David Brin amongst the crowd on Hayes St. Hill at the Bay to Breakers run through San Francisco this morning. Or somebody that looks a lot like him with a beard, dyed very dark brown or black. Eebee is a dream, though, and Eric has a largish but acceptable pumpkin [KGO-TV reporters]. I was there early so I got a good seat next to the cameras.
I deduced how the Egyptians built the pyramids, though it's so obvious to any engineer of competence I don't know how they kept it a secret for so long. If you have a simple off-center lever on a solid foundation, using counterweights, you can lift any sized object, any weight object, any height, as long as the lever is strong enough to carry that weight. Even with something made out of wood, you just use a smaller lever and more iterations. Eventually, you will lift that thing whereever you want to put it. Looks like the Greeks stole the exact method from the Egyptians, and then somebody promptly burned the libraries at Alexandria, to keep it a secret. At least Archimedes, bellowing "I can move the world!" [yeah, where are you going to put the lever, dood?], was a decent thief. When I move the world, I rely on the rigidity of the Ass of the United States, rock solid. I merely place my lever in the Crack and exert gentle pressure. Voila! The world moves! But y'all knew that, or you wouldn't be competent engineers. The Steve Miller Band tune a band was playing reminded me of a Simpsons episode where Homer first dates Marge. I fell off the wall and turned an ankle.
