interesting sites of local interest

Well, of local Pennsylvania interest.

The outrage over the legislative pay raises has spawned the following sites:

1. Operation Clean Sweep
2. RollbacktheRaise.org

Everywhere I go in Harrisburg, people are outraged. I don't think this issue will go away for awhile.

heh

I suppose with the new legislative pay raises, there's just not enough money to go around for benefits.

hburg blogger meetup

The blogger meetup at Dukes over in Wormleysburg was pretty cool. It was really cool meeting a bunch of Harrisburg area bloggers! AND we're all going to be on the radio (WITF, 89.5FM)!

More soon.

rss feed

Here's the RSS feed to this blog. I didn't know what an RSS feed was until this evening, so if it doesn't work just let me know and I'll read up on how to fix it.

Dear Harrisburg City

Or to whom it may concern:

Please unblock the stormdrains at 3rd and Emerald. The intersection floods everytime a heavy shower comes down. I've only lived in the neighborhood for a few weeks now, and I've seen it flooded twice. I don't even want to imagine what will happen if a hurricane comes through like Floyd or Isabel or Ivan and dumps heavy rain on the area for more than 12 hours. Or dare I say it, Agnes.

Thank you.

A Concerned Neighbor.

(PS, I actually live along the river, so a big flood occurance would make this moot to me. I'm just saying it could affect a lot of homes and a few businesses, including a halfway decent grocery store, if the intersection were to really flood.)

Idiot of the day

"The NAACP unfortunately in the 2000 campaign likened the president to James Byrd, who was a racist killer in east Texas, who the president brought to justice."

Ken Mehlman. You are an idiot. Please note, that James Byrd was the victim.

Transcript.

Via Atrios.

Terry In the Big City, Episode One


I'm finally settled in Harrisburg and I finally have the time (and ability, now that the DSL is on) to write about stuff.

Some stuff I won't write about:
1. My job (or more specifically, my observations on the people I work with.) I'd rather not get fired. I will say that I enjoy what I do thus far as a transportation planner in training, and the people I work with are easy-going and friendly.

2. Political rants. It's just too exasperating. You hear one thing that gets you angry, that's fine. However when it's a daily litany of outrages ongoing for nearly half a decade, you get a little worn out. As Forrest Gump once said, "Sometimes, there just aren't enough rocks."

Some stuff I will write about:
1. My friends , though they'll all be given code names in the cast of characters to protect their privacy.

2. My hobbies. I'm currently looking into buying another aquarium. And maybe a new computer. And some plants.

3. Harrisburg. It is my new home.

4. Rants about local goofiness. Pennsylvania's greedy legislature just voted themselves a payraise. The poor dears were only making about 70 grand. Now they're somewhere in the 80s. I suppose their kids need to get that super expensive private education and I also suppose they need to pay for the expensive cars I see lined up along the Capitol. But I digress.

That's all for now.

blog changes

I got rid of haloscan. Blogger's comment will do fine until this site moves up to Moveable Type (with its very own domain name!)


No other real changes.

Harrisburg


Harrisburg is a really cool town from what I can see of it. I'm excited to be moving there and exploring it. My dad thought some of my new neighborhood (uptown, north of Macclay, right on Front St.) looked a little shady. I thought it looked like a neighborhood in transition.

So, if any Harrisburgers (is that what we're called? If not please correct me) are reading, what's good in town? Where's the Weis/Giant/Acme/Food Lion (and can I get there on the bus? I don't really drive.)

Looking forward to this change in life, I am.

More Banners

I don't like the banner I have up as much I as I did.

Here are some others I've drawn. I'll let all of you decide which ones you like best.

noone likes karl

Poor Karl Rove. Noone likes him.

Evolution Rant also Lazy Parent Rant

So the PA House (AKA the Assembly) has decided to debate on whether Intelligent Design should be taught alongside evolution in the schools. This is due to the fact that the fundamentalists think evolution is evil and intelligent design is the best they'll get to creationism.

This bothers me.

For one thing, I think intelligent design is a very lazy theory. Very lazy. Instead of attempting to explain things, which science is supposed to do, it just says "Oh, a designer made it. That's the end of the story." Evolution, while imperfect in some ways, explains how things came to be and so on. I also don't like intelligent design because of its chief proponent in PA, that Behe guy. Having seen him attempt to debate his intelligent design theory he really comes off as an obnoxious toad. My personal dislike for him and his debating style also factors into my feelings on intelligent design.

At anyrate, I hope they don't do anything with this. I hope evolution remains where it should be : In the science books in the schools. If fundamentalist parents don't like it, they can teach the kids other things all they want instead of being lazy parents and plopping the kids in front of the TV/Computer/Video Game. Do that thing that you always say the gays are trying to destroy and have Family Time, where you all sit down and talk or discuss or teach new things. Turn your TVs off.

Dear Senator Biden

Please don't run.

Love,


Terry.

banner.jpg

A Banner I'm testing out.

I am moving to Harrisburg, PA, where I was lucky enough to get a very nice job.

observation

I've recently discovered Craigslist . . . a bizarre collection of want ads, roommate ads, hookup ads(Generation Y terminology for "I want random, anonymous sex" and no, I don't do that) and more.

It is incredibly amusing.

However, I discovered that to my horror, the owner of craigslist is beaming the various postings into space.

Aliens will discover said postings. I think they will then come and vaporize the Earth.