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[Rose]

Argfg, i meant to say 'feeling of speed'. Going 60km/h on a bike > going 60km/h in a car.

Agreed. But having a motor on the bike helps quite a bit, even it it's only 150cc

[RedKing]

I drive fast because I'm going somewhere... the fact that I'm going there indicates I want to be there... not driving... certainly not at 10 under the speed limit 

So this.  You're on the road because you're trying to go somewhere.  I often have this feeling that I am the only person on the road who's trying to reach a specific destination.  I wonder, where are all these other cars going, because they are clearly not trying very hard to get there.

I'm the same way with regards to walking. I'm pretty long-legged and my natural stride is impressive. And in general when I'm walking from point A to point B, you'd think point B had free hookers and ice cream because of the way I move.

Going to a shopping mall is hell for me, because I shop like a man: go in, go directly to desired store, find and purchase desired item, exit the premises post-haste. But my way is obstructed by old people, mall rats, thug life wannabes, and any other number of subspecies of mall inhabitants who seem intent at walking at the speed of a glacier stuck in molasses. I feel like I need an airhorn and a big sign that says "Get the fuck out of my way, I'm WALKING here."

[Reudh]

What makes me sad is the fact that I'm going to have to get up at 5am (7 hours from now) to allow for Melbourne's shoddy public transport and its faults. They somehow claim to get a 93% or so punctuality and 90% services delivered, yet out of the last 20 trains I've caught, a good 15 would've been late and one simply never arrived.

[Max White]

Hmm, I have some friends in Melbourne that use public transport and will endorse it. I myself make use of the Sydney buses and they serve me very well.

[Blargityblarg]

What makes me sad is the fact that I'm going to have to get up at 5am (7 hours from now) to allow for Melbourne's shoddy public transport and its faults. They somehow claim to get a 93% or so punctuality and 90% services delivered, yet out of the last 20 trains I've caught, a good 15 would've been late and one simply never arrived.

For the times I've depended on public transport, I can't say I've ever been really let down. Then again, from memory, you're going to Frankston, so they probably have to clear the squatters off the tracks every so often

At least our trains are cleaner than Sydney's.

[Angel Of Death]

Joint pain! Why must you always come back? Goddamn joint pain.

[Edit] Also, one of my speaker's sound thingies fell off of my computer cabnet. Straight onto my balls . I am now sitting several feet away from the computer cabinet.

[DeKaFu]

I seem to have developed some kind of crippling fear of essays since starting university. I don't know if it's because I did badly on a couple in the first year or two or what, but since then I've repeatedly found myself completely incapable of facing them and getting them done on time.

It's not even regular I'd-rather-be-doing-something-else procrastination. It's more like spending seven hours alternately sleeping and lying in bed doing nothing just to avoid having to look at it.

The worst part is it's on a subject I'm actually interested in, I just don't feel like there's any way I could learn enough talk about it authoritatively before the deadline.

[RedKing]

I'm sad that you guys have public transit and we have....a bus. That runs sometimes. To a few places... 

It's really sad that in a metro area of 1.7 million people, we have jack-all for mass transit. The best thing going is the trolleys in downtown Raleigh for people to use for bar-hopping. We actually have a very nice Amtrak station almost within walking distance of our house. I was excited about the idea of hopping a train and taking the family for a day trip to another city. Then I saw the prices and the timetables.

It's over $100 round-trip to take 2 adults and two kids (one of whom rides free) to the next main metro area (Greensboro) about 80 miles away. Takes the same amount of time to drive there and back, at half the cost in terms of a tank of gas. This is why Amtrak is epic fail outside of the Northeast corridor. There's just no absolutely no incentive to ride an inter-city train in the US other than novelty (again, with the exception of the Northeast corridor, where traffic is insane enough that riding a train actually does save you time and a lot of stress).

I just don't understand why we suck so hard at this. I know the "we're such a big country and so spread out" argument. Bullshit. I took an overnight train from Beijing to Shanghai for about $50. In a sleeper car with meal service, no less. When I was in Beijing, you never had to walk more than half a mile to get to a bus stop or subway station. And you could get from that point to pretty much within half a mile of whatever your destination was through the mass transit system. You might have to swap buses a few times, but they were so cheap and easy that it really didn't pose an issue.

Prague has a great subway and bus system -- even if the bus drivers are terrifying with the way they hurtle down narrow medieval streets at full speed, and the subway trains are mostly Russian-made holdovers from the Communist days. And the national rail system was cheap and effective. Day trip to Plzen or Brno? No problem.

Adelaide had a good bus system, although I rarely used it. That was my first trip abroad and mass transit was so mystifying to me that I chose to walk a couple of miles each way to go downtown, rather than try to navigate the bus system.

Even in the US, there are places that get it right. San Francisco had a pretty good system from what I saw. NYC does a good job. The DC Metro has been pretty good in the past. I don't understand why we can't get the people behind those municipal systems to come up with a national system that works.

[sonerohi]

Because anything privately funded will be horrible once it expands beyond its home town, and anything government funded will be just as horrible, but with the addition of millions of people complaining about their taxes going to buses they don't use.

[Rose]

bah, why did I have to sleep through all my calculus classes.

figuring out fluid simulation is so hard now.

[Il Palazzo]

I've just watched Never Let Me Go, an overlooked film about human condition set in Orwellian moral dystopia.
So heart-wrenchingly, unrelentingly sad.

[SirAaronIII]

My glasses keep derping out and tilting. No matter what I do they just keep derping.

[Urist Imiknorris]

You need to underp them.

[Virex]

Maybe pay a visit to a derptician? If you herped them there, they'll usually underp them for free.

[Urist Imiknorris]

You mean a derptometrist?