I like it but it also is more different than I would have expected.

less porn, I gather. Ever notice that there's ALWAYS a porn store within walking distance of the post gate?

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Best Flickr group ever? Tiny animals on fingers.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand, it's raining. Really really hard. Naturally, I have no umbrella with me.

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Ever notice that there's ALWAYS a porn store within walking distance of the post gate?

I'm trying to recall if this was true of Ft. Hood. I don't think so, at least not at the Killeen gates, but this was after they pretty much shut down the multiple entrances, so there fewer than there used to be. Funny thing about Ft. Hood, though, is that the base was the only place you can buy booze in mmmph miles. It's situated in the middle of a dry county.

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Oh, I wish my s-i-l was still pregnant.

For that t-shirt, I wish I was still pregnant!

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less porn, I gather. Ever notice that there's ALWAYS a porn store within walking distance of the post gate?

I suspect that is how I knew where to find the porn. Here? No idea without bases nearby. In San Diego, the three major porn/strip club areas were near the bases. If it weren't for the internets? I'd be deporned.

This reminds me that I need to go to the "special place" to buy vodka.

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Good luck, Dawn! I've been wearing your earring a lot lately. Thanks!

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One of my bosses is considering buying a motorcycle, so he asked me if I wanted to come along to the BMW motorcycle store. I'm not a big motorcycle buff, but spending an hour looking at shiny bikes was a nice break from work....

Hell, if I didn't live in a big city I'd consider getting a motorcycle.

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For that t-shirt, I wish I was still pregnant!

Oh. I don't like any shirt that much.

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Question to wrap up the afternoon: what is your favorite restaurant?

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Was it Nilly who was studying the physics of auto traffic, traffic jams, etc? For the curious, this is the best explanation I've seen of the rather strange phenomena of the beginnings of traffic jams: [link]

Think of it this way: On a sparsely populated highway the cars are far apart and can move at whatever speed they choose while freely maneuvering between lanes -- much like the movement of molecules in a gas. In heavier traffic, the "car molecules" are more densely packed, with less room to maneuver, so cars move at slower average speeds and traffic behaves more like a liquid. If the the "car molecules" become too densely packed, their speed is reduced, and their range of movement is restricted, to such an extent that they can "crystallize" into a solid. So traffic jams aren't random. There's a threshold "value" to the flux of cars traveling along a highway, and if that threshold is exceeded sufficiently -- if local perturbations are large enough -- then the flowing "liquid" traffic jams into a "solid," akin to the critical temperature/pressure point threshold where water turns into ice.

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Based on that data, he developed a model that essentially broke traffic into three basic categories: freely flowing, jammed (solid state), and a bizarre intermediate state called synchronized flow, in which densely packed "car molecules" move in unison, like members of a marching band (or the highly disciplined troops in G.I. Jane). When this happens -- when all the cars are traveling at close to the same average speed because of the vehicle density on the roadway -- they become highly dependent on one another. A physicist might compare the relationship to the correlated motion of electrons in metals, which gives rise to weird phenomena like superconductivity.

Highly correlated traffic means that a tiny perturbation -- a butterfly flapping its wings, or a single driver braking unexpectedly to change a CD -- will send little ripples of corresponding slowdowns through the entire chain of cars behind him/her.

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