Two Car Thoughts

So, back on December 31, I said that we would not need a "Neverending Bailout" for GM and Chrysler. It looks like I was correct. Chrysler will be forcibly merged with Fiat (coming with a $6 billion dowry, Fiat can hardly say no) and GM will either get good or get gone by the end of May. I'm not sure if GM will make a swing through bankruptcy court or not, but anybody who wants to get paid should probably take the deal they will be offered.

In other auto news, for the second time now I've used my Onstar to report an accident. Fortunately both times I was not involved. Today's crash was coming in to work - a red Toyota SUV ran a light and got creamed by a mini-van coming through the intersection. Fortunately nobody was injured.

I Am Not Amused

So, apparently the brain trust at LiveJournal decided to run an April Fools joke, the gist of which was that the Friends list or F-list would be truncated to 140 characters automatically. They made this announcement via their theljstaff user account, which is automatically on every LJ user's F-list. It's the official medium to announce any new change, system outage, etc.

Call me a grumpy old fart, but it's very much the equivalent of pulling the fire alarm as a joke. It's not funny, and it's not appropriate.

ETA I think part of the problem is LiveJournal doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up. Is LJ a place for a bunch of college kids to hang out, or is it a regular blogging platform?