Exploration

It's amazing the stuff you can find when you go poking around the backs of buildings. I did some urban exploration in old town nearby today, and found two gardens in courtyards, several alleys, a couple of rusty warehouses, and some other cool stuff. I'll post pictures tomorrow. But it'd all started because I wanted to poke around by dumpsters to see if people were throwing useful stuff away, especially a computer or something maybe.

And I found one, even. Swiped it from the dumpster, and need to get it from the back of my girlfriend's car in the next couple of days, then hook it up and see if it works and so on. I'm gonna have to explore more places like this, it's fun.

And yeah, I've been out doing things and such lately, which is why this has been dead, and why I've fallen behind on the RP on the GG forum. I'll update that tomorrow, I swear! I never figured having a life would interfere with stuff so much.

On Bureaucrats

From Slacktivist, in a post about some Southern Baptists trying to pull their kids out of public schools in a big group, a quote that expresses things quite well.

"So instead of bureaucrats and politicians, parents will decide directly how these schools will be run. Well, maybe not directly -- having a town-meeting every time you need to hire staff or purchase textbooks could be cumbersome and inefficient. But short of that they could ensure that parents had a say in such decisions by, say, electing representatives to a board that could oversee the schools. They could call it a "school board." This "school board" -- accountable to the parents -- could hire professionals to manage the day-to-day affairs of the schools. All of which would be so much better than the current system of politicians and bureaucrats."

Heh. Good show, sir.