About 597,000 vehicular bridges nationwide, and 73,764 are “structurally deficient.”
Sources: 2006 National Bridge Inventory compiled by the U.S. Department of Transportation, American Society of Civil Engineers‘ Infrastructure Report Card, and Gannett.
Alaska Senator Ted—The Internet Is A Series Of Tubes—Stevens (mockingly so, listen) returned to find the FBI and IRS searching his Alaska home.
Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman is dead at 89. The Local calls his work immortal, as did many of his colleagues.
Until now I’ve been misremembering the title of one of his movies as Three Smiles of a Summer Night, a 1955 romantic comedy. I’d say that most of his works I’d seen were depressing and that Smiles was one of the few that wasn’t. But I couldn’t even remember the title properly, so perhaps I should keep that to myself.
I get as frustrated with airport security as the next guy (and I’m plenty doubtful of its effectiveness), but really, if you don’t yet know liquids aren’t allowed, and you hold up the one security line at a small airport at an ungodly early hour, it’d be nicer if you didn’t laugh like a kid at a theme park about it. Yes it’s farcical, but not funny.
New Hampshire’s deputy chief of liquor enforcement caught drunk driving.
HTML and PostScript are both page description languages, but one is designed to convey the look of the page, while the other to convey the meaning of its content.
I’ve been away from my computer for a couple days, but very much online with my iPhone. Today, as I looked at something on my laptop in Google Maps I found myself trying to pinch and flick my monitor to manipulate the position and scale.
dancing naked == lewd lascivious conduct == felony crime.
(Better, however, than riding a gondola naked.)
Big accident on highway leaving mall…was somebody unboxing their iPhone while driving?
zero hour +50 minutes: the iPhone rocks.
15 minutes to go. Guy from store: “being in line doesn’t guarantee you’ll get one.”
Two hours to go, 85 people in line.
They just put up black vinyl over the windows and gate. The line has grown to about 50. Still no word of quantity, but somebody shared a story that they asked “what happens if there are 300 people in line?” The answer was supposedly: “Even if they buy two we’ll have enough.”
The rumors are that the AT&T store here has about 30 phones. Nobody is talking about how many our Apple Store has.
26 people in line. At least one is hoping to auction his, three are being paid, and nobody wants the cheap one.
Suited security guy with square jaw and angry expression grunts at us as he confirms plans with store manager. He’s from management, and though we couldn’t overhear much, we did realize he was headed off to the AT&T store next. All of us remained silent as we watched him stomp off in the wrong direction.
Arrived at 8am to find four parties ahead of me. The first arrived at 7am, after repeatedly being chased out of the mall parking lot last night.
Running down the up escalator = fun.
Landing upright = difficult.
I’m not saying I want seat belts, but it always takes me a moment to get used to them not being there on a train.
Just spotted: do hippie skirts and bluetooth headsets go together?
Star Wars stamps found at post office. Will the merchandizing ever end?
Report: civilian and military death toll in Iraq is up strongly after US “surge.”
Roy Pearson sues Custom Cleaners for $67 million over lost pants. Millions! Pants!
Local pride: New Hampshire ranks near the top of the list for quality of healthcare services, according to new report.