3.10.05

"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit." -- Aristotle

Ryan is growing up fast. Already in the 60th Percentile in height and weight! He's The Chub!

Washington Post is doing a gizzogle article, but you heard it hear weeks ago, 'cause I'm the shizzle. (Ironic, but the only thing to make that Snoop Dog thing go away is to make middle-aged white men use the lingo. Then it instantly becomes uncool and it goes away. )

There is so much art in the Matrix Triology. Its good movie making.

Big report on the nation's infrastructure crumbling. I think the civil engineers are probably trying to get more cash, but looking around in the greater NY area, you see the decay everwhere. Some roads were like driving on a lunar surface. Its really mostly the cities that they were targeting with that report. Its clear that the modern concept of City does not scale well beyond a few million people. We need to move beyond cars. Cars are the problem. They don't move well in inclement weather. They take up too much space, and use space even when they're not being used for their primary function.

Create a city with park and rides surronding it. No cars in the interior of the city. Everything gets in by rails, helicopters, or even rented electric golf carts. Pedestrian traffic moves via rails, moving floors, or electric scooters. No internal combustion engines.
As the city expands, add more transportation nodes, and make sure those in the suburbs have direct access to the interior of the city.

I know this is a gross simplification, but something must be done.