i love, love that this company thinks my name is ‘betty shade’ kennedy
what a wonderful moniker
i may make betty shade into my alias or a pulp fiction character one day.
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“there stands the shadow of a glorious name.”
-lucan
Dec12
Dec11
to park or not to park? that is the question.
i am endlessly amused by conversations that happen on my local nextdoor site.
here is one of my recent favs.
someone is reaching out for parking advice about the sign above
and gets a whole lot of answers (100+), yet no one knows for sure.
below is a sampling of responses for your reading pleasure:
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The original question: What does this sign mean? Can you park for 15 min without being ticketed?
No Parking alone means no parking (like bottom sign to left of the signpost) No parking with frame below it describes the “no parking conditions” within the red frame the added tow threat makes it more confusing.
I just wouldn’t park there🤣
15 minute parking allowed from the sign back. The parking enforcement, when they come around, will take photos of your cars location and of a tire and it’s valve stem location. They come back 15 minutes later and issue ticket if not moved. If it’s one of the really crabby patrol people they will come back 15 minutes later and issue a second ticket.
BEWARE THE KING CRAB!
every 14 minutes jack up ur car+ spin wheel to put valve in diff spot (see above)
Just like NYC – hand over your keys to a car jockey to move your car to the alternate side of the street on Tuesdays!
There was a sign just like this outside the old Kiwanis building, and for a long time that space was left empty because people didn’t realize they could park…
The wording of the sign pointing to the right is inconsistent. I did not find an interpretation of the sign in the Uniform Vehicle Code. Like, “Are you going to walk to school or…
Why is it inconsistent? As I see it, the sign says, “to the right of this sign you can park for 15 minutes between the hours of 6 am and 6 pm; you will be towed…
It means exactly what it says “no parking”
Could be a fund raising effort for a parking garage.
It means don’t park there regardless
“Can you park for 15 mins without being ticketed?” The answer is yes, if the question means whether it’s possible.
I’d trust the bottom line. See the tow truck picking up the vehicle 😂
My interpretation is that it really does mean no parking 6AM-6PM. The 15 minute limit is for standing (driver remains in vehicle). In practice, it is effectively a 15 minute limit…
I think the key is that the arrows on the signs point in different directions. So no parking at all from the sign and then to the left. The 15 minute no parking sign points to the right so the limited parking is from the sign and to the right.
Well, just visit – https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/ , a mere 862 pages! I think the first rule is read from top to bottom. Then execute like a computer interpreting code; don’t try…
Seems perfectly logical! Good to know. Thank you!
You can not park there unless you have a loading zone (commercial) plate, and then only for 15 minutes. Most loading zones have unlimited parking for those with loading zone…
I disagree. The sign in this post does not say anything about commercial permits or plates.
My interpretation of the originally posted sign is it’s basically a no parking zone, but they will let you park for 15 minutes during business hours. I’ve gotten away with parking…
But you can park for longer on Sunday?
Don’t think you can park there on Sunday
The sign is basically offering you an opportunity to bet; the city is betting you a parking space against a $25 ticket that you can’t figure out and execute what they meant…
This looks like East U adjacent to the business school. Isn’t it a bit cryptic? Appears to mark two zones, one to the left of the sign (see the arrow) in which there is no parking…
I love how everyone says it means something different and is 100% confident about it.
The last comment, from the original question poser: Being part of “everyone” I am not 100% confident.
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‘nine out of ten americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine.’
-colin mochrie
Dec10
who am i to tamper with a masterpiece? – oscar wilde
Runway scene from the King Adulaziz Camel Festival
where camels were ejected from beauty contest over Botox use and other ‘tampering.’
Organizers of a popular camel beauty contest in Saudi Arabia have disqualified 43 contestants after cracking down on Botox injections and other forms of tampering by breeders.
The 40-day King Abdulaziz Camel Festival, near Riyadh, in its sixth year, sees breeders compete for more than $66 million in cash prizes, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), so the stakes are high.
Unscrupulous breeders have been accused of using a number of methods to make their camels more likely to win, and this year organizers have dealt with the largest number since the festival began.
Marzouk Al-Natto, spokesman for the festival’s legal committee, said that breeders found to be tampering have to pay fines which vary according to the offense, reports SPA.
Camels are an important part of Saudi culture. The animals are well-adapted to life in deserts such as the Arabian Desert, large parts of which lie within the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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“mankind is tampering with the fabric of nature and it is not working out well for them.”
― steven macgee
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Credits: Photo credit: Faisal Al-Nasser/AFP/Getty Images, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Jack Guy, CNN
Dec9
learning is creation.
“what does our word say?!!”
(two kinder working together in my multi-age classroom, one older, one younger)
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“learning is creation, not consumption.
knowledge is not something a learner absorbs,
but something a learner creates.”
-george couros
Dec8
yet to be.
an ever-evolving downtown public installation
of personal hopes and dreams
yet to be lived
how would you fill in the blank?
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“the ninety and nine are with dreams, content
but the hope of the world made new,
is the hundredth man who is grimly bent
on making those dreams come true.”
-edgar allan poe
Dec7
hail, yes.
my sweet cherry blossom spring doormat
has met the sour almost winter hail.
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“he ran away from the rain and was caught in a hailstorm.”
turkish proverb
Dec6
up for a stroll?
The longest road in the world to walk is from Cape Town (South Africa) to Magadan (Russia).
No need for planes or boats, there are bridges.
It’s 22,387 km and it takes 4,492 hours to run it.
It would be 187 days walking non-stop, or 561 days walking 8 hours a day.
The route passes through 17 countries, six time zones and all seasons of the year.
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“all walking is discovery, on foot we take the time to see things whole.”
*-hal borland
*Harold “Hal” Glen Borland was an American author, journalist and naturalist. In addition to writing many non-fiction and fiction books about the outdoors, he was a staff writer and editorialist for The New Yorker.
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credits: united humanists
Dec5
options.
b tells me these are the ‘options’
for ordering from his coffee/hot cocoa shop
i can certainly appreciate that he has organized it so beautifully.
now that they’re all laid out
it will be much easier to choose.
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“it’s easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.”
-robert hall
Dec4
brace yourself.
how you smile when you first get your braces
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after many years of delay
it was finally my time
to begin wearing
invisalign braces
4 months in and 14 to go
a little bit of slurring
a lot of brushing
going to the ortho office
sitting in the waiting room
surrounded by 13-year olds
we may have different things on our mind
but we have something in common as well.
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“i’m not going to miss wearing the braces very much.”
-america ferrera
Dec3
peace for today.
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credit: melodie beattie
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