Rant

[lethargic_man]

G-d I hate London motorists. I've just had a screaming altercation with one: I pulled out on my bike past a driver to turn right; he then turned right too without indicating, leaving me having to cross his path immediately in front of him to get back to the left of the road. I shouted "don't indicate!" at me, he shouted something about third-party liability insurance; I shouted "I wouldn't have tried to overtake you if you had indicated!"

Sadly, what made this incident different from the last two was that I didn't have anyone to back me up. Last time, I had a motorcyclist behind me telling me it was my fault, and the time before last, after a car swerved left across my path immediately in front of me, it was the cyclist behind me who did my normal job of shouting at the motorist to get off the bloody 'phone.

I hate London motorists and their attitudes; such incidents leave me literally shaking with fury; if I'm with other people (such as on Shabbos where a motorcyclist laughed at me for jumping out of the way after he'd roared up to the red light where I was crossing) it makes me extremely unsociable, not to mention pulling words out of me that I would not otherwise use in company. :-(

I was going to calm myself down by listening to the Salomone di Rossi CD I just got out of the library, but the sun's shining in the room; it's too hot to have the window closed, and it's too noisy with it open (I'm on a main road) to listen to classical music. :-(

---

Hmm... that Wikipedia article has no reference to his Jewish liturgical compositions at all! <updates> How far would you say it's acceptable to pillage the CD line notes for Wikipedia?

Comments

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

Bastards, aren't they? I always want to carry a key so that I can key cars who park in the cycle lane. And a dart gun so I can get people's tyres after they've carved me up.

I'm jolly sorry about the heat condition, too. Get an AC unit :)

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'd like to EMP bomb any driver speaking on a handheld mobile 'phone, though with modern cars that'll probably kill the car too, which you don't really want to happen when it's travelling next to you.

As for the heat, I don't need AC; it's only a problem for a couple of hour between the sun coming below the overhanging roof and it setting behind the other side of the street.

And I put the music on in the end; it was better once the bus outside had moved on. :o) Sadly it's not quite possible in the יגדל to tell whether they're singing "לכל נוצר יורה גדולותו" or, as Birnbaum claims in his machzor was the original reading, "וכל נוצר יורה גדולותו", which is certainly closer to the intent of the Fifth of the Rambam's Declarations of Faith (and how I've been singing it for the last while).

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

How far would you say it's acceptable to pillage the CD line notes for Wikipedia?

So long as you only use the information, and not the phrasing, and provided that you credit the author, there shouldn't be a problem with borrowing fairly heavily.