How does Sprint's Mobile Broadband service perform in Austin? Is it worth a twenty-four month commitment totaling over $1500?

In an effort to answer this question, here's a summary of my experiences & observations during this first month of going mobile.

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In what 750-page tome do you get fugal themes of formal systems, Tortoise & Mr. Crab, canons of dialog, artificial intelligence, genetics, hardwired behaviors of a wasp, consciousness, records that break record players, & etchings of strange loops?

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

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The new Whole Foods world headquarters [a.k.a. the Landmark Store] opened practically around the corner from my home & office two days ago. It's been under construction for almost two years.

The place is a landmark of our capitalistic world, with amazing variety & abundance of the best life-sustaining warez our world has to offer.

The crowds are quite frenzied over there right now, especially around lunch time, which was a high traffic time for the old 6th Street store anyway.

Here's Mars' Top Ten List of the New Whole Foods props:

1. raw, living foods mini-restuarant
2. a chocolate fountain
3. micro-roasted bulk coffee (roasted in 5lb batches before your eyes, BZZZZ)
4. expansive roof-top terrace with integrated rain-collection
5. you can drink yerself tipsy while shopping
6. an entire isle dedicated to refillable bottled water, RO [reverse osmosis] & DI [de-ionized]
7. sushi bar!
8. dumb-waiter to get your goods down to the triple-decker, underground parking garage (I have yet to use it. I'm always on my bike!)
9. free WiFi
10. the sweet Austin atmosphere

Related: Whole Foods Market company site & "Whole Foods" @ Google News.