Despite the title of this post, I do not hate Atlanta. In fact, I feel that the Atlanta Metropolitan Area (AMA, to include an 11 to 18 County area, depending on who you ask; more than just Atanta, city of) has a great deal to offer. It is one of the best, if not the …
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Moon Hoax True Believers
Over lunch, the Bad Astronomer sent us over to read Cumbrian Sky, and phoenixpics’ description of why moon hoax believers will never ever ever be convinced that we’ve landed on the Moon. It’s a good read. I, fortunately, have never run into a person who denied the Apollo Moon landings. I have no idea what …
Test Post
This is a test of my email posting capabilities. It is only a test. It is to see whether or not a text-only message will get mangled going through “the system”. The last email posting I did had a URL inside it and it broke in two ways. The first was an unfortunate line-space (probably …
Email Post Pitfalls
I see from the feedreader (which I can access) that my last posting got URLd to death by a nice MS word line break. Thus we examine some of the pitfalls of email postings to the blog. I’ll have to remember to a) make sure there’s no line breaks or b) send messages from a …
Disney World Monorail Crash
A Disney Employee was killed in a monorail crash yesterday. Some discussion by a former employee is here
Holy Crap RAIN!
It rained here yesterday. It positively poured outside about 15 minutes ago. Haven’t had any of that wet stuff since early June. I might get wet when I run at lunch. Awesome.
Exorcism Legal in GA
Exorcism Alive and Well in Gwinnett County, Georgia. At least, that is what the title of the news story should have been. A mother was charged with cruelty to children and false imprisonment when she used handcuffs, food and water deprivation during an attempted three-day exorcism of her fifteen year old son. The charges were …
Don't Walk on the Tracks
Don’t walk on busy train tracks, especially while wearing earphones. A 17-year old in Barrow County, GA, was struck and killed by a CSX train last weekend. Apparently, he might have been wearing headphones. I remember playing on the tracks in Manchester, NH when I was a teenager, but I always kept in mind that …
Divergence of Description
Fascinating divergence of description. >From Georgia.Gov: Marietta was one of the cities Union General William Sherman spared before going to burn Atlanta in 1864. Today Marietta is home to four National Historic Districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places. But if you read the description of Cobb County on Georgia.gov, you get: Marietta …
"Two Men Enter; One Man Leaves"
I received this error while running a simulation today: Warning: at Node 108, 5 lanes enter, but 4 leave. That gave me some serious flashbacks to Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.