Does anybody know who I need to contact to complain about the poor time intervals at a particular traffic light? There is a traffic light at King and Bathurst that spends far too much of its time green for the King Street cars. This intersection doesn’t warrant that length of time for most of the… Read More »
I read an article in Time that talks about how several states are starting to lease their road infrastructure to private companies, some of which are not even U.S. owned (e.g. Cintras, a company from Spain is gobbling up contracts at a gluttonous rate). The states are turning towards this strategy as a way to… Read More »
It snowed this morning. Not enough to stay but the first ‘official’ snow of the fall. From 30C to -5C with windchill in the span of 2 weeks. Canada, O Canada! To add to the mini-depression, the clocks were turned back over the weekend. Thanks to G.W. Bush and the Yanks we didn’t have to… Read More »
That’s right, I’ve drupaled. If you don’t know what drupal is go here: drupal.org The two second summary is that drupal is an open-source content management framework (CMF) for setting up and maintaining community-type websites. It has built in features for managing discussion groups, image galleries, community blogs, stories, upcoming events, basically anything you need… Read More »
Very warm fall. Temperature tops 33C the day on Thanksgiving Monday (Oct 15). Still having 17-20 days. Temp finally dropped below 0 last night Big Girl Bed implemented – lots more sleep New washer/dryer. Who’d have thunk the technology got so much better over the past 20 yrs? Stratford fair – OG a ride-freak. Enjoyed… Read More »
When I was in Vegas last May I bought a ticket from the NYNY Sporst Book: The Cleveland Indians to Win the 2007 American League Championship. The odds back then were 4.5 to 1. So I bought a $10.00 ticket. In fact it was the first of my many tickets I bought during my 3… Read More »
Compare these nicknames to the names you see today in baseball: Back then: Willie ‘The Say Hey Kid’ Mays Dizzy Dean Joe ‘Ducky’ Medwick Red ‘The Galloping Ghost’ Grange Joe ‘The Yankee Clipper’ DiMaggio Ted ‘The Splendid Splinter’ Williams ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson ‘Goose’ Gossage Wade ‘Chicken Man’ Boggs Ty ‘The Georgia Peach’ Cobb and my… Read More »
…and registered at FaceBook. My curiousity of what ever happened to my high school friends just overwhelmed me. I’m just starting to get used to the site but already am intrigued about being able to touch base with these people. When I read the shortlist of people who I could meet from the good old… Read More »
So, as should happen to everybody at least once in their life, I was summoned to jury duty this week. After watching Law & Order I was all primed up to be grilled by the lawyers. Had all my misleading answers ready to go so that I would make it on the jury for sure. … Read More »
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