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Seatbelt or Band-aid?

"Click it or Ticket." You know what? Fuck you. I always wear my seatbelt to protect me from the incompetent, dangerous, reckless drivers you should be ticketing for incompetent, dangerous, reckless driving. I don't much care if they are too stupid to wear a seatbelt or not, or whether they get hurt or not when they hit me. They are going to hit me because they are bad drivers who shouldn't be on the road, and they wouldn't be on the road if you were out strictly enforcing driving laws instead of wasting effort (but making easy revenue!) pulling everyone over at random to see if they are doing something that is (gasp) actually a personal responsibility for one's own safety. With that said, I'm still all for strict seatbelt laws, but I'll bet you could enforce them simply incidentally while you're pulling over all the flagrantly incompetent, reckless, dangerous drivers. And you'd actually protect everyone and make the fucking road safer by addressing the root cause of the problem. Should we enforce the clean-up of pollution sources that ruin our groundwater, or just issue everyone a personal water filter?

ArcMap Georeferencing Tools are grayed out

Apparently ArcMap's georeferencing tools become grayed out when the data frame is rotated (controlled in the Data Frame Tools toolbar), though nothing will tell you that is the problem as you poke around aimlessly and waste a half hour. The answer ("The data frame is rotated. ArcMap cannot apply a double-transformation to the raster") is here but I am adding this note here to try to make the solution more easily Google-able in the future when this stupid annoyance inevitably bites me again.

Only upon the right-hand roadway

Couldn't be simpler:

Per the local paper, Seattle Municipal Code 11.53.080 states that "every vehicle shall be driven only upon the right-hand roadway unless directed or permitted to use another roadway by official traffic-control devices or peace officers."

This means you have to drive all the way around traffic circles on the proper side of the roadway, just like any other driving situation. A logical, simple, un-misinterpretable rule.

Newman's Own High Fructose Corn Syrup

Does Newman's Own Lemonade contain HFCS or not?

Update: No HFCS. Revisit link above.

Fair weather

I found my short-sleeved self at quarter to six this evening in the rear of an eighteen-member peloton stopped at a light. I pulled over at the next light and watched another group of bikers stack up and surge forward, and yet another. I thought:

1. Way to go, everybody.
2. Come one, come all, racer and clunker, kiddies and sporties and fat guys. Come on and ride.
3. See you in January?

RCW 46.61.667

Hang up and drive.