> >> Bruce Schneier has a link to an amusing story: > >> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/04/funny_war_on_ph.html > > > > Fitness standards have obviously gone up in the Met. > > > > "....Someone called in to report people taking photos in a > suspicious > > manner about twenty minutes ago. ....... We wonder if it > was those guys we > > chatted to earlier. We are miles away..... " > > > > Not even on bicycles, never mind in a black and white. Impressive. > > I figured that since Britain is like a scale model of a > country, the mile > would be equally scaled down. > > William Robb
Distances are a fixed, absolute scale but we have a stretchy form of time. For instance, I have just arrived back from playing squash after waiting 15 minutes (on my watch) for a bus that the indicator board told me was due in 5. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
