MILK, SPACESHIPS, AND DVDs — by Steve Nadis
It’s a beautiful night in Cambridge, with temperatures in the mid-60s, and the sidewalks were crowded even at midnight. I ran into a friend outside the Plough&Stars on my way back from the video store. I usually see him at this time when I’d heading back from 7-11, carrying a gallon or two of milk. Tonite I had just a single DVD and felt unencumbered, almost weightless. My friend is a wildly creative artist who’d just received license from an extremely wealthy entrepreneur to let his already fertile mind run rampant. Our conversation, as they often do, quickly got around to flying DNA and spaceships powered by solar cells. After a few minutes, I was on my way thinking that’s life in Cambridge. If we’d moved to the suburbs, as my wife has sometimes lobbied for, I wouldn’t have interludes like that. We’d probably have a bigger house but our intellectual horizons would surely be narrower.
Gosh, many of my buddies ‘n I live up in the backwoods of So NH & we’re known to get together {sometimes influenced by a narrow rolled paper;} and talk about solar powered mirowaves & remotes. But we do ya one better. We MAKE ‘em!
You city slickers dream, but up here, neccessity is the Mother of Invention. (I power my place off a +2000′ #24 phone line- frig & all! Hi-volt D.C, Snake.
And a highly modified computer power supply, at the cabin end, to charge all the 12V storage batts.
Works ’slicker ‘n a baby hog on an April mornin’).
Palo Alto, eat ___! -Marco Polo
Thanks Anon, aka MP, for putting me in my place. Somebody’s got to do it.
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