we used to enjoy chasing the Dilloes around a friend's Lake Okeechobee fishing camp until we became conversant with their ties to leprosy/Hansen's disease..
as a history major, I know all about the Spanish Armadillo, and Sir Frank Drake really boxed their ears.*
*genuine aside: just read the new book on Frank...the Spanish were the pre-eminent world power, the Armada sent 130 ships to whomp the outmanned Brits, only 65 ships returned, Frank didn't lose a single ship. The word "rout" is insufficient to describe what happened (the weather was helpful, too...the perils of a road game).
The movie The Program filmed some scenes on campus my senior year. They were on Clocktower quad as I was headed to class one morning. I stopped to watch as Halle Berry was working. After a minute or so, I noticed David Justice was standing next to me. I didn't offer to share my bagel.
At least it wasn’t the roided up football player that painted his face like a skeleton. That guy was creepy.
Halle Berry is worth stopping to watch for sure!
The Katie Holmes sighting might be my best Hollywood star.
Was on a plane with Shaq once and met a lot of DC and business famous people.
Anyone recall the website for the bridge near East Campus where the trucks get stuck?
Every time you try to idiot-proof something, they make a better idiot!
-jk
Aunt bragging time - this is the vaccination program in Minnesota Niece Elizabeth has been working on: https://kstp.com/news/walz-visits-mo...field/6088553/
They are using transit buses to take the vaccine to people instead of having people come to the vaccine.
It has its own website http://11foot8.com/
And wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfol...treet_Overpass
as the page mentions (and I think we got into this on another thread) the bridge was raised a few years ago...it's still not idiot proof, nor is it up to general standards, but it's not the trap it once was.
We have a similar idiot trap up here called the Smugglers Notch Road. At its narrowest point, only one car can navigate its tightest turn, and therefore the state has put up lots of big electric signs warning tractor trailers that they can't get thru, they'll be fined copiously if they try, and yet every year quite of few trucks manage to get big-time wedged, the kind of wedging which requires hours to untangle and very large tow trucks. The popularity of Google Map type navigation has exacerbated this problem...if the program says Go, people go...(like the nice Connecticut folks who followed navigation instructions down a ramp and into Lake Champlain several years ago). https://www.wfsb.com/news/ct-residen...20this%20month.
p.s. I believe the cops tried the app in question, and indeed it also led them to the Coast Guard ramp into the lake, but they were savvy enough to stop.
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