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Last week I biked to work every single day. I didn’t avoid driving every day, as I had to go to Travis’s field day at his school. Afterward, though, I hopped on the bike when it was time to go back to work.
Now I need to see how many other weeks I can manage!
I’ve always thought the gray building at the corner of Dawson Street and West Martin Street is somehow compelling. It just seems a bit out of place.
It turns out the building has a hidden history: it was once a train station, Raleigh’s Union Station, in fact. I never would’ve guessed it as the tracks are now nowhere near it. The station once served the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, the second railroad in the state.
Check out this railroad fan’s page to see how the building looked in its train station heyday and how it looks today. I may stop by the state archives sometime and see if I can find more historic pictures of the building.
My mom hung up her word processor on Friday and joined the ranks of the happily jobless. She’s probably worked more places than I have but Golden Corral kept her happy for the last ten. At least now I have less competition for the job-changing record!
Seriously, though: congratulations, Mom, on your retirement! We look forward to following your adventures as you travel the globe.
I spent a few hours this evening uploading some photos I took of downtown Raleigh landmarks last month. These now illustrate many Wikipedia pages related to Raleigh.
I’ve released them to the public domain. You can view them on my Wikimedia Commons contribution page (avoid the geek-speak on the page and just click on the links).
Fold ’em! Spindle ’em! Make a million bucks with ’em. I don’t care. Just enjoy them!
The OldNole has taken his cinematography to the YouTube level. He just posted a short video from our snapper fishing trip during our 2006 vacation in Panama City Beach, Florida. Our captain that day is dad’s longtime friend, Carl. He took us to a spot just offshore where we landed a cooler full of red snapper in about four hours. On this cool, drizzly day it sure is nice to look back on that fun late-August trip.
I saw the remnants of that snapper yesterday when I packed it into a cooler for the move from our old house to our new house. It sure will be tasty once we get settled in!
Happy birthday, Mr. Rogers.
On a related note, this week I named one of my company’s servers McFeely, the name of the postman on Mr. Rogers Neighborhood (and also Fred Rogers’s middle name).
Check out these hilarious YouTube videos of guitar greats playing with atrocious overdubbed music from Finnish media artist Santeri Ojala.
Its hilarious watching these awesome guitarists “play” so badly. I was laughing so hard I was crying!
(via BoingBoing)
Ten years ago, neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a stroke in her brain’s left hemisphere. As someone who studies the brain, she found herself in a unique position to experience and describe what she’d only studied before. Her story is fascinating, compelling, and deeply moving.
Take 18 minutes today to listen to her talk about her stroke at last month’s TED conference [self-playing Flash video]. You’ll be glad you did.
(hat tip, O’Donnellweb)
(I note Dr. Taylor sells her book on Lulu.)
Jeff’s new, clean face certainly changes his appearance.
I was poking around Wikipedia when I found a nice page for Raleigh’s historic Briggs Hardware Building on Fayetteville Street. Then I noticed that many other cities have entries in the Buildings and structures in the United States by city page, but Raleigh didn’t.
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