This figures. I’ve spent significant adult years in these areas… What American accent do you have? Created by Xavier on Memegen.net Southern. Love it or hate it, your accent says you’re probably from somewhere south of the Ohio River. Take this quiz now – it’s easy! We’re going to start with "cot" and "caught." When …
Monthly Archives: April 2007
Down with Klausner!
I was alerted to the Infamous Harriet Klausner by SFSignal.com last fall. I posted once or twice about her. Now there’s developments. Check out the SFSignal post for details
Tour de Georgia
The last stage of the 2007 Tour de Georgia was today, in downtown Atlanta and points east. This leg was nine laps of a 7.4 mile loop (map here). Jenn and I drove down to watch and sat at the corner of Highland and Sampson Streets. This is a re-building part of Atlanta with lots …
I'm Invited!
Ivanka Trump wants to teach me her secrets of success. If you can’t read that tiny text above Ivanka’s head, here’s a closeup. Whoopee! I can learn her self-made millionaire secrets, which probably boil down to, “I’m really good at picking my parents.” But the wrapper on this piece of candy was the first sentence …
This Week in Traffic: 20 April 2007
Stamford Times Can’t Format an Article This article from the Stamford Times demonstrates two things: They shouldn’t let their IT folks set up the online newspaper because, really, who uses center formatting for a newspaper article and, oh yeah, there’s some traffic calming information in there. 16 Students Killed in Egypt Two days after the …
Favorite Photo of the Week
The hallway into the international terminal at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. I like the guy with the boxes. It gives the photo character.
Oh, the Irony. It Burns…
NPR’s Morning Edition interviewed a woman today concerning the media coverage surrounding (enveloping? choking?) the Virginia Tech shootings. The upshot was, the media is being a huge hungry hound and is exacerbating the trauma on a number of students/faculty/staff/etc. The woman interviewed was a survivor of the Jonesboro shootings in 1998 when she was a …
Harry Potter Outreach Program
One of my favorite blogs is SFSignal.com. You know this if you read this blog as I link there frequently. They have a new challenge! The Harry Potter Outreach Program, intended to convince all those people lined up at bookstores on July 21st (advent of the last Harry Potter novel) that HP is not the …
Fred Phelps and The Westboro Band of Shitheads
The Westboro Baptist Church, led by Fred Phelps and famous for picketing military funerals (because the U.S. Military is a vast gay-love association), blaming the Columbia diaster on the United States’ support of homosexuals and abortion ,and blaming 9-11 on God’s punishment of the U.S., etc., will be attending the funerals of the students killed …
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This Week in Traffic: 18 April 2007
Kuala Lumpur: a “Flood” of traffic Kuala Lumpur has built a highway that is also a major flood-relief feature, or vice versa. Check out the graphical description. Electronic Ticketing with a Smile Police are being outfitted with electronic tools to enable them to do their jobs faster. Traffic and Produce Don’t forget to wash your …