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Toronto, 2005.05.28

Tonight we went out for Geoff C's birthday. We had a fine Mexican dinner at Mariachi's, then went down the way to the "St. Louis", a sports bar that has a large patio which is just the thing for semi-drunken bellowing.

That place has the fiercest hand dryers any of us had ever seen. They made about as much noise as a car engine, and put out a terrific gale that was strong enough for you to see the skin on your hands flapping in the strength of it. I don't know what use such strength provides, but I have to admit my hands were dry in about five seconds.

rand()m quote

Capitalist production, therefore, only develops the techniques and the degree of combination of the social process of production by simultaneously undermining the original sources of all wealth – the soil and the worker.

—Karl Marx