Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 08:57:37 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Such a book . . .
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> sgs at aginc.net 04/01/02 09:14PM
>
>Candy Madigan wrote:
>>
>> And Border's was, but that was all.  We tried to go to Daedalus Books =
in
>> Columbia, but they were closed.  Although despite the fact that =
Columbia is
>> laid out totally stranger hostile, we did manage to find it.  Have I
>> mentioned that I HATE Columbia, MD?
>
>Note that Columbia is a "planned community".  It's that way because it
>was designed that way.
>
>Problem with a "planned community" is getting people and businesses to
>move in.  One way is to design it like a fish trap -- easy to get into,
>hard to get out of.  Idea is that people will come in, get stuck, and
>move in.

"You can check in, but you can't check out."
Hmm, wasn't that the advertising slogan of Roach Motels?

mjw

>
>Reston is the same way.  I think it works.

Variable definition of "works"

mjw
>
>--
>Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
>Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
>"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."
>