A friend of the Mac web needs your help!

Never post irony or sarcasm, because most people don't know what
that is, evidently. Sheez.

Dori, let me be clear. I'm glad you had the opportunity to post here. Not everyone does, or should, but so what that you did? If I did not want to read it, there was enough information in the title of the column that I would have skipped it, no harm done. I hope you get your stuff back, and better yet, I hope they prosecute the crumb that took your stuff.

As for those who want to get all 'posty' with your negative vibes, go
bite some rocks, will you? I thought people that used Macs were
better than most ordinary schmoes. Go take whatever humanity you might have and remember your comments when something bad happens to you. Doofi.

All:

Always remember: B4 you ever post anything on the web, be sure to check all local, state, province, and all national laws in any place where your posting could be read. The omniscience of all who post is to be assumed. With all this world-wide intellectual power in evidence on the web, why have we not yet cured cancer, elected honest politicians, and fed the world's hungry? Beats me.

I used to have a plate that said MACXPRT.

Believe it or not, I actually got a freeland design job while waiting in the drivethru at McDonalds because of this license plate.

He got out of the car behind me and asked if I was into Macintosh. I told him yes and he gave me his number. I set up an appointment and within a week, I was the art director for two magazines in southern california!

Dori I think you expecting everybody to understand CA licensing (its a big world we live in) is far more ignorant than people asking why you cant just get another plate knocked out. In England its a matter of going to pretty much any garage handing over £10 waiting 10 mins then sticking it back on the car. I hope this helps with understanding some of the comments you refer to.

Anyhow I hope you get either the plate back or stumble across the missing one.
Good luck

Gareth

My bike was stolen a few weeks ago. Can TUAW put a blog post about my bike up too? Thanks.

Jeeze, will you people cut it out with the Muslim post ranting? Clearly the post was NOT meant to insult Muslims (or any other religious/ethic group for that matter), and anyway, the author soon after posted a commendable and totally UNnecessary apology. IT'S OVER. Get over it and move on with life. Sheesh.

I love all the "Why don't you just get another printed?" comments -- they're clearly from people who either don't live in California, or from people who have never dealt with trying to get replacement CA plates.

If it was that easy, I wouldn't be making this big a push to get the old plate back.

Paul, here's the (semi-)short version:

When I first got the plates, I left the front plate off my car, because I knew that if both were stolen there was 0% chance of getting them reissued. The front plate ended up in a pile of papers in my kitchen.

When I moved in December '99, the front plate ended up somewhere. Possibly in the garage. Possibly in my husband's office. Possibly it never successfully completed the trip. I don't know; there's a whole lot of boxes and a whole lot of possibilities.

If I can find the front plate, then all I have to do is take it to the DMV (as you noted), pay the $$, and get a replacement. If I can't find the front plate, I'm out of luck. But finding the front plate will be a PITA (and yes, I've started looking!) so it would be much simpler for the back plate to just show up in my mailbox.

CT, okron, and WhitIV: thanks for adding your comments. It's nice to know that not everyone is a cold-hearted bastard. And to those in the latter group: just because you *can* comment doesn't always mean you *should* comment.

Dori -- were both plates stolen or just the one? As long as you still have the other one, you can get a dupe for $31 by submitting this form: http://www.dmv.ca.gov/forms/reg/reg17.pdf

Not to seem rude, but I don't have time to blog on the stuff that is actually important. I'm only commenting here because I'm taking a break while at my dayjob.

Yes, yes--with all of the horrible things going on in the US and the rest of the planet, let's all mobilize so that this person can have her license plate back.


Dori--here's what you do: Report it stolen, order a replacement and do something a bit more useful with your time.


My wife's car got totalled a couple years back and it took her next to no effort to get her personalized plates replaced. Seriously, isn't this kind of thing more appropriate for LiveJournal or MySpace?

To the few anti-social Narcissists who post negatively about Dori's situation:

What goes around, comes around.

Karma.

Naturally, you won't be looking for any help or sympathy from anyone in the human race when something bad happens to you. If you do not like helping people in need, the very title of this article gave you enough information to skip it reading it. Nobody asked you to post your negative vibes. Psychopaths.