On my daily commute to work I encounter three intersections (four if you include that weird three way, round the corner thing). Of these intersections, two have lights. One of these is at the cross roads of a highway, with light poles hanging out over the streets on all four corners. The other one... well, it's messed up.

This intersection, being comprised of two smaller roads, has two lights dangling over a singular wire running diagonally across the streets.

This is all well and good, but if you happen to be stopped heading east/westbound (as denoted here by the green lights - illogical on two counts now that I think about it), you find yourself an annoying predicament.

The yellow cone represents one's field of vision. As you can see, the driver of this fancy white car is completely unable to see the light. He would have to hunch down and angle his neck upward at an uncomfortable angle to correct this problem. This can be made doubly worse if the driver is A) tall or B) driving in a tall vehicle. I myself have met both conditions in the past.

You might be looking at that diagram and be thinking to yourself "Okay, there are two lights. Just use the one farther away." Which would be great, except it's positioned just so that it is obstructed by the upper left corner of the car.

There is a solution that could not only solve our issue but come with another small perk as well:

By placing a single light over the center of the road, all drivers now have an equally decent view and there's the added bonus that you are now drawing half the amount of power than before.

So, City of Bartlesville street planners, take my logically thought out rant to heart and save my poor neck from this treacherous evil I must face every morning. And if I find out you all have shares in local chiropractors and this was all on purpose, then may you forever sit at a red light in the westbound lane of Price and Silver Lake down in Hell!

Tossing your works out onto the internets for everybody to see comes with a few interesting points. Without knowing it, you can be featured in a Brazilian magazine, offered employment at a large game company and now have one's work translated and dubbed into another language:

Thank you, Ju4NJo09, for making my labor day weekend a little more awesome!

Be sure to check out the full animation in English on Newgrounds or in the gallery.

I should hardly have to mention anymore my glorious walk for free vacation time. The graph has been sitting there up at the top of my blog page slowly counting up to the grand total of 750,000. And today, one week before deadline, I have hit that total. This little exercise has added quite a bit to my life, from friendly competition with co-workers to some much needed think time. Now, to celebrate this achievement, I give you some more photos of my journeys.

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I live a fairly open online presence. This whole Facebook debacle has nary phased me as the whole point I post things on there is for selfless promotion and narcissistic reasons. I want people to read those things. But, there are a couple things I hand out to only an elite few people: my phone number and the privilege of Skyping me. This latter one is especially fun for me.

Sometimes during conversations, something interesting will be said that sets me off on a journey to Photoshop to concoct a visual representation of said mutterings. The fruits of these labors are interesting indeed and I present them here for your enjoyment.

[gallery=Skype-shops]![](http://images.dxprog.com/blog/skype_ham.jpg "This was the result of a conversation with my mom back when I was in school. She had mentioned that she needed to leave and get ham for supper stating it was a "ham emergency". The picture kind of explains itself.")![](http://images.dxprog.com/blog/skype_sakura.png "One of my and my brothers favorite past times is to search deviantArt for super crappy "artwork," much of which seems to be made in MS Paint. Using my mouse, I made this homage to those people.")[/gallery]