Quote of the day
“It’s more funny than anything else right now. I inhaled a lot of smoke,” said 18-year-old Callen Potvin.
That’s what happens when you inhale to much Mr. Potvin, everything gets funny.
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Congratulations on being #2, again, Worcester
Commonwealth Care Online
I’ve spent the last hour or so playing with the States newish Commonwealth Connector site, designed to make buying state brokered health insurance a snap. Holy shit this is a nice site (for a municipal entity), if there’s one thing Gov Patrick can be accused of it’s making the states website usable and this one’s no different. Since I don’t actually need health insurance right now outside of what my employer provides, all I was doing was playing, but if I was in the market I can’t think of an easier system to buy into. Certainly a change for
Outstanding Kaufman clip
Vertical Farming and my brush with genius
Two weeks ago I was driving down the pike and the idea of converting large, multi-level commercial buildings into indoor farms hit me like an all too obvious ton of bricks. Apparently, I must have fallen asleep during some obscure discovery channel documentary and picked up the idea in a half daze, since the BBC just ran a story on the idea and there is a formal project underway at Columbia University to make this a reality. The whole concept is fascinating; totally worth the read.
link (BBC)
link (Vertical Farming Project)
Papers Please
One of our well placed spies let out word that the State Police will be be in town this weekend, looks like it might be a nice couple of days to get the bikes out.
THANKS TO A GRANT PROVIDED BY THE
GOVERNOR’S HIGHWAY SAFETY BUREAU, a “SOBRIETY CHECKPOINT” WILL BE HELD IN THE COUNTY LISTED BELOW:
COUNTY: Worcester
DATE: Saturday, June 9, 2007 into Sunday June 10, 2007
Specified Area: Worcester
Coming Attractions
Joe Plauds New Deal
The month long saga of Worcesters FDR Museum has come to a close with the decision to move to Chicopee. What’s a Chicopee you ask? Well if you’ve ever taken a Grey Hound from Worcester to NYC, it’s the final 2.5 minutes of driving before your stop in ‘Sprimfield’. The whole debacle with the museum came and went without the sort of public outcry it deserved, but was one of the few tragic decisions in recent memory well covered by the T&G in general and reporter Shaun Sutner in particular. I’m not going to pretend to have been a long time supporter of the collection, only having been inside once and that was by accident; looking for a place to take photos of an art event on the Union Station floor.
The real story of the move outside of the bullshit way the city ousted the museum, is the replacement tenant, the Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission. I’ve yet to meet someone who can actually tell me what these folks do, but if their website is any indication what ever they do, they suck at it. Bad.
The only thing worse than the sites layout is the ridiculous use of animated gifs on their ‘Homeland Security’ page, yes apparently these clods are somehow involved in keeping you terror free; and that somehow involves the GhostBusters, unless this is a bizarre flashback of sorts.
So congratulations Worcester, you just bought yourself a planning commision, no fucking clue what they’re planning on planning; hopefully it involves a new website.
