TRIVIA

1)Why is that search engine called "Lycos"?
Answer: It's named after spiders.

I called the company and asked their public
relations department about the unusual name.
As they explained to me, Lycos is short for
"Lycosidae," the name of a family of fast-running
spiders.

A spider, for those of you who aren't familiar
with Internet lingo, is a program used by search
engines to index Web sites.

2)How do contractors get tall buildings to be perfectly
vertical?

In no other profession is it more important to be upright.
You don't want your builder to have a crooked slant on
things. But how -- other than threatening to send it to jail
-- do architects and contractors get a tall building to go
straight?

Shhh. Can you keep a secret? Tall buildings aren't perfectly
vertical! They don't have to be. Flexibility is built into
their construction -- valuable in itself on a windy day or in
an earthquake zone.

When it comes to the straight up-and-down of it, close is
good enough. They achieve that by putting cables on the
supporting vertical columns when they start to build
the first two floors. Surveying equipment -- plumb and
transit -- indicates if those columns are going straight up.
If they're off, the cables are tightened to adjust the
vertical columns so they're perpendicular before the
horizontal beams are bolted to them.

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