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I feel I need to post this while it is still fresh in my mind. I was driving North on the 101 between San Diego and Thousand Oaks, my usual trip, which was rather uneventful. Luckily no crazy drivers, well, not yet anyway. I'm going through Calabassas down the grade toward Las Virgines (I think its called) going about 65 mph in the second to the slow lane (two lanes to my left and one to my right). I suddenly spot out of the corner of my eye, as is usually the case, a driver coming quickly down the hill trying to break their previous speed records. They're behind me or in the slow slow lane and they want to pass. Okay, I'm use to that. But then they decide to switch on their brights as they drive behind and past me. I don't think thats right at all, so I put on my brights to annoy them as they've annoyed me. In most cases the person will stop driving like an asshole and continue on, but this wasn't what I was expecting. They guy slows down and lets me pass him, then I slow down because I didn't want him following me. So he passes and I see that he's rolling down his window. For some reason I immediately thought I was going to get shot, I've heard cases of this before. So I slow down considerably more, but so does he. So I decide I need to get away from this person and floor it so I pass them. Not a bright move on my part. The fucker throws something at my car, not a rock or anything, but something big and heavy and speeds past me. Mind you, this is a brand new Mercedes benz, I can't see who the driver is. At this point I'm a bit perturbed and really pissed off. So I speed up and try to follow this man and see that he's going to try to hassle me some more. So I just decide to let him get off the freeway and I don't pursue anymore. I was trying to read the license plate, but my memory is so bad I can't memorize it. It was something like 4MBW**** but that is probably wrong. It was a fairly new MBZ, silver, tinted windows.  I just kept going. I pull off the freeway to check my car for damage and I see none. Its about 1:30 AM, I'm tired and I'm done for the day, so I go home.

 What I wish I had done: I know that it is a felony to throw something at a moving vehicle. I wish I had gotten the license plate so I could file a report with the Highway patrol and pursue criminal charges. I should have followed this person a bit more to get the plate and then continue on my way. I really just want to get rid of people on the roads that are inconsiderate pompous assholes, they should be locked away for good and never allowed to drive again. I hope I meet this jackass again.    

This is the first post in a long time, sorry for the hiatus. I had to do a lot of work at school, work, and life to get to this point and I'm exhausted. I did manage to actually learn something though: I can make baked potatoes pretty easily. But thats not all, I now know how to actually do things in Matlab with great skill. Both with image processing and with vector and matrix manipulations. Two classes that ate up my time were Image Processing and Artificial Intelligence, with lots of cool and interesting projects but so little time to actually learn things. Thats the way this quarter has been, one thing after another. So many things and so little time to absorb. I think my buffer is filled and its still getting in there, I'm actually still processing some of the Mathematics from those two classes, even after I took the final. I can now officially say I know everything about computers, or am at least able to ponder and think up a solution to a question about them. I can also imagine where the future is heading, its quite amazing. And they just anounced a quantum computer that can find the prime factors of 15, 5 and 3. It doesn't sound like much, but its new technology, with the potential to crack very large numbers that are used in encryption.

In any event.. I'll post more. I'm tired. 

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