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Traffic Question 11:

What can you do about a slow driver in front of you?

A. Drive as closely behind them as possible

B. Honk and flash your headlights

C. Make a phone call

D. Nothing. Drive normally, a normal distance behind.

Moliner’s Answer:

A. Drive as closely as possible.

Everyone knows that driving on someone’s tail makes them go faster. This is due to the law of gravity (large bodies attract each other). Wait, that doesn’t work... umm...

Driving on their tail has an effect that gets you where you’re going faster, due to reduced proximity between vehicles. Physicists don’t have an explanation for this effect, yet.

Conventional Answer:

D. Nothing

If the driver in front doesn’t pulll over or let you pass, you’ll just have to be patient until you can legally and safely go past.

Driving on someone’s tail does NOT make them go faster.  In fact, if you annoy them enough, they might slow down more (that would be me, because, hey, I’m usually over the speed limit by a few mph, anyway).

You are not going to get there any faster by driving too close.

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Installing GBridge on Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10

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Just because I don't want to have to look this up again. Windows 8's driver signing enforcement prevents installing GBridge's network drivers. I posted how to work around that on gbridge.net forums when I was testing the Windows 8 preview, but their forum is offline now.

Windows 8

This method works for Professional or Home versions.

Grape Harvest

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I finally got a full harvest off of this vine (before birds, etc.) These grapes are pretty sour, if you just pick and eat. And seedy. However, I always thought they might make good jelly or something. So this year, I have lots of grapes to try something.

Basically, the process is:

Raspberry-Vanilla Pudding

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We have a picnic on July 4 where we are supposed to bring a dish. An hour before the picnic... what should we bring? We have lots of fresh-picked raspberries and that vanilla pudding I got last week. After a few minutes of Google-searching for things that use those two ingredients (no results, except for baked items and stuff of the wrong kind), I am going to make my own recipe for this.

Five Crunch Mix

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Five different textures of crunch for a delightful and versatile snack that doesn't leave your taste buds feeling like you drank an ocean of saltwater.
 
Shake together in a container (or snack bag) in the desired proportions....
  • honey nut cheerios
  • pretzels (thin style, broken in pieces)
  • unsalted peanuts
  • Spanish peanuts
  • banana chips
  • raisins
 
I usually go heavy on the cheerios.