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- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!ntmtv!adrian
- From: adrian@ntmtv.UUCP (Adrian Brandt)
- Subject: Re: Cars as "something better"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.211932.22655@ntmtv>
- Sender: news@ntmtv
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- Organization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Dec15.021035.29683@netcom.com> <1992Dec17.214751.17474@Veritas.COM> <1992Dec18.194051.23452@adobe.com> <1992Dec22.010427.3994@Veritas.COM> <1992Dec23.145532.7225@pbhye.PacBell.COM> <1992Dec23.173025.6440@pbhya.PacBell.COM>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:19:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.173025.6440@pbhya.PacBell.COM>, whheydt@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt) writes:
- |> Some people find riding on various forms of transit to be anywhere
- |> from unpleasant to physically sickening to physically dangerous.
-
- In addition to common sight of seeing people doing work on the train
- I'm really starting to see a lot of laptop computer users. One guy
- I used to see a lot would get on and find a vacant "double" (a pair
- of double seats facing each other). On the opposite seat he would
- set up his computer, put down a mouse pad and hook up his mouse, and
- spread out some notes and manuals. Then he would put on his walkman
- and start working.
-
- Sometimes, when I'm riding CalTrain, and I gaze around at all the
- people working or grading papers or reading or sleeping or gazing
- out one of the windows while muching on some food and having a
- beer or just talking to friends or business associates (in person
- or on their cellular phones) or just sleeping, I think about the
- comments I sometimes read here that say things like "some people
- find riding on various forms of transit to be anywhere from un-
- pleasant to physically sickening to physically dangerous" and smile.
-
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- Adrian Brandt (415) 940-2379
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