Sometimes Seeing the Present Lets You See the Past... -Wednesday, October 22, 2003 -3:32 pm-
I know that in the context of causality that is a self evident statement... deterministic universe and all that, but on a practical level, it's kind of interesting. I was driving around today over near Color Plus, which is near 5th St. and Spring. I saw a gate at the exit to a parking lot that was a little different. The turn-pike was about 10 feet off the ground. There was a semi truck setting behind it, waiting to be let out. After a moments surprise, I could see semis past plowing through the gate because it was too low to see. I was amused.
On a related topic, thanks to the British, I finally know what a semi truck is only part of. It's semi-articulated, meaning that it can bend between the cab and trailer but not at the rear axles of the trailer. So a big-assed Ryder truck is a non-articulated truck and a fire truck with a joint behind the cab and a tiller steering at the rear is fully-articulated. I'd like to know if there are any other fully-articulated trucks.