But if you've ever played Castle Wars, you'll appreciate my exacting of my revenge on that bastard Computer...
At this point, I was just fucking with him
Yeah, take that fucker. How do you like those four Curses?!? Eat that, bitchcakes! Oh what's that? I had 12 production units to your 1? Well, it sucks to be you, ASSHOLE. I won on a Curse, fucktard, how does that make you feel? Eat shit! EAT MY SHIT!
So go check out this game. Or, if you value your sanity-- don't. It's so irritating when the computer wins simply because he gets all the good cards and you're stuck producing 2 or 3 each round. Check it out, you'll see what I'm saying. After a day of playing this game, reread this post and it'll all make sense.
You want more games? Check out this old SHoP post here, for Chick Chick Boom and Insaniquarium. And then check out the Insaniquarium posts via the SHoP labels, to see a SHoP obsession from years past. I sure could go for some Hot Pockets right now, even if it is an unoriginal non sequitur...
Jihad Jimmy, Minister of War Crimes and Chief Defender of the Faith
Slow day here on the SHoP. But while SixHertz contemplates his next Celebrity Update (i hope he finds some angelina jolie news. Or Sandra Bullock's Nippy-Nips news), I'll post about a celebrity we can all appreciate.
He's not so much a celebrity here in the Blue State Frontier (you like how I slipped in another SHoP tag?) as he is a demigod. And today is his birthday, according to my calendar.
49ers QB and bad-ass extrordinaire: Joe Montana (b. 11 June 1956)
What kind of bad-ass has Steve Young and Steve Bono as his backups? This guy right here.
I was watching some NFL films special on the 1982 NFC Championship game against the Dallas Cowboys a few years back. After the Dwight Clark go-ahead touchdown, Too Tall Jones said to Montana, "You just beat America's Team."
Montana replied, "Well you can sit at home with the rest of America and watch the Super Bowl."
Happy Birthday, Joe Cool!
Go Niners! Jihad Jimmy Commissioner, SHoP Department of Recreational Sport (Non-nude)
<update time="1112"> Couldn't find video of The Catch for you, so here's the closest thing...
Also, I'll repost this video, as Montana did spend some time with the Chefs...
This cancer that is Northern California really needs to be excised from the Union. Really, who'd miss it? They'd be free to be their own retarded selves, practice their own retarded morals and values.
And if you're wondering how Tio Jaime, your favorite Red Blood Cell in the Blue State Cancer has managed to survive this long, part of it is that I'm armed. God Bless THE PURSWADER.
SALEM, Ore. — A woman on the verge of marriage is faced with a plethora of choices. She can keep her last name, take her husband's last name, put a hyphen between the two last names or convince her husband to help form an entirely new surname by combining letters from both their names.
State Sen. Vicki Walker, D-Eugene, figured men needed to be aware that they have the same options, so the Oregon Legislature is on its way to making it easier for a groom to take a bride's last name.
Walker recently tagged an amendment onto a bill that would redesign the application for marriage licenses.
The new-look application would include room for a box where the man and woman could write what they'll be called after their wedding day.
The applications now have boxes for the bride's and groom's current names but no place to put what they want their new surnames to be.
Walker's amendment clears up laws to state specifically that either party can take the other's name or they can choose a hyphenated combination.
"We are no longer a patriarchal society," Walker told senators this week before they passed House Bill 3120 in a 19-11 vote. "This simply makes it fair."
Walker told The Oregonian newspaper that she got the idea while looking at a copy of Ms. magazine.
Oh please. Where to begin...
OPTION 1: Just because, State Senator Vicki Walker, you look ugly enough to be a man and therefore are not able to get a man, that doesn't mean you should be allowed to fill the heads of impressionable Oregonian skanks with stupid ideas like making their future husbands adopt different names. We do, as a matter of fact, still live in a patriarchal society. The minute that I-- rather, the minute that society-- would prefer to have women soldiers, marines, sailors, airmen, police officers, firefighters, prison guards, and... crab fishermen(?) over men, then and only then will we not have a patriarchal society. Good luck, ladies...
