After apologizing for the "Texas Chain Saw Massacre", the City of Richardson pledged on Facebook, "We will also do everything in our power to make sure this never happens again."
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Random Thoughts: Mike Pence is Connor Roy
2023-06-01: Mike Pence is the 2024 presidential campaign's Connor Roy.
Headline: "Mike Pence is a man without a constituency."
2023-06-01: Ted Lasso series finale (with spoilers): True to the end, Ted Lasso stays nice win or lose. Laughs were never the main goal here (warm fuzzies were), and became less a goal as the series wore on. Series could continue without Ted, with a sharper edge (I'd watch that), but won't. B-
2023-06-04: TIL: "In a typical year, the country builds more three-car garages than one-bedroom apartments."
How Parking Ruined Everything - The Atlantic
Monday, July 3, 2023
Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Condition of trees? Dead.
Cause of death? Chain saw.
Chief suspect? City of Richardson.
Statement by the accused? Sorry, not sorry.
Sunday, July 2, 2023
POTD: Galleria Umberto I in Naples
From 2022 10 29 Naples |
This photo-of-the-day shows the Galleria Umberto I, a public shopping gallery in Naples, Italy.
A bonus photo is after the jump.
Saturday, July 1, 2023
POTD: Vesuvius at Dawn
From 2022 10 29 Naples |
This photo-of-the-day shows the Gulf of Naples with dawn coloring the sky behind Mount Vesuvius. Quiet. Beautiful. Right? Well, it wasn't that lovely in 79 AD when it blew its top and buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. What looks like two peaks in this photo was actually all just one much bigger mountain before it collapsed in the eruption, leaving the famous profile we see today.
Bonus photo after the jump.