Seen in traffic today:
Apple Maps drivers have Subarus. The Google Maps drivers I’ve seen have had compact Mitsubishis or similar.
Tis the season to decorate vehicles with skellies
Apple Maps drivers have Subarus. The Google Maps drivers I’ve seen have had compact Mitsubishis or similar.
Tis the season to decorate vehicles with skellies
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After brunching this morning, we went over to Home Depot to corner one of the specialists on a home project we’re currently planning. While there, we saw this; not something to think about post-brunch:
PS: Our chuckle over the aforementioned was muted on the way out by a petitioner who approached us to sign on against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s fast food worker wage hike. Said petitioner was courteous, so I was just as courteous when I asked her why I should be against better wages for people working hard in a thankless underpaid job? Thanks, said she… and that was that.
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I remember in Arlington, there was some ordinance where a business along the highway couldn’t put up a sign larger than a certain size. This is why gas stations, car dealers, etc. along I-20 there would put up gigantic American flags, because who would complain about that? I guess the huge flag would catch the drivers’ attention and then when they got close enough, they’d see the (relatively) small sign indicating a Texaco (or whatever). Also no billboards – I think there was one at Cooper St., and I wonder if that got grandfathered in because there was an older street that ended within that interchange (before it was pulled up completely).
I did not remember this being a thing in Austin, except that there were no billboards at all along Mopac (where this seems to be). Last time I was down there (Aug.) I think there was a big Ukrainian flag in front of an office building at Steck & Mopac.
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That is exactly where this is. Next to an even more gigantic US flag. I think that one is like 2 stories tall and 3 stories long!
There are no billboards because Austin has an ordinance against them. Only the ones grandfathered in before then. Advertising companies wanted to overturn Austin’s billboard rules. U.S. Supreme Court says no. | KUT Radio, Austin's NPR Station
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So you’re in Indiana?
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Leaf peeping on a grey and chilly Fall day in Minneapolis, MN, right out my own window—no travel necessary.
No peeps were hurt in the making of this photo.
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Mhhhmmm… geotextiles on extruded rigid foam with a topping of asphalt…
Oh yeah, that’s the good stuff.
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OK now just leave it like that for 2 years, throw in one-half of a half-finished overpass, and you’ll have an idea what it looks like not far from my neighborhood. 
P.S. I’m digging that Mondrianesque building
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That’s Kalasataman lastentarha ja peruskoulu [Kalasatama [Fish Harbour] kindergarten and primary school].
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