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- From: geoff@pmafire.inel.gov (Geoff Allen)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.183647.23537@pmafire.inel.gov>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 18:36:47 GMT
- Organization: Roller Coaster fanatic with no hope for a cure
- Subject: Life, the Universe, and Big Cities (Re: Camera Feature Wars - Photo Getting Like Video)
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- Organization: Roller Coaster fanatic with no hope for a cure
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- We're getting a little off topic here, but hey, it's only 1s and 0s!
-
- >| Machines do things and this gives me more leasure time that I can spend
- >| out in the backcountry... Some things, like driving in rush hour traffic,
- >| can indeed be stressful. But you don't have to do it, you have an option.
- >
- > -Dyer Lytle
- >
- >Despite all the things that machines do for us, collectively we seem to
- >be getting farther and farther away from the "life of leisure" that
- >futurists were predicting twenty years ago. Contemporary life is incredibly
- >stressful for most people. Alarmingly so, I'd say. Some people have options,
- >it's true. But most of us are deeply enmeshed. Sure, you can move to
- >"someplace better" (wherever that is!),
-
- Idaho.
-
- But please don't tell anyone. ;^)
-
- Well, I guess you can tell them about Boise, as long as we can keep the
- rest of the state to ourselves. ;^)
-
- >You can ride your bike, but what do you do if the air isn't fit to breathe?
-
- Well, you'd have a tough time riding a bike these days. We've gotten
- many many inches of snow in the last few days, with more on the way
- later this week. Roads are icy. Definitely not bicycling weather.
-
- But the air sure is crisp and clean!
-
- Geoff
-
- --
- Geoff Allen \ Driggs, Idaho -- cultural hub of the west!
- uunet!pmafire!geoff \
- geoff@pmafire.inel.gov \ (Tom Harper in rec.skiing)
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