Suburban Atlantans State Sitting in Traffic is Worse than Black People

Gwinnett County is a suburban county located northeast of Atlanta.  It is also the poster-child for ugly sprawl.  This land of strip malls, massage parlors, million dollar homes, chain restaurants and other ubiquitous symbols of modern suburbia for years barred the door to Atlanta's mass transit provider, MARTA.  Well, the worm has turned, I guess.  The AJC is reporting that 2/3 of Gwinnetians are now in favor of MARTA accessing their county.

"I think the general perception in Gwinnett that voters would not want to have it in the area, that's obviously changed," said Chuck Warbington, a Dacula resident and director of the CID. The CID is proposing a local light rail line from Gwinnett Place through Indian Trail, Gwinnett Village and Norcross that would connect to MARTA's Doraville station. It might or might not be run by MARTA.

Warbington said he's lived in Gwinnett all his life and remembers the fears that went into the county's 1990 resounding vote to reject a MARTA extension, 70 percent to 30 percent. While the money was important, he said, "the biggest thing I remember, and I've had people tell me who lived in Gwinnett then, is MARTA's crime, and the urbanization of Gwinnett...I think that was the perception back then."

Well, this is good news.  

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Rose!

What if a Cyclone Hit the 8th and 11th Biggest Cities in the World

and nobody knew it? That's about to happen. I had no idea that Tropical Cyclone Sidr is galloping towards Kolkata in India and Dhaka in Bangladesh. It ain't on CNN, CNN's Asia page or even Sepia Mutiny. WTF?

Injured Reserve

My sister-in-law's dog and I both had knee surgery last week. She, Lea, is the smaller one in the picture below. We're both doing well, but i thought I would share a photograph of us together this weekend.

What a Game! What a Season!

Awesome!

Holy Chit on Here!

A desi balla!  The kid on the left just decommitted from Oregon State.  The kid on the right, is named DiPanjot Singh and plays basketball for Evanston High School in Illinois.

It's no surprise that he's a Sikh, I guess.  They're generally the tallest and burliest Indians around.  But bravo for him keeping his culture and religion in the forefront and wearing his patka on the court.

Seven and Five

Offered Without Comment

The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year is a Mac. Try that again: The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year--or for that matter, ever--is a Mac. Not a Dell, not a Toshiba, not even an Alienware. The $2419 (plus the price of a copy of Windows Vista, of course) MacBook Pro's PC WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 88 beats Gateway's E-265M by a single point, but the MacBook's score is far more impressive simply because Apple couldn't care less whether you run Windows.

-- PC Magazine