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Well, I'm still too broke to renew or pay for more space here. So for the time being, I'm blogging at The Temporary Squirrel. See you there.
Note: I actually posted this on 25 October but for whatever reason, it's showing up for 25 August. Not going to mess with troubleshooting right now. Just thought you should know.
1:41:17 PM
Not Vanishing on Purpose
Well, after reinstalling Radio I seem to be out of space. And out of money to buy more space right now. (How the files that were re-uploaded can take up almost 5 MB more space than they did the first time is beyond me.)
Yuck! This is the ad that just showed up with the AP World News feed:
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Guess I expected a bit more taste from a major news source.
"What's next, a chip in our cars that tracks everything that we do wrong?" - Mark Stollenwerk
Well, since you asked... Same newspaper, same day:
The detective then removed the black box—actually silver, in this case—from the Buick's center console. The device helps deploy the car's air bags and monitors various systems. During a crash, it collects the last five seconds of data—ranging from the car's speed to its throttle position—and locks the information into its memory. Most General Motors and Ford vehicles carry such recorders. About 33 million cars on U.S. roads, or 15 percent, have them, according to the automotive industry. - Car-Crash Investigators Partner With Computers
Of course, countering Mr. Stollenwerk's contention that red light cameras violate civil liberties, my thinking is that if you're out in public, you should assume witnesses! Whether or not the witness is a camera is incidental.
Interestingly enough, the accident being investigated in the second article was caused by someone running a red light. I guess Mr. Stollenwerk will be more concerned about the rights of the driver who caused the accident (male, age 22—driving a Buick?!) than the rights of the victim, who was killed while following the rules. (Hmmm... Wonder if there was a red light camera in action at that intersection?)
P.S. I will concede that I am prejudiced against Buicks. Used to have a job where I was driving about 300 miles a day. One thing I learned from that experience is that Buicks seem to influence their drivers into all sorts of strange and annoying antics on the road! Actually, speeding to beat a light is the most normal thing I've heard of in the realm of Buick Behavior! That car going 20 miles under the speed limit with the signal flashing even though they don't turn? Probably a Buick. Those folks who stop at every light—even if it's green? Probably a Buick.
9:26:30 AM
Friday, June 24, 2005
Miscellany
Politicians always call for "further information." And this time, I don't blame them. Further information would be helpful, all right. Too bad the paper didn't print any. - Ilyka Damen
I was talking recently to a family friend, a professional editor, about the essay section on the new SAT's. She suggested a reason for it that had not occurred to me: It gives the colleges an example of the student's writing that is guaranteed not to have been written by their parents. - Amanda Butler
With extreme power comes extreme destructiveness, and you've had plenty of both to share with your peers. While you're capable of a great deal of beauty and joy, your skill in creating misery seems almost boundless at times. You've made a big fuss about how you're smarter than everyone else, but all they can see is how you've used those smarts for ill. At this point, your best hope is to turn to those around you and start caring about them. It would also be advisable to get rid of some of your stuff, and preferably not by throwing it away.
