Are the lads standing in front of El Capitan in Yosemite? Or some other big rock? People have climbed rocks like these with their bare hands. I can't ...
I also have always had poor vision and have never been a driver. Yes. this is outside the 'normal' American experience where car ownership and the 'fr...
It's amazing how often people will drive to store that is 1/2 mile away to get a small bag of groceries--this is the city where there are wide sidewal...
One of the things that dissuades me that light rail is the all-purpose cure is the cost / benefit. The Green Line extension into western Hennepin Coun...
The cure for ice is studded tires. I bought a pair several years ago and they really help. BUT studded tires do nothing for snow that is more than a c...
I haven't ridden the Grand Rounds since... the 1980s? For a while in 92 I was training for 2 century rides (100 miles) and did maybe 50 or 60 miles 3 ...
So that's at least two of us in MN. I live in the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis. You mentioned Boston's transit. I've seen a number of Youtub...
Based on my experience of growing up in a rural county, I'd say there is no practical way of providing regular transit service. On-demand rides could ...
I don't - never did - drive, so P and R services are outside my ken. I don't know what level of utilization they have / had or whether they fulfilled ...
@"Schopenhauer1" During the pandemic (now running into its 4th year) offices were closed and employees in offices were given the means to work from / ...
That's a benefit, not the primary purpose -- one hopes. Park & Ride seems to be aimed at lessening congestion on inbound/outbound roads, and having to...
Yes, Jesus blessed the cheesemakers. Had he lived two millennia longer, he would have had to pass final judgement on Velveeta. Would he bless it or bl...
Absolutely. The tragedy is that practically our whole economy is built around this cost, pollution, physical and psychological damage, and negative ou...
VERY unfortunately, an interconnecting system of transit lines is, in most American metropolitan areas became an impossibility since WWII. A core city...
Do you mean "cable cars" literally? Or do you mean trolley, bus, tram, street car, or light rail? I mean, cable-pulled trolleys are a charming but ver...
j I wonder how Bed?ich Smetana felt about it. Didn't sour cream figure centrally in the plot of his schmaltzy Battered Bride opera? I had previously d...
There is another angle to the question of how the invention of the automobile industry became evil. Capitalism requires growth. Suppose Ford sold stoc...
What indeed? Well, what category isn't artificial? The Beats weren't a huge group, and there were friendships and common bonds among them. When Ginsbe...
Straight sex was not even a possibility in my case. Not a twitch of interest ever. I played around a lot, but settled down with Bob for 30 years until...
Here is a Google Earth View of 424 14th Ave SE. I barely recognize the area -- so many new buildings. https://64.media.tumblr.com/71c631911dd429872fb4...
The U of M mechanical Engineer scheme I mentioned fits your idea of AI "trains" (maybe one small car on a rail rather than a string of them). His was ...
Indeed! Effortlessness requires a lot of infrastructure, especially if it involves retrofitting. In the 1970s a mechanical engineering professor at th...
Suburbanization started before Henry Ford. In Boston, horse-power (and horse-oriented roads) and steam trains extended the distance that well-off peop...
It has nothing to do with virtue that at 77 I have not driven a car. Poor vision has kept me out of the driver's seat and kept everyone else safer. I ...
Let's not blame everything on Ford. There was also Cadillac, Fiat, Renault, Land Rover, Skoda, Mercedes-Benz, Opel, Tatra, and Peugeot. In 1908 Willia...
Ford started paying his workers 62¢ an hour ($5 a day) in 1914. At the time the average factory pay was around 22¢ per hour. This solved two problems....
I'll begin my response to this highly relevant topic with a film made at the time of transition from hooves and hay to tires and gasoline: This short ...
At least the bridge across the railroad leading to the U and University Ave. and the Perine Bookstore building are still there, or were the last time ...
I've read that too. Sinking another shovel into the matter... daddy + -o; def. 1 was first recorded in 1910–15; def. 2 was first recorded in 1940–45. ...
The only thing I didn't understand about your spiritual journey from Beatniks to squidniks is the dredging operation. Sounds drastic. Tragic for the s...
Dinkytown is decidedly not what it used to be -- even 10 years ago, let alone Dylans early '60s. Dinkytown coffee houses I know nothing about, by the ...
It's been a long time since I read Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer. As a member of the National Council of English Majors (NCEM) it is my duty to re-re...
I agree -- Texans are more jingoist about their state than Wisconsinites are. I never hear of Nebraskans bragging. Ditto for North Dakota. Ditto for N...
Madison IS cool. That's because the University of Wisconsin attracts many thousands of people from elsewhere in the world. Coastal Americans help dilu...
We recently redesigned our state flag. Headline material in Atlanta, no doubt. As a lawyer, you know that the Feds allow even cheese and beer smeared ...
I was not being shallow, I was being critical of your peculiar view of American society. Most Americans do not think that Europe is one country. A lot...
That reminds me of Puritan Jonathan Edwards' famous 1741 sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". This is one of my favorite passages: New Engla...
Lack of preparation or lack of confidence in one's text is certain to undermine a presentation, and add to the anxiety. However, stage fright can affe...
Does Samsung have its own browser? In this alternate reality, am I quoting Trump and is @"Hanover" quoting Marx? Does @"javi2541997" now own the site ...
I have 'Acrophobia' - fear of heights. It is worse now than when I was younger, Being in a plane doesn't bother me -- but even thinking about being on...
I used to experience intense anxiety when I had to speak to a group in public. As a result, I was poor at public speaking. For some reason, at some po...
Per George Frederich Handel. who wrote a song about being thoroughly disliked on the basis of existential qualities... He was despised and rejected A ...
The claim is true. There were 12,836 nuns and Catholic sisters in Canada in 2015 and 42,000 nuns in the US -- a 76% decline from the peak in the 1960s...
An example of the rarity of nuns is that the provincial house of the Sisters of St. Joseph Carondelet a little ways from here is pretty much empty -- ...
Why don't you two arrange a meeting? 10 years ago I and another TPF member met; moderately interesting. More interesting was meeting a guy from Englan...
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