 NJ turnpike. ect, Early this year a strange combination of the timing of the Christmas and new Years Holidays and a blizzard just about shut down all the major highways in NJ north to south. This was after the blizzard and the roads were clear. It was a bad combination of folks back to work after the holiday , folks traveling home from the holiday and folks out shopping /relieving cabin fever . My opinion of the cause but way too many carrs on the available roads. 2-3 hour back ups seemingly everywhere. My son and i had to go to Connecticut for the day. We left Danbury IIRC around 3pm it was after midnight when we got home taking the back roads . Good luck Marv !!!
Tin

 

[Herbiev]

Why drive around in all that traffic when you could sit in the workshop and RELAX

 

[kcmillin]

Sometimes It takes me as long as 10 minutes to get somewhere from my house, driving close to as many as 3 cars sometimes. Traffic, I tell ya :big: :big:

Ya'll can have your 405's and fancy parkway's, just keep it out of Bismarck :big:

Don't get me wrong though, I like to share, in fact you can come up here and have as much of our winter snow as you like.

Kel

 

[mklotz]

Autodämmerung (Twilight of the Rods) (carmaggedon to the hoi polloi) turned out to be a non-event.

In a city where it's not unusual to use your car to go to the kitchen for a snack*, we Angelenos exercised a rare patience and stayed off the freeways for a whole two days - and it only seemed like an eternity.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sd0gQyOZcY[/ame]

Needless to say, such enforced inactivity only increased the sort of insanity that's made us famous - such as "planking"...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/07/planking-.html

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* I have to admit to using my car to get to the other side of a parking lot when shopping two separated stores in the same mall. In my own defense, you have to appreciate the size of some of the mall parking lots around here.

 

[mklotz]

So tell me, does'nt this just prove that the world is full of w(pl)ankers then?!!?

This from a guy who lives in a country where (supposedly) sober people do stuff like this...

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZjLATAUwao[/ame]

 

[tel]

..... and not a Morris Oxford in sight!

At least the onlookers enjoyed it (both of 'em)

 

[bentprop]

Although it looks just like grown men playing hopscotch,you have to admire the symmetry of their pursuit,and the engineering quality of their sticks,whatever they're called ;D

 

[steamer]

I think a few pints were involved ;D

 

[zeeprogrammer]

Drat. No good Marv. I showed this thread to 'T' but she still wants to move to California. Is that house nearby still up for sale?

Won't do me any good though. You're a bit south of the wine country she's interested in. Can you come up with an equality that involves the following variables?

A = Marv
B= 'T'
C = Wine

Hint: 'B' and 'C' are constants.

You cannot use irrationals...they are already accounted for in 'A' and 'B'. No imaginary numbers involved...my state doesn't allow it. And yes, the solution is indeed bounded and closed...but I can't guarantee stable.

Another hint: The solution may involve jelly jars.

I don't suggest using convolution...variable 'A' may become unnecessary to the solution and hence 'superfluous'. Don't let the 'super' get to you.

:big: Ah yes. I help can't myself sometimes. Love those jelly jars.

 

[tel]

I think a few pints were involved ;D

Ya reckon? Pints of what - RUM?

 

[ronkh]

Gentlemen, (of which I certainly do not feel like I am one at this moment)!!

May I apologise for my earlier crass comment made yesterday.
There was no intention at all to insult or upset anyone with what I thought was "humour", and which obviously is not that by any means.
Again, my humble apologies.

Ron.