Free-For-All Friday 12/28/12
Decatur Metro | December 28, 2012 | 8:17 amFeel free to use this post to ask questions and make comments about local issues not discussed here over the past week.
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Happy Holidays! Anybody want to donate any unwanted, but nice items to Girl Scout leaders for door prizes for an event? I’ll take ’em! Gifts only a mother might love… [email protected]
And, I WAS FIRST! Everybody must be sleeping in.
I am in mourning. Yet another huge healthy oak tree being cut down on the front of a neighbors lot (edited: too specific) as I type this.
Wanted to say thanks to them for taking us all another notch down the road towards human extinction.
We laud ourselves for being such a progressive society in Decatur but then I see yet another, and another and another example of this (with no replacements) and think we are a pretty darn sick species.
I know folks will say “but its private property and what if those neighbors were worried it was going to fall on thier house?”
And I’d say “I guess its about control and need for “control” is ultimately the result of fear which means I guess we’re actually a scared and sick society.”
+1,000,000
Don’t regs require replacement of some sort or can Decaturites cut with impunity?
Decatur does have a tree ordinance requiring replacement.
Dude cuts down tree = scared and sick society. Got it.
We had to take ours down because it split, it literally made me ill. I loved that tree. Our neighbors had to take down an enormous tree because there was something wrong with it. I wouldn’t jump to a conclusion that they are just wanting to write a large check to take the tree down for no reason.
“Wanted to say thanks to them for taking us all another notch down the road towards human extinction.”
This qualifies as thought? Perhaps the tree is being removed to preserve the lives of your neighbor and his/her family. I can only imagine that you are one of those people who refuses to do yard work and pretends (and tells everyone) that it is a “nature preserve”. Without knowing you and never having seen your yard, I am quiet confident your neighbor feels the same disdain about your choices for your overgrown yard.
Hows this for a thought?
Continue advocating war on the natural world.
You may be able to continue to kill all sorts of trees and species.
The many types of flocks of birds that used to fly through our air, the tigers, the salmon, the frogs. Continue to cut down down trees, fill streams and rivers with carcinogens, continue to choke the oceans with plastics.
But… the natural world shall surely destroy you.
Our so civilization/society may have the power to destroy much of the natural world, but here’s the catch…
The earth will ultimately destroy every last tank and gun and airplane, every last electrical wire, every last cell phone tower, every last rain line, every last factory, every last factory trawler, every last logging truck, every last skyscraper, every last dam, every last civilized human being who opposes it.
So go ahead. Keep cutting down those trees Mr. Consumer.
If the natural world is surely going to destroy us, shouldn’t we fight back?
Not my cell phone!
The Earth Liberation Front called – said they will be revoking your membership as you scare them…
So extreme he makes Wayne LaPierre look like an opera-lovin’, twinkle-toed, p…
pacisfist
Well, I saw what the trees did to Sonny Bono. They started this….
I perused the FFAF this morning when the location was still up and wondered what exactly you were hoping to accomplish by being so specific with it. Any who, is it possible the home owner’s know something about the tree that the rest of us aren’t privy to?
No. WE know better! Homeowners are, by their very nature, heartless, greedy bastards (not to be confused with Squirrel-headed ones, though the distinctions often overlap). These tree-killers must be dealt with, and a good ol’ cyber-lynching is the logical first step, their spurious concerns and property rights be damned!
What TPITS fails to understand is that unless you are living completely off the grid, and completely self-sufficiently / no vehicle/microwave/anything that was produced using coal, etc…, then you too are a problem. But of course it’s just much easier to put your neighbor’s house location on the internet to publicly shame them, and call it a day.
Hasn’t there been discussion on this board about how Decatur’s trees are aging? If I remember correctly (and please let me know if I do), many of the trees here are water oaks, which have a 75 – 100 year life span. And they were planted something like 75 years ago. Thus, many of them are reaching the natural end of their life.
I hate to see them cut down, too (we have lost three over the past several years), but like all living things, they have a limited life span. Planting new trees in their place is the right thing to do, and we will all be enjoying a new canopy in the years to come.
