How to release your inner MacGyver. h/t to Dan for the link via Twitter.

Residents of a neighborhood near West Forsyth HS are a ticked that a median is being installed on Lewisville-Clemmons Road just outside the entrance to their neighborhood. One of their arguments against the median, that it would increase response times of emergency personnel, doesn't really seem to hold water but their argument that an increase in U-Turns could be hazardous seems to be a valid one to me. I'm not sure why DOT can't put in a cut to allow at least for left hand turns into the neighborhood even if it doesn't allow left hand turns out of the neighborhood. There's a cut just like that just a couple of miles down the road.

Seth Godin has a very interesting idea for doing a presentation. Really it's an idea for not doing a presentation, but turning a presentation into a collaboration.

"When someone in poverty buys a device that improves productivity, the device pays for itself (if it didn’t, they wouldn’t buy it.) So a drip irrigation system, for example, may pay off by creating two or three harvests a year instead of one.

What does that do for the family that buys it? Well, if you have one harvest a year and you’re living at subsistence, it means your income is zero, or probably just a little below. If you can irrigate and get two or three harvests a year, though, your income goes up by infinity. Now, instead of making -1 pennies a day, you’re making 100 or 200 pennies a day. That’s a surplus of $700 a year. That’s enough to participate in other productivity or life-enhancing investments, like a well, or a roof, or health care. Now, the edge is a lot further away."