'Heart Of Gold'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
If you love streets laid out in helpfully numbered grids but ALSO being hopelessly confused by house numbers, go to Queens.
Haha! I loved my part of Queens -- all the numbers were in the same range, so I can't remember if I lived on 34th Street at 35th Ave, or the reverse, or what. House numbers made sense, though, didn't they? 35-20 34th St would be between 35th and 36th Aves.
In general, I can't help but feel I should get more tips as a Lyft driver, because of the difficulty factor in what I do -- getting people to the correct destination in an efficient amount of time is quite an art and craft around here.
Some junk mail I just deleted from my inbox says that today is National Relaxation Day! Who wants to take a nap!
Me me me! Instead I am getting a Pap smear. Not very relaxing.
You should get a degree of difficulty bonus, Theo.
I can't believe that histogram accurately represents San Francisco. It doesn't seem that grid like when I am wandering around in it, that's for sure.
In general, I can't help but feel I should get more tips as a Lyft driver, because of the difficulty factor in what I do -- getting people to the correct destination in an efficient amount of time is quite an art and craft around here.
Yet another thing people think computers can do as well as people, I bet!
I would like to relax! Maybe I'll take off the day before Labor Day weekend for a four-day weekend.
House numbers made sense, though, didn't they? 35-20 34th St would be between 35th and 36th Aves.
They make total sense if you know the code, but navigating Queens as a tourist is hella difficult because of all the duplicated St/Ave numbers.
Oh yeah, absolutely -- logical sense, impossible to casually follow. (Never mind 34th Place, etc!)
(Manhattan has the same problem, but only for a few streets because the Ave numbers don't go up that high! And that bit in the Village where the streets start to get squished and out of alignment.)
Where I am in Florida is very grid compliant. People also give directions with turn north/south/east/west instead of right and left because you always know what direction you are facing.
Today is the very opposite of relaxing! Been on dozens of phone calls and haven't had lunch yet. Getting grumpy. Going to let it go to voicemail for a bit.
I was once helping a tourist from Belgium find her way around DC. She was VERY impressed with the fact that the numbers and letters ran in order and were fairly logical (since she was from a city that was founded much earlier). Of course, she was also absolutely ENCHANTED that there was a McDonalds right nearby ....
I grew up in New Orleans. I don't think we believe in straight lines.
I'm watching One Day at a Time, and Schneider is wearing his t-shirt in a French tuck.