Weil, Nancy
The first trade-off is overpopulation. The economy is based on the idea that the only thing of value is people’s time. The basic unit of value is the billable hour, and the only way for a city to get more billable hours in its balance sheet is to attract a growing population. This...
San Francisco’s North Beach is right next to Chinatown, so growing up in the Bay Area I vividly remember seeing the giant neon sign at the Condor Club at Columbus and Broadway every time my family made the trek to the city for a wedding banquet or a red egg party. I always wondered ...
we were only allowed to run solo and only in our respective neighbourhoods from 8am to 8pm. Running solo without any social interaction, and on the same route can get extremely mundane, and depressing after a while. More seriously, the whole nation was just going stir-crazy ...
He considers that design “has gone off the beam. Ten years ago ‘designer’ was a dirty word because most design was anonymous, and now ‘Design’ is a dirty word to me because everything is designed.” He sees the rise of the large design consultancies resulting in creations such as...
I remember on my big walks across Scotland the Great Glen’s were always extremely hard days Affric was one that always made you think. These were simple days poor kit massive hill days and big bags. It was a huge time of learning we were young and invincible. Yet what memories!
Yet even here, in this statement of one person’s certain love for another, the first word we read, not once leading a line but thrice, is “if.” It’s an interesting way to phrase it. Perhaps it’s the true way, the only way. * The words most of us want to hear when in ...
I took her word for it. She flip flopped back and forth between us going on a “break” and us divorcing. We agreed to a six month break. She told me, my family and my friends that she wanted to “find” herself so that we could reconnect in the future. She told my sister that...
For instance, different parts of the skill tree are extremely important in "New Vegas." Maxing out one's physical traits can be crucial for combat, but ignoring other things like Charisma can be detrimental, because "New Vegas" in particular makes dialogue and character choices just as ...
“managed” is a better choice of word. Perhaps seeing the rivulet reminded me of the tiny little streams in Rhodesia, particularly in the Eastern Highlands, from which I often drank as growing lad. Such delicious water, untouched by man, filled with minerals absorbed from the rocks over ...