Blade Runner was the first film in the 2016 CineArts Classic series for 2016, and a bunch of us saw it yesterday. Talk about serendipity! BTW, it still looks marvelous on the big screen, (and they used the Director’s Cut rather than the theatrical release).

I bet you’d absolutely LOVE Pornucopia then...

69? That’s some mighty fine timing, Holly...

Whitley Strieber’s Nature’s End tackled evinronmental collapse in 1986 and it’s still worth a read.

Tywin said it better.

True, although urban bus insertions are a lot easier than they are on the beach....

Because a lot of them go hilariously wrong. I got to witness one over the Pacific on a training exercise that was supposed to see my unit drop a boat followed by a water jump insertion team.

Aerial embolism? Perhaps you meant air embolism, as this occurs due to rapid air pressure decrease, causing nitrogen bubbles to form in the bloodstream (e.g. the bends referenced in the article).

I came here to say almost the same thing. Nice to see I’m not alone in enjoying season 2. I found reminiscent of some of David Lynch’s best work.

UK Readers of a certain age?

Nope, normal, just like the rest of us. =D

Resident of SLC here. Say what you want about us, we have it going on as far as bikeability here. 1standLong has a point though. It’s costing a lot of money to make the city bike friendly, and the folks picking up the tab are motorists. It would be nice to see some sort of parity for cyclists benefiting from all this…

Not if you’re a sociopath.

That’s actually pretty close to the mark here, although some of them use the corners to store the hay they grow in the irrigated circles.

The OP could comment on this to clear things up, but reading what was written, I still read it as asking why circular irrigation rather than hexagonal. If you look at the portion of the sentence following the comma, it’s hard to read it any other way.

Around here that’s not often true, but we’re pretty arid and at high elevation.

The shape wasn’t chosen, it’s the result of the configuration of the irrigation system, combined with the spray area of the sprinkler heads. To get a more hexagonal coverage area would require a significantly more complex transport mechanism and sprinkler head. And even then it would still be roughly round.

Perhaps, but one of my partners, a 40- something orthopedic surgeon, sure can’t. He got on one for the first time in the office recently - here’s the result:

As it happens, I just got back from a wedding trip to Virginia from Salt Lake City. I had to take a tux (I own my own), a suit, and a sportcoat. I’ve never had good luck with packing, and even worse luck getting an airline to hang my suits ( I refuse to pay first class prices).

Happy I could oblige...