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Cheap Thoughts: Traffic light outages
A cold front blew through two nights ago, knocking out power with freakishly-strong wind gusts. Police all over the city were directing traffic through dark intersections. As I drove through my third dark intersection, I questioned why we were tying up police officers in a dangerous job like directing traffic when efforts could be better spent getting the traffic lights up quickly.
Police could arrive with a small generator which could be plugged into the box to provide temporary power to the intersection’s traffic lights. Perhaps chaining the generator to the nearest telephone pole.
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Cheap Thoughts: Dogs and clean hands
One of a dog’s strongest instincts is to seek out clean hands and promptly lick them.
Cheap Thoughts: Like a candle?
What did Rudolph’s nose glow like before Thomas Edison invented the light bulb?
Cheap Thoughts: Trashcan Olympics
There should be a game show where a couple competes against each other to see who can stuff the most into a trash can before the trash absolutely must be taken out.
Cheap Thoughts: Black Labs
A Black Lab is a tongue with legs.
Cheap Thoughts: protractors
Why is the opposite of protractor not contractor?
Cheap Thoughts: More than distance
Found out today that one of my Australian friends is in Raleigh. He traveled from 30 degrees Celsius to 30 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Cheap Thoughts: On-demand escalators
Something caught my eye when I walked by the empty Raleigh Convention Center last night: every escalator in the place was chugging along though there was no one in the building.
What a bunch of wasted electricity! These are hefty machines and they’re left running? And though it would be an improvement if someone would come by and manually shut them off, what would be even better would be to give the escalators the ability to turn themselves on when needed.
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