I’m listening to this recorded call about a humongously amazingly moronic customer service nightmare. Apparently, up until last month, Verizon did not recognize the difference between $0.002 and 0.002¢.
You must listen to this and be amazed. These people are out there and doing your taxes. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Thanks to bmenyuk on Livejournal for showing this to me
That was tongue in cheek, by the way
I guess NASA’s Astronaut psych evaluations can miss things occasionally.
From CNN: Astronaut arrested on attempted kidnapping charges.
Read the story. This is pretty off-the-wall stuff. What really drives home the screwiness is this line.
Inside the car, police found a half-dozen latex gloves, MapQuest directions from Houston to Orlando International Airport, e-mails from Shipman to Oefelein, diapers that Nowak said she used to eliminate stops along the highway…
This little drive was from Houston to Orlando. That’s a long way with only a diaper for company.
I used to live in Lubbock Texas. You may have heard about it last night on Heroes wherein our chirpy protagonista Claire is supposedly skipping school to visit the aquarium there (Aquarium? Lubbock? Bobby Knight must have brought it with him).
Apparently, there’s been some excitement recently. Enough hit the AP wires at least. A man has been setting traps on the bike trails around town to deter bicyclists from riding in environmentally sensitive areas. As one of my friends might say, “Freaking Hippies!” Not that I don’t applaud this man’s goal, but his methods seem a bit…ummmm, felonius.
If you click on the previous link, you’ll notice that it is a google search page. As of 6 Feb 07, there were tons and tons of hits to this story, most from news organizations. But if you search within the local Lubbock Avalanche Journal’s website you get…nothing.
It’s good to see that the citizens of West Texas are being well served by their news companies. “If you don’t know about it, ask a neighbor,” while true in Lubbock, doesn’t help anyone who wants to research the archives.
…my TiVo were hooked up to my network. Then I could rip a shot of the car that George Takei’s character from Heroes was riding in.
License number = NCC 1701
This item would be much more up close and personal than the rumble strips that saved my butt outside Buffalo, NY one fine afternoon.
Windows is apparently getting into the congestion alerting system. LiveSide is a Vista plugin that will allow you to monitor traffic in US cities with the appropriate Intelligent Transportation System hardware in place.
North Dakota has been using oil well brine to de-ice roads. People have objections…
Nathaniel Forbes of ZDNet responds to some of the security hassles he has personally encountered.
When a TSA inspector at a U.S. airport says he’s going to touch your genitals and asks, ‘Is that OK?’, what’s the right answer?
OhCash.com dropped into my feedreader this morning and caught my attention with this first sentence.
Traffic is the single most important thing when you build a website, even more than content itself.
What?! Huh?! What a minute…
Of course, if you read the rest of the article, which I wrath-righteously did, you notice that the person also makes the point that without the content, you’re unlikely to see the traffic. The post was not as useless as my knee-jerk thought it might be.
Sun Prairie, WI, claims to be Groundhog Central.
Street Sweeping parking laws will be enforced by cameras mounted on street sweepers in Washington D.C. I like it. They should do the same thing with Snow Emergency days, except you wouldn’t be able to read the license plates.
With all the furor about Atlanta’s traffic, there was an announcement on Wednesday that the Atlanta Regional Commission (Atlanta Metro’s 10 county planning organization) is awarding a grant to the Atlanta Bureau of Planning (strictly a city office). This will allow them to develop a transportation plan to address growth initiatives. Ironically, a quick stop (2/1/07) at both the ABoP and the ARC websites did not reveal this announcement.
Photo.net is a great website, first populated by Philip Greenspun. Here is a selection of candid photos concerning transportation.
This link will take you to a comments page, through which you can click to the youtube video. Excellent driving techniques. I should try them on my daily commute.