I'm currently sitting in a 40-storey office tower wondering why we can build such monuments to technology, but still require some guy on a rope to clean the windows. As he stares through the window at me (currently typing away on this box amidst piles and piles of paper covering my desk); does he wonder (as I am doing) who has the better job?

To the OP: Paul, I can see by your name that you are a religious fundamentalist. Are you trying to convert the rest of us?

NEVERFLY: Please stop trying to hijack threads with your incessant plea that they make sense.

Big Don: what color are your pancakes?

Is it wrong to drink wine in Germany and beer in Italy?

FWIW a recent article criticized Olmstead (who built parks) as thinking "the aristocrat's taste was the right taste, and ought to be taught to the common man." I went to Kingfish on the river this weekend, and having spent time with the least common denominator, think Olmstead might be on to something... Nevertheless I do like surfing and wish Kentucky had mountains where I could snow ski more often.

__________________
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
- Goethe

Jump in with both feet!
- Me, indulging my inner eight-year-old

*** *** ***

"Are you a mad-hatter that just types what he wishes, or have you actually any physics training?"
Occam's Ghost to Grant Hutchison.