Busy and productive day in nyc.. So busy i didn’t even get to see max or jac.. I stayed in town last night and was asleep by 10.. The first full night of sleep I’ve gotten in… . Maybe 2 weeks ?
I was going to see them tonight then i realized that if i ran for it.. I could make an earlier flight back to BTV.. As soon as my meeting was over.. Or at least almost over, i ran down and flagged a cab…. That guy drove me around for a while.. Then politely told me that i had to get out of his cab… His meter wasn’t working.. And evidently, if you get caught driving to the airport with a faulty meter.. Its a bad thing.. He found me another cab… That guy took me on some crazy back roads and made up the time id lost in cab swap.. E he turned around and asked me if i could do him a favor… I was fearing a scam.. But it was a genuine favor.. He was going off shift at 4. And my trip to the airport was going to make him an hour late getting home.. He asked me if it was ok if the stopped on the feeder and let his friend/cab partner take me the rest of the way… He was nice and apologetic.. So i said what the heck.. A promised, we stopped off the freeway, hhe got out, and his freind jumped in and took me the rest of the way.. In the end , my trip cost exactly the fixed rate set by law.. U id had two cabs and three drivers.. Imgot to the airport in just enough time to check in for the earlier flight…. Only to find that it had been delayed by 2 hours for weather…
My trip home reminds me of Zeno’s paradox.. Zeno was a 5th century BCE greek mathematician and philosopher who pointed out that if you walk toward a goal, and each step you half the distance, you will never actually reach your goal….
Which reminds me of my favorite zenos paradox joke
A mathematician, a physicist and an engineer were asked to answer the following question. A group of boys are lined up on one wall of a dance hall, and an equal number of girls are lined up on the opposite wall. Both groups are then instructed to advance toward each other by one quarter the distance separating them every ten seconds (i.e., if they are distance apart at time 0, they are at , at , at , and so on.) When do they meet at the center of the dance hall?
The mathematician said they would never actually meet because the series is infinite.
The physicist said they would meet when time equals infinity.
The engineer said that within one minute they would be close enough for all practical purposes.
Oh well.. Im almost home…
Nite all, nite sam
-me
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