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Neat-o!
That’s the word on the PF Flyers — neat-o.
Just look at the box that the Center Lo Reissues came in:
And they are Vulcanized, with the patented rigid wedge:
And that patent No. 1,938,127 is for real. I looked it up:
You can read inventor Hyman L. Whitman’s patent here. It’s very cool and quaint.
But what’s cooler are [...]
Metaphorically looking
I imbibed deeply of Saussure and Barthes and other French Structuralists (and then Poststructuralists) long ago so you’d think I wouldn’t feel so suprised and overwhelmed by the surfeit of signs in the landscape. And I don’t mean just the obvious linguistic signs.
This is what happened while driving to racquetball on Tuesday (and the distraction [...]