Since before Riverview’s building campaign kick-off in November of last year I’ve been looking forward to seeing the building start to go up and this is just one of the steps, but it’s one of the first is actually visible. Tomorrow some big machines will start pushing dirt around, but the groundbreaking was today.

Brett is sure to have taken some way better pictures, but here’s a few of the ones I managed to snap…

Pretty cool stuff… I can’t wait to see it all together.

UPDATE: Indeed, Brett DID take much better pictures, and here they are.

I recently visited the pre-opening (is that what its called?) of a new coffee shop and noted the great abundance of service representatives behind the counter… Well staffed? Over staffed? Either way, fast service.

Name the show that the title’s phrase references and you get 5 points. Name the character that says it, and you get another 12 points.

UPDATE: I read this afternoon in the LSJ that DeWitt just spent $500,000 on 600 new computers for their district. Seriously, half a million dollars? I’ll save you the time spent grabbing a calculator: the breakdown is $833.33 each. Some of the machines they are replacing are as much as eight years old. Why is DeWitt spending so much money in one year to get 600 machines instead of buying as many machines incrementally, providing a cycle that does not allow any machine in the building to be say, more than six years old?

AND…

“…the district had to cut staff, programs and services in order to come up with money for new computers.”

What could haggling with Dell do for the situation? Potentially land as much as 40% more computers for the same money. Or why not spend significantly less and be able to provide the same staff, programs and services to your students. I hope there are circumstances I am not aware of that dictated these decisions.

Andy Summers, Stewart Copeland and Sting (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner) are on tour again. Tuesday night they were at The Palace of Auburn Hills. And so was I.

It had been a while since I had been to a concert, so I had forgotten that you can’t help there being people sitting near you who don’t understand the concept of ‘personal space’ but it didn’t hurt the show itself in the least. The place was packed and The Police put on a phenomenal show.

Here’s a shot from about twenty minutes before they came out:

And here’s a couple shots during the show: