When Shit goes Wrong…

Posted by GrefTek in Personal at 6:23 pm on Thursday, October 14, 2010

When shit goes wrong it tends to do this for me on epic scale. Today everything seemed to go awry.

It started with a few setbacks at work, which were a bit meh but nothing I can’t handle but are just a nuisance. It’s one of those days you feel like you are dragging around a dead horse.

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Get off the road!

Posted by GrefTek in Personal at 8:31 am on Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Traffic is really starting to grind my gears lately. Yesterday I was stuck in a traffic jam where I was standing still in one spot for over an hour. The reason was an accident which involved multiple motor vehicles which blocked off 3 lanes (of the 4 or 5 available). Today I check traffic radar and discover the motorway to work is completely blocked off again because of yet another accident.

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11 km of traffic jam because of accident… ok, but…

Posted by GrefTek in Personal at 4:54 pm on Monday, June 22, 2009

Why 11 km of traffic jam for an accident that happened in the opposite direction?

Here’s the situation: Cars crash spectacularly on the other side in the road, blocking that road completely…. It happens.
Why do folks on the other side of the road need to slow down? To get a glimpse of the carnage? I mean, don’t you feel like a fucking bald-headed scavenger for being unable to resist the urge to peek at what is happening on the other side?

Please do me and the rest of the world a favor. Next time something crashes on the other side of the road: IGNORE AND KEEP DRIVING!

Drive, you idiots!

 

RAID on the fritz

Posted by GrefTek in Technology at 12:26 pm on Sunday, January 27, 2008

WD Caviar 120GBI sometimes wonder why it is I never can have ‘standard’ malfunctions in my computer hardware. It’s as if fate wants to keep it challenging for me and keeps tossing me the ‘interesting’ issues.

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Causality in action

Posted by GrefTek in Personal at 9:27 am on Monday, January 21, 2008

What a wonderful thing causality is. I just found another fine example of it in my quest to get to work. What do you think the outcome of the following equation: rush hour + speed trap = …?

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