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So, I mentioned a quote from comedian Zach Galifianakis tonight at dinner with my family:

 - "What was that name, again?" my Dad asked.
- "Zach Galifianakis," I replied.
- "There was this guy, Nick Galifianakis, that ran for Senate in North Carolina," Dad said.
- "Yeah, I know. That's this guy, Zach's, uncle," I said. (I've known this from reading Wikipedia and Zach having mentioned it in his standup.)
- "Hold on. I think I still have the campaign buttons," my dad added, and he hurried to the basement.

 My dad came back with this old box full of political buttons. Now, I've seen this box before, but somehow have never seem these before:

Whoa! Very cool. The buttons are from Zach's uncle Nick's unfortunately unsuccessful US Senate race against Jesse Helms in NC in 1972.
 
I'll leave you with a little gem from Zach:
- "I like to go to really bad movies, during their sixth week, and there's only one other person in the theatre, and I like to sit right next to them. And they're like, 'excuse me?', and I'm like, 'Shhh, I can't hear Keanu."

Ok. I can't believe I haven't seen a blog post about this somewhere, especially on a snarky Mac fanboy site, to which I frequent often. I don't know why no one has noticed by now.

Ok, so I thought of a new thing to do on this blog here. One that would clearly take more than the 140 character limit of Twitter. Pet peeves. Twitter is a good venting outlet for expressing anger, disdain, and other complaints at random things that you find annoying. Posterous, with cool illustrations, is even better.
 
So, here's my Pet Peeve, "episode 1": People who stop when exiting the interstate when you clearly have a lane dedicated to you as you exit.
 
People seem to be completely blind to the fact that there is a lane right in front of them. or the fact that THEY ARE ALREADY IN THE LANE! Just keep going! Today, while coming home from work, this women in front of me decided to stop, even though there is a useless "yield" sign for non existent on-coming traffic since the "exit lane" isn't preceded by any lane before the exiting intersection. The road is widened to accommodate this extra lane.
 
Here, allow me to illustrate:

Ok, so idiot woman stops right there, glaring at traffic in the others lanes, hoping for a break. It's rush hour and of course there wasn't any. And perhaps the light had just changed to green a few moments ago. Typically, this behavior is seen by fatties who, after an arduous trip to the mall, need a refill at Waffle House or the Checkers, which is right next door. This can more easily be done by merging over after exiting the expressway and making a left turn at the next light, or by performing a u-turn at the next intersection. HOWEVER, after waiting and honking my horn at the woman, she proceeded to drive in the right-most exit lane and then merge over only one lane. Never once getting in to the left lane to make a left turn. Later on down the road, I see her be-bopping down the right lane. Grrr. You could've done this from the beginning, rather than holding up other people.

So, I was doing my nightly "before bedtime backup & sync" and plugged in my iPhone as normal. I noticed that when the iPhone awoke there was a push notification on the screen, but iTunes didn't recognize the phone right away, so I slid to unlock the phone to close the notification. Well, the iPhone must have been in between thinking about either waking up, getting into sync mode with iTunes, or executing the "slide to cancel" command that happens during sync.

 Next, I noticed that iTunes still hadn't recognized and begun the syncing process, so I disconnected and reconnected. iTunes caught my iPhone, but threw a big error saying that something had happened, could't recognize the iPhone, and the disk could not be written to. Whoa now, that's weird. I clicked "ok" and disconnected the iPhone and plugged it back in again. iTunes again recognized the iPhone, but now look at what my iPhone info screen in iTunes looked like:

What? all the data got corrupted or the file system read/write process got screwed up and so all the data on the iPhone was unreadable (and writeable), I guess. Needless to say, rather than having a 1-2 minute sync, iTunes finally finished "verifying" and it now re-loading all my data on the phone, including 2000+ songs, podcasts, and videos. *sigh*
 
Lesson: don't quickly plug and unplug you iPhone before it starts syncing. It might asplode.