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By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:30:17 +0000

Hell, all I had to do was crop the course map and add the arrow and the X. That didn’t take any time at all.

By: Tom Shortell

Tom Shortell — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:17:37 +0000

Sam, did generating that map take longer or shorter than the actually traffic snare you were trapped in?

By: Brian Angliss

Brian Angliss — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:08:44 +0000

“The A2 Art Fair is perhaps the largest congregation of upper-middle class, liberal smugness in this solar system.”

I wonder how it would compare to the Boulder Creek Festival. And I say this as someone who enjoys the BCF in small doses once every few years.

By: Lex

Lex — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:52:00 +0000

Sounds like you need fart can mufflers on that civic.

I feel your pain, Sam. I once lived inside the Ann Arbor Art Fair area. (The A2 Art Fair is perhaps the largest congregation of upper-middle class, liberal smugness in this solar system.) If i was lucky enough, no artist had set their stuff across my driveway. After that i had to nose my way out into a throng of people (in a Honda Civic) and travel two blocks through the fair in my car. Oh the dirty looks i got for trying to get to work, the purposefully refusing to get out of my way, and the anger that my car didn’t come with the cow-catcher attachment.

That’s why my current vehicle sports big hooks under the front bumper, sits more than a foot off the ground and has skid plates…i don’t want to have to be picking body parts out of the engine compartment.