OPTION 2: I will still maintain that the best things to come from Oregon are my sales-tax-free computer, the Seven Feathers Indian Casino, and two strippers named Devon and Sunshine.
OPTION 3: Yo, she-male, LIFE ISN'T FAIR. Deal with it. If Life was supposed to be Fair, God wouldn't have made you look like an Afghan Hound.
Jihad Jimmy, Red Blood Cell in the Blue State Cancer
<update time=1359> OPTION 4: Wait, she got the idea while LOOKING at a copy of Ms. magazine??? She wasn't reading or perusing... she wasn't even skimming an article or two? She looked at the magazine cover? Great. Way to go, feminism.
And you wonder why I want to disenfranchise you. </update>
Apparently, the jackasses in LA can't figure out how to keep someone in jail, but at least she's back now. And the slut whore is in pain. LOVE IT.
AND IT FEELS SO F*@KING GOOD!
Why am I reveling in her pain? No, not just because I hate her guts and she's a waste of skin, but because she is UNAPOLOGETIC about driving drunk. People seem to forget that, including Ann Coulter, who's another dumb bitch that should be shot.
Never before have I genuinely wished death and destruction in tsunami form on a group of down-trodden people. But these Primitives are just asking for it...
some AP story, didn't bother with a link since i copied and pasted the whole thing
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Angry villagers stoned a tsunami warning siren in Aceh province after it accidentally went off, triggering panic in the region hardest hit by the 2004 killer waves, an official said Thursday.
Several false alarms in Kaju district early Monday sent thousands of people fleeing to high ground before they were finally urged by police to return home. Roads were clogged with motorbikes and cars for more than an hour.
When another siren sounded in nearby Lhoknga later that afternoon, frustrated residents threw rocks at its electrical panel, said Syahnan Sobri of the local Meteorological and Geophysics Agency.
"It was too high up, so they stoned it," he said, adding that technicians were being sent to the scene to survey the damage.
The 2004 tsunami killed some 230,000 people in 12 nations, almost half of them in Aceh.
The country is establishing a nationwide tsunami warning system with foreign funds, but not all of its coastline is covered.
Seriously. The world bands together, helps fix the damage from the tsunami, even helps them set up a tsunami warning system.
And they throw shit at it.
I'm sure I won't be the only one in the world laughing if a tsunami sneaks up on them and oopsie, drowns them all. Great googly moogly.
Man, what I'd give for an earthquake early warning system. The way that California is situated in and around numerous faultlines, we have a few seconds at most. Just enough to halt BART trains. Wonderful.
Jihad Jimmy, Minister of War Crimes and Chief Defender of the Faith
It is a great day today in America if your name is Paris Hilton or if you're an illegal alien.
3 days in jail, then "reassignment home" (at her mansion, no doubt with lots of video games and cellphones) because of a "medical condition". Such bullshit for a drunk driving charge / driving on a suspended license. She could've killed someone. Special treatment, plain and simple.
Great how someone can break the law and basically get pardoned, isn't it?
Got this from my 365 Sports Facts-a-Year desk calendar...
"All the King's horses" is overkill. Alls ya needs is one.
Now seriously. If you saw some stupid woman throw herself in front of some racehorses in the name of Women's Suffrage, wouldn't your first thought be, "Shit, is this the kind of nincompoop we want participating in the democratic process?"
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Democracy and the idea of a representative republic works just fine-- until you let every random yahoo out there vote.
Same with procreating. We'd all be better off if not everybody who was smart/drunk enough to put Tab A into Slot B actually did. But you all get mad when your Favorite SHoP Overlord Tio Jaime suggests things like mass sterilization or literacy tests. Even you Blue State Fuck-ups out there, who jump at any chance for the federal government to control part of our lives.
And that's the main thing. Our lives, not just your life. If you think that the federal government knows how to better use your money, then fine-- go ask the IRS for a higher tax rate. But please, for those of us who don't share your deluded sentiment, let us have our tax breaks.
