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   If I had the money and the space, I'd like to have a George Rhoads   
   "audiokinetic" sculpture in my home.  I just learned that sadly he passed away   
   early last month.   
      
      
   I think that in cities that are largely laid out in a grid pattern, public   
   transit buses should travel in a square wave pattern up and down on the avenues   
   and back and forth on the cross streets.  it Seems to me there would be a bus   
   coming along every few minutes, and one could get anywhere in the grid with   
   just   
   one transfer from an avenue bus to a cross street bus (or vice versa).   
      
      
   It has always bugged me a little that the computer versions of (Klondike)   
   solitaire don't perform the "Vegas" scoring correctly "according to Hoyle."    
   One   
   "buys" the pack of cards for $52, and receives $5 for each card played on the   
   foundation.  If the player wins by moving all 52 cards to the foundation, they   
   are supposed to get $500.  I haven't seen any computer version that does this.   
      
      
   I have never found Martin Short to be very funny.   
      
      
   Is it just me, or do all the sportcasters on the local TV news programs seem to   
   be shouting their reports?   
      
      
   I have fairly simple desires.  For example, I'd like to live for one full year,   
   -- all four seasons -- at Fallingwater.   
      
      
   At such point that electric vehicles overwhelmingly dominate the market and   
   internal combustion vehicles fade away, the trope of committing suicide by   
   locking oneself in the garage and running the engine will disappear as well.   
      
      
   I have become old, the continuing saga:  I sometimes bring a book to medical   
   appointments in the event there is going to be some waiting involved.  A nurse   
   is intrigued because I'm always reading some work of non-fiction.  I happen to   
   be reading "Just A Shot Away:  Peace, Love, and Tragedy With the Rolling Stones   
   at Altamont" by Saul Austerlitz (2018; Thomas Dunne Books), and when she   
   inquires about what I'm reading I tell her it's about the Rolling Stones and   
   the   
   disasterous Altamont concert.  The name "Rolling Stones" barely registers with   
   her, and shes never even heard of the Altamont debacle.   
      
      
   When some book or television program says it's the "untold story," doesn't that   
   immediately make it a "told story?"   
      
      
   We may have covered this before, but it bears repeating:  if I order a pizza   
   that is one-half pepperoni and mushroom, and one-half sausage and onion,   
   then that counts as only two items, not four.  Similarly, charging any extra   
   fee   
   to split a pizza in such a manner is simply opportunistic money-grubbing and is   
   to be excoriated.   
      
      
   In the television program "The Green Hornet," his car, the Black Beauty, is   
   stored upside down under the garage floor.  I wonder what problems a real car   
   might develop if it was stored upside down.   
      
      
   The phrase, "eyes like a hawk" is certainly very apt.  To begin with, they have   
   up to five times as many receptors as humans.  In other words, they have a   
   greater resolution -- more pixels in a sense.  Additionally, they can separate   
   images twice as fast as humans, which can be thought of as having a faster   
   frame   
   rate.  Movies work in large part due to our retinal persistence.  Unlike   
   people,   
   a hawk in a movie theater would probably easily perceive the flickering and see   
   the room as being dark most of the time.   
      
   --   
   I wish I was a headlight on a Northbound train; I'd shine my light through   
   cool Colorado rain   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)