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Downtown had 18,507 spaces of which 16,460 were off-street and 2,047 were curb of the offstreet spots, 11,609 were signle-level and 4,851 in structures of two or more levels estimated demand exceeding supply: 600 (I'll have to hunt down current numbers for comparison -- anybody got a clue where that could come from?)

Found this in some notes from a meeting with a bunch of old Atlanta Crackers players on 26 Aug 2003 at the Margaret Mitchell House Buck Riddle who used to play first base was talking about all the gamblers in Poncey Park out in the left field bleachers. Here are some of the odds that would be offered on a per-pitch basis Fly ball (caught) 2 to 1 Foul tipped 3 to 1 Anybody know more standard odds from those days? 1930s to the 50s One more funny story. This from lefty pitcher Dick Kelly (~1954). They were playing an exhibition game against inmates in the Atlanta Pen. He heard this from the crowd: Take your time, you've got 20 years to get this guy out

Nice distillation of Hayek 's ideas of how markets spontaneously form to solve problems from an interview with Bruce Caldwell , author of a 2003 biography of Hayek, in Reason magazine dated Jan 2005. Paris gets fed No one intentionally plans on feeding Paris, but millions upon millions of people get up every morning and get what they want for breakfast. How does that happen? Hayek's answer is that a market system ends up coordinating individual activity. Millions of people are out there pursuing their own interest, but the net result is a coordination of economic activities. And prices are the things that contain people's knowledge. While talking about socialism and fascism's tendency to attempt to conduct things from the top pretending to have "perfect knowledge" (which, of course, can't exist in a single place) ...or paving over Iraq. I think Iraq actually is a perfect example of this. You don't just come in and say, "Here are all the...

From an interview with Todd Rundgren for Linux Magazine (July 2004) I believe in the free software movement, open source, and all that other stuff, because basically I'd like to live in a world where everyone was rich to the point that they could just give away everything to anyone else: you see someone with a lack, and you have what they need, so you just give it to them, and that's life. That's not real, I understand, because as brilliant as we all are, we're still dominated by an animal [instinct] that causes us to reflexively protect what's ours. It's as if we're saying, "If you steal my television, I will die, so therefore I have the right to shoot you." Now, if I catch you stealing my television, my attitude is "I feel a little creeped out that you snuck into my house, but if you need the television so freakin' badly, take the damn thing. I can get another TV." I sort of have the same attitude about the file swapping and t...

Breakdown of the human body's 6.71 x 10 27 atoms. I have 2 x 10 19 gold atoms. Woo-hoo!!

140 years ago today. Just had to post this from Sherman's memoirs Along the railroad they were more successful. Sweeping over a small force with two guns, they reached our main line, broke through it, and got possession of De Gress's battery of four twenty-pound Parrotts, killing every horse, and turning the guns against us.... These combined forces drove the enemy into Atlanta, recovering the twenty-pound Parrott guns -- but one of them was found "bursted" while in the possession of the enemy. The two six-pounders farther in advance were, however, lost, and had been hauled back by the enemy into Atlanta. Poor Captain de Gress came to me in tears, lamenting the loss of his favorite guns; when they were regained he had only a few men left, and not a single horse. He asked an order for a reëquipment, but I told him he must beg and borrow of others till he could restore his battery, now reduced to three guns. How he did so I do not know, but in a short time he did...

This was from my old Inman Park house: What buildings can you see? Until last week I could see the Bellsouth tower, but it's getting blocked by some of the new apartments at the Mead development which also blocked what little I could see of One Atlantic Center. I can still see Bank of America building and SunTrust Plaza. Until the leaves grow in I can barely see the downtown Marriott, 191 Peachtree, the Westin and Georgia Pacific building. What can you see from your house? Currently I can only see the Bank of America tower but in the winter I can also see SunTrust Plaza (are they going to rename it soon?), the downtown Marriott and, of course, Ponce City Market.