The Evil Eyebrow

  • Battle on Safari

    Witness an epic struggle between lions and buffalo and crocodiles!
    “Wicked”, is the word that leaps to mind.

    Thanks to my good buddy Dave, who clued me in to this one.

  • This Week in Traffic: 25 May 2007

    Happy 0th birthday to Nathan Schierer!

    Holy Crap, they built this fast…

    MacArthur Maze, the freeway interchange ramp in California that had the unfortunate experience of a burning tanker truck full of gasoline, has reopened to traffic less than a month after the incident. Wow.

    Don’t Drink and Scoot

    Vegas pedestrians are renting handicapped scooters.

    Texas Legislative Ban on Red Light Cameras?

    Unfortunately, this is the first I’ve heard about this issue. I need to go look at this, because the full wording of the bill would be very important.

    COPS for British Traffic Wardens

    Traffic Bobbys are getting head cameras to deter outraged motorists. I know that this will be on Cops in a few months time.

    Tacky House Numbers

    Please. Don’t put these up on your house.

  • Favorite Photo of the Week

    LED Signal Head

    You don’t often look at traffic signals from this angle.

  • Smoky Skies

    I’m deliberately stealing the title from Mebbie’s post concerning the same thing.

    I’ve got a monster headache. Jenn is complaining (rightly) that her lungs are “on fire”.

    Atlanta is blanketed by smoke from the Georgia/Florida fire, and it’s a pain. This is day two and it is not supposed to go away until tomorrow afternoon. I had a training class today in a building that usually has a wonderful view of downtown about 8 miles away, except we could barely see 8 furlongs away. It’s nasty.

    0837 23 May Edit: I don’t get allergies, but I feel as if my head is going to go kaBOOM! We Want Rain!

  • J.K. Rowling on Spoilers

    J.K. Rowling has spoken out on her website about spoilers of the upcoming seventh (and last) Harry Potter book. She adds a bit at the end, though.

    Even if the biggest secret gets out – even if somebody discovers the Giant Squid is actually the world’s largest Animagus, which rises from the lake at the eleventh hour, transforms into Godric Gryffindor and… well, I wouldn’t like to spoil it.

    Nice of her to throw us that tidbit.

  • Legalisms

    “What do you call 1,000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea?”
    “A good start”

    “Why won’t sharks eat lawyers?”
    “Professional courtesy”

    “Why are there so many lawyers in the United States?”
    “Because St. Patrick rid Ireland of all the snakes”

    I received an email today with the following disclaimer. I’m sure you’ve all seen it, or something very similar to it.

    This e-mail and any attachments are confidential. If you receive this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should not retain, distribute, disclose or use any of this information and you should destroy the e-mail and any attachments or copies.

    I’m probably violating some legal code outside of copyright by reprinting it here, but these disclamiers bug the crap out of me. If you are so silly as to send something confidential to the wrong person, that’s just too bad. It isn’t my problem outside of my obligation not to do anything illegal. You have violated your own rules, so deal with it. Hasn’t Enron, Scooter Libby, or Alberto Gonzales taught you to keep sensitive material out of emails?

    I’ve seen numerous examples of these disclamiers ranging from, “Please alert us if you received this in error,” to three-paragraph dissertations about consequences and state codes. If you have any particular favorites laying around, by all means, put them in the comments.

  • Personal Organization

    Almost a year ago, I posted about Getting Things Done, a method of organization and productivity that David Allen (the author) espouses and which has taken society by storm. GTD, as it is better known, has several steps, and it boils down to never letting anything get away from you, except by choice. No more piles of things to-do. No more random stacks of things you’ll take care of sometime. It’s all captured and processed by GTD.

    I follow the method, to a degree, and have found it to be very useful in keeping basic life items under control. I find it more difficult to deal with at work, as my engineering projects try to resist some of the basic precepts (i.e. have a very next physical action for every project1). In order to improve my use of the system, and to always have something to write on (if you don’t write it down, it didn’t happen), I’m trying something new. (more…)

  • This Week in Traffic: 21 May 2007

    Domestic Terrorist Activity

    Local terrorists are trying to shoot down aircraft in Lexington, KT. Sort of…

    Electronic Speeding Citations

    No more getting out of speeding tickets because the officer screwed up the make of your car. Now they’ll scan your VIN and off you go.

    Nifty Transportation Movie

    The movie is made from images found on google image search.

    Americans Don’t Seem to Care about $3 a Gallon Gasoline

    Like the title says.

    Bikes Win Alternative Transportation Contest

    Again, like the title says.

  • Taunted by a Clown

    Yesterday I participated in a service project with the Georgia chapter of ITE. We adopted a piece of Cumberland Boulevard to take care of as a part of the Cobb county Adopt-a-Mile program.

    We found some interesting things during the litter clean up: panties, shoes, a rancid dead racoon, a credit card, 1 dollar, and random other junk. The project was capstoned when I was taunted by a clown.

    I was walking up the median of the road, right across from the Cumberland Mall MARTA bus station when I hear, “Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah, nyah!” I turn and see a clown, in full regalia, pointing at me and laughing. He says something that I can’t hear over the traffic noise, so I yell, “What?!” He then yells back, “Ha ha! I’ve been there! I’m glad I’m not doing that!”

    I think for a moment and then respond, “Dude! We’re not serving time, here!”

    So, the lesson for the day was: Don’t hire clowns for your child’s birthday party. They may be convicted criminals who have served time doing community service hours.

  • Favorite Photo of the Week

    Bridge Scupper

    I don’t know why. I just like this image.

    In case you don’t know what this is, it’s a drainage hole on a roadway bridge. The water just falls through into the stream below. This would not be used like this if there weren’t open water underneath.

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