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Traffic circle makes the news again

"Group warns speeders of paintball gun"

Amusingly, WTVD has the Markham/Glendale intersection in Trinity Park.

Edit: video from WTVD and WRAL.  And, for what it's worth, I doubt that any of the people I imagine are behind this actually owns a paintball gun, or any type of gun at all.  It's not that type of neighborhood. 

And it gets better.

Bring me the head of the dinosaur!

The Durham Police have found the head of the decapitated Museum of Life and Science dinosaur.  Excellent.  Now I guess we need a fundraiser to get the dinosaur re-assembled.  [via Barry.] 

Edit: Story at MyNC with picture, and previous story about theft. 

The neighborhood speaks

From the neighborhood that brought you traffic circle tea parties, AKA "Dyke Park":

Duke Park urges Durham City Council to pass LGBT-friendly resolution

I don't technically live in the same neighborhood anymore, having moved all of 2 blocks south of the dividing line.  But both Duke Park and Old North Durham are great places to live. 

Beaver circle

I haven't done much traffic circle blogging lately.  Part of the reason is that the camera has been hosed on and off.  I've also had less time.  And, frankly, the traffic circle hasn't been much to look at recently.  But now it's been spruced up.  Someone even re-painted the, er, manhole cover. 

Have I ever mentioned that my neighborhood, Duke Park, jokingly goes by the name "Dyke Park"?  :)

[Click on photos to enlarge.]

More Bulls than you can swing a bat at

For those of you with an interest in baseball or local history, Gary had a really good post up today at Endangered Durham about the DAP, aka El Toro Ballpark.  There's a lot of stuff in there I didn't know.  For instance, the original El Toro park burned down in the late 30s, and was rebuilt.  Also, "From 1932 to the 1940s, Durham was the headquarters of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues."  Many different teams have played there over the past 75 years. 

Neat stuff.  And I'm not even much of a baseball fan. 

For those of you wondering about all the smoke...

this map might be helpful:

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[Thanks to jmgl, whoever they are.]

I also take a certain amount of Schadenfreude in knowing that the smoke is disturbing people in Virginia.  I'm a bad person.

"... but you fuck one goat...."

I recently had occasion to remember this incident, and have suddenly decided to re-tell it here. 

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Once many moons ago, I worked at a mall for a national (maybe bigger) retail chain that sucked.  One weekend, I was working with several others, was with a customer, and was maximally displaced from the phone when it rang.  Someone else picked it up, then told me it was for me. 

The conversation roughly went thus:

"Hi, this is Joe; can I help you?"

"Yeah, Joe?" said some guy.  "You don't know me, but I've seen you working at the mall, and I just wanted to tell you that I'd really like to suck your cock...."

He went on for a bit about what he wanted to do, with me cogitating on the possibilities the entire time.  He ended by saying "I just want to play with it a little bit." 

I was still partially in retail mode, so I answered "No thank you..."

He replied something like "Well, ok," and hung up. 

I never figured out who it was.  I still have no desire for him to suck my cock, or even play with it a little bit. 

Somewhat rushed haiku

DSL is dead
poaching wireless in spring rain
not recommended.

[Edit: So I like the word "poach" better.  :)]

Mandingo III, or Yet Another Saturday Night's Entertainment Shot to Hell

I'm sure a lot of us can relate to this:

After 45 minutes the seal gave up, swam into the water and then completely ignored the bird it had just assaulted, the scientists report.

so I'm wondering:

• why one community isn't up in arms, trying to prove the penguin was female
• why another community isn't up in arms, trying to prove the penguin was male
• why a couple more communities aren't trying to find the penguin and comfort it
• why yet more communities aren't trying to kill the sea lion, or at least put it in jail

I'm sure I'll have more smartass remarks to add later, after everyone I've insulted starts complaining.  OTOH, that didn't happen last time. 

After the cameras were off, I wonder if either of them had a cigarette?

[Via mothwentbad.]

1000s of people blog every day. What if 1 of them seems suspicious?

London cops declare war on photography.

[Via richardthinks.]