Pedestrians have the right of way in our state in general, but in most of the state they still wait until it's safe (i.e. no cars immediately arriving) before they cross. In Berkeley, especially in the two-lane roads…
I've always figured that the narrow roads over there were (much like the ones in the older European cities) created long before cars, when people relied on horses or horse-drawn vehicles for transport. Roads designed…
That's certainly the case in the densely-packed public-transit-friendly cities where the only option to being inside is either a sidewalk or the street. Out in the less-public-transit-friendly suburbs, kids can (and do)…
Reminds me a little too strongly of Infocom's interactive-fiction game Suspended: A Cryogenic Nightmare http://gallery.guetech.org/suspended/suspended.html They said you would sleep for half a millennium — not an…
The studies I've seen showed correlative links between m/paternity leave itself with improved psychological results, not necessarily ones that are specific to reproductive rather than personal leave or aren't also tied…
Soma in BNW is described in a way that matches a combination of opiates and hallucinogens -- it artificially elevates mood, makes everything seem wonderful and pleasantly exciting, causes sensory hallucinations similar…
There's already an OpenSUSE spin with that name, so that won't work. OTOH, there doesn't seem to be any distros called Iguana, Crocodile, or Agamidae yet...
USPS has increased its shipping prices quite a bit in the last several years, enough that I can (unfortunately) easily see it costing $9.99 or even more to send a box set of DVDs. Try checking the USPS shipping…
Pedestrians have the right of way in our state in general, but in most of the state they still wait until it's safe (i.e. no cars immediately arriving) before they cross. In Berkeley, especially in the two-lane roads…
I've always figured that the narrow roads over there were (much like the ones in the older European cities) created long before cars, when people relied on horses or horse-drawn vehicles for transport. Roads designed…
That's certainly the case in the densely-packed public-transit-friendly cities where the only option to being inside is either a sidewalk or the street. Out in the less-public-transit-friendly suburbs, kids can (and do)…
Reminds me a little too strongly of Infocom's interactive-fiction game Suspended: A Cryogenic Nightmare http://gallery.guetech.org/suspended/suspended.html They said you would sleep for half a millennium — not an…
The studies I've seen showed correlative links between m/paternity leave itself with improved psychological results, not necessarily ones that are specific to reproductive rather than personal leave or aren't also tied…
Soma in BNW is described in a way that matches a combination of opiates and hallucinogens -- it artificially elevates mood, makes everything seem wonderful and pleasantly exciting, causes sensory hallucinations similar…
There's already an OpenSUSE spin with that name, so that won't work. OTOH, there doesn't seem to be any distros called Iguana, Crocodile, or Agamidae yet...
USPS has increased its shipping prices quite a bit in the last several years, enough that I can (unfortunately) easily see it costing $9.99 or even more to send a box set of DVDs. Try checking the USPS shipping…