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Re: "Do Not Call" deadline is today!

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9/6/2003 2:52 AM

Re: "Do Not Call" deadline is today!

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"I don't know anyone who owns a Hummer or even a Lexus, I can't think of anyone who buys rap music. I don't know anyone who went on a cruise, and I have only met one person in my life who played the cello."

Perhaps you should get out more often...

9/7/2003 9:41 PM

Perhaps you are right.

But I have driven a cab in Washington DC, been on Old Ironsides in Boston (plus I survived driving there), eaten sushi, and watched Carlos Montoya live.

Perhaps those will cover the Hummer and Lexus.

I have been to both DIsneyland and Disney World, plus I worked a year in an amusment park. And I will throw in a visit to Isle a Haut off MAine coast. That ought to make up for the cruise.

But I will take the advice. The DeWitt Ox Roast is today a few miles up the pike. I will head out there now. An Oxburger sounds good.

I would take dance lessons, but the lady upstairs who ran the dance studio passed away recently. We are getting a Tai Chi instructer soon though, so maybe I will do that. ANyway, since I can see them, they must exist.

9/8/2003 2:54 PM

Enzo:

I had a good laugh reading Rick's post but you did make a good point about us tending to think that the observations we make in the microcosm of our own life necessarily apply to the whole macrocosm of life on this planet.

I do think that there are some things which are universal, but throughout our society there are different strata, with the homeless people on the street on one end and the rich people isolated in their mansions and high society on the other. I've always been somewhere in the middle, which has its own layers and niches.

--Thanks!

Steve Ahola

9/9/2003 11:57 PM

Steve, you might find interesting a book I read a few years back. I forget the author, but the title was "Class."

In a non judgemental way it studied the differences in the classes in the US. Pointing out things like eating habits, recreational habits, etc. For example the upper middle class likes to eat all the fancy and exotic foods, but unlike what I had thought, the really well off upper class tends to have fairly boring food selections. So arugula and goat cheese for the lawyer, but not for the CEO.

The book is more interesting than my lame description.

ANother great book is "Innumeracy." By John Allen Paulos. Innumeracy is the math equivalent of illiteracy. The book explores many examples of problems we have dealing with numbers. It is a national disease. How Americans misunderstand things like probabilities, large numbers, scale, etc.

9/26/2003 9:16 AM
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