cornfield

Some guy comes in with half a cornfield stuck to the undercarriage of their vehicle, who should pay for the suspension work?

With banjo music playing, the chicken truck has gone off the road, through the fence and is now tearing up a cornfield.

All I can picture is a guy designing a combine, alone, in the middle of a cornfield.

My wife used to go to cornfield parties as a kid in Iowa.

How hard is it to take a convincing picture of such a balloon in a cornfield (or even put one there) and claim phony coordinates?

O singers, resinous and soft your songs Above the sacred whisper of the pines, Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines, Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.

You can't launch and land in a cornfield.

South Dakota (4 people/square mile) and Idaho (7 people per square mile) are large rural western states, Iowa (20 people/km^2) is a giant cornfield with some insurance company headquarters hiding in the middle.

I contend that if you factor out all those improvements-by-proximity--if you erect a magical barrier that prevents all human influence from passing it--the inherent value of a hectare in a city or suburb is about the same, or perhaps less, than a hectare in the middle of a cornfield--a field without an irrigation system, and far from any roads.

Its a little ironic that the group of people who laugh at "designing a GUI in visual basic to track the killer's IP address" apparently thinks that an agricultural engineer sits in the middle of a cornfield with a bunch of charts on an easel sketching out what piston goes into what shaft...

Also, try some audio talks from Jack Cornfield, Pema Chodron, Gil Frondal, Shinzen Young, or whoever seems to work for you.