The annual fuel economy report of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
The feature story is on saving orchids from the hot, wet Florida summer. The neighborhood of the week real estate feature is about Worthington, between Royal Palm Beach and West Palm Beach.
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Just posted over at The Official Backyard Post Blog: This post has very little to do with Backyard Post, actually. We stare at maps and code all day, people, so cut us some slack.
Just getting this on the record: I still personally hate anyone who has ever used a “Call it a/the case of …” lede (including, unless I’m very much mistaken, myself many years ago in a weak and foolish moment). Also, “person of interest” is a stupidly meaningless and especially annoying example of cop talk that should never be used again ever by anyone anywhere. Too, descriptions of anyone as “award-winning” without an explanation of which awards and their relevance to the story at hand are dumb and only a poopy-head would use them.
That is all.
Actually, this is all: I hate “to be sure” and “in a wide-ranging interview,” too.
By “us” I mean Floridians, of course. Anecdotal evidence strongly suggests there’s something just sort of off about us, but here’s a fact that explains a lot: Nine percent of Floridians have some form of mental illness, which is three times the national rate, according to Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions.
So that’s good.
On a related note, Matt pointed out this remarkable headline, which I think really sums up this great state of 18 million souls: Juror asks to watch less porn in obscenity trial. But that’s Tampa. One can only assume that a Miami jury would request more than 8.5 hours of spectacularly reprehensible pornography.
Seems like about half of the comments I’ve left on WordPress-powered blogs running Akismet lately have been diverted into the spam queue. Maybe it knows something I don’t, but I’ll just put out a friendly reminder to check your spam folder every now and then for legitimate comments.
Let’s stay in Texas this week and have a look at the Austin American-Statesman in Virtual Earth/Live Maps. The Statesman, I suppose it should be noted, resides in the same benevolent corporate bosom as my employer.
