cassette decks in action

[lifeofmendel]

a couple of weeks ago, i got a parking citation for being in a spot for longer than two hours in a two-hour zone when i had actually left for lunch and come back to the same spot. It felt worth a trip to downtown to try to dispute it. I took the day off today to take care of a bunch of errands in preparation for the drumline party tonight and

Comments

[belenen]

whaaaaaat, how strange and bureaucratypical. That takes so much space and is such a delicate form of storage, terrible.

[lifeofmendel]

When i posted this on g+, my brother pointed me to this article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/03/22/sinkhole-of-bureaucracy/

[sabr]

This is so fascinating to me, because I work in a upper level position of the county clerk's office. SO MUCH of what we do is still a manual process - and as one of the "young minds" in the office, I am dragging the office out of the ice age, but there is so much room for improvement beyond what we've already improved.

And to think, as a metro-Atlanta county, which has maintained our excellent credit rating throughout the recession and been able to keep above water instead of hemorrhaging money, we're ahead of the curve. Scary.