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Post by Thorngrub on Oct 13, 2006 12:04:01 GMT -5
Oh, Salt Lake has the most efficient public transportation I've ever seen - - as good as Washington D.C's. (I don't know how the Metro is faring these days; 20 yrs ago it was pristine & efficient as one could hope for).
As for your initial question ("How do you make an old city (i.e. Boston) into something along your model SLC? I don't see a mechanism for getting from one to the other.") - I'm not sure I understand it - so my answer is "You don't. They are incomparable. Even if you go back 200 + yrs to when they started Boston - they did so w/out the slightest consideration for future expansion. Boston city center's roads today are what's left over from, initially, quite literally - cow paths. It's a complete clusterfuck. Quaint, maybe. Pain in the ass - definitely. There is no mechanism for getting from one to the other; they're 'apples & oranges'. Salt Lake built it's roads extra wide so that horse drawn carriages could complete a U-turn easily. Add that to the fact we're out here in the middle of nowhere, w/unlimited acreage surrounding, and you should be able to see there are no limits for future expansion. "
In any case . . . . remember Heinlein's Starship Troopers and Stranger In A Strange Land -? Mormonism was rampant in those future histories. Heinlein may be said to have had a keen eye for the future, perhaps.
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Post by rockysigman on Oct 13, 2006 12:15:09 GMT -5
EAST COAST = the morning WEST COAST = the evening Do is the midwest the early afternoon? |
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Post by strat-0 on Oct 20, 2006 19:27:55 GMT -5
Wow, it's like 45 degrees F out there and headed for the 30s. I've been chilly all day. I'm going to build my first fire of the season! Yay! Luckily, I still have a supply of well seasoned wood from last year. Might as well burn some -- it's going back up to about 75 tomorrow! But I have to keep a stash of the dry wood in reserve in case the power goes out some cold night before this year's wood is ready. That wood is drying nicely -- it already has a lot of checks on the ends, but you can still smell that oak wood smell very strong when you get close to it. Still way too green for good fuel.
I unfortunately had to discard a couple of sticks of the dried wood, with extreme prejudice. They were on the end close to the woods and they shifted and contacted the ground. I flipped them over a couple of weeks ago and, GAAAAH!! Fucking termites! I hate those destructive, wood munching, subterranean pests! I've got a termite bond and traps all around the house - always comes up negative when they check, but I'm still glad this house is brick and block! There are termite colonies in the woods just feet away! They give me the creeps! *shudders*
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Post by RocDoc on Oct 24, 2006 16:11:53 GMT -5
We had our first fireplace fire last night (it was my wife's birthday, so honey gets what honey wants...) and it came off stunningly.
Even little 2 year 3 and a ½ month Matas the Menace cooperated as he got absorbed into watching Beauty And The Beast (Disney 1992) rather than touching the flames behind the screen as I was afraid he'd try to do. The gas starter seems a bit like cheating, but damn it works good!
I think a pine log snuck into the old woodpile that we'd inherited from the former owners...it burned but sorta went straight to coal rather than giving an appreciable flame. Luckily there were some quality split pieces that I hauled in...
Still don't know WTF we're going to do with the large spruce stumps and the somewhat smaller juniper stumps/trunks that we've got after we got those landscaper-guys to take down 2 25-foot spruces and 8 or 9 or maybe even 10 juniper bushes that had grown taller than our house and nearly as much in ground-covering width.
This week our (new to us) town does one of their bi-annual 'on-the-house branch removal (ie chipper trucks do their thing for ya free) and we've had a FUCK of a time getting these branches out to the curb in reasonably 'neat' stacks. The bulk of this shit!
And we still don't have all of the branches out there. Maybe 75% because we're just running out of time with the week now here and then work and all...oh and my wife being paged to the hospital Friday night, twice Saturday and then at 11 AM Sunday for which she was gone all fucking afternoon.
Can't deal with a little boy underfoot while you're dragging 100 pounds of branches to the street at the end of a rope....there went whatever other chances we had to get the job done in time...tho, if they don't get to our street til say, Friday, I might be able to get another 6-7 bundles out to the curb...tho, no, we have no curbs out here in these boonies yet.
Nice drainage ditch though...another thing to worry about our kid getting inta.
Thanks for the opportunity to vent, y'all...obviously very little interest here. Unless you've been there y'selves.
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Post by RocDoc on Oct 24, 2006 16:15:18 GMT -5
Actually, I would love to just torch those last piles of branches...fuckers!
Oh, and New York City has the BEST public transport system of any city bar none!
Literally everyone takes it.
Well nearly, then.
Still.
SLC? Pah!
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Post by rockysigman on Oct 24, 2006 16:33:01 GMT -5
Does everyone take public transport in NYC because it is a great system? Or is it because driving is such a hellish nightmare?
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Post by rockysigman on Oct 24, 2006 16:33:32 GMT -5
Fire sounds nice...certainly been cold enough around here...
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Post by RocDoc on Oct 24, 2006 16:53:54 GMT -5
Hellish driving in NYC? Pah, drove past Yankee Stadium at gametime on a night they were actually playing there...
Honestly, driving 5 or 6 mid-summer days in NYC didn't intimidate us in the least (I've experienced FAR worse in Chicago), but it's the damn cost of parking (especially in Manhattan) that drives them to the subway....besides the fact that the way the system (the subway IS amazing...4 tracks across, underground, in places!) works veryvery fucking well.
There's a train stop or two a coupla blocks away from nearly anything you wanna see.
Paris was the same way, I swear. AND there they run on rubber fucking tires.
Quiet in those tunnels...
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Post by strat-0 on Oct 24, 2006 19:02:48 GMT -5
Nice work on the yard, Doc! I called an ad in the paper for firewood today. They're getting $150 a "pickup load," which the lady said is about a half cord. It's seasoned oak and hickory, but my that is pricey! I didn't realize we put up nearly $150 worth of wood before. I bet theirs ain't near as pretty as mine, either. I can't decide whether to get some or not. Probably will, just to have some reserve. I know my dry stuff isn't going to last til December (unless I only have a few fires between now and then). I hate paying through the nose for it, but I guess if it's only supplemental it will last a long time, as I have a good idea that there will be more "free" wood in the offing long before it's needed. Note the "free" is in quotations...  |
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Post by Thorngrub on Oct 25, 2006 11:47:02 GMT -5
 I work in that building right over there ^ |
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Post by rockysigman on Oct 25, 2006 12:38:10 GMT -5
Hey, this is the Place That I Live, not the Place That I Work. Killer mountain view though, Thorn. Anyway, I work here:  |
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Post by tuneschick on Oct 25, 2006 12:52:15 GMT -5
Holy shit Thorn, that's quite the view! Rocky, your building looks pretty nice too - what floor are you on? I work here:  but spend quite a bit of time across the street, here:  |
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Post by Thorngrub on Oct 25, 2006 12:52:31 GMT -5
Hey, this is the Place That I Live, not the Place That I Work. Killer mountain view though, Thorn. Anyway, I work here: Killer gutter view, there. I mean, "eagle-eye" and all that. ;b |
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Post by rockysigman on Oct 25, 2006 12:54:24 GMT -5
Rocky, your building looks pretty nice too - what floor are you on? I work on the 25th floor. It's a 40 story building. And you can't really tell from that picture, but the building overlooks the Chicago River. On the other side from where I work. I don't see squat without turning around, and my view is just at other buildings. Some cool ones though. |
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Post by rockysigman on Oct 25, 2006 12:55:22 GMT -5
Wow, beautiful buildings there, Tunes. Especially the second one. On a nice day, it must be hard to actually go inside, because hanging outside looks awfully nice.
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