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...Speaking of the not-too-distant future, when was it that the Planet of the Apes was supposed to occur? GT always loved to show those damned dirty apes. The Y2K bug was supposed to ruin the economy. It totally choked. A shame, really. Not a clutch player...
...Lonely Planet, Let's Go's chief competition, targets those who have more to spend on their getaways. Lonely Planet General Manager Eric Kettunen remembers that he used Let's Go the first time he went to Europe and thought it was "the greatest thing." But five years later, he found the series simply too unsophisticated. Kettunen says, "My girlfriend and I felt we were getting information for a student"--the kind of information he no longer needed...
...said. She thought I might meet them at company picnics, which often feature the AOL hot-air balloon. This sounded romantic enough, until I heard about the AOL race car, which David Hasselhoff drove in a Baywatch episode. I don't think there's a woman on the planet who wouldn't be putty around that thing...
...technology and cinnamon-bun businesses into one sticky, tangled mass a Good Thing or a Bad Thing for everyone besides the three or four white men who have the total power to decide how many times a week Seinfeld will be seen on every single television set on the planet...
...self-absorption. Weather is connected to ego, I think - nature projects moods upon us, and we project back. It's a variation on this pattern: A man imagines that the world must be incomparably better or incomparably worse in his time than it was before he arrived on the planet. To admit that life is 99.9 percent continuum (human nature and weather itself being more or less constant, with certain variations, and things tending to even out over the centuries, except for occasional ice ages) might make the man feel ordinary - or, in any case, not sufficiently superior to millions...