The late, great TRS-80

On 27/06/07, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote: I've visited New York several times. For a stranger, I think it's the single easiest city in the world I've ever encountered. You can tell N/S/E/W from a combination of traffic flow and street number, and apart from a couple of transects like the Avenue of the Americas, it's a lovely simple rational grid. Within days of my first arrival, I was walking everywhere from Central Park to Battery Park without getting lost. It wasn't until I'd explored it like that, on foot, that I understood the common reference in American film & TV to places as being on, say, "35th and 3rd" or something. Just a corner means you can navigate straight to the right corner of the right block and be there, without a map. Compare and contrast with the hours I have spent wandering directionless around cities all over the world while poring over a map. This includes my native England and my chosen home, London, even now, after some 16y here. -- Liam Proven ? Blog, homepage &c: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lproven at gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884 ? Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat: liamproven at aol.com ? MSN/Messenger: lproven at hotmail.com Yahoo: liamproven at yahoo.co.uk ? Skype: liamproven ? ICQ: 73187508