My first day in the US I wanted to eat at a restaurant across the street
from my hotel in Maryland. As I got to the end of the hotel driveway I
was confronted with nine traffic lights. I ate at the hotel. In fact,
I never left the hotel except by cab.
On 4/09/24 10:31, William Hyde wrote:
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My first day in the US I wanted to eat at a restaurant across the street
from my hotel in Maryland. As I got to the end of the hotel driveway I
was confronted with nine traffic lights. I ate at the hotel. In fact,
I never left the hotel except by cab.
My first day in the US late last century was spent in Disneyland. We
decided on a Mexican restaurant close to the hotel in the Disneyland
area. Although the traffic wasn't heavy, the footpaths and surrounds
were filthy, poorly maintained and empty of pedestrians. Despite the
short distance we took a cab back to the hotel and did not attempt to
walk anywhere local again.
My favourite reads in recent decades include your recommendation of
Robertson Davies' trilogies and Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet.
Do you have two or three more to recommend? Thank you.
On 9/4/2024 3:51 AM, D wrote:
On Wed, 4 Sep 2024, Titus G wrote:
On 4/09/24 10:31, William Hyde wrote:
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My first day in the US I wanted to eat at a restaurant across the street >>>> from my hotel in Maryland. As I got to the end of the hotel driveway I >>>> was confronted with nine traffic lights. I ate at the hotel. In fact, >>>> I never left the hotel except by cab.
My first day in the US late last century was spent in Disneyland. We
decided on a Mexican restaurant close to the hotel in the Disneyland
area. Although the traffic wasn't heavy, the footpaths and surrounds
were filthy, poorly maintained and empty of pedestrians. Despite the
short distance we took a cab back to the hotel and did not attempt to
walk anywhere local again.
My favourite reads in recent decades include your recommendation of
Robertson Davies' trilogies and Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet.
Do you have two or three more to recommend? Thank you.
I recommend Chicago or Boston. Both, in my opinion, are excellent
walking cities!
So is Manhattan. So much stuff to see, and decent public transport
when you've decide you've walked enough.
Once, for no particular reason, I spent an afternoon walking the
entire length of Broadway, about 12 miles.
In article <vb9nr2$3rn95$[email protected]>,
Cryptoengineer <[email protected]> wrote:
On 9/4/2024 3:51 AM, D wrote:
On Wed, 4 Sep 2024, Titus G wrote:
On 4/09/24 10:31, William Hyde wrote:
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My first day in the US I wanted to eat at a restaurant across the street >>>>> from my hotel in Maryland.?? As I got to the end of the hotel driveway I >>>>> was confronted with nine traffic lights.?? I ate at the hotel.?? In fact, >>>>> I never left the hotel except by cab.
My first day in the US late last century was spent in Disneyland. We
decided on a Mexican restaurant close to the hotel in the Disneyland
area. Although the traffic wasn't heavy, the footpaths and surrounds
were filthy, poorly maintained and empty of pedestrians. Despite the
short distance we took a cab back to the hotel and did not attempt to
walk anywhere local again.
My favourite reads in recent decades include your recommendation of
Robertson Davies' trilogies and Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. >>>> Do you have two or three more to recommend? Thank you.
I recommend Chicago or Boston. Both, in my opinion, are excellent
walking cities!
So is Manhattan. So much stuff to see, and decent public transport
when you've decide you've walked enough.
Once, for no particular reason, I spent an afternoon walking the
entire length of Broadway, about 12 miles.
They say the neon lights are bright, on Broadway!
Titus G wrote:
My favourite reads in recent decades include your recommendation of
Robertson Davies' trilogies and Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet.
Do you have two or three more to recommend? Thank you.
How I wish I did!
Titus G wrote:
On 4/09/24 10:31, William Hyde wrote:
snip
My favourite reads in recent decades include your recommendation of
Robertson Davies' trilogies and Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet.
Do you have two or three more to recommend? Thank you.
How I wish I did!
There must be many.
William Hyde <[email protected]> wrote:
Titus G wrote:
My favourite reads in recent decades include your recommendation of
Robertson Davies' trilogies and Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet.
Do you have two or three more to recommend? Thank you.
How I wish I did!
Well, let me say that if you like the Alexandria Quartet you might like
the Antrobus stories by Durrell. They have the humor of the Alexandria Quartet without any of the seriousness and they are extremely silly in
a good way.
--scott
On 4/09/24 10:31, William Hyde wrote:
snip
My first day in the US I wanted to eat at a restaurant across the street
from my hotel in Maryland. As I got to the end of the hotel driveway I
was confronted with nine traffic lights. I ate at the hotel. In fact,
I never left the hotel except by cab.
My first day in the US late last century was spent in Disneyland. We
decided on a Mexican restaurant close to the hotel in the Disneyland
area. Although the traffic wasn't heavy, the footpaths and surrounds
were filthy, poorly maintained and empty of pedestrians. Despite the
short distance we took a cab back to the hotel and did not attempt to
walk anywhere local again.
My favourite reads in recent decades include your recommendation of
Robertson Davies' trilogies and Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet.
Do you have two or three more to recommend? Thank you.
