AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[james_davis_nicoll]

THEY'VE TORN UP EVEN MORE OF QUEEN STREET. THERE IS NO DIRECT ROUTE BETWEEN ME AND THE BUS STATION.

Comments

[thejeopardymaze]

They do similar things in Seattle alot.

[autopope.livejournal.com]

What this calls for is obviously a rocket-assisted pogo stick, for leaping over those annoying road excavations. Preferably with feral cats for stabilization.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

James + rocket-assisted pogo stick + overhead wires = x

(solve for x)

-- Steve'll do his best to stop solving this equation... somehow.

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

x = Nicoll Event?

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

I don't think my calculator's display's margins are large enough to contain the marvelous animation I have discovered.

--Dave o o o O O O ( BOOM! )

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

I was just going to say, surely the natural process of human ingenuity will devise a way over these obstacles before they become an issue.

[doc-lemming.livejournal.com]

Actually, given that the news in his (and my) area reported severe overstraining of Humane Society resources regarding feral cats (possibly leading to euthanasia; we are currently a no-euthanasia area), an all-feral-cat solution would be better.

James can only adopt so many, after all.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

In Kitchener, the streets are paved with feral cats!

[zotz]

Back in the Eighties I read a book that featured an interesting transport device that was half pogo stick and half autogyro.No cats, as I remember.

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Let me see ...

Take a pogo stick. Add a rotor assembly. Rather than storing energy in a spring inside the stick, divert some of it to spin up the rotor head. When there's enough momentum in the rotor head, adjust pitch for take-off. Then power up the fan in your backpack, right? And autorotate to a landing.

Yes, this sounds James-worthy ...

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

And if you attach some string and a couple of laser pointers to the rotors, you'll get the feral cats involved too!

--Dave, now all we need is some bread buttered on one side, and duct tape

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Get a bicycle . . .

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

The water main work locally is going pretty quick. Hopefully the same is also true where you are.

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

Oh, look, bourgeois white guy crying about his first world problems on the Internet.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, even dug up Queen is better than the dirt road we used on Santa Catarina Island during mud season. Oddly, winter in Canada had given us a coping mechanism for mud season in Brasil.

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

#Nicollevents are almost always #1stworldproblems raised to the power of n (where n = Cats!).

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I like to think being on fire or attacked by wandering mad men or having trees fall on one are experiences everyone worldwide might potentially enjoy.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

yes James, Public Works is out for you personally, and now that you are aware of it, will have to arrange another accident..

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think the target may be the mobility impaired people down Queen. One of the odd things they've on both sides is heap tar on the sidewalks, making them impassible to people in wheelchairs and walkers. Now on one side you can't get through anyway because a block farther down they've torn up the sidewalk but the other side would be navigable except for the tar hills. As it is, I think your wheeled folk need to make their way up the hill to Benton and proceed down there.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

makes you wonder what those workers do to amuse themselves, by letting up elaborate mazes and obstacle courses and letting the test subjects run/roll free..

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Their body language says their lives are filled with undesired revelations.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Wait, no. They can cut over to Ontario and then Joseph to David, I think. David gets them past the construction and there are side streets that run to Queen.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

That plaintive scream could only be worse if they were mining Queen Street to extract helium-3.

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

+1

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

Actually they're extracting helium-17 and letting it slowly decay into normal matter.

New forms of Internet p0rn may end up being involved at some point, of course.

--Dave, more ... POWER!

Please tell me it doesn't go as far as Schneider Haus!

[awesomeaud.livejournal.com]

My partner and I are going to be there on Saturday demonstrating paper marbling at the Heart & Hand Festival. If the road is all torn up that's really going to affect traffic.
Bummer.

http://www.papertrail.ca/blog/2013/09/11/heart-hand-festival-september-21st/

Plus all this will be going on:

Saturday, September 21
11 a.m.- 4 p.m.
WORD ON THE STREET
Book & Literary Festival
Downtown Kitchener

with THE KING STREET ART MARKET
King Street, between Young & Ontario Streets
Artisans, Vendors & Music all day!

If there's no direct route from King to Schneider Haus, we'll be lucky to see anyone but the dog-walkers in Victoria Park!

Re: Please tell me it doesn't go as far as Schneider Haus!

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Does this help? (http://app.kitchener.ca/pdf/roads/queen_reconstruction_staging.pdf)

Re: Please tell me it doesn't go as far as Schneider Haus!

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Looks to me like you'd have to go from King via Benton to Courtland and over to Queen.

[added later]

But if it's practical, you might want to check the route yourself in case there's roadwork not on that map.

[rpresser.livejournal.com]

With that many letters in the AAAHHH I was expecting to see something about Helium Three.

Maybe they're trying to mine Queen Street for Helium Three?

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

I'm almost impressed at the state of road work in Halifax - lots of alternating sidewalk closures all through the downtown, such that I've occasionally had to cross back and forth across the street several times to walk two blocks in a straight line..

[persephoneplace.livejournal.com]

It is not possible. just NO - i have spent months and months waiting for that construction to be done and it really looked like they were about to open the road - what have they done now?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Chewed up a lane's worth of road and moved a lot of dirt.

I swear, last week it looked like one backhoe was digging a hole and another was filling it in with dirt from a second hole.

[erikagillian.livejournal.com]

Ever read Archer's Goon by Diana Wynne Jones?

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

If not, you REALLY REALLY should, James. (Not even part of a series, so you only invest one book's worth of time! But what a return rate...)

--Dave