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Pedantic note: That's not "Highway 41" there. There is a US Highway 41, but it is well east of Texas. There is even a Texas State Highway 41, which goes through the Hill Country near San Antonio.
But Slaton, Texas is near neither of those: it's near Lubbock in the north. What you're actually looking at there is the sign for FM 41, a "farm to market" road. FM roads are generally two-lane highways that go through the middle of nowhere, although in some cases (like this one) they turn into city streets.
Captcha: duis. Yes, I'm sure there are plenty of those on FM 41.
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About Wan Thai Foods - the Wisconsin Tourism Federation has just changed its name (see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/6242687/WTF-Wisconsin-Tourism-Federation-changes-name-after-internet-jokes.html).
Oh, and here in Melbourne we have a couple of High Street Roads, roads leading off High Streets. Drinkwater Street Lane is probably just something of that sort.
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You guys have internets in your trailers?
CAPTCHA: dolor, which suits this update perfectly, imho.
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Here in Columbus, Ohio, we have a Lane Avenue. I used to joke that we should also have an Avenue Street, a Street Drive, and a Drive Lane. Yeah, no one laughed then, either.
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I /lost+found the /media in my /*/local/bin.
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Drinkwater Street Lane is just the lane behind Drinkwater Street, it appears from http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&q=Drinkwater+Street+Douglas+Isle+Of+Man&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Drinkwater+St,+Douglas+IM1+1,+UK&gl=au&ei=fB_HSo_4Fpvu6gOutvDwBA&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1. There's a Hill Street Lane behind Hill Street nearby, too.
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The comment for the badly formatted ad for business card publishing didn't make a lot of sense.
Why wouldn't you patronize that company exactly? Because the NEWSPAPER screwed up on the typesetting?
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I am disappointed that no-one thought to change it to Federation of Tourism in Wisconsin.
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It got lost in translation, but the badly formatted ad was for the NEWSPAPER company. They want us to buy business cards from them, and they can't even get their own formatting right! And you should read the rest of the paper sometime...
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If, by "we all", you mean "all of the grunt IT people who dislike Microsoft", and by "know" you mean "have a very good reason to suspect, while not actually having sufficient court admissible evidence", then yes!
Unfortunately, the people who make major software purchase decisions in this world tend to not fall in the above group. It's unlikely that a lot of them would be converted if we did have enough court admissible evidence to prove it, and had a court ruling confirming that fact.
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The climbing gear is obviously for climbing rocks on the moon, where wings are of no use.
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Absolutely. Don't listen to these Trolls, all Common Nouns should be capitalised in the English Language. To supply a couple of Corrections to your Post, your Example should read "She has a Cucumber Slice stuck in her Throat so she gargoyles".
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re 9-11 year olds.
Have you been outside?
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[quote user="Someone You Know"][quote user="MC"][quote]It doesn't strike me as a particularly unusual name for a street. There are, for instance, two of them in downtown Buffalo.[/quote]
Did there used to be only one?[/quote]
Actually I was waiting for the bad pun that there used to be a single Division street, but that they divided it unequally, resulting in a long Division street and a short Division Street.
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Okay, I'm going to get really geeky here, because I'm a fan of the series this comes from. Gargoyles actually have great need of rock climbing, because they can't fly as such; they can only glide. Climing up rock is a favored way of getting height to glide from.
On the other hand, gargoyle don't need equipment to rock climb because their claws make excellent built-in pitons, gouging out hand and foot holds even in solid stone as they climb. So they don't need this fancy-nancy equipment anyways.
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Wait, all this time and nobody's commented on the... wonderful... street names in Atlanta yet?
There's Peachtree Street, which splits off for a brief length to West Peachtree Street before merging back to become Peachtree Road. And then further north, Peachtree Road splits off into Peachtree Industrial Boulevard. This is, of course, completely ignoring side streets such as Peachtree Battle Avenue, Peachtree Memorial Drive, Peachtree Circle, and so on... And because of the way the roads split off, there are several intersections that could be referred to as the corner of Peachtree and Peachtree.
