Feed: St. Louis

Renewing License Plates in Missouri

Published 2007-05-01 at 13:42:02Z under st-louis, thoughts

I can't stand it when things are harder than they need to be. Many times,
things are hard because someone stupid is making the decisions, or someone lazy
is doing the implementation. My plates are up for renewal. I always wait until
the last minute to do these types of things.

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Tamm Ave. Bridge Demolition

Published 2007-04-21 at 05:07:09Z under homepage, st-louis

They blew up the Tamm Ave. bridge tonight, the first bridge of many that will
be demolished to make way for the upcoming I-64/40 construction.

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HDTV in St. Louis

Published 2007-02-04 at 20:30:16Z under homepage, st-louis

I've had an HDTV for at least 5 years. I had to buy an expensive DirecTV tuner
in order to properly enjoy it, but enjoy it I did. A few years ago I moved to
Charter, because DirecTV wasn't keeping up with HDTV offerings. One glaring
omission in Charter's HDTV line-up is our local ABC affiliate (KDNL), due to a
fee dispute. Fine, whatever, I can get by without one local channel. This month
they did the same thing with our local CBS affiliate (KMOV). This means Charter
subscribers cannot watch the Super Bowl in HD, unless their TV is capable of
picking up the signal over the airwaves.

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Levels of Government

Published 2006-11-07 at 19:02:52Z under current-events, homepage, st-louis

When you think of the word "government", what government do you think of? US
federal government? Your state's government? County? City? I'm a big fan of
self-governance. When people get together and decide that they want their
government to do something, they frequently skim over the definition of
"government" without even thinking. Getting their measure passed by any of
these governments will have roughly the same effect for their local community.
Why is it that people automatically think "state" or "federal" when
"government" comes into the picture?

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Voting in St. Louis

Published 2006-11-07 at 15:55:35Z under current-events, hardware, homepage,
st-louis

So I voted this morning, and had my choice of voting (a) with a paper ballot;
or (b) electronically. Having read much of what's come out about electronic
voting machines, I was a little wary, and asked if it had a paper audit trail I
could see. The lady at the desk said yes, it did. So I opted to go electronic.

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Bombarded by Politics

Published 2006-11-05 at 19:42:34Z under current-events, homepage, St. Louis,
thoughts

I am being bombarded by political ads, telephone calls, visitors and junk mail.
It has never been this bad, and I'm getting really fed up with it.

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