Then the robot goes to work, dividing the total vista into segments and clicking away.
The painter Edward Joseph also cuts out sections of landscape, forcing the vista into a vertical format.
The reward, at the top of the hill, was a lovely vista into wild desert and south to the Mexican border.
And then there were the trees, a patchwork of scarlet, orange and yellow that transformed a vista into something so perfect it almost didn't look real.
Working from a central point in what was then the middle of the city, Burckhardt divided the 360-degree vista into eight sections, so each drawing represents a 45-degree view from his perch.
Only the sleepiest commuter would have failed to notice by now that a 13 1/2-foot illuminated advertising clock has been removed from the central arch on the south side of the main concourse, opening a vista into the waiting room that has not existed since the 1960's.
I was so frustrated with Microsoft Vista on my new laptop last year, I found myself typing "I hate vista" into Google.
No worries: Companies like Toshiba know that 32-bit chips typically can't handle more than 3 gigabytes of memory and they have pre-installed the 64-bit version of Windows Vista into computers like the $700 Satellite M500.
