Taxi Driver Followup

This is a followup to the previous post titled “Taxi Driver”. Therefore, if you haven’t read it yet, now would be a good time. It’s short. Read it then come back here.

In the news tonight, the police have arrested a dumbass mofo for shooting that cab driver to death. Oh, did I say, “dumbass mofo”? Excuse me. I meant to say, “alleged dumbass mofo.”

The police and U.S. marshals from the Fugitive Task Force burst through his front door, and the alleged Mr. Dumbass jumped out a back window into the arms of waiting police. He’s been charged with homicide, robbery, and two counts of using a firearm in the commission of a felony.

One final note: the cab driver and his wife had adopted a baby girl just one week before the cab driver was murdered.

Taxi Driver

When I’m driving around the city, I often see a certain taxi driver. I don’t know the man but I recognize his vehicle. He drives a white taxi cab, and his taxi has two short “flagpoles”, one on each side of the vehicle near the rear window, that display New York Giants flags. It’s a very distinctive vehicle with those flags flying. It always amused me slightly to see him driving down the road; I thought he must be a real die-hard Giants fan. I saw his taxi so many times around the mall, taking people to shop, taking people home.

Last night the local TV news announced that a taxi driver had been found shot dead in his taxi cab. When they showed a picture of the taxi, it was that distinctive white taxi with two Giants flags near the rear window. Seeing it made me a little sad. I had seen that taxi so often I felt almost as if I knew that driver. So far, no one has been arrested for his murder.

The same taxi cab company lost another driver five months ago. He, too, was found shot dead in his taxi. No arrest has been made for his murder either.

The owner of the taxi cab company said that “every job has its dangers.” Maybe so, but taxi driver and convenience store clerk are two jobs that seem to be in the news a lot, and not in a good way.

Adele

This young British singer (Adele Laurie Blue Adkins) has talent. Her first album, “19”, debuted at number one and has been certified 4x platinum in the U.K. The song Set Fire To The Rain is from her second album, “21”.



The song Someone Like You is also from her second album.

Speeding Poem

This short video always makes me smile.

The Bolshoi Simulation

Pleiades, the world’s seventh fastest supercomputer, spent 6 million CPU-hours creating this simulation, called the Bolshoi Cosmological Simulation. In it, you fly through an evolving universe of dark matter. There are other Bolshoi movies here.


Bolshoi Simulation from UC-HPACC on Vimeo.

Johnny Galecki Interviews Kaley Cuoco

An actor on actor interview from 2011.