> From: "Stephen A. Lawrence" ...
> Of course. > > "Do not see the fnord. If you see the fnord, the fnord > will eat you. You must not see the fnord." > > Makes you wonder -- are there fnords in the information > we find on the Internet, too, or are they restricted to > physical media? I can't see them so I'm not sure. Makes me wonder too. Just yesterday after work, as I was driving across town to partake in a small Quaker Meeting (I occasionally like to sit quietly amongst these gentle folks) when I came to 4-way intersection with four stop signs. It's a part of the road that I've crossed a zillion times before. As I approached my stop sign I made a very conscious decision to check both ways for cars as well as for oncoming traffic. THIS IS IMPORTANT NOTE! I MADE AN UNUSUALLY CONSCIOUS DECISION TO CHECK FOR CARS! Yup! I noted the car on the left had come to a stop. Yup! I noted the car on the right had come to a complete stop. Yup! I even noted the car on the opposite side of my road had as well. Feeling secure that all cars had stopped I knew it was legally my turn to drive my car across the busy intersection. I lurched my car forward. That's when I noticed the Bus coming at me. I was so intent on watching for all those pesky cars that I literally missed seeing the bus that, visually speaking, is ten times the size of any car. I had visually and in the most literal sense one can imagine blinded myself to the fact that bus had also come to a stop and had started making moving across the intersection. I screeched to a stop, as did the bus driver. He honked his horn in absolute indignation at me, and I can't say that I blame him. Later, as I tried sitting quietly in Quaker Meditation it goes without saying that I had a lot on my mind. I made the following observation: Bog, indeed, has a sense of humor, especially if the action can be performed at my own expense. I think Bog was also getting even with me for all the times when as a small child (that is, when I was more ethically challenged) I dumped armies of black and red ants into the same ant farm just to watch the carnage. I hope I've paid my dues. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com
