Around Venice

The first real spring weekend in Venice was interesting to say the least. The beach scene consists of an outdoor boardwalk that is a shopping mall masquerading as a carnival freak show. You can see just about anything and some think you can do just about anything. Next to the boardwalk is the bike path that serves as the through way for those who want to see and be seen on bikes, trikes, boards, blades, wandering hoards on foot (who serve to make it an almost perfect obstacle course) and just about any other personal conveyance you could imagine.


Heard Around Venice
Did you see the guy holding the yellow snake?

No, but I saw the guy with two iguanas on his hat. Are you talking about the guy standing on a chair in a thong holding a snake in each outstretched arm?

Those snakes weren't real. This one was alive.



Venice Math
Given a weekend day,
for every 5 deg warmer the forecast high temperature,
there are 10% more people,
each wearing 15% less clothing.
(which could be a good thing or a bad thing)

Heard around Venice
I just saw a guy riding one of those huge front wheel bicycles
Oh? I thought those were extinct.

Venice Physics
Apparently, as the crowds get bigger and the parties go longer, somehow the properties of glass change in a way as to make it exceedingly more fragile. The day after, broken glass can be found everywhere.


Venice Twilight Math
Beginning at the time calculated for sunset of a given day,
for each 10 min after this time,
there are 15% fewer people on the walk street,
97% of the group leaving are the those you would like to be associated with,
3% of those leaving are following others looking for an opportunity to strike;
which means when you stop to look around in the growing darkness,
100% of the people left are not anyone you'd want to do business with.