DisinfotainmentUnpopular Opinions from Charles EicherCoralville: Dig It Now, Love It Later- June 25, 2008 After the Flood of 1993, the City of Coralville embarked on a major construction project to repair the Coralville Strip, the worst damaged area. The roads were torn up for months, causing much inconvenience to drivers, it was the main road to Iowa City. The City even promoted the forthcoming improvements to roads, sidewalks, and sewers, with a ludicrous PR slogan, "Coralville: Dig It Now, Love It Later." The project was a huge success, attracting new businesses to the Strip, and inducing...http://weblog.ceicher.com/archives/2008/06/coralville_dig_it_now_love_it.html Trouble RIght Here in River City- June 20, 2008 Yeah, this is bad. I'm constantly checking for the NOAA NWS Advanced Hydrologic Report for the Iowa River at Iowa City on my iPhone. Here's what it looked like just after the peak of the flood. There was a data outage on Friday but is fairly accurate otherwise. Earlier predictions set a projected peak over 33ft. The Hydrology Report shows the recent peak at 31.5. The floodwater is receding, but we're still not lower than the previous record 1993 flood stage of 28.5ft. Floodwaters are...http://weblog.ceicher.com/archives/2008/06/trouble_in_river_city.html Floods of 2008- June 13, 2008 Major flooding is hitting Coralville, Iowa but my neighborhood is relatively unaffected. Many of the roads are closed but as long as the Interstate is open, I'll probably be able to get to work (if it's open). Unfortunately, my DSL went out so I'm blogging this from the only Internet access I have, my iPhone, and even cellular service is intermittent. We are just now surpassing the record flood of 29.5 ft. in 1993, and the expected crest is 32.9 ft., five days from now. This could be bad.http://weblog.ceicher.com/archives/2008/06/floods_of_2008.html Peter Payne, Pornographer- June 11, 2008 I've been censored again, ironically, by a pornographer. He has censored me before, so this time I saved my remarks, and I'll post them here for your evaluation. But first let's examine the censor. Peter Payne first came to my attention in the early 1990s. Payne moved to Japan and started an online business exporting Japanese pornography. He sent pornographic spam hawking his wares to email addresses (such as mine) he harvested from Japanese-related Usenet newsgroups. I immediately complained...http://weblog.ceicher.com/archives/2008/06/peter_payne_pornographer.html |