Before you start complaining, allow me to state that the Republicans of late have not faithfully subscribed to the school of smaller, less intrusive government like we thought they did. And for this and other reasons, they lost the midterm elections of 2006. This is nothing new.
So what's the takeaway? Maybe the terrorists had it right all along and women shouldn't be allowed to vote. Except for Sandra Bullock's Nippy-Nips.
Death to the Great Satan, Jihad Jimmy, Minister of War Crimes and Chief Defender of the Faith
Ok, morons (liberals), does this mean we have to say Hillary can't spell? I guess it does, because politicians have a duty to take responsibility for what's posted behind them, even if they never mention those words in their speeches.
Mind you, this guy is not a climatologist by degree, but he's a computer scientist who built the actual climate models for the Australian government. Makes some interesting points...
Lastly, a wonderful example of ACLU running amok... again:
I know what you're all thinking. "Why didn't Tio Jaime think of this first?"
In addition to the Dodger Dog and the U$C Song Girls, Hollywood Park is one of the best things to come from Los Angeles. Include No Doubt if you want to say "to come from Southern California".
Jihad Jimmy Chairman, SHoP Gaming Commission and House Gaming Control Board (Non-nude)
If you look at the numbers at the bottom of the page, they're kind of misleading. Let me make them a bit more tangible (emphasis mine):
Only 5 percent of U.S. Muslims expressed favorable views of the terrorist group al-Qaida, though about a fourth did not express an opinion.
ONLY? ONLY?? That's a pretty goddamn big number! And if you believe the bullshit about 1/4 not having an opinion? 30% of 2.35 MILLION US Muslims is larger than the city of Boston, MA. Tell me this isn't a problem.
Only 40 percent said they believe Arab men carried out the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
There we go with this 'only' bullshit again. The AP is stupid. Unbelievable. If you actually believe a conspiracy can be perpetrated on this type of scale, you're a fucking moron.
Just over half said it has been harder being a U.S. Muslim since the 9/11 attacks, especially the better educated, higher income, more religious and young. Nearly a third of those who flew in the past year say they underwent extra screening because they are Muslim.
Umm...everyone has undergone extra screening even if they weren't Muslim. But judging from your beliefs in this poll, I'm for anal-probing at airports for all you pro-suicide-bombing, Al-Qaida-loving pigs.
Telephone interviews were conducted with 1,050 Muslim adults from January through April, including some in Arabic, Urdu and Farsi. Subjects were chosen at random, from a separate list of households including some with Muslim-sounding names, and from Muslim households that had participated in previous surveys.
So, you're telling me it's okay for the Pew Research Center to racially profile people? Oh, it's okay because you're a liberal, "progressive" organization?? How convenient. Now, if only they'd do the logical thing at airports.
The cognitive dissonance of liberals is appalling.
I contemplated incorporating Cal's colors into the background or even text of the table, but then it would fuck with the traditional red/blue which denotes dialogue here on the SHoP. The gold would've been too bright, so screw it. Enjoy the khaki.
Tio Jaime
defaulting to bgcolor=khaki. And pay no attention to the font color=red for my name...
ProfShewseffi (3:15:43 PM): yeah Cal requires a 1950 + ProfShewseffi (3:15:45 PM): at least now TioJ (3:15:38 PM): pigfuckers ProfShewseffi (3:16:17 PM): i guess he is as close as it gets to being a bear ProfShewseffi (3:16:25 PM): he can try to transfer after TioJ (3:16:16 PM): eh TioJ (3:16:22 PM): i imagine that he'll love UCLA TioJ (3:16:31 PM): my little brother's right... berkeley is such a dirty fucking city ProfShewseffi (3:16:50 PM): it is TioJ (3:16:42 PM): i imagine i would've loved UCLA myself ProfShewseffi (3:16:59 PM): dood ProfShewseffi (3:17:05 PM): i got a scholarship to UCLA ProfShewseffi (3:17:08 PM): and i rejected that place TioJ (3:17:06 PM): oh what's the hardest part about going to UCLA/U$C/Stanfurd? ProfShewseffi (3:17:24 PM): what TioJ (3:17:19 PM): Telling your parents you're gay. ProfShewseffi (3:17:35 PM): HHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
This man-o-licious woman here to the left wrote this ridiculous forward in her craptastic book, The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming. Why do I say craptastic when I haven't read the book? All I have to do is read the forward to understand everything I need to know. Here it is, in all its commented-upon glory: ---------- To Our Three Daughters
This looks bad already...