You know how after you've stared at a word long enough, it starts to look nonsensical? Yeah, "Peachtree" is doing that for me right now.
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ITT: People who never watched The Gargoyles Series... and had no childhood at all.
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O, your fax machine doesn't have a feature to negate in case of 50% or more black?
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But then we wouldn't be able to tell a Gargoyle from a gargoyle.
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That sort of thing probably happens with some regularity when temporary partitions are used to segregate an area in which classified materials can be handled.
That sort of "soft" division is not uncommon. On airfields, for example, there are often classified areas separated by nothing more than a line of red paint on the tarmac (since it's often a bad idea to build big walls across airfields). Anyone simply stepping across such a line without previously arranged permission (for example, you might be able to taxi an aircraft across such a line), as opposed to crossing at the appropriate checkpoint, will promptly find themselves face down on the ground making the intimate acquaintance of a group of well armed individuals with astonishingly undeveloped senses of humor.
Obviously that only works in environments where everyone is basically trusted.
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I think we've reached a new low here. Unrealistic kids toys? Bad photocopying? Do we start on GI Joe tomorrow?
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So, clicking the unix ware picture will take you to the secure wall picture, and clicking the yumyum picture will take you to the feedback picture.
WTF???
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My university campus is at the intersection of Union St and Division St. And the streets had these names before the university was founded, so the geekery is unintentional.
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They have an armed response for the trusted people? What do they do to the untrusted ones?
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I was using "trusted" in a loose sense. That kind of "soft" barrier is not used when you have people around who you can't trust to obey the rules.
Being trusted in this context doesn't mean you're authorized to enter any specific restricted area. You may very well be allowed to enter some, but not others. And the crossing of a marked secure boundary is basically always forbidden (yes, there are sometimes exceptions), since that would bypass the security checkpoint. It's analogous to an actual wall - even if you're authorized to be in the room on the other side of the wall, you should expect a rather severe reaction when you haul out your sawzall and cut yourself a new entrance.
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The fax page looks like a a stunt from back in the day, called the Black Fax of Death. Years ago, when the fax machine was new, you could burn out the thermal printhead by faxing about 40-50 sheets of solid black construction paper to the target machine.
A friend of mine sent one of these to a lawyer's office during a legal dispute, and heard later that it actually worked.
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FIY: the domain name "ajinomoto" is a famous japanese company producing MSG...
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Finally, I get to test out Google Fruit Stand (beta).
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I think I recognize that "do not move this wall" sign.
It was in a local church, which had a large (like, 30,000 square feet large) storage area. They'd bought an existing warehouse building, refurbished the front half, and reserved the back for future expansion.
Having all that room out back*, they decided to allow another non-profit organization use part of it to pack and ship CARE-type packages to military personnel deployed overseas. They got some ancient cubicle parts from somewhere, and built a sort of "corral" around the area that this happened in, including, yes, a semi-movable barrier across the entrance that wasn't actually fastened to the rest of the walls.
The sign was intended as a reminder to church staff and volunteers that that area was "off limits" temporarily, and they couldn't just go in there and grab whatever looked interesting to them, which certain departments had a bad habit of doing.
It may have not been that specific place, but I'd bet it's for a similar kind of "Honor system security" deal. No barrier? People go in, because they don't realize they're not supposed to. Barrier, no sign? People move it and go in because clearly it's meant to keep OTHER people out, not them. But a barrier with a sign will at least make most people think "Hmm, just maybe, as inconceivable as it seems, not even I am supposed to go in, even though there are boxes of delicious cookies sitting there."
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You could be driving east into town on E 69th Ave, continue onto W South Ave, South Ave, and finally back onto E 69th Ave as you leave it. Or you could start at the intersection of W Ave C and S West St, drive north, and continue onto West St and then N West St, which is discontinuous because it's interrupted by a school.
Thankfully, there's no North Ln or East Cir anywhere to further confuse the matter.