Grace & Adam?

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

A couple of months ago this really awesome couple crashed a party at our house--they were very polite about it and we quite enjoyed meeting them, but failed to get any contact info. I had hoped we'd run into them in the neighborhood, but that hasn't happened and a couple of guests at a recent party asked after them. So I thought I'd post and see if anyone knows Grace & Adam, originally from England and living in Davis, and ask them to get in touch. A PM or email to my username @livejournal should work.

Thanks!

New traffic light function?

[vibrantabyss.livejournal.com]

Today at the light in front of Mr. Crepe, the light started flashing red, then green, then red, then green... about 15 seconds later, I noticed a firetruck coming up from behind.  I don't recall ever seeing that behavior from any traffic light anywhere.

Is that a new "emergency vehicle coming, clear through the intersection" message?  And when did that light start having that function? 

Cheap lawyer or small claims for auto wreck property damage claim?

[sparr0.livejournal.com]

I was in a wreck recently. My insurance says it was his fault and his insurance says it was my fault, so we're going to end up in court. With no injury claim to milk, the total property damage is low enough (maybe $2-3k) that none of the attorneys that I've talked to are interested in the case. Can anyone recommend a lawyer who might be interested in it? Alternately, does anyone have advice on approaching the small claims process here armed only with the name, DL#, and insurance information for the other party? Should I be naming the insurance company as a defendant? Are there any other good sources of information on this subject before I dive in?    

[utterly pointless phonebook rant] arrgh [/utterly pointless phonebook rant]

[serious-noir.livejournal.com]

I assume that many of you, like myself, have been gifted with little 1/2 lb bundles of dead-tree joy. Fortunately they seem smaller and less numerous than in previous years but as always, it seems an exercise in urban pointlessness and corporate fiddledee-dee.

It does make me wonder though: why am I being gifted like this? I don't have a landline so it is not "the phone company" who are doing this. Also, I wonder about what law or city regulation makes it legal for some company to deposit unrequested (and in my case, unwanted) materials on my porch. (further, as an indication of what a complete crank I am, I also wonder what city regulation makes it legal for all those horridly ugly and typically neglected newspaper/ad paper boxes to be plunked down in the public space but I digress). Can anyone get a truck and haul around stuff to leave on people's porches or stoops?

But seriously, is there any way to opt out of being part of this distribution count scam?