We hope that by the time you read this, the solutions to global warming will be well under way. You already know from living with us, how concerned we are about this problem.
I don't live with you, and already I know the ever-present crap your actions inflict upon me.
Sometimes, we go over board with our reactions to everyday annoyances like over-packaged products, leaving lights on in the room, taking too long a shower or leaving your chargers in the wall.
Leaving your chargers in the wall?
We embarrass you when we glare at hummer drivers and or get emotional when we talk about drowning polar bears. But we do this because all of the things that we love and care about are at stake. We do this because we do not want the day to come when you ask us why we did not do more.
We want you to be able to enjoy snowy winters.
Dumb Hollywood whore has lived in Pacific Palisades, CA for too long. She obviously needs to freeze her ass off in a Chicago winter. Let's see how much she enjoys a real snowy winter.
We want you to be able to cool off between your sheets on summer nights.
I seem to remember sweating my ass off on my summer nights growing up in the 80's. Come to think of it, I think my parents also told me stories of sleeping with no sheets during hot nights. WHO ON EARTH COOLS OFF IN BETWEEN THEIR SHEETS DURING THE SUMMER?!
We want you to see the leaves change colors when they're supposed to. We want you to visit Yellowstone National Park and spot a bear.
Spot a bear. Spot a bear? I fail to see the connection. I hope this bear "spots" Laurie's kid. I'd like to see her appreciate nature then.
If you get a mosquito bite, we want it to itch, not carry a deadly disease.
News flash, moron. Mosquitoes have always carried diseases in the US. Malaria was wiped out here only 5o years ago. That would seem to suggest "Climate Change" and mosquito-borne illnesses are independent events. But shit! Let's go with your theory!
We don't want your generation to be the generation that is defined by mass species extinction. We want you to live in a world where we face the truth about our problems and do everything we can to solve them. We want you to grow up to be activists.
"We want you to live in a world where we face the truth about our problems and do everything we can to solve them..."
Ahem...terrorism? In agreement, but on the wrong subject.
That's why we wrote our book, The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming. It's for girls like you and yes, boys, too.
Could've said "kids", but no. Let's marginalize the male sex again today, shall we?
The more people who understand global warming, the better chance we have at bringing about change -- change as individuals and change as a country.
I understand global warming plenty...but this sounds suspiciously like you're starting an inquisition of some sort...sorta frightening.
Change means accepting the fact that the way we are living is causing huge damage to our planet. Change means that once we accept that responsibility, doing everything in our power to correct our course. Change means hope, not despair. Once you understand global warming, you understand how much you can do to solve it. Time is of the essence...lets get started.
She's beyond hope.
We love you so much,
Your mothers, Laurie David and Cambria Gordon
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From her biography in Wikipedia:
Before working full time on environmental and political issues, David worked in the entertainment industry. She began her career in New York City as a talent coordinator for the David Letterman show. Four years later she left to start her own management company, representing comedians and comedy writers. She also produced several comedy specials for HBO, Showtime, MTV, and Fox Television. Upon moving to Los Angeles, David became vice president of comedy development for a division of Fox Broadcasting and developed sitcoms for Twentieth Century Television.
Which makes her an authority on the complex, often misunderstood science of climate. Sign her up for the EPA.
