Archive for December, 2004

Organ Hit

Monday, December 13th, 2004

This weekend I found out what it’s like to be on the other side. The organist at the Christmas program I attended last night would like to call me sometime. I’d really rather he not. He expressed his interest in contacting me at last year’s program and I, being unsure as to the nature […]

Accidents Will Happen

Sunday, December 12th, 2004

Go-To-Work-Kart

Wednesday, December 8th, 2004

I’m not sure what Monderman would say about these, but a company called Commuter Cars has announced the Tango, a two-seater car the size of a peanut, designed for nimble commuting and parking head-in to the curb in parallel parking spots. I’ve been saying for about a year now that my next car will […]

The Chaos Roundabout

Wednesday, December 8th, 2004

There’s a very cool article in Wired about a new school of thinking in traffic engineering: remove “safety” elements like center lines, yield signs, sidewalk-road curbs, ped-X-ings, etc., and you’ll get a safer road. Counterintuitive, yes, but it seems to work. The most extreme example (a roundabout in Holland with no sign-age, no […]

World of Nerdcraft

Monday, December 6th, 2004

I, too, have sprung for World of Warcraft. It’s my first MMORPG, and like Morris the reviews proved too tantalizing to pass up. If not for Saturday pre-6pm, this weekend would have been a complete wash. After witnessing the jello incident at the bowling alley on Friday, I woke up just in […]