How to lose a morning
James Lileks — Man of Many Talents (and Interests) — collects (among many, many other things) old motel postcards. As with all this other stuff, he scans them in and posts them on the web, with his observations.
I made the mistake this morning of visiting that site and have been pretty much entrapped there for the past few hours. While my family settled down when I was eight, I’m still old enough to remember riding along (and later driving) on highways (not freeways — highways, such as Hwy 101 or Route 66 or US 395) and staying at motels. Poor TV receptions, floor-to-ceiling windows with curtains, linoleum floors, rattling air conditions, a pool (yea! a pool!), and breakfast at the diner (click on photo to see full image):
Ah, yes. I remember it well. ..bruce w..
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Webster is Principal and Founder at Bruce F. Webster & Associates, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University. He works with organizations to help them with troubled or failed information technology (IT) projects. He has also worked in several dozen legal cases as a consultant and as a testifying expert, both in the United States and Japan. He can be reached at bwebster@bfwa.com, or you can follow him on Twitter as @bfwebster.Subscribe
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