April 27, 2002
Newton was right!
Recently, I keep seeing a pickup truck that says 'www.gravityworks.com' on it. It's a pickup truck with a bunch of construction equipment in it, and I've seen it around some of the numerous construction sites that are currently in downtown Mountain View. I wondered what kind of construction business would have such a URL, and what it meant. Was it an affirmation? Somehow related to their particular construction specialty? I finally got around to looking, and it's an amusement park ride company. Given that none of the aforementioned construction sites involve amusement rides (so far as I know), I guess the construction company just sold the advertising space on the truck to them. Weird.
In the most recent edition of the Mountain View Voice, there's an ad for a company offering 50% off CT scans to "detect health problems". I've never heard of anyone getting a scan like this just because. What a scam. Their site does mention that insurance is "unlikely to cover the service." Duh.
Meredith and I saw Kept last night, the final TheatreWorks performance this season. It was outstanding -- easily, I think, their best performance this year. Oddly, the sound had a lot of problems, which is unusual for TheatreWorks. But the play was wonderful. Just one more weekend left in its run.
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