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According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the city council is contemplating an amendment of the city code which is targeted to ban saggy pants (reg. required). To summarize: Someone on the council considers the style of droopy drawers with boxer shorts showing to be indecent and inappropriate. Therefore, an ordinace with fines attached. The ACLU …
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Thanks be that Barry Bonds didn’t go through a drought like last week. If he had, he might not have hit his 756th home run untill next week when San Francisco would have been here, in Atlanta, home of Hank Aaron, and previous holder of the Career Home Run record. That would have depressed me. …
When you look at this image, what do you see? I see a spaghetti-tangle of aircraft travel corridors. These are the airports within 30 miles of Atlanta that have instrument landing systems. Hartsfield-Jackson Airport (the southernmost red blob) is, of course, the world’s busiest in terms of takeoff and landings as well as numbers of …
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 …
As I mentioned in my post a few days ago, I went to take photos of the runners in the Georgia Marathon today. It was a great time, and I learned a lot about taking pictures of sporting events. Make sure the battery that is in the bag as a backup is charged, too. Wasn’t …
PodCamp Atlanta was a rockin’ good time! This unConference was centered around Podcasting and how to do it or do it better. There were endless networking opportunities and I met a ton of great people. Everyone I spoke with asked me the question, “So, do you podcast?” to which I answered, “Not at the moment, …
I’m off to the mixer before PodCamp Atlanta starts tomorrow. I’m sure I’ll meet good people tonight. For those of you interested, the pre-unconference get together is at Manuel’s Tavern at 602 North Highland Avenue, just north of Little Five Points.
I will be attending PodCamp Atlanta next weekend. It is an unconference for people interested in Podcasting, Blogging, and new media. The schedule is chock full of interesting stuff which I’m sure I’ll have fun participating in. I’ll let you all know next sunday.
The state legislators A few of the State Legislators of Georgia apparently had nasty things to say about the Atlanta Police department after last Thursday’s traffic snafu in downtown. Rep. Edward Lindsey (R-Atlanta) said. “Yesterday, you let down the citizens of Atlanta, our commuters, and our guests to these great conventions. This is simply unacceptable …
Last Thursday there was a snafu here in Atlanta that I fortunately was not caught in (link, reg. required). Donald Trump coming to town caused serious traffic congestion throughout the entire Atlanta Region. It illustrates how delicate the traffic situation is around here. There are 300,000 vehicles traveling on I-75/85 through downtown Atlanta every day, …