Exactly. And having had one fall in our yard, I can say, I wish I’d had the money to have it safely removed. I’m thankful that all that all that was harmed when ours fell was a fence. Many, many of the water oaks around town are dying, and having them safely removed is much preferable to allowing them to fall and hurt someone’s property or worse.
I posted this 2 weeks ago but it was lost in the shuffle of gun control related posts.
Can anyone recommend a person/ company to wall hang a flat screen TV?
Mathew Morgan of Oakhurst Electric, great electrician and my husband!
We’ve used Mathew (not as much as his wife) as well and wouldn’t hesistate to call him again for any of our electrical needs.
+1
I’ll do it in exchange for a growler of my choice. Seriously. I’m just a homeowner and handyman. I have hung two TV’s using two different mounts here at home withing the last 6 months. This is a very small project for me and I am happy to be a good neighbor.
Text or call me at 770-314-7676
Bob
This qualifies for a Hometown Hero nomination. All the quiet, neighbor-to-neighbor support that goes on in this town surely accounts for at least half (if not more) of its appeal.
My favorite handyman, who could hang this and fix your dryer and do drywall repair and carpentry, is Ben Brackner. 678-920-8204. Very honest and reliable.
I drove by the new building yesterday across from the high school. That is one ugly, cheaply built structure. So out of scale in size and style. Simply horrible.
It meets all zoning and building codes.
Whoopee. Doesn’t make it any prettier.
I don’t mind it, and why do you belive it to be cheaply built?
I understand they’re going to paint the sides in blue faux-marble swirls like the recently closed diner had. And on the front, a ginormous bulldog mascot painting for the kids across the street to look at through the school windows. At night, for home football games, mini lasers will animate the dog’s mouth barking at arriving opponents. Can’t wait.
Year-round icicle lights!
I was hoping they would project movies on the side of the building!
Look at the sides of the building. The very visible seams between the wall sections indicates cheaply, badly built walls. Looks like drywall hung by drunks.
I like it.
Since the primary occupant of the building is an architect, I doubt if he would tolerate cheap construction.
The visible seams indicate that they are using concrete fiber panels in an application common in contemporary architecture. Anything but cheap
I am looking to replace factory installed speakers in my car. Does anyone have suggestions for purchase and installation of car audio?
I have used SuperBass on Lawrenceville Hwy in Tucker for many car audio installs. They are very knowledgeable and reasonably priced….don’t worry about the sketchy look of the outside. However, I don’t know how much product they actually sell…I have always purchased elsewhere and just had them do the installations.
2012 has not been a banner year for JoeBlow. Lost my #1 supporter and one of the best Moms any fella could ever have. 3 other very good friends have lost their fathers. Just that stage of life.
Looking forward to the calendar flipping over to another year.
On a happier note, get on over to the Live Music Archive and transport yourself back in time…to a night when Duane Allman just happened to wander over and jam with the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore East.
http://archive.org/details/gd1971-04-26.113839.sbd.smith.boswell.flac16
Happy New Year, folks!
Hey, Joe, do you still have a turntable? I have the AB@FE on the Capricorn (!) LP, would love for it to have a good home.
If Joe doesn’t, I do and would love to give that album a good home (and as someone from Macon, my mom will get a kick out of it as she knew those Capricorn guys).
I don’t have much of a vinyl collection so your Fillmore double album would find a great home with iheartnelliebelly.
i’m sorry for your loss, jb…may 2013 bring healing and happiness to you…
Is it just me, or is the Rec Center redo taking a really long time?
The playground behind it isn’t open yet, is it?
It is almost ready !! http://beactivedecatur.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/we-are-moving-back-to-the-recreation-center/
I just saw in the AJC that Decatur is going to be ripping up roads to begin doing sewer work in Feb (near Decatur High School etc), does anyone know if this be coordinated with the street-scaping etc that I keep hearing about for that area?