Interesting. Their interpretation of ISLAM is so RADICAL (and gnarly, and bodacious, and awesome, and any other superlative from the Reagan Administration of your choosing) that it seeks to disrupt the American Way of Life there in the heartland. Nevermind that "Islam prohibits the consumption of alcohol but not its transportation", oh no no no. Gotta test the waters. Gotta have a couple of dry runs to see exactly just what you can get away with. Gotta see just how far backwards the American Anti-Semitic Left will bend over to accomodate you so you can catch us off guard.
This is of particular interest to your favorite SHoP Overlord Tio Jaime as I am likely leaving the land of Blue State Fuck-ups for Minneapolis before the pennant race heats up. If the Foxtrot-India-Alpha-November-Charlie-Echo-Echo had her way, I'd be there before the All-Star Break.
(Which takes place this year, ironically enough, a mere twenty minutes away from Fort Tio Jaime.)
The conflict seems to be as such: Muslims like living in America. (Allah knows why. They seem to hate the Great Satan and all that she stands for.) Non-muslims in America want nothing more than to co-exist with all the diversity around them. These two seem to be mutually exclusive, what with Muslims not wanting to scan frozen pizzas with pepperoni at target, or drive you home from MSP if you have wine. And all of us normal, non-jihad-o-licious Americans just want to get rung up or driven home.
So here's my solution. And this should work wonders, what with Muslims free to exercise their peaceful religion without inconveniencing Little Sally Housefrau, and Joe American not having to worry about trying to scan his own bacon...
Require all Muslims who fear encroachment upon their religion to wear a Star and Crescent on their clothing
This way, let's say I'm making my way up to the cash registers at the Super Target with those Ham and Cheese Hot Pockets (which supposedly I love so very much). I see a cashier in full burka with a Star and Crescent sewn in right below her nametag-- Hagar.
Whoops. Let's not go to her completely empty checkstand, and let's go to the one right next to hers. Oh wait, another muslim cashier? But this one seems not to be perturbed by the idea of ringing up my hot pockets. Oh, and I have coupons.
Did you follow that? See, instead of going all hitler-tastic on you and requiring all Muslims to wear the Star and Crescent... I'm only recommending it for those who want to make a big stink about the Religious aspects of interacting with infidels such as myself.
Oh, and Muslims everywhere? They support the DH. Every single one of them. WTF. How would they feel if the 72 virgins actually turned out to be 64 virgins with whom you got to have unbridled sex and commit crime-against-nature acts in the afterlife... and 8 who only gave you incomplete handjobs leaving you to finish yourself off while looking at a completely different set of 8?
I'm gonna stand by that analogy. Divide by 8 and you'll see what I'm trying to say.
Jihad Jimmy Commissioner, SHoP Department of Recreational Sport (Non-nude)
Update: For an interesting read, take a look at the opinion of MIT's (in)famous climatologist, Professor Lindzen. Global Warming faith-healers need not bother. Your confirmation bias is way too evident.
So while I was picking up said gyro, I ran into Critical Mass, who I thought stuck to San Francisco and Berkeley. After all, people in Oakland have a tendency to be black and armed. I'd imagine that they wouldn't take too kindly to stinky, dirty, scruffy white hippies blocking their way to see the Warriors. Especially not this year, I suppose.
Degenerates, now in two-wheel form!
One of them tried to greet me. I called her a degenerate. Another spewed some tired line about global warming right at me. I pantomimed jacking-off for him and all the casual pantywaist liberals to see. He said, "Fuck you!" I called him a jagoff.
Then I got my gyro. It was fucking awesome.
Ain't the Blue State Frontier great? And I'm not even surrounded by the mainstream Blue State Fuck-ups like you're expecting. No no, none of this Hillary or Obama schlock here... out here we got bona fide Kucinch retards. And every once in a while, a LaRouche nerd. Don't worry about me, worry about these deluded Blue State Fuck-ups and the votes they'll cast. But just wait it out, since their dogs don't vote, but your children do.
I hope that I angered a liberal or two who was checking to see if her latest copy of The New Yorker had arrived. Because lookee here! An assault rifle in its place! Too bad that the rifle represents the wrong tenth of the Bill of Rights. Fuck, with campaign finance reform, they can't even get the one tenth they want right anyway.
