Ah Menlo Park. Downtown parking is usually plentiful but is time-limited by law to just two hours. Heavens forbid you want to eat dinner andget dessert. People complain about having to re-park their cars to spend money (and hence gain the city sales tax income). Or, people just don’t go to downtown because the whole thing shuts down at 4:30PM Saturdays. Half the stores aren’t open on Sunday, and the stores are poorly positioned to take advantage of half of the community demographics (imagine a downtown of upscale boutiques, Persian rug stores, coffee/bagel-houses, and expensive dining).

So, what is the solution? Step 1: spend more than $50,000 to reduce the parking time in many spots to 1 hour so that no one in their right mind will ever visit your stupid downtown and spend money in your city ever again.

http://www.almanacnews.com/news/show_story.php?id=7244

I’ll discuss the other steps in the coming days.

If I post enough pictures, no one will notice there is no text.

From the top: Alice, three shots of a “lake” in Thornewood, and the Napali Coast from helicopter.

Well… now what?

Look. I like this picture a lot. It’s clever and whatnot and something but right now I’m too hot to think of anything blahblah k’bye.