Speed! and Genius! – Huh? Edition

Friends,

Let’s get one thing straight right now. Gatsos are bad. And by Gatso, I mean speed cameras. The silent revenue generators that sit and wait for you to pass by a tenth of a mile an hour over the posted speed limit and snap your picture. A news item last week quoted a happy engineer saying that the current red light cameras could very easily connect to the inductive loops in the roadbed that you pass over at the intersection and use their signals to calculate speed. Rush through that intersection to catch the green and you’re caught again. Lovely.

Red-yellow-green light cameras are coming to a cash strapped municipality near you. Won’t that be nice? Oh wait, I’m sorry. Your town has plenty of cash, doesn’t it?

Not to gloat, but my little town can barely afford the upkeep of its two stop signs (wear and tear, you know). The devil’s armpit called the Coachella Valley, however…

Genius!

Another in our recurring series on work. I had to redact the name of the software for CLM reasons, but here’s the entire content of the job ticket:

“Will not connect or access to [application] from computer D100A.”

It’s worthwhile to note here that we don’t have a computer called D100A.

Um, yeah. Happy Monday!

– bob