I met him a number of times myself, back in the days when I was working
full time for car magazines. I spent a few days with him on the Delmar
Peninsula back in 1980 at a Volkswagen launch. He had a trendously
intelligent dry wit and could entertain the whole table at dinner. I
remember the tiff
Mike wrote:
No sooner was the war against station wagons won than
we get...this. Roadways clotted with bastardized _trucks_. Honestly, not in
my wildest imaginings thirty years ago (as I soaked up Patrick Bedard in
Study Hall), could I have even conceived of anything as tasteless and
Good article. And he's completely right, at least for the industrial
countries. The universities are just waiting to get rid of books. Most
of my scientific journals are now online, since the library is running
out of space and since it's a much better medium for a changing field.
Students are
Mike wrote:
--Music listening as a hobby. Not only has vinyl been relegated to the
margins (in my youth I was an enthusiastic record collector, and I still
consider turntables to be among the most satisfying of toys), but
two-channel recorded music is beginning to atomize, subsumed into a
Mike Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only thing I have left are books. Fortunately, books endure: one
lifetime is not long enough to see them eclipsed. However, if the situation
with books goes like cars, stereos, movies, and cameras, pretty soon all new
books will be paperbacks and most
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