The wonder wonks of city planning, if such a thing exists, in Columbus Ohio apparently decided to share the misery of accident related traffic jams with all of the major freeways around the city. I imagine a meeting that must have gone something like this: “It’s just not fair that when there is an accident Read More …
Author: charpman
The downfall of Retail America Part 756
Once upon a time the space between stores in a mall was just that, space. You could wander in it, amble in it, enjoy it. Then some bean counter figured out they could make more money if they put little mini stores in carts or counters in that space. Okay, it’s not a terrible idea Read More …
A fun SUV
Yesterday I took my 04 Acura MDX in for service. There is a problem with mildew in the window wells and it’s become unbearable. Turns out they needed to order some parts so I have a loaner for 3 days. They gave me a 2008 RDX. The RDX is the smaller SUV in their line Read More …
Something to consider
Quotes from one of our most revered founding fathers. What would he make of our government today? The existence of the Department of Homeland Security? The so-called “Patriot Act”? The whole Intelligent Design debate and rise of the Christian Right? The debate over the 2nd amendment? Thomas Jefferson: Experience hath shown, that even under the Read More …
2nd High School Reunion – 20 years
July 13th and 14th, in Poland Ohio. A good time was had by all. It was great to see long lost friends. Hopefully we’ll manage to stay in touch during the next 20 better than we have in the previous 20. Some pictures, and an experiment to see how well this works: well…it doesn’t… at Read More …
Causality
The book Freakenomics has some very interesting things to say. One of which I just saw on commercial last night, but entirely misused and misunderstood, either intentionally for marketing purposes or through ignorance. Honestly I think it?s the latter, though its easy to say the former since the author takes great pains to make his Read More …
Dan demands
Finally a part time reader has demanded I update my blog. That’s what I need. A good kick in the ass. To placate Dan I shall post a few readings from the Book Of Dog. Bones and Kiblets (22:18): Those that have fed the Dog and petted the Dog and played with the Dog will be spared Read More …
Smoke Detector Rant
I know I know, it’s been forever since I blogged anything. I’m going to make, yet another, attempt to get back to it. Ah the 21st century… we get to enjoy things like brain dead smoke detectors… Why oh why in this day and age can’t we make a smoke detector that, when its battery Read More …
B.A.D. +10
Ten days past Baby Arrival Day and a combination of the interrupted sleep cycles and crossing into the sheer unknown territory of babydom has done strange things to my mind. For example, Ive come up with little tunes about the oddest things. These arent well thought out, just a few lines that keep popping into Read More …
Greyson Arrives
On Friday November 11th between 10-11pm Tracis water broke. It was just a trickle. At midnight Traci was pretty certain what it was and we began our preparations for leaving. Let Tanner out, make sure he had water in his bottle, pack up the SUV and tookoff at about 12:20am By the time we were Read More …