What’s Under The Sidewalk

Posted 30 Jan 2012

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A meander down a snowy sidewalk in Cleveland, Ohio quickly turned into a quizzical pondering session when I crossed this patch of sidewalk without any snow on it. What’s under there that’s melting the snow anyway?

Is it just the building heating system, or could it be something more exotic or unsettling?

- Tip of an as yet undiscovered volcano?
- The apartment of certain heroes in a half-shell?
- A fire-breathing dragon?
- Cleveland’s nuclear arsenal?

The Muse of Lucas

Posted 27 Jan 2012

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Is this a cousin of Luke or Anakin? Perhaps a more distant relative.

Reminder or campaign?

Posted 20 Jan 2012

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Driving in the early evening, I spotted a FedEx van stopped ahead of me at the traffic light. It had something sort of paper or note tapped to its back door.

So, then I was a bit confused: Was it a reminder, like “Don’t forget the delivery to Seal Team 6″? Or was it more of an awareness campaign poster in light of recent tragedies befalling the fabled military unit?

Can’t get there from here

Posted 29 Dec 2011

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Over the recent holidays, I was visiting family in Illinois. As the evening came to an end, I sauntered out to my car to get it warmed up and to punch in my travel destination on the GPS device (satellite navigation). Already having entered the details for my accommodation, I selected it from a list and waited for the device to tell me how to get there.

You may not be surprised to learn that it took me some time to get home that night.

(NOTE: I blurred out the destination in the top left corner of the screen as it is the home address of a family member.)

Let’s hope it’s not too much of an emergency

Posted 28 Dec 2011

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This empty box usually holds simple pamphlets with directions to the nearest hospital (or so we assume, given the label).

Seeing that it is empty makes me think, on the plus side, that directions were clearly needed from this place, so it is great that this was here!

On the negative side, for anyone who may have an emergency here now, I hope it is not TOO MUCH of an emergency!