Wednesday Eve Landscape and Taxi Co.

Kingdon stretches legs and prepares to straddle the high horse

If there's two things in this world that I really don't like, and I'm pretty sure that I'm not alone here, these are them:

1. Losing money in a bar (especially at a pool table)
2. Watching people drive when it's clear that they've had too much to drink
   

Preventing these things can, in some cases, require foresight. However, as long as we've got cellular telephones at our disposal, it need not be this way!

The sign at the bar says "No Soliciting!" so I figured I'd better announce this publicly in some other place. If you find yourself in either of these situations, and you need someone to bail you out, call me up! I'm actually a pool shark in a landscaper's clothing.

Cheers,
Kingdon

English Vocabulary Lesson

Computer scientists talk about scripting, where computer scientists and film afficionados both are responsible for producing, reviewing and handling scripts. A film maker is like a programmer. I wonder what else we can do with a script?

• conscription - involuntary labor demanded by some established authority.
• orders - something a conscript or conscripted person would receive from the authorities.
• transcription - something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation.
• prescription - instruction or direction delivered before, as authoritative rules, codes, or orders.
• proscribe - to prohibit, condemn, forbid, command against.

Most cultures proscribe stealing. Some people equate piracy with theft. Some laws and practices place a value on things with no unique identity as an object. Calculus is required to quantify value in such a situation and logically explain this phenomenon.