At 03:05 AM 3/6/2006, Dave Long wrote:
Bruce Metcalf asked:
Does this change mean that I'm growing paranoid, that I'm paying
better attention, or just that I'm getting old?
Naw, it just means it's time to get out of FL.
Gee, and I thought this place was ever so much better than Los Angeles....
Where would *you* recommend?
Similarly, if you find yourself thinking "how does this novelty keep
crazies from blowing stuff up" well before thinking "how does this
novelty make my life a little better", I'd suggest moving someplace
where the events of 2001 are more memory than national myth.[1]
Like, to a job at a location that wasn't on the short list of
potential targets, perhaps?
[0] now, all they need to do is work out the
packet-switching-for-people scheme. I love the public-and-private
transport network in this country, but sometimes it'd be nice to
just snooze through a connection instead of having to manually
(pedally?) route.
Interestingly enough, I'm involved with a study group that's working
to design a Personal Rapid Transit system. Recent developments in
GPS, wire guidance, and inductive-charging-in-motion make this
approach more approachable than in the past.
The study group has room for a few more qualified participants, if
anyone is interested.
(vaguely related: is there anyplace that still operates
people-moving paternosters?)
Not so vague response:
<http://web.archive.org/web/20010909232455/members.surfeu.de/awin/paternoster.html>.
[1] I'll be getting a report on vineyards in .za in a couple of
weeks -- shall I pass along any potentially interesting domaine names?
Oh, please do! If it's bottled in SA and worth drinking, I can get it
locally. More easily than California wines at present, though that is
finally changing.
Florida until recently had a law that made it nearly impossible to
ship wine into the state except through highly regulated and licensed
"importers". The legal justification was "protection of native
Florida wines and wineries". Anyone who has *tasted* genuine Florida
wine knows that nothing this side of a return to Prohibition would
cause the local product to sell to any but the most desperate. Now we
just have to wait for all the small wineries to change their web
sites so that a FL address doesn't automatically trigger a "Can't get
this there" page.
Bruce Metcalf,
Lake Buena Vista, FL
