Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

Setting Dates for New Phone, New Car

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Lots of fun, exciting things going on. We’ve finished our test driving and have tentative dates set for a car purchase and our switch to Cingular wireless.

Our Verizon Wireless contracts expire this coming Saturday, and the plan is to drop by the Cingular store on Sunday (the 15th) to pick up my new phone, get Melissa’s active on a regular account, and get both of our numbers switched over. The Palm Treo 650 remains the distant frontrunner—Palm OS seems to be the lesser of three evils in the depressingly uninspired smartphone market right now.

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The Ugliest Cars of the 2006 Model Year

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There are some big changes in this year’s list of the Ten Ugliest Cars. Three of the top four vehicles from the 2005 list (the Ford Thunderbird [#4], Toyota Echo [#3], and Pontiac Aztek [#2]) have been discontinued, and there have been some repulsive new models introduced and major styling updates to the old.

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Progress Has Passed Metrobus By

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I have spent a fair amount of time on this site over the years calling attention to the Post’s excellent exposés on endemic mismanagement and other troubles at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA, ‘Metro’). Most of those pieces, however, have focused on the MetroRail train system and ignored the MetroBus bus system.

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Student Asked to Change Out of Kilt . . . [Updated]

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Schools have a limited authority to infringe upon a student’s free speech/expression rights, but this is just idiotic—especially in a [supposedly] enlightened, multicultural society like our own. Students from many cultures are permitted to wear traditional dress in our schools (provided they cover everything), so why not a student of Scottish descent?

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Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.