I eagerly await the first major metropolitan area brave enough to institute a Futurama-style public transit by pneumatic tube system.

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In 1869, Alfred Ely Beach and his Beach Pneumatic Transit Company of New York secretly began constructing a pneumatic subway line beneath Broadway. Its single tunnel, 312 feet long, 8 feet in diameter, was completed in 1870 and ran under Broadway from Warren Street to Murray Street.[1] The line was built as a demonstration of a pneumatic transit system, open to the public with fares donated to charity. It remained little more than a curiosity, running only a single car on its one-block-long track to a dead-end at its terminus.

Have we discussed Amber Benson's upcoming movie that seems to be about keeping cabana boys?

I know one of the leads and saw a test screening. I think the final cut is much like what I saw (which means the director ignored my very perceptive feedback). I did enjoy it, although Tara has been wiped from my mind and replaced with something more...different.

Subway restaurants often have wallpaper depicting the pneumatic tube subway on its demonstration to the public.

Before birth or after? Cause I have a binder that I was given post birth. I used to have a maternity belt but that got given away.

I think it's an after thing that supports some of the weight of the baby.

Can there be any more beautiful sight than a Buffista pneumatic tube subway crosspost? Not this minute, anyway. None more beautiful.

Blood puddle pillows

With cool pictures of them being used....

eta: one comment to the blog entry suggested that this is "beyond tasteless" at this moment. Huh. That didn't cross my mind.

I so want some of those. But yeah, unfortunate timing.

I want a pneumatic tube!

I have a student who is about 53, married, with kids, etc. She has had ups and downs in her life. She wants to give me a car she has sitting in her driveay that she is trying to get rid of, and I don't know what to do. I mean, it is nice, and I really need a car. She has said she will take $500 or $1000, or not (I could give Her $500 this week, and $500 in two weeks). But-- I am sort of liking the carlessness (even though I can see how it will get old real fast!), and the whole point of not having a car is to save money to have a more reliable car. This is the same kind of car I had before-- old.

I feel like it would be nice to take the bus on weekdays and keep the car for weekends and emergencies, but then I still have to have insurance, etc, which eats away at the savings of not having a car. I also feel that other people deserve to have the car more, if she is trying to help people out. I mean, it isn't going to drastically alter my life circumstances or anything, it is just going to make things more convenient.

She does all this talk about "living angels", and she really, really believes in helping people, but I don't have a car because a) I don't have and am not ambitious enough to want a job that makes more money and b) I prefer to spend my money on DVD's and books-- it isn't like I just dragged myself up out of the gutter-- it is completely my fault that I am financially unable to buy a car.

I want a pneumatic tube AND the blood puddle pillows. But yes, kinda unfortunate timing on the blood puddle pillows.

Sophia, can you thank her for her generous thought but explain to her that saving for a car for yourself is part of the goals (this one financial) that you've set for yourself?