Some woman from the committee for Super Bowl XL (here in Detroit in February 2006) was just on the news saying she knew Detroit “has some image problems.” I guess she meant the cold weather, because she went on to insist that everyone from out of town will be fine in Michigan February weather “if you wear a hat and scarf.”
Day: February 2, 2005
Biking to Work
So, yes, it was 16 degrees when I left at 11 a.m., but I rode my bike to work today anyway. It’s only a mile-and-a-half, one-way, and I’m a big fat cow who needs to get in shape. I made it just fine, there and back, thank-you-very-much.
But just had to note: Despite Ann Arbor’s $1,000 fine for not clearing your sidewalks after a snowfall, not everyone complies.
The one section of sidewalk between our townhouse here at Stadium/Woodbury and the middle school, at Stadium/Brockman that hasn’t been cleared in the last two weeks: the one in front of a house which displayed a truly huge Bush/Cheney ‘04 sign during the late, lamented election last year.
Just sayin’.
One Last Time
Okay, so this layout is the last one I’ll do. I’m really happier with it. Like it?
[By the way, just a pissy note from a crotchety ol’ toot: I’m fed up with Internet Explorer and it’s ignorant inability to properly handle web standards, particularly the way it fails to add up the numbers properly to display boxes. I mean, how hard is it to add up the four sides of a box? Apparently, if you’re a Microsquash engineer, it’s impossible. So, if you’re trying to read this using IE for Windoze and you see weird pinstripes between the header image/nav and the body, you’re a victim of Microsquash’s ignorance of proper interpretation of the Box Model (Google it, if you don’t know what I’m talking about). And some free advice: Get a Mac, first of all. Second, at the very least, download Firefox and see what you’re missing, web standards-wise. Down with monopoly! End of crotchety ol’ toot’s rant.]