I saw a Blue State Fuck-up's bumper sticker this morning on I-80. It said, "Protect the Bill of Rights - Impeach Bush". This doesn't seem to make sense given what we know about the anti-semitic American Left...
1) I don't think modern liberals understand the correct application of Freedom of Speech, seeing as to how they seem to misuse the word "censorship" way too often. Also, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" doesn't exactly translate to "Separation of Church and State". 2) I know they don't like the Right to Bear Arms. 3) I'm not really worried that they'll force quartering of troops on us, since they'll end up gutting the military anyway once these Blue State Fuck-ups let them. 4) I've heard many a liberal pull some "Right to Privacy" out of his ass. And oh yes, I could tell that he treated that "right" as a proper noun. Note the capitals. 5) I don't think it's us wingnuts which are into that the whole eminent domain thing. 6) Again, combatant POWs really shouldn't be afforded the same rights that are afforded regular, red-blooded American criminals. 7) I'd imagine that Leftists ain't too crazy about jury nullification. Running out of steam here... 8) It says cruel and unusual punishment, right? So cruel or unusual should be just fine... 9) OK. If health care is a right, shouldn't I have the right to say, oh i dunno, choose my own method of health care? Instead of having some socialized government piece of shit forced upon me... Or does the Right to Choose end once my mom chose not to abort me? 10) I was afraid of this one. Here's where my engineering prowess defers to somebody like OTW Mark or MwHCock. I don't know what the Tenth Amendment says that the Ninth doesn't. Or rather, vice versa, as I'm a huge States' Rights dude.
The Bottom Line: You want to protect the Bill of Rights? Don't let the Degenerocrats appoint their shitty judges.
Jihad Jimmy, Minister of War Crimes and Chief Defender of the Faith
And really that's not fair. Why would you make me choose? Although, not that the two are mutually exclusive I suppose.
And what's that, you say, Citizen SHoPper? This post seems kinda half-baked and half-assed? Well yes. A post entitled "gratuitous gisele bundchen" and liberally sprinkled with victoria's secret models shouldn't really be held to the normal intelligent standards which other SHoP posts are. It's surprising how much of a shitty post can be carried by Brazilian chicks in their underwears.
Jihad Jimmy, Minister of War Crimes and Chief Defender of the Faith
THE FOLLOWING TAKES PLACE BETWEEN 11:00 AM AND 12:00 PM.
EVENTS OCCUR IN REAL TIME.
Heh, I found the article again, and it deserves its own post instead of some fake html in an update of the original SHoP post. I was afraid sfgate.com had updated the article, but oh yes here it is for your reading pleasure.
Kevin Hershey of Oakland, who owns an optical shop in San Francisco's Union Square, said his commute won't be the only headache -- his business will probably suffer, as well.
"I about started crying when I heard," said Hershey. "It will definitely affect my business. East Bay people will hesitate before going into the city to shop, and a lot are going to go to Walnut Creek instead."
Oh God. For fuck's sake, dry your eyes, wipe your nose, and put on your Big Girl panties.
This is the same kind of snivelling, ball-less man that will elect Hillary or Obama. It's true-- God, I wish it wasn't, but this is typical for men in the Bay Area living in close proximity to San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley.
Admittedly, there are things that will make men cry in sadness...
Mom or Dad dies Dog dies Wife dies Child dies UCLA overcoming a 17-point deficit at the half Wife shot dead by Nina Myers at CTU Los Angeles You've just foiled a bioterrorist threat against Los Angeles and finally exacted your revenge on Nina Myers for killing your wife (see above) You're holding the lifeless body of Tony Almeida in Season 5 You're trying to blog, but accidentally read a spoiler on wikipedia about Tony Almeida dying in Season 5 Now you just read one line further and found out that Jack kills Curtis Manning in Season 6 She's using her teeth
Notice that I didn't even put anything like "Giants lose World Series" or "Got fired". These are both sad, but don't justify man-cryage. You can bury your face in your hands, shake your head in denial, pace the room like a crazy man, keep muttering "oh fuck me oh fuck me" to yourself-- but no crying, please.
