A funny thing happened on the way to Mari & Charlie’s brunch today.
We were in the middle of the no-man’s-land between Roxboro & Markham…you know, that part of The Worst-Designed Intersection in Durham (or is it in all of North Carolina?) where you’ve already crossed northbound Roxboro and are waiting for a break in the [...]

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Check out the coverage in Durham magazine and of course, the Beaver Lodge Local 1504 website.
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In this article by Maureen Dowd, she lists earmarks that John McCain is opposing in the latest spending bill. His objections include this line item:
$650,000 for beaver management in North Carolina and Mississippi.
Perhaps beavers are more manageable in Arizona, but we’ve had issues with unruly beavers right here in our neighborhood. It was through our [...]

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And Durham thinks it has a problem with the threat of digital billboards.
At least we’re not a “branded city of the future“. Yet.
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So the last week was pretty amazing on a number of counts. (1) Barack Obama was inaugurated. (2) Barry and I were in DC with a few million other people for the occasion. (3) I met a whole bunch of cousins that I’d never met before.
We arrived on Saturday after a lovely drive up Route [...]

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The Post Office is one of those government entities that people love to hold up as models of bureaucracy, inefficiency and incompetence. Historically, I’ve been a contrarian about this, because except for one letter that arrived late about 20 years ago, I had never had a single problem with postal delivery.
Then I moved to Durham.
I [...]

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I want to emphasize this point: I was NOT looking for a job. Heck, I’m scheduled to speak at an IABC meeting this month about the joys of not having a job.
A couple of weeks ago I got an email from someone saying “we have a job opening, here’s the description, are you open to [...]

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The City of Durham is conducting a survey to see which of these bus designs you like the best. Mr. D. thinks they should be more concerned about things like, oh, bus shelters and service frequency, but as a designer, I’m concerned that the five options don’t really give citizens enough of a choice of [...]

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Anyone who’s spent time in downtown Durham has seen what has come to be known as the “We Want Oprah!” building:

(Photo used utterly without permission after downloading from a lovely photo essay of Durham posted by Snowpea on citydata.com)
Looks like Oprah’s coming to Durham.
Well, to Duke, anyway. Does that count?
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This first tale has a happy ending. The second is an adventure in progress.
I met Barry down at the ’shmong Friday night, parking in the lot next door. When I returned to my van, a small postcard had been stuck in the driver’s side window. I went to pull it out (and discard of it [...]

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