On 9/3/24 23:04, Titus G wrote:
On 4/09/24 10:31, William Hyde wrote:
snip
My first day in the US I wanted to eat at a restaurant across the street >>> from my hotel in Maryland.� As I got to the end of the hotel driveway I
was confronted with nine traffic lights.� I ate at the hotel.� In fact,
I never left the hotel except by cab.
My first day in the US late last century was spent in Disneyland. We
decided on a Mexican restaurant close to the hotel in the Disneyland
area. Although the traffic wasn't heavy, the footpaths and surrounds
were filthy, poorly maintained and empty of pedestrians. Despite the
short distance we took a cab back to the hotel and did not attempt to
walk anywhere local again.
My favourite reads in recent decades include your recommendation of
Robertson Davies' trilogies and Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet.
Do you have two or three more to recommend? Thank you.
Currently, I recommend written and drawn mangam "Showa History of
Japan" in 4 thick volumes. Showa in case you missed that knowledge is
the name of the period during which the Emperor Hirohito
reigned and is also his Buddhist death name. Written by a mangaka
Shigero Mizuki who has the qulifications to be called the `Walt Disney
of Japan'. He is also was a man of Showa born about the time Hirohito >ascended to the Imperial Throne. If you have ever wondered why the
Japanese were so stupid as to annoy the USA at Pearl Harbor this
book gives you the reasons. As a comic artist Mizuki used Japanese
folklore and he uses them in the History to explicate matters.
I find it quite re-readable and have done so about 5--
times by now and may read it again when I have trouble getting
to the San Francisco Public Library Main Branch to find something
new. SFPL has a graphic novel section that includes manga, but
if your PL has a Japanese history section you may find it there
as well. If you do not find it in your library you may make
a request to have it either borrowed or bought.
I think I will start with George Passant by C P Snow who has written a biography of Anthony Trollope whose novels I enjoy.
When I played the SPI game /U.S.N./, which starts with the attacks
that included Pearl Harbor, I chose to destroy the /port/ rather than
the ships. In the game, this required me to shift the fleet to
American Samoa to preserve the link to Australia. This was a major
pain. Whether that would have happened in real life I have no idea.
On Fri, 06 Sep 2024 09:47:09 -0700, Paul S Person ><[email protected]d> wrote:
When I played the SPI game /U.S.N./, which starts with the attacks
that included Pearl Harbor, I chose to destroy the /port/ rather than
the ships. In the game, this required me to shift the fleet to
American Samoa to preserve the link to Australia. This was a major
pain. Whether that would have happened in real life I have no idea.
Hmmm that's one of the games I purchased but never played (the
counters are still unpunched). On the other hand I spent VAST amounts
of my time playing War in the East / War in Europe though focussed on
totally a-historical battles that would never actually have been
considered since WiE doesn't ever cause the destruction of units even
after they stay out of supply for months on end...
I played a lot of solitaire Computer War in Europe.=20
In the DOS version, I discovered that the programmer had never
contemplated the Soviet Union declaring limited war and going through >Bulgaria into Greece: the Soviet units couldn't see, never mind
attack, the Greek units. Presumably, they were involved in cultural
exchanges involving bouzoukee/balalaika music and ouso/vodka and so
fighting was out of the question. This got fixed in the final version.
Note that the SPI version of /U.S.N./ was a magazine game; it ends in
1943 because otherwise it would have required another counter sheet.
It stopped, IOW, just as US Naval Production was /really/ taking off.
DG redid it as a boxed game and, IIRC, extended it to the end of the
war (boxed games allowing more counters than magazine games), but I
have no idea if what I said above applies to the DG version.
On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:05:08 -0700, Paul S Person ><[email protected]d> wrote:
I played a lot of solitaire Computer War in Europe.=20
In the DOS version, I discovered that the programmer had never
contemplated the Soviet Union declaring limited war and going through >>Bulgaria into Greece: the Soviet units couldn't see, never mind
attack, the Greek units. Presumably, they were involved in cultural >>exchanges involving bouzoukee/balalaika music and ouso/vodka and so >>fighting was out of the question. This got fixed in the final version.
One knock I have against the game is that unless the German player is
asleep at the switch, a Soviet-initiated "limited war" is suicidal
since the German play can EASILY win a war of attrition - the last
time I played that scenario as the German player I reached Smolensk in
the first 2-3 turns and advanced as quickly as my railroad repair
units advanced and never ever went "out of supply". I don't remember
the details but took Moscow well before the end of the summer season.
But mostly it was about unit killing and it was very easy to win a war
of attrition against "limited war production".
Interesting discussion of the MSDOS vs Windows version of the game...
Note that the SPI version of /U.S.N./ was a magazine game; it ends in
1943 because otherwise it would have required another counter sheet.
It stopped, IOW, just as US Naval Production was /really/ taking off.
DG redid it as a boxed game and, IIRC, extended it to the end of the
war (boxed games allowing more counters than magazine games), but I
have no idea if what I said above applies to the DG version.
I'm pretty sure I've still got the magazine version of the game still >unpunched in one of my storage bins (that I need to go through to get
rid of junk in this room) Any idea whether this would be of interest
to a collector?
(Bearing in mind it's a 40 year old 'classic' allegedly)
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