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Campaign for Real Windows
This is nothing to do with Microsoft. This is about glass, walls and orifices.
A window should be a window. A hole within a solid wall that allows light in. Glass is the perfect material for windows. It is a terrible material for walls. Glass lets light in and allows heat through. In summer a glass building is far too hot. In winter you cannot afford to heat it. Glass looks good when it is clean, it looks terrible when it is dirty. In contrast stone or brick carry grime and slime with grace. A stone wall looks almost distinguished when it is sooty and covered in moss. Stone ages like a man, glass ages like an Italian peasant girl, fantastic to look at when clean and fresh, but in twenty years time you want to demolish it and get a new one.
Mirror glass is terrible. Some city streets are like solar furnaces in the sunlight. Pedestrians are blinded and cooked as they try to walk past. Some intersections must be as fun to negotiate as a hall of mirrors.
Architects should get out into the real world and start to use natural materials for walls. They should also realize that no matter how many windows a modern building has office workers will always put the lights on twenty four hours a day.
All modern buildings are steel frames with cladding on the outside. I suggest using more insulating materials to fill the walls out and clad them with thin panels, or tiles, of stone or brick. These would last for years without maintenance and could be replaced piecemeal or all at once as required.
Windows should be holes within walls.
Band NamesAnother function that free AOL and CompuServe CDs can have is in supplying names for new bands. Mohair-Arable, sniff-deists and Frenzy-Suburb sound just right. I am not in the same league as AOL's random word generator, the best I can come up with are Total Harmonic Distortion and The Pope's Mother-in-law. To be truly creative these days requires a lack of pretension, we cannot compete with computers.
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Men's eyes
Has it ever bothered you that men seem to have an extra erogenous zone? The retina.
I can never understand why some men seem to get so much pleasure out of looking at what they know they will never touch. I also wonder if women have any inkling about how much lust they generate. I can only assume that they must be ignorant of it, otherwise they would be unable to cope with life.
I want what they want
Boy band hysteria. Thousands of young girls screaming with lust. This is a perfectly natural event. It has a very simple Darwinian explanation. It makes perfect sense not to use your own judgement about what is desirable. It doesn't matter, evolutionarily speaking, what you yourself like. You should always want what is popularly perceived to be popular. The reason is simple. If you are a young female you will do your genes the most good if you mate with a popular male because you stand a good chance of raising a son with those popular characteristics. A popular son, especially a rock star, could have lots of successful children. So next time you see a screaming teenager don't dismiss her as a mindless crowd-follower. She probably is, but she is also being more rational than she knows.
The Rule of Three
To be a successful girl band the best number to have is always three. Why? The answer is very simple. Three women is enough, even in a sexual fantasy. If there were only two the man then has to find out their names. Any more than three is too many to fantasize about and too many ways to split the money.
There is another rule too. Not too black. Three mid brown women is the lowest common denominator sexual fantasy.
Three is also enough of a temptation to outweigh a steady partnership. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; but three... I defy any man to say he would not swap his wife or girlfriend for three lithe mid brown available women.
