San Francisco mandates no happy ending. The city of light and love has banned happy meals. That’s a nanny too far.
Voters in the heartland have generally wanted to do the happy dance since Tuesday but S.F. banned happy dances, too.
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Premte Peeves
St. Albans, Vermont, city workers chopped up the jewel-like reflecting pool in Taylor Park this week. It will be replaced by a new moving water feature over the next couple-seven years.
“And why are they starting it now?” one resident asked. “Don’t they know it’s winter?”
More to the point, don’t they know they have a collapsing sewer system that might be a higher priority?
Truth be told, the project has been been in the works for 10 years but they had to wait until the old guard retired so no one would be left to call them airheads.
Premte Peeves
NASCAR’s top three series will race with an “E15” ethanol blend next season instead of straight unleaded high-test gasoline. The fuel will debut during Speed Week next February at Daytona.
The fuel will be blended at Sunoco’s facility in Marcus Hook, Pa. It will be pumped directly from tankers at each speedway rather than from on-site underground storage tanks.
Well, of course it will! Alcohol is a decent octane booster but it evaporates prodigiously and is wildly hygroscopic. Sunoco wouldn’t be able to guarantee the mix ratio, water content, or octane from a tank underground and the other classes wouldn’t use it.
Here’s the peeve: NASCAR stock cars ain’t stock so what they do on the track has nothing to do with what we do on the street but you can bet this is a marketing bonanza for the far green and a boondoggle for those of us who have to commute to work. Or drive to an island.
Premte Peeve: Cellular Polyamory
“Apple announced this morning that Verzion Wireless will start carrying the iPad at its stores later this month.”
“The Verizon iPhone 4s early 2011 arrival, which many had interpreted to mean January 2011, is now being pegged as March 2011 by at least one analyst.”
Sayanara AT&T. Although it’s too little, too late, that’s annoying. When people have polyamorous relationships, society waggles a finger at them. A bad finger. When companies begin polyamorous relationships, society bumps up their stock prices.
Premte Peeves
I downloaded a “few” more podcasts today and was pleased that my iPod didn’t run out of space. When I moved them over to the podcast directory I noticed yet again that Windows 7 doesn’t display free disk space on the status bar.
The size of a selected item is does appear in the details pane just above the status bar but free disk space can’t be made to appear there. The only way to find used or free disk space is to select the drive and right click into properties.
Change. It’s what we do. Yay.