Slashdot Mirror
Las Vegas Monorail Finally Ready To Open
doormat writes "The Las Vegas monorail is finally set to open to the public on July 15th! The project has had some problems - it was originally scheduled to open in March. The first part of the monorail, which uses Bombardier M-VI train vehicles, 'a derivative of the famous Walt Disney World Mark VI trains', is 4 miles long and connects several casinos on the east side of the Las Vegas Strip (see map, QT video), as well as the Las Vegas Convention Center (Home to CES, NAB, Networld+Interop and what was Comdex). Future phases seek to expand the monorail to downtown to the North, the west side of the strip, and eventually the University and the airport (which the taxicab and limo groups fight tooth and nail). I swear it's the strip's only choice... throw up your hands and raise your voice! Monorail, Monorail, Monorail! Mono... D'oh!"
BUTT CHEZ
You'll be given cushy jobs!
You can get mono from riding the monorail.
funny, we had the monrail episode on channel ten last night (sydney australia). No sh#t. I'd provide a link to prove it, but can't find an online tv guide that shows yesterdays programs. Anyone else in sydney want to verify it for me. Otherwise you can take my word for it.
4 /0 6/29/2223204&mode=nested&tid=106&tid=137&tid=185&t id=190
got fp the other day first time ever. now gotta get a story submit accepted and then my lifes ambitions have been met.
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0
if
MAIDEN! with the meek, brown eyes,
In whose orbs a shadow lies
Like the dusk in evening skies!
Thou whose locks outshine the sun,
Golden tresses, wreathed in one, 5
As the braided streamlets run!
Standing, with reluctant feet,
Where the brook and river meet,
Womanhood and childhood fleet!
Gazing, with a timid glance, 10
On the brooklet's swift advance,
On the river's broad expanse!
Deep and still, that gliding stream
Beautiful to thee must seem,
As the river of a dream. 15
Then why pause with indecision,
When bright angels in thy vision
Beckon thee to fields Elysian?
Seest thou shadows sailing by,
As the dove, with startled eye 20
Sees the falcon's shadow fly?
Hearest thou voices on the shore,
That our ears perceive no more,
Deafened by the cataract's roar?
Oh, thou child of many prayers! 25
Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!
Care and age come unawares!
Like the swell of some sweet tune
Morning rises into noon,
May glides onward into June. 30
Childhood is the bough, where slumbered
Birds and blossoms many numbered;--
Age, that bough with snows encumbered.
Gather, then, each flower that grows,
When the young heart overflows, 35
To embalm that tent of snows.
Bear a lily in thy hand;
Gates of brass cannot withstand
One touch of that magic wand.
Bear through sorrow, wrong, and ruth 40
In thy heart the dew of youth,
On thy lips the smile of truth.
O, that dew, like balm, shall steal
Into wounds, that cannot heal
Even as sleep our eyes doth seal; 45
And that smile, like sunshine, dart
Into many a sunless heart,
For a smile of God thou art.
You could teach us how to have really high unemployment. That'd be grand.
Oh wait, you were being sarcastic. My bad.
*dons Nomex unda-wears*
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!