Mokka mit Schlag

Joel Spolsky has a really funny article about a cell phone Sprint sent him in the hopes he’d blog about it. Well he did, and the results weren’t pretty:
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Hummingbird clearwing (Hemaris thysbe), Richard DeKorte Park, Meadowlands, New Jersey, 2006-09-17
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Wildcat Ridge parking lot, 2006-09-17
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Wildcat Ridge parking lot, 2006-09-17

The primary is over here in the Eleventh Congressional District of New York State. I don’t yet know who won the judicial races (Surely, someone somewhere posts complete election results; but whoever it is I haven’t been able to find them with Google) but not counting those races I’m 2 for 6. I.e. of the six candidates I voted for, 2 won.
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Will we ever get high speed train service in this country? After riding the Acela roundtrip from New York to Boston and back this past week, I’m afraid the answer is no. As the crow flies, Boston is about 306 kilometers from New York. On the most expensive train that trip takes just about three and a half hours, thirty-forty minutes faster than the cheap train. As near as I can tell, this time savings is achieved mostly by skipping stations. Why Amtrak paid so much extra for these trains, I don’t know. The Acela poked along at a leisurely speed that afforded excellent views of the Atlantic coast and marshes. We rarely seemed to exceed 100 kilometers per hour. Cars on the adjacent highways regularly passed us. Once we were passed by a Metro North commuter train! And I’m not even counting the twenty minutes we stopped waiting for a bridge to be fixed in Rhode Island.
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