Thursday, January 25th, 2007 | 4:36 pm
I am excited to be able to announce that Heather and I have registered for the ING Georgia Marathon.
Garrett, you say in a polite-but-condescending manner. A marathon is like twenty miles. You generally have to stop and catch your breath after pumping gas. How can you expect to complete such a feat without collapsing into a coma 100 yards in? First of all,we’re doing a half marathon, which is a paltry 13.1 miles, and second, we have a plan. We’re actually training nearly every day and doing increasingly-longer weekend jaunts so that by the end of March, we’ll be ready to at least walk the full 13 miles.
I can’t promise that I’ll do it very fast, but I will make it the full distance. I just need to find out if they’ll let me bring my iPod.
The Route
Thursday, January 25th, 2007 | 3:38 pm
So, the big story today is the traffic, traffic, traffic. While my train ride took the same seven minutes it always takes, I can sympathize with the commuters’ horror stories of 2+ hour drives from 285 to downtown. However, some of the comments at the AJC blog seem to completely miss the point of the HOV lanes…
“Jane” writes…
In a traffic situation like the one we had today, I think it would REALLY help to open the HOV lanes, just to get the traffic moving a little better. I know that’s not fair to the carpoolers, but in an extraordinary situation like today, it would help the 98% of the rest of us.
D. Potter:
Took 2 hrs. 45 min from E. Cobb - open up the HOV lanes to all traffic when these horrendous conventions take place & keep Williams St. moving for god sake.
I’m not sure what these people think the HOV lane is for. Here’s a hint: It’s not a super-special red carpet so that carpoolers can feel better about themselves. It’s an incentive to get cars off the road. And if you removed that incentive, those cars would no longer be off the road. You’re already benefitting from the HOV lane in the form of decreased traffic overall, and we’d negate that benefit if the HOV lanes were to be used by everyone. It’s not that it would be “unfair” to the carpoolers, though it would. It would simply cause less people to carpool in the first place. I don’t know what the statistics are on the effectiveness of the HOV lane at reducing overall traffic, but I imagine it’s a net traffic loss even when you consider that the lane can’t be used by normal commuters.
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 | 2:06 pm
That you are throwing a baby shower for someone on another team is NOT grounds for sending an urgent email to everyone in the office.
I’m trying to get work done here, people.
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 | 3:47 pm
Bill O’Reilly is awesome. Yes, the story is from earlier last year, but I still really enjoy reading his crazy rant against video games and iPods.
The have-nots are growing. Why are they growing? Because the skill set that is necessary to earn a decent living is being deemphasized in a fantasy world of football games and shooting zombies and all that…. Now you have the “knows” and the “know-nots”, because if you spend all your youth being prisoners of machines….. you’re not going to know anything…. You’re gonna fail.
It helps if you imagine an old man shaking his cane while you read his words. I hesitate to respond to his points at length as I have a gut feeling that he’s just trolling.
I don’t own an iPod. I would never wear an iPod… If this is your primary focus in life - the machines… it’s going to have a staggeringly negative effect, all of this, for America…
All this ranting about “the machines” and complaining that the youth are “prisoners” isn’t just paranoid rambling. It’s not that he’s a luddite; Bill O’Reilly can and will sensationalize anything. Still, with rants like this, he’s never going to attract any of the coveted stoned slacker demo. I just hope I can escape the machines in time to make a living for myself.
