The accident. And Vowels 'The Endangered Species'

So while I was making a turn the other day, this dude decides I was not making it fast enough for him. So his decision was to go ahead and take the turn in front of me. Now, luckily I saw him, or the damage to both of us could have been worse, so I stopped to let him by, however, it seemed that he may not have judged the turn correctly, and wound up hitting my trailer. In my last video post I commented on how impossible I thought this was. So here are some pictures to show just how taken I was with the spectacle that I not think could ever be recreated with exquisite precision.

I just did not ever think it was possible to take two trailers of the exact same height and put one on top of the other while in motion like this. But where there is a will there is a way, and this guy found the way. It was incredible. Then when the police officer arrived to account for the scene, he immediately said I was the cause. I just went wide eyed and stared at him. Nothing I could think to say could truly explain my bewilderment that he believed I managed to do this. I asked how it could be possible the the back end of my trailer wound up under his trailer while I was moving forward, making a turn. And then, before he could counter, I added, how could I have done it after being stopped, because I saw him trying to cut me off on the inside of a turn, I was making. He then continued to spout other excuses of how I was actually backing through the turn while HE was stopped. His story changed many times until the police officer finally just told him to stop talking. After a walk around of the vehicles, the note that only his vehicle had skid marks from stopping while mine had none, and just the complete awkward position of the whole thing, the police officer placed the other driver at fault and everything else carried on. It was only 3 hour aggravation session, that wasted everyone's time.

On a more tranquil note, I manage to drive through some more mountains, and accumulated some decent photos in the process. Quick question, should I get a flickr account? Someone comment and tell me if it is indeed worth it. Just something to quickly upload photos for sharing to. I know I could use imgur, but its not really the greatest for sharing. I suppose I could use tumblr, but it is also a 'bloggish' site, and I barely have enough dedication to this blog, let alone one that is circled around animated .gif's and random mocked up parodies of YouTube celebrities and flashes of amateur porn pics.









Which brings me quickly to my next topic, that I only just thought off while typing. What is with the new onslaught of incomplete words as site names? Flickr? Tumblr? Imgur (what the full word that is supposed to be I will never know)? It just seems like there is a disease of dyslexic american dream bound teenagers prancing through the internet calling every typo an idea. I can just imagine all of the wonderful minds behind Tumblr sitting around a table going "It seems that Tumbler.com is taken... what should we do now?", "Oh thats easy boss, take away the 'e' and its good to go,". It makes very little sense to me. Before the times of the super power house search engine of Google (should now be changed to ggle) you had to just surf the web a different way. Names of websites like Tumblr and Flickr would lose traffic, just simply because people would have the urge to spell the name correctly, and wander circles around the incorrectly spelled version trying to find their destination.

Im sure everything has its reason. There is no doubt in that. Why not just move everything to this incorrect representation of the English language? Why is 'Blogger' not Blgr, or Reddit, Rddt? My true conclusion has come down to the over hunting of vowels. That is the biggest problem. We are slowly witnessing the extinction of needed letters in the written word through the internet. Especially the 'E's. They are disappearing with a force. It is time we hunt down these vowel poachers and put them in their place. A 4th grade spelling class.

Since I rarely have any pictures lying around of what I am hauling, I decided to walk and snap a quick one the other day right before the accident I was involved in. So I am including that as well. And after writing this entry, I realized why I like doing this so much. Typing is just so much easier to do than talking :P. This weird sporadic rant over the loss of vowels would never have happened in front of a camera. So maybe I will keep the text entries in for a little longer.

Also, quick addition, I have managed to obtain an 'Ingress' invitation code (Thanks Aikar) so now I will be able to collect lots of 'XM' while traveling down the road, in hopes I come across a portal or two during my travels.