sharpening the ploughshares

The Straight Dope: How did the states establish long straight borders before GPS?

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:08:18 -0500

The Straight Dope: How did the states establish long straight borders before GPS?:

Step 6. Sober up. In the 1770s a party-hearty type named Collins led a team that surveyed the boundary between Quebec and Vermont. On one 22-mile stretch, a fifth of their expenses went for booze. The result, an international commission later acknowledged, was “very far from a straight line.”

"I don’t hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark: I don’t. I don’t! I..."

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:39:48 -0400

““I don’t hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark: I don’t. I don’t! I don’t hate it! I don’t hate it!””

- Absalom, Absalom! by Faulkner

"We need not destroy the past. It is gone."

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:40:38 -0400

“We need not destroy the past. It is gone.”

- John Cage