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breaking the law in san mateo

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

so for the FOURTH time, i received a notice from bay area fastrak that i didn’t pay a toll in san mateo… so yea… it wasn’t me.

the license plate looks REALLY close, but the driver has a I [HEART] JDM license plate holder and the heart part bumps up into the license plate, making it look like “XIJ” — i’m guessing his license plate has “XTJ” but the damn computer keeps seeing my plate number!

looks pretty damn close, eh?

notice of toll evasion

this is what i wrote the third time (i’ve started to just copy and paste my response and making updates):

The car that was pictured is not mine. I have never been in the San Mateo-Hayward area and definitely was not there on 12/12/11. I was currently in San Diego on that day — it is also where I reside. My vehicle is a black 2007 Honda Accord. This is the THIRD time this has occurred. The license plate in question is “5XTJ454″ — the bottom portion of the license plate in question makes the “T” look like an “I”.

a couple days later, i’ll get this:

We have reviewed the image in question and found that it was originally reviewed it in error. We have corrected our error and apologize for any inconvenience, confusion or frustration this may have caused.

it’s corrected, but not in the long term!

what ticks me off is that this guy (assuming it’s a guy) is getting away with it. my guess is he thinks he has a valid fastrak toll tag so he keeps on driving through these tolls, thinking he’s paying…

…unless he KNOWS he’s getting away with this… then it’s time for vigilante justice

wonder when it’ll happen again…

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i’m an accessory to pirating

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

so a few days ago, i get greeted with this email from bandwidth@gorirrajoe.com:

The domain gorirrajoe.com (joe) has reached 90% of its bandwidth limit (13637.19/15000.00 Megs).

it all looks sketchy to me so i show geoff and sure enough… i find out that i’m an accessory to pirating (hey! that’s the title of this post!). this wasn’t the first time i’ve heard of this — i remember when andy’s site got taken advantage of… to a much grander scale (75GB compared to my 15GB)

the reason? mp3′s…

all these mp3 search sites found my site and were downloading all the music i had on my site… and i thought i had been clever by changing the filenames to initials. turns out, the search sites were probably finding the actual metadata within the file. clever girl.

here’s a rundown of the bandwidth offenders:

thought it was clever with cryptic filenames...

jm-pl.mp3 – john mayer – perfectly lonely
tbatb-kioml.mp3 – the bird and the bee – kiss is on my list
tr-k.mp3 – tim reynolds – kashmir
cb-ooa.mp3 – chiddy bang – opposite of adults
tdb-cw.mp3 – the dust brothers – corporate world
p-ed.mp3 – pomplamoose – expiration date
mrH-abh.mp3 – mr. h – anyone but him
tdb-hrk.mp3 – the dust brothers – hessel, raymond k
loveSoon.mp3 – this was actually a self recording by me (john mayer – love soon). i bet the people who downloaded it were so disappointed
s_h-sh.mp3 – she & him – sentimental heart

so all those are now deleted and it’s funny to see the referrals and 404 hits:

404's and Heartbreaks

can you tell when i removed the mp3's?

so now my site is lonely again… i need to write again

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phone post

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

hello world

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get a starbucks card account already!

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

this really only applies if you go to starbucks (no matter how often)

so i’ve been meaning to write this for a while now. i was going to write it on MoG, but i think i’d sound like a prick, telling people what to do… plus i don’t want to care about punctuation and grammar

anyway, there are several reasons to get a starbucks card account…

consolidate all your cards into one – this is huge, especially after the holidays or a birthday
perks – free drink on your birthday, free syrups, free refills on brewed coffee/tea, free beverage with whole bean purchase, and free drink every 15 stars (gold level)
cool guy status – you’ll get a gold card (after 30 stars) OR you can pay for your order with the iPhone or Android app (pay with the app and people will think you’re from the future)

* there used to be a roundabout way to get free wifi (for 2 hours) at starbucks by reloading a gift card over and over… but they now offer free wifi (no time limit) in their coffeehouses

as greg always says, “everyone’s going cashless”

i can’t really see any cons in setting up a starbucks card account… are there any? if there were, the benefits would definitely outweight the negatives

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here’s a tip for ya

Monday, December 6th, 2010

if you ever find yourself having to “fulfill your civic duty” with jury service, here’s the best solution i’ve found so far.

park at old town trolley stop and transit center and take the blue line trolley downtown. hop off the trolley at america plaza trolley station and it’s a quick couple blocks to the hall of justice (no, not the headquarters of the superfriends). if you find that there’s a long line to get in here, cross the street to the superior courthouse, where i happen to be the mayor!

parking at old town is $free.99, but it CAN be tough to find a spot. as long as you’re there before 9, you should be good. then, you just need to get a pass for the trolley. a day pass, round-trip will cost $5.00, but what i’ve done was get a 3-day pass for $12.00 — a nice $3.00 savings there.

it should be noted that parking by the courthouse, which is right next to the america plaza trolley station, will cost an awesome $13.00 PER DAY. yeaaaa… no thanks to that.

i talked to a buddy, who had to serve jury duty also — he parked over by petco park with an early bird special — $5.00 before 9a (and you had to be out by 6p). the downside is the trek

or you could try to cheat the system, as i’ve heard some do… by getting the trolley day pass from the juror’s office and NOT scratching off the date you are riding. i’ve only been asked for a ticket once in this three-ish weeklong service. and this one guy said that when asked to show a ticket, he showed the non-scratched pass and scratched it at the guard’s request. simple.

as you can see, jury duty is AWESOME