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  1. Croc

    Sushi Trouble

    No, the rest of the week I don't eat so much at one time. Especially not fries of any kind. Gotta say, though, one of the greatest snacks of all time is some nonfat greek yogurt, kashi golean high protein & high fiber cereal, and pomegranate seeds, mixed.
  2. Croc

    Sushi Trouble

    Funny, today was my "cheat day" for the week, and I was craving a vegan burger with portobello and avocado, with a side of sweet potato fries and vegan chipotle "mayo." Soooooooo good.
  3. Blackberry Bold on AT&T. Awesome, though it's too bad you cannot wait a little longer--Bold 2 comes out this winter, and it does away with the "pearl" trackball infavor of a touch pad. Trackball works well...but stuff can get behind there and cause it to cease functioning in one direction or another until you expend a lot of time/effort "fixing" it. Are you near sand? Blackberry trackballs need to stay far away from sand. Minor nitpick on an otherwise perfect phone. I previously owned a Pearl. As for the Pearl Flip, I hear the flip part feels flimsy. I'm over flip phones.
  4. Croc

    Sushi Trouble

    I generally agree, except I prefer smelt roe to salmon roe. BBQ eel, though, is one of my favorites, even if it's cooked. I'm a really big fan of the Extra Spicy Tuna they have at Famima!! because they are actually spicy, and they are cheap. For those not in the know, Famima!! is a chain of what can best be described as the Japanese version of 7-11...with plenty of ready-to-eat food. Now if only I can find a place to get good, cheap natto...
  5. Croc

    Sushi Trouble

    Sushi is so good. And super healthy. Sorry, z, but I'm with your "just eat it" friend. It's sushi...time to man up and enjoy it. Not sure what exactly you saw in your sushi, or what rolls you even ordered (California rolls, unless specifically noted, do not contain any raw fish. Most use imitation krab), but if it looked like this: The yellow is tamago, or a slightly savory egg omelette, and the small red/orange orbs are smelt roe.
  6. Rear is still weak. I don't want this car in the states until it actually looks like a proper Buick...and at this point, all that needs modification is the rear. I don't want a slab-sided DTS look.
  7. The Mexicans in '81 Ford Escorts do that all the time here. I've learned to avoid driving behind a clunker whenever possible for this reason, especially since I've never seen anyone drive a clunker who wasn't clearly a VERY RECENT immigrant.
  8. Have you seen many Illinois drivers, or female FOBs in California?
  9. Pass 'em. There's a road back in Indianapolis that usually moves well, is signed at 40, but is only 1 lane per direction. Usually good sight distances. Very rarely some old person or another incompetent who should not be on the road is going 25 or less on the road. Double yellow be damned, I pass them.
  10. Yeah, a lot of people never really grow up, which frustrates me because my circle generally has. And when we are somewhat petty, we at least have the self-awareness to be upfront about it, i.e. "I know this is petty, but..."
  11. Ehhhhh...as someone who frequently drives on California freeways, I'm going to just throw something out there: They were probably driving somewhere around 80+ to begin with, and traffic was probably moving decently (this is quite common--I was going 95 on the 110 earlier today for a few miles). Traffic probably started to slow, and he realized they were having a hard time slowing the car down. He probably hit the brakes hard, and then continued to press harder and harder as the brakes wore down and eventually started shooting flames because they were shot. At this point, the car is speeding out of control, and is flying by at a rate of about 120mph...or 1 mile every 30 seconds. Panic has probably set in, and the call to 9-1-1 is made as the officer frantically tries to just avoid hitting the much-slower traffic because he knows he would probably kill them if he did. Not knowing how to turn the car off probably threw him for a loop, and in this state of confusion and panic didn't think to throw it into neutral. That's how I'm guessing it went down. Also, as to why he didn't steer into the center barrier, well, the 125 doesn't have a concrete center barrier. Being a more rural freeway, its lanes are separated by a wide drainage ditch flanked with a standard wooden post guardrail and wide left shoulders. The overpass structures are also separate structures for each travel direction with a gap between, so just another reason steering toward the center would not have been adviseable.
  12. Report him for cybersquatting. I have no sympathy for Josh--he likes to talk up a big game but in the end he is just a child trying to play grown-up games.
  13. Knowing him, he likely failed the background check and would have failed the drug test had he been able to get that far.
  14. Croc

    "dumb me"

    Eh, c'mon, everyone "pulls a stupid" now and again.
  15. It's because of how socially outcasted many computer nerds are, and their apparent need to demonstrate that they learned some "big boy words."
  16. Question: is anybody here actually surprised at this revelation? No...? Didn't think so. But seriously, congrats to Corey for doing something awesome and getting paid for it. Lucky bastard.
  17. I always liked certain aspects of that era of Olds styling, namely the Achieva and Toronado...but then there were the faux vented windows and sideskirts on the 98s and 88s, and the Ciera that never died. My favorite W-bodies were always Oldsmobiles, too.
  18. What privacy? What don't you get--public road, you're "in public" and there's ZERO expectation of privacy. Anyone can read your license plate when you drive around, cop, child, or camera reader. You also use several legal phrases, but you're using them incorrectly. While throwing around that jargon may seem like it makes your argument stronger to less educated people, people who have had even the most basic introductory course in legal reasoning will know that you do not really understand what you are talking about. Expectations of privacy comprise an interesting segment of case law, with a lot of literature available because of its contentious nature--there is no "right to privacy" in the Constitution, but rather it has evolved based solely on case law. "Probable cause" is Law 101, and you're applying it where it does not apply.
  19. Nope. You're on a public road, you're in public and not entitled to any privacy. That's been case law for years and years and years. Nothing new. Frankly, I'd want people with suspended licenses removed from the roadway along with habitual drunks and other people who cannot handle the minimum amount of personal responsibility demanded by owning/operating a motor vehicle.
  20. Only 700/hr? Considering that a freeway has a maximum capacity of 2000 cars/lane/hr, this technology isn't quite ready for primetime in the states.
  21. One of my colleagues is obsessed with their show. He says it's because he's half-Armenian--just like them! After his incessant chatter about it, I checked it out, and then promptly checked out about 5 minutes later because all they do on camera is whine. Another colleage of mine had the unfortunate experience of being on the same Southwest flight as they were going to Las Vegas, and not only did they delay the plane, but they were intoxicated, combative, and Khloe needed about 6 airsick bags...all before takeoff. Absolute $h!shows, all of them. Kim's very beautiful, though.
  22. They all annoy the $h! out of me.
  23. If FL converted their gas tax from a flat tax to a %-based tax, they'd be fine.
  24. I have it, but it isn't public. Just something for my friends and I to be smartasses on.
  25. Nice--that's a far more informative article than I found shortly after it happened and I wanted more than the KTLA blurb.
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