[PRCo] Re: SEL&BVT Book

[Ken & Tracie]

Verbal warning to keep their minds on work during company time.

Yep, men tend to be more visual. But those romance novels are very steamy. 
The excuse I hear from women is nobody can "see" what you're reading but 
everybody can see a photo of a naked person.

Sounds liek some secretaries I know. A little Super Glue in their desk 
drawer locks usually gets their minds right....

K.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 4:47 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: SEL&BVT Book


> What does busted mean?   Dismissed?   Days off without pay?   A
> simple infraction written in the personnel record as a warning not to
> do it again?
>
> What amuses me is that romance novels for a woman are roughly
> analogous to a skin video magazine to a man.   But a woman will fly
> off the handle if she sees a man looking at what she considers porn.
>
> John Swindler knows this story ... he once dumped a whole cache of
> old Playboy magazines in my desk at work when I was away on
> business.   Our secretary found them and raised hell.   So I left
> them there.   And she continued to raise hell at regular intervals.
> And every time she opened her mouth, I asked her why she was in my
> desk.   Did I have any right to be in her desk?   She said I had no
> right in her desk.   Well, the next week she would be back in my desk
> to see if they were still there and bitching again.   But she read
> romance novels at work when she had no work to keep her occupied.
> And woe to the guy who told her she could not do it.
>
> Funny thing about it, now that Barb is retired, she is a wonderful
> person.   I actually stop and say hello once in a while!
>
> On Nov 28, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Ken & Tracie wrote:
>
>> We had six admitting reps busted at work for reading romance novels
>> on line
>> while at work....
>>
>> K.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:35 PM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: SEL&BVT Book
>>
>>
>>> I suspect a lot of news spreads via the internet.   Books?   I
>>> doubt it.
>>>
>>> On Nov 19, 2007, at 5:19 PM, Bob Dietrich wrote:
>>>
>>>> Fred:
>>>>
>>>> Could some of the decline in book reading be caused by people
>>>> getting their
>>>> literature from the internet, thereby assuring a steady stream of
>>>> customers
>>>> for the Grateful Fred? (I'm not sure how detrimental to my eyes
>>>> staring at
>>>> this screen all my life has been)
>>>>
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
>>>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
>>>> Fred
>>>> Schneider
>>>> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 3:40 PM
>>>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>>> Subject: [PRCo] SEL&BVT Book
>>>>
>>>> I borrowed the book Ghost Rails III Electrics by Wayne A. Cole from
>>>> the PTM library to study this week.
>>>>
>>>> This book is for sale in the PTM book store for something like $45
>>>> (give or take) and covers the Steubenville, East Liverpool and
>>>> Beaver
>>>> Valley Traction Company; the Newell Bridge Railway; the Youngstown
>>>> and Ohio River Railroad, and the predecessors of those companies.
>>>>
>>>> It has a lot of nice then and now pictures in the upper Ohio
>>>> Valley ... great for those who want to take a tour like we did in
>>>> Washington and Fayette counties over the weekend.
>>>>
>>>> Ed Lybrger's comments were that the text and the pictures were
>>>> separated rather than having the pictures used to illustrate points
>>>> made in the text.   Ed did, however, comment that he was happy that
>>>> Cole did acknowledge the help that PTM gave him.
>>>>
>>>> I cannot, being oblivious to the local history, comment on the
>>>> research and thus far I have not read the book.  My initial comments
>>>> only pertain to layout.    The use of double-spaced type for the
>>>> body
>>>> text seems extravagant.   While it may be easier to read, single
>>>> spaced, double-column text would have reduced the space requirements
>>>> by 25 pages and the retail cost of the book by perhaps $3.00.
>>>> It's
>>>> hard bound so the amount isn't a whole lot.   It would have allowed
>>>> some larger pictures.
>>>>
>>>> There was an item in our local paper today indicating that money
>>>> spent on books has declined by 14%, adjusted for inflation, from
>>>> 1985
>>>> to 2005, simply because people have quit reading.   It also noted
>>>> that between 1992 and 2002 those in the college age group who have
>>>> read a book voluntarily dropped from 59% to 52%.   That does support
>>>> a need for larger pictures, doesn't it?
>>>>
>>>> My second comment also regards layout.   Whether done by the
>>>> publisher or the author, whoever did it should be aware that it is
>>>> not customary to alter the proportion between the x and y axis of
>>>> photographs and drawings of streetcars, people, buildings and maps
>>>> but it was routinely done in this book apparently in order to
>>>> eliminate white space.   It first because obvious to me when I
>>>> looked
>>>> at a "scale drawing" of the 1926 SEL&BVT Kuhlman cars and discovered
>>>> that the vertical distance, measuring 11'-4" was actually
>>>> significantly shorter on the page than the car width which measures
>>>> 8'-6".   As I paged through the book I found many additional
>>>> examples
>>>> of fat people, fat streetcars, short streetcars, wide streetcars,
>>>> Jack Sprats, Bridges so narrow that you wonder how the trolley would
>>>> fit except that the car looks like it has been slimmed down to four
>>>> feet wide ... well, you get the idea.  Computers are great.   If the
>>>> picture didn't fit the available space, then we'll make it fit.
>>>> Just push the top down and squeeze the ends out.
>>>>
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