Your tax dollars at work!

Do the Kannapolis Police understand that when taxpayers complain about the inefficiency of government service, this is precisely the sort of thing they mean?

I was picking up groceries on the way home recently when I was treated to this...four squad cars (including an unmarked, and five city-paid police officers, responding to a...parking lot fender-bender. Do what?

No, really...two officers, I can understand. More than that, and you're into “more supervisors than workers” territory. Good to see the K-town fuzz taking care of business and keeping everyone safe.

"Gas Prices Stink"

That was the sum total statement of a 6" circle of vinyl plastered to the back of the vehicle in front of me this morning. The vehicle in question was a Chevy Silverado full-size pickup sporting a V-8 engine that gets, on average, about 15-16 MPG.

For the driver, I suppose the sticker was a statement of rock-bottom truth. I'm sure in his case, gas prices do stink. Nevertheless...

The truck was new. Spiffy-shiny new, I mean. Which means he bought it knowing full well what gas prices have been doing (there's no way the truck could be over a year old). From that, we can deduce that the driver is either (a) clinically insane, or (b) an idiot.

There's an interesting deduction to be made, as well, from the juxtaposition of his mini gas-rant with his other sticker -- "American And Proud Of It." Ah -- doubtless one of Dick Cheney's "The American way of life is not negotiable" crowd.

It figures.

Image annoyance

I really don't like the way ecto handles image uploads. I can't figure out how to stop it clipping the images when it thinks they're too big. Trying Mars Edit to see if it improves the situation.

Ecto does offer full rich-text editing, which Mars Edit doesn't seem too. That's kind of a bother, but possibly not enough to matter.

UPDATE: Hmm. That was...unsatisfactory.

UPDATE: Uploaded an image to Flickr from iPhoto. Inserting via Mars Edit's media manager.



UPDATE: Better, though I just discovered I can accomplish the same thing with ecto. I kind of think I like Mars Edit's interface better, tho.

Convenience?

Uhhh...no. If it was "for my convenience," the changing station would be right here where I am now, not out the door and down the hall in another room. Another in an ongoing series of corpspeak complaints