Archive for December, 2008

Christmas-cardless-Christmases

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It’s December 18 and, thus far, I have only received two Christmas cards. One card is from my grandmother.  She never misses a year. Deeply religious, her cards always contain a hand written reminder of the true reason for the season, “May the joy of the season be yours as you [...]

Merry-go-round my roundabout

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Today I’d like to talk about the singlemost terrifying piece of infrastructure facing Fresno’s drivers to date: traffic cirlces. Do I go? Do I stop? Wait? Merge? OMG! My research uncovered the term traffic circle is actually incorrect. Wikipedia reports, “In the United States it is technically called a modern roundabout, [...]