Nope. The N McDonough streetscape is still a long way off. The work is to complete the rebuilding of the storm drain system in that area. The total project goes from the High School to the Fire Station.
This project will put Ebster Field, DAL’s main playing field for youth soccer and lacrosse, out of commission for 2013.
Is there a phone number for the Decatur Post Office where someone actually answers the phone? I have not had mail delivery all week.
Hahahahahahahaha!
In other words, no.
If you find one, let me know! I’ve been having issues all year with mail delivery or lack there of. Our house can go 2 weeks sometimes without one piece of mail, then suddenly one day we get a flood of mail. Then we can go another week or two with nothing. I’ve called several times and every person I’ve talked to has acted like they had better things to do.
I am really looking forward to the new Rec center.
Anybody know what the new trailer/cottage is for that was placed behind the high school?
It is the construction trailer for the project at Oakhurst Elem. School. I guess it is at DHS because there is no room at Oakhurst? Seems a bit inconvenient for the contractor.
Thanks Smith!
Hey Neighbors
Anyone know what the police activity was in the apartments off Church St (just N of Glenlake Park) yesterday around 5.30 or so?
Happy Holidays!
DM: Will the you-can-still-fix-it-before-everyone-reads-it-and-you-embarrass-yourself editing feature be coming back sometime soon? It was awfully handy!
3 Reasons You Should Quit Social Media In 2013
J. Maureen Henderson
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jmaureenhenderson/2012/12/29/3-reasons-you-should-quit-social-media-in-2013/
Good ideas. (With DM as the exception)
“It hurts your self esteem…”
That’s for sure. Seems like every time I logged on to facebook those ads were telling me I was a weak fatso and didn’t have enough friends.
Ok, so in a feat of spectacular non-planning, the husband and I are just starting to think up NYE plans. Any suggestions? Thinking comedy club, dinner, fireworks vs. dancing or pub crawl…
Although a pub crawl is definitely on the agenda soon, once I finish training for a charity boxing match.
Cinebistro in Brookhaven is intriguing. Some free food and Times Square on one of the screens.
I’m sure this question has been asked before here, but is there a farm co-op that offers local produce pickup in Decatur (veggies only, not interested in meat)?
Doesn’t Refugee Family Services offer the garden co-op run by women from Burundi. I want to support them too — people from Burundi are soooo nice in my experiences. The garden is on Sam Street and being extended to the land CoD is leasing from the children’s home if I remember correctly.
Moore Farms has pickup at both Sawicki’s and The Cook’s Warehouse. https://www.moorefarmsandfriends.com/store/pc/viewContent.asp?idpage=6
There’s a local farmer who comes to the YMCA every Thursday. I think they do a CSA.
Since there’s not a particular space for it elsewhere so far, just want to wish everyone a Happy New Year’s Eve! Hope everyone has a safe, happy (& non-DUI-plagued) NYE tonight!
Predicting the CSD school population may get tricky:
The front page of ajc.com today reports that “The country’s birth rate dropped 8 percent between 2007 and 2010 and now stands at 1920-era levels, a Pew Research Center report has found….” “…The trend holds true in Georgia, which saw birth rates drop from 48.3 to 41.9 between 2007 and 2010, state data show. The nation’s birth rate is now 64 births per 1,000 women, according to 2010 data. The evidence is pretty good that it’s related to recession,” said D’Vera Cohn, co-author of the Pew report, noting this is the third Pew study looking at dropping birth rates since the recession began.”
On the other hand, the near collapse of the DeKalb County School System and the less than impressive Atlanta School System performance has pushed up the popularity of residency in the City of Decatur. So who knows what the net effect of a declining population of preschoolers but increased pressure to leave DeKalb and Atlanta school systems will be on the school population in Decatur? Never mind annexation.
Meanwhile, history shows that drops in the birth rate due to the economy are usually short-lived and followed by a rebound. So CSD and the School Board will have to stay actively engaged, asking questions, and ready to adjust to the ups and downs of the population cycles, if they occur. Getting a handle on the current preschool population in Decatur, not using models designed for elsewhere, will always be key.