Maszman Speaks!

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On Dewey Avenue in Greece is the old Air Force Plant 51 site. It was used in WWII to build land­ing craft and then con­verted to build­ing parts for B-52 bombers. Although it looks aban­doned, the site is still in active use, with a print­ing com­pany in that front white build­ing and a scrap metal com­pany in the main build­ing behind.

The plant is on Round Pond and is one of the most con­t­a­m­i­nated sites in the Rochester area. I stayed out­side and away from the pond area.

There are more pho­tos avail­able on my Flickr site at Air Force Plant 51.

Mount St. Helens, which exploded back in 1980 on my birth­day, has been spew­ing molten rock and ash for a while now. The prob­lem is that sci­en­tists don’t know why.

There’s a rea­son you see the words “RIAA” and “drip­ping with slime” together. Like when their lawyers bully wit­nesses into per­jury.

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I pre­vi­ously pho­tographed this build­ing while it was in the process of being moved to its present site. I was both pleased and sur­prised they would take the effort to do so. It’s not quite done yet, but they’re cer­tainly more than halfway there. I wish this approach was taken more often than it is.

New York State, in its infi­nite stu­pid­ity, has decided to estab­lish three 10-day win­dows per month for vehi­cle inspec­tions, with the idea that this will pre­vent every­one from wait­ing until the end of the month to get their car inspected. But it won’t, since the date will be set by the time of the month you get your 2006 inspec­tion. In other words, wait until the end of the month and you have all month in 2007 to get the next inspec­tion. Just like it is today.

Part of the prob­lem is the state now requires infor­ma­tion from your car’s com­puter to be sent at the time of the inspec­tion. All that data com­ing at the end of the month seems to be over­whelm­ing their com­put­ers. That data was their idea, of course, so given they have decades of data telling them when cars get inspected, how could they not have antic­i­pated this?

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The sides of Rt. 390 near me are cov­ered with long grass that’s full of var­i­ous bits and pieces that have fallen off vehi­cles. This looks like a brake mas­ter cylin­der and was prob­a­bly part of a load of junk parts on its way North. By Sum­mer I would expect it to be com­pletely invisible.