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Apr 13, 2007 at 02:13 o\clock

NY to Paris Google Map instruction 23 googly humour ??

by: falcon82

3,800 mi (about 29 days 7 hours)
   
1.
Head southwest on Broadway toward Warren St 0.2 mi
1 min
2.
Turn left at Park Row 0.1 mi
1 min
3.
Slight right at Frankfort St 0.3 mi
1 min
4.
Turn left at Pearl St 56 ft
5.
Turn right onto the F.D.R. Dr N ramp 0.4 mi
1 min
6.
Merge onto FDR Dr N 7.7 mi
12 mins
7.
Take exit 17 on the left for Triboro Bridge/Grand Central Pkwy toward I-278/Bruckner Expy 0.4 mi
2 mins
8.
Merge onto Triborough Bridge
Partial toll road
0.4 mi
1 min
9.
Merge onto I-278 E via the ramp to I-87 N/Bronx/Upstate N Y/New England 0.6 mi
1 min
10.
Take exit 47 to merge onto Bruckner Expy/I-278 E toward New Haven 1.9 mi
2 mins
11.
Take the I-278 E exit toward New Haven 0.3 mi
12.
Merge onto Bruckner Expy 5.0 mi
6 mins
13.
Continue on I-95 N
Partial toll road
Entering Connecticut
62.1 mi
1 hour 12 mins
 
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14.
Take exit 48 on the left to merge onto I-91 N toward Hartford 36.8 mi
37 mins
 
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15.
Take exit 29 for US-5 N/CT-15 toward I-84/E Hartford/Boston 0.4 mi
16.
Merge onto CT-15 N 1.7 mi
2 mins
17.
Merge onto I-84 E
Partial toll road
Entering Massachusetts
40.7 mi
38 mins
 
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18.
Take the exit onto I-90 E/Mass Pike/Massachusetts Turnpike toward N.H.-Maine/Boston
Partial toll road
56.0 mi
56 mins
 
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19.
Take exit 24 A-B-C on the left toward I-93 N/Concord NH/S Station/I-93 S/Quincy 0.4 mi
1 min
20.
Merge onto Atlantic Ave 0.8 mi
3 mins
21.
Turn right at Central St 0.1 mi
22.
Turn right at Long Wharf 0.1 mi
23.
Swim across the Atlantic Ocean 3,462 mi
29 days 0 hours
 
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24.
Slight right at E05 0.5 mi
2 mins
25.
At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto E05/Pont Vauban 0.1 mi
26.
Turn right at E05
Partial toll road
17.3 mi

Apr 13, 2007 at 02:01 o\clock

Sonnet 129 by Bill Shakespeare

by: falcon82

Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is perjur'd, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight,
Past reason hunted, and no sooner had
Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait
On purpose laid to make the taker mad;
Mad in pursuit and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;
Before, a joy propos'd; behind, a dream.
  All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
  To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell

Apr 13, 2007 at 01:59 o\clock

Glass

by: falcon82

The glass does not break because it is glass,
Said the philosopher. The glass could stay
Unbroken forever, shoved back in a dark closet,
Slowly weeping itself, a colorless liquid.
The glass breaks because somebody drops it
From a height — a grip stunned open by bad news
Or laughter. A giddy sweep of grand gesture
Or fluttering nerves might knock it off the table —
Or perhaps wine emptied from it, into the blood,
Has numbed the fingers. It breaks because it falls
Into the arms of the earth — that grave attraction.
It breaks because it meets the floor's surface,
Which is solid and does not give. It breaks because
It is dropped, and falls hard, because it hits
Bottom, and because nobody catches it.


A. E. Stallings
Hapax