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Riding RTD is a Crapshoot
For the second day in a row, the 0 failed to show at 6:50 at 17th and Market. The 6:40 left early again and so three express buses came and went before the 0 at 7:00 was ready to leave.
RTD for the Denver metro is one of the worst run bus systems in the state. Drivers often don’t know their routes, and niether do the dispatches. Buses can not be tracked, route posters are indecipherable. Every long time rider knows the dreaded beep of a bus break down, where drivers are ignored until they can no longer use gravity to keep the bus going.
The bus system isn’t cheeper or faster than driving a car. The dispatchers are often rude and never seem to know what a stop number is. I’ve had drivers try to charge me double, give me expired transfers, and refuse to stop.
When I started riding the bus regularly two years ago, I could take a bus downtown and it took about an hour to get across town. Now it takes three buses and three hours to for a trip across town at leat two to get down town, one which must be a regional or an express.
We’re all waiting for fastraks, which should be called maybe one day traks. Rtd can’t write off late trains at least.
Awesome Replacing Thank You?
The feature at Job of Irony yesterday was QA. What they look for what they want, etc. We listened to a few calls and did some group QA’s on them.
In one call there was an absense of the words ‘Thank You’. Many dinged the call for that but the head of QA shrugged her shoulders and said, “Well, she said awesome and that amounts to the same thing. It’s another way of saying thank you.”
The room was immeadiatly split. Half were outraged, the other half stopped short. We do say awesome in replace of thank you sometimes.
Some postulated that it was an age difference. However, the head of QA was over sixty and thought it was okay. There was a stratification of Southerners and East coasters who were against it but not all of them. In the end we all put it aside.
As I think on it though, I realize it has invaded popular speech in that way. My friends do it, I do it. We use it scarcasticly, to replace great. We say awesome when we are given things, or when things are done. It doesn’t happen all the time but it does happen.
There is always that moment when you realize you’ve been saying something in a certain way and it is not how you use to say it. Is it from TV? From the internet? From our region? From our background? I don’t know, but it is interesting.
Have you ever caught yourself saying thank you without actually saying those words?
Who? Huh.
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INFJ – “Author”. Strong drive and enjoyment to help others. Complex personality. 1.5% of total population.
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Actualized type: ENTP
(who you are)
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ENTP – “Inventor”. Enthusiastic interest in everything and always sensitive to possibilities. Non-conformist and innovative. 3.2% of the total population.
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(who you prefer to be)
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ENFP – “Journalist”. Uncanny sense of the motivations of others. Life is an exciting drama. 8.1% of total population.
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Attraction type: ENFP
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ENFP – “Journalist”. Uncanny sense of the motivations of others. Life is an exciting drama. 8.1% of total population.
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More Pretty Pictures
Yay! Site redesign! NaNo Procrastination!
I bent the 2011 theme to my needs. I wanted a new header picture to base the color scheme around, so I made one in Vue 9. I’ve gotten more of the render settings down and spent a lot of time sculpting each mountain and rock. Last, I sculpted some wake to trigger the shore effect in vue and give some more disturbance to the water. I also created a aurora but took it out because it bumped the render time from 6 hours to 58 hours. I added the trailing red in Painter 12.
Themes in WordPress have gotten more versatile. I like the on-the-fly formats and easy settings. I still mucked with the code to get what I wanted out of it. It really has evolved and for me, the best solution for most website needs.
I got an invite to Glitch, an in browser mmo, where you learn a trade, and take care of the world. That game sucked an hour out of me today.
And it’s NaNo. I still have revisions to finish but I’ll get my word count up there!
How I Know It’s November
NaNoWriMo
My Job is Threatened
I suddenly have more bills to pay
And more doctors to see
birthdays
Artists
Writers
Writers are not considered part of the larger ecosystem. Creativity and art are afforded little value in today’s corporate culture. It’s a lie, of course — writers are everywhere. Our work is ever-present yet our role remains unconsidered. The written word is a powerful support structure, and it’s everywhere you look. Magazines, billboards, instruction manuals, marketing copy, and, oh, I dunno, the entire Internet. Nearly everything begins with the written word, and yet, despite this significant contribution, writers and other creatives exist as a marginalized group. Further, our support system is eroding.
Thyroid numbers are good. But blood…
Thyroid numbers are good. But blood pressure is higher. Pulse is still elevated. Should have brought the backpack.
Hobo with a Shotgun
Me: Why does he want a lawn mower?
James: I don’t know.
Me: What is the doctor doing?
James: I don’t know.
Me: Why are they in armor?
James: I don’t know.
Me: Where did the tentacles come from?
James: I don’t know.
Me: Are those slap bracelets?
James: What the fuck?
That’s kind of how our night went. Before this we watched Water.