Link Light Rail Costs

Link Light Rail initial cost is $2.3 billion and the most a ticket will cost is $2.5 dollars so if everyone who get's on pays the maximum amount it means that 920,000,000 or 920 million people must ride for the system to merely pay off initial constructing costs. I am not even going to factor in the cost of maintenance and upkeep plus the people who work on it who need their pennies, all of which makes a positive earning on the light rail impossible but I digress. With 920 million riders needed, 2.4 million people in Seattle, .7 million in Tacoma, and the Sea-Tac airport on a yearly basis has 32 million people arriving and departing every year, there are a total of 35.1 million people at either end, so every person needs to ride the train from one end to the other a total of 27 times to pay for the initial cost to build the link light rail. However that does not factor into the ability to max out the monetary abilities of the Link Light Rail as only a small number of people can ride at any one time. Moving on, 200 passengers fit into one car there are 35 cars in the fleet, but that doesn't really factor in either, and there is an average of 10 minutes between each train departure, so every 10 minutes 400 people can cram onto 2 cars, one heading north and the other south, therefore 2.3 million sets of 10 minutes are needed, equating of course to 23 million minutes of run time needed to pay off the cost, that's 38333.3 repeating hours of run time, and with the light rail open 20 hours Monday through Saturday and 18 hours on Sunday making 138 hours of run time a week, thusly making 277.7 weeks necessary, 5.34 years of capacity cars traveling up and down the rail system just to pay for the initial cost, not including the additional money needed for upkeep, utilities, and people. These are the facts with as little opinion as I can muster, I do not personally believe that this was a worthwhile investment. The only way this could become worthwhile would be if there were many contributions from the private sector to help pay for it, or even a generous tax deduction for riding due to the fact that it is currently tax and future tax dollars that have paid for it.

What Dreams May Come

Robin Williams in a very serious piece. I love the Dante-esque ness of hell. The initial after life is enjoyable. Yet all in all, I do not enjoy the movie very much. Robin's performance is forced and the rest of the actors are half hearted. The movie is however very visually stunning so if you are looking for a nice view with bleh acting watch it.

Camelot

Camelot is a great musical, and musicals that are great are one's in which the music propels the plot. I love the Arthurian Legend and this is one of my favorites. In Family Guy last night there was a rerun and in it Brian sang the "If ever I would leave you" Song. It was twice as funny cuz I knew what it was from. Another good movie that all should see.

Planet of the Apes

This was wierd, I had thought that all people would have seen the Planet of the Apes. The movie was great to see again. The secular humanist views were much more prominant this time around after doing all the studies I have this year. Are we doomed to dreadful destruction? Will we blow ourselves up? perhaps, but if we do, we won't turn into a lot of monkeys. Now that the class has seen this movie they will be able to understand many quips and allusions in television shows. This is the primary reason to see the classic. To know the humor of the present.

Stranger Than Fiction

The scene that I realized this time I saw it was the fibonacci sequence screen change. As he eats his lunch the screen turns into two side by side frames, then a third that is a square as wide as the two but together, then another continually making larger rectangles. The significance here is that the fibonacci sequence is the Greek phi calculation of perfection. Also an explanation of the biking child and the mysterious woman. When one tries to write, whether song, story or movie. As a part comes together, small inspirations come and you think, I want a child to be the cause, this child should ride a bike, it should be on the road, nay the sidewalk, no road is good, there should also be another lady involved, a government worker, a bus driver, he will be hit by a bus and so on. They are not so much a motif as a sign of the author's mutating ideas about his death.

Who won

The question is who won and why. The winner of a post-modern game would be the one who truely understands the post-modernism and all its intricacies and ambiguous hilarity. Toast wins of course. Tales wins, for their name was pomo with the wordplay. They never quite had a correct answer, but by their use of dizzying logic and ambiguous concepts to prove their points they forced the judge's hand into giving them their prize. What is a prize? Yet as things grew over-ruled, tales saw fit to grow into the most pomo position, becoming the uberman of Niestche. Using a double take-single return type of theft, making rules that imposed on the abilities of the other team. What is a winner? The tales team even gave their own value to the monetary sums, causing the money to mean different things in their own community. There are no winners. The truest winner in a game that is designed to show an abstract concept while building rules around which the players improvise is the one who is not bound by the rules, who creates their own, who defies the trees. In the end... The winner is... The last man standing is...

There is only I and who I choose.

Ros and Guil are XoX

The ambiguity is the key. The only thing solid is that which makes it mysterious and unknowable. A coin flip could be the ending of a time, a change in scene, a turn from fate to luck, or a gay joke. Nothing is everything and at that same time everything is always nothing. We are actors playing our roles, we are roles in our plots, and we are actors without scripts; our roles decide. Perhaps though, it is us, we are in control and take every facet into the light and make decisions. On a fifth hand, our instincts could be the role itself taking over for a wee bit of time...