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Thursday, June 05, 2008

Fake bus stop keeps Alzheimer's patients from wandering off

With my crappy memory this totally seems like something that would work for me.

"They know the green and yellow bus sign and remember that waiting there means they will go home."

The result is that errant patients now wait for their trip home at the bus stop, before quickly forgetting why they were there in the first place.


From Telegraph.co.uk

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Spare Change?

As you know I'm pretty broke right now which is actually more fun that you might expect. Most of the things that were standard activities in my life (primarily eating out and buying stuff) I now can't afford to do.

In any case, I was trying to catch a ride on a bus last night when I realized I had the requisite $1.50 but only if I include ten pennies. But as you may not know, SF's buses have one of the few machines still in this world that actually treat pennies as real currency. So I got on my bus and took that ride. But it got me to thinking about pennies. I know of only two machines that take them, the aforementioned SF buses and parking meters in Hudson, Wisconsin. Does anyone else out there know of any?

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