Woo-hoo...permalinks now in place. You can link to any post by clicking on the linkbat that follows it, and then linking to (or bookmarking, or emailing or whatever) the url that results. I don't know why I didn't bother to do this sooner.

Walking from GCT to the office on recent mornings, you'd have no idea that anyone considered this the Information Age. Heavy machinery is the dominating fact of life. Now that the former building at Madison and 41st exists only in the memory of its former super, the round-the-clock effort to build a grand new Palace of Commerce on that site moves along with an industrial energy that belies all this talk of recession. The most fascinating part, to me, is the expert, delicately managed maneuvering of the gargantuan rigs which must back in, at an odd angle, to the construction site, through a gate approximately one foot wider than the widest part of the truck itself. And they do it quickly, cavalierly, in heavy traffic, all day long.