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Paule CastroHostGlenn FarrHost
Paule CastroHostGlenn FarrHost
And I also have, amazingly enough, for those of you who recognize this to be a technology show, the famous, ever famous, and the first thing I ever used when I came to the States, the Rand McNally paper road atlas because there is no technology I know that shows you in a clear, concise, immovable, immutable, non-battery powered representational way where you are and what's going on.
I hear that the population has doubled in that, what do you call it, metropolitan area, which is Boulder and Denver and lots and lots and lots of suburbs.
In the 1960s, I learned that they actually voted to tax themselves to buy bits of undeveloped properties to turn into parkland so they wouldn't become built over.
Some of the most expensive housing in that area is in Boulder for that very reason.
It's not specifically a liberal enclave, but they tend to have more environmental notions about things.
And in fact, when you leave Boulder and drive out on Boulder Canyon, very appropriately named, it starts within three miles and starts to ascend very rapidly.
I drove most of the way up between 6,000 feet at Boulder all the way to 8,500 feet at this fantastically eccentric town called Nederland, N-E-D-E-R-L-A-N-D, Nederland.
Why do I mention these things? Well, the 1990 vehicle that I've got has all those things that we've come to expect.
It has an alternator, which is a type of device that produces DC voltage and current at the right rate to top up batteries.
You know when you get in your car, if it's still a gasoline-powered car, this doesn't apply to hybrids and things, when you first turn the key in the ignition, loads of lights come on on the dash, right, Glenn?
And I also have, amazingly enough, for those of you who recognize this to be a technology show, the famous, ever famous, and the first thing I ever used when I came to the States, the Rand McNally paper road atlas because there is no technology I know that shows you in a clear, concise, immovable, immutable, non-battery powered representational way where you are and what's going on.
I hear that the population has doubled in that, what do you call it, metropolitan area, which is Boulder and Denver and lots and lots and lots of suburbs.
In the 1960s, I learned that they actually voted to tax themselves to buy bits of undeveloped properties to turn into parkland so they wouldn't become built over.
Some of the most expensive housing in that area is in Boulder for that very reason.
It's not specifically a liberal enclave, but they tend to have more environmental notions about things.
And in fact, when you leave Boulder and drive out on Boulder Canyon, very appropriately named, it starts within three miles and starts to ascend very rapidly.
I drove most of the way up between 6,000 feet at Boulder all the way to 8,500 feet at this fantastically eccentric town called Nederland, N-E-D-E-R-L-A-N-D, Nederland.
Why do I mention these things? Well, the 1990 vehicle that I've got has all those things that we've come to expect.
It has an alternator, which is a type of device that produces DC voltage and current at the right rate to top up batteries.
You know when you get in your car, if it's still a gasoline-powered car, this doesn't apply to hybrids and things, when you first turn the key in the ignition, loads of lights come on on the dash, right, Glenn?
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