Today I'm going to talk about small talk--that is, short conversations people often have with strangers they meet, such exchanges occurring at bus stops, on buses, on a waiting line, almost anywhere that strangers gather close together. As a matter of fact, these short conversations are a ...
The tour buses hadn’t arrived yet and crowds were still fairly light and mostly milling around the visitor center so other than a few joggers and cyclists getting in some miles that morning I had the bridge to myself. The bridge itself is surreal. A giant mass of metal and concrete pa...
When she was 20, the British left India and her family returned to Liverpool. Joan didn’t want to return with them, so she decided to get a job and stay in India. In the 1940’s in India there were not many jobs that an English woman could do, so she decided to study to become...
The hack-work of life, the hours we spend resentfully and unsensationally in buses and cars and taxis, in baths and in front of mirrors, may be, for all we know, the correctives, the price we pay for the animated periods they divide; they may be as necessary to us as nitrogen. Onl...
They’re part way there already – London Transport buses into the terminals are free, but good luck trying to find a convenient spot to drop off/pick up your passenger. 4 Reply Chris 5 years ago Reply to Nadine I am not sure if it is even possible to walk from outside the ai...
Cities like Seattle have diesel-electric(以柴油发动机发电的) buses—these can draw electric power from overhead wires or run on diesel when they are away from the wires. Giant mining trucks are often diesel-electric hybrids. Submarines are also hybrid vehicles — some are nuclear-electric and ...