And if you're going to cry because your store in San Francisco is going to be affected by flyover ramps GOING AWAY FROM SAN FRANCISCO... then just don't tell anybody. Definitely shouldn't tell the Chronicle, because they might put it up online. And now Tio Jaime is calling you a pussified Blue State Fuck-up.
This Republican Caltrans engineer is crying "Go check out that fourth link right now before they change it and make this post obsolete!" all the way to work while thinking about Sandra Bullock's nippy-nips.
So I'm still not sure which freeway I'll end up taking tomorrow. I'll probably take the city street shortcut which'll spit me out right next to the bridge collapse. Or not. I really don't care. Alls I know is that everybody and their fucking uncle will be chomping at the bit tomorrow to get some shit done to help out the emergency repair.
But oh mark my words, there won't be any thing for us to do except call a few Caltrans engineers whose phones have probably been ringing off the hook since early Sun-dee morning after this accident. And the nature of our Caltrans outfit (in relation to Caltrans Construction) will be such that we won't get involved for at least another few weeks. But that won't stop people from telling us Caltrans engineers to pester other Caltrans engineers with our phone calls.
OH HOLY FUCK!!! THIS IS THE MAP I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR ALL DAY!!!
Why, thank you kindly sfgate.com! But you can go suck a big one too...
OK I think I'm OK since I'd take 580 East to 80 East (which, confusingly enough, is the same freeway just north of this interchange) and that ramp is unaffected. Coming home, if I don't take 780-680-24 like I normally do... wait, I still might be in the clear, since the flyover that collapsed merges on the right with the 80 West to 580 West ramp.
I think. You confused? I don't blame you. That's why this is called the Macarthur Maze. Welcome to the Blue State Frontier. I'm your host, Tio Jaime, broadcasting to you loud and proud from Fort Tio Jaime, your Red State Outpost.
OK the politicking was a stretch. Sorry.
Anyway, fun stuff. I'll let you know tomorrow morning how the commute was.
Jihad Jimmy Director, SHoP Department of Pubic Works (and Public Works)
<update date="20070430" time="0925"> Commute this morning was fine. I charged head-first into the Macarthur Maze and it was the same commute I see every morning. Better, even, because people were scared off from the freeway-- there were three cars in line to go to the freeway where there are usually near twenty. People left before dawn and found out there was no traffic. Duh.
What'll be fun will be the evening commute. I didn't mention this last night in the post above, but the morning commute shouldn't even be affected. The ramps that are damaged aren't "to the Bay Bridge" like the second post above says. They're "from the Bay Bridge". People who are smart will leave at 3, 3:30 today to avoid the impending traffic snarls.
And I'm leaving at the normal time and taking 780-680-24. Like I normally do. Maybe I'll stop by Fry's. </update>
<update date="20070430" time="0934"> Oops. You're too late if you didn't catch the fourth link earlier this morning. I've taken the liberty of stealing an astoundingly shitty-even-for-Caltrans graphic and linking to a page that tells us nothing we didn't know already.
My favorite piece of Caltrans wisdom that their shitty website tries to pass off as informational? This little ditty right here...
Oh, "personally inspected the damage". Right.
Caltrans Director Will Kempton has personally inspected the damage.
Looks like the second post is out as well, maybe it's just slow? Eh. You get the idea: Bay Area Little Brains running around all willy-nilly. I'm surprised Gavin Newsom hasn't declared a state of emergency like how Willie Brown did on 9/11. </update>
It is a great day today in America if your name is Paris Hilton or if you're an illegal alien.
This man-o-licious woman here to the left wrote this 
Here's a winner:
This Republican Caltrans engineer is crying "Go check out that fourth link right now before they change it and make this post obsolete!" all the way to work while thinking about Sandra Bullock's nippy-nips.
