And as a portrait of people who live in pipe dreams, "The Snow Geese" invites comparison to Ibsen, whose "Wild Duck," another play with a fondness for avian symbolism, deals trenchantly with the same theme.
Using this philosophy, the stress states and failure lives of pipe bends of the same type (i.e. Hot Reheat or Main Steam) with similar, but not identical, dimensions may be estimated and compared using approximations of the peak rupture stress function.
"To not show emotion, you're an idiot, or you're living a pipe dream.
If you continue by saying it's going to get better, you're living a pipe dream".
With its creaky sofa, its junky TV, its dirty sink, and the movie posters cluttering its walls, it is a mid-seventies version of Harry Hope's bar in "The Iceman Cometh," O'Neill's brilliant evocation of trashed lives, tenacious "pipe dreams," and the high that comes from hoping, even when it's too late.
The incidence has given new urgency to understanding the environment in which they thrive, or at least survive: the nitrites and sulfites, dissolved oxygen, and the entire assemblage of microbes living in pipes.
So unsurprisingly, when we asked people (on Twitter, natch) how tweeting changed their lives, many piped up to say they wouldn't be in their current career without it.
Many companies are making it possible for e-commerce sites to pipe live customer service representatives to shoppers over the Internet, but icontact.com is pushing the idea much further.
This little robot can pipe live audio and video to the good guys ready to save the day.
So, until I live out my pipe dream and join a commune of bears in San Francisco, publicly displaying my sexual orientation puts me at risk.
