Better man than I, I guess. No, or, I don't know -- not a big roadway-type bridge, at any rate. Between bicyclists and motorheads, it's a losing proposition, IMO.
TNP can name another mainstream anti-car movie, in addition to *The Magnificent Ambersons*, *Death Race 2000*, and *Duel*
Pshaw. I owned at least one, and I wish I owned none -- PITA fixing mechanical shit. And yet I own two electro-mechanical pianos (a Rhodes from 1976 and a Wurlitzer 720A) that are both real finicky. Hell, even a real piano is a PITA. Just rent 'em and save a bunch of headache, is my opinion. Unless ur a gearhead and enjoy scraping your knuckles every week. Then, more power to you -- I have a lot of respect for shadetree mechanics, it's just not my hobby of choice.
TNP thinks a driver's license should come with the old-school requirement that you know how to fix your shit.
Heh. The closest I've come is keeping two feuding moms from punching each other on a playground by shouting "Hey!" and glaring at them, and years ago, running over to help a woman who was being beaten up by a guy on a London street; others had already grabbed him and held him by the time I got there, and the police soon arrived to take him away.
Not particularly, although until the cash-strapped and politically-unstable Greek government can reasonably show that the marbles would be well-cared-for in Athens, I'd just as soon they stay at TBM.
Sort of. I won't name-drop but somebody offered an UG course called "Literature and the Law." There was a grad school seminar on the theories of just wars, reading Clausewitz and so on.
TNP kind of thinks people who are just readers, and not practicing lawyers or legal scholars, are ridiculous self-parodies when they try to talk about judicial decisions and so forth.
Yeah, pretty much, but no more so than when somebody who didn't take high school calculus talks about quantum mechanics, or someone expounds on English grammar with no more research than being made to read "The Elements of Style" in undergrad.
TNP is quite aware that there just isn't going to be enough time to learn everything they would like to know.
Well i gained twenty pounds since Lent ended, but I can still kick your carpet
-bagging ass you yankee troublemaker.
TNP had at least one mutually feel
-good interaction w chain store cashiers today (or recently). Hey it takes two to tango, but it's just nice, like stopping a runner at 1 or 2 base. Way things used to be.
Yep. I have an old memoryFoam that is deteriorating in an alarming fashion.
TNP can say that the concept of mood is probably not studied sufficiently because of its underspecification. I think Stimmung is the usual, and I don't think there's a French word for it -- humeur, probably is the closest.
Yes. In David McCullough's The Path Between the Seas, I learned that enough earth and rock were moved during the construction of the Panama Canal to fill a train that could circle the Earth four times, or that could build no fewer than 63 Great Pyramids of Giza.