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| Friday, March 11, 2005 |
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| | A key to understanding the economies of networks is seeing that networks are comprised of relationships |
Ignoring is bliss
| | Edhat says The train stops here without a signal. True, I suppose. But that's in the daytime, when the train is Amtrak. At night, however, the freight trains pass through blasting their horns like runaway semis plowing through herds of geezers. |
| | When we first moved to Santa Barbara, we took an apartment a couple hundred feet from the tracks that run by the town's pretty Spanish train station. At three-something in the morning, a freight train rolled through, blasting its horn (I counted) seventeen times. Long blasts too. Loud as hell. My wife and I woke up and looked at each other. How can these people stand it? we wondered. Then, at 3-somethingelse another train came through, just as loud and long as the first one. How could anybody sleep through the night? we asked. Three nights later we slept through it. As we've been doing ever since, along with a hundred thousand or so other people. |
| | It's 4am now. I'm up early, trying to get stuff done. In the last half hour I've noticed both trains, still loud as hell, even though my office is in a back room of our house, a mile or more from the tracks. I tried counting the horns (these things are too loud to be called "whistles"), and lost count at eleven both times. I realized I was fighting sleep, along with the mechanism in my head that has been unconciously ignoring the horns for more than four years. |
| | So I'll leave counting train horns up to the dedicated staff at edhat. They'll get around to it one of these nights. |
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