1. First, rake the leaves away from three storm drains (observed but not pictured).
2. Open hydrant, then sit in your truck while hundreds/ thousands of gallons of water empty into storm drains.
3. Close the hydrant.
4. Be sure to look less than thrilled at the prospect having your odd shennanigans recorded for posterity.
5. “Too much water” [...]
I’m posting this a little late, but - on the Arlington List, the “Co-Leader of MoveOnArlington”, wrote:
MoveOn.org is planning vigils all over the country when we top 2,000 Americans killed in Iraq. As of this morning, 1,992 American soldiers had tragically died.
On the date we learn about the 2,000th death, if we hear before 3:00 [...]
Big brother is watching you.
My new vision of the future: an uptight and patronizing “please stay on topic” email, stamping on a human face, forever. Yawn. Wake me up when he graduates to being an obnoxious and overbearing facist - so I can congratulate him. ;-)
Over on LFA someone posted this howler:
I wonder whether the “population growth” parameters wasn’t what kept Arlington from making the initial screen. The population has declined from a high of 53,500 in 1970 down to the current 43,000-something. So that may have given a false impression of non-growth.
Yeah. How could anyone see [...]
Yuk! Damn trees. When’s fall start, anyway?
(Or perhaps “I have met our new tax and spend overlords, and he is us” is more appropriate?)
7123 - YES
6550 - NO
Either way, 5 more years of business as usual.
An Arlington List member suggests he may leave town if the override fails. He admits surrounding towns are too expensive and that he would likely be forced to go further afield.
I suggest France - I hear there’s a webmaster union there.
;-)
I happened to find out today that iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner (a) was the same class at MIT as I was (1989) and (b) lived in the same dorm that I did (Burton-Conner).
Dunster reports:
Article 4 - Assistant Moderator. The first speech was from Rich Carreiro who cited his knowledge of procedure, communication skills, and attention to meeting and detail. The second was from John Leone who described his attendance record, his knowledge of town officials through his law practice, his chairmanship of the Zoning Bylaw Review Committee, [...]
You can now download the set from The Fun Years’ great MassArt show.
It’s 31 mins / 36mb of cool sounds, the sort of thing I love listening to when I’m working or doing something else requiring creativity*. Even better than the set (in my opinion, anyway) is their CD now that’s what i call droning, [...]
In the Herald, we read (though with difficulty, as the Herald writers, they are apparently not so good with the Ingleesh):
“We’ve asked the town manager and the superintendent of schools to prepare two budgets, one will be based on our existing projected funding and the other based on a successful override,” Arlington Selectman John Hurd [...]
From the always excellent mASS BACKWARDS:
Sometimes I think it’s the gyroscopic motion of all the dead patriots buried in Massachusetts spinning in their graves that keeps the planet aligned on its axis.
Hilarious.
from an email exchange:
jmd [regarding building a telescope]: The cardboard tube could be used to launch rockets, in case of revolution… ;-)
dff: Speaking of the revolution, when it comes I’m cutting [someone's] fingers off.
jmd: I just wish we could send them off to live in the world they want to create - that would [...]
In a thread entitled “legal opinion Renaming decision Reeds Brook”, where in a prior post there was a legal opinion of Town Counsel Maher saying that the by-law about requesting the advice of the Public Memorial Committee was not being followed in recent namings, the following was said by someone:
Well, if everyone’s ignoring the by-laws [...]
Charter opponents sink to new low.
It may be a new low for charter opponents, but it’s not a new low for the unassuming Paul Schlichtman.
For those who missed it (er, back in January), Sprague takes a pounding in the comments of this LFA article. The whole thing is a hoot.
There may be hope for this town yet.
Their Liquored-up Flowershow Technique is unstoppable!
If you didn’t know Harvard was involved, you’d have to think this was an Onion editorial:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=506289
A great idea from TJICistan. Although nothing can beat
Who took my [town] job?
It name webmaster. P.S.
I’ll find my town job.
here are my contributions:
Comcast? Verizon?
Here we go again, dammit.
Archives? What are they?
School has been cancelled
Who will care for my children?
My career suffers
You crawled from a hole
Selfish libertarian -
crawl back in that hole!
My driveway plowed in
And I [...]