27 September 2013

Opposing Theories of Transit

To my mind, there are really just two theories of how best to traverse a downtown area of a city; both methods are

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August & September 2018
I remember I was thinking a lot about how and when i crossed streets around this time.  The question i had was the optimal way to get from a point A to a point B if traversing a cityscape on foot.  Generally, when i enter a city block situation where i have several blocks to traverse in both directions (N/S & E/W), my preferred method of travel is the path of least resistance.  That is to say, i take advantage of the lights as long as i can.  If you have at least 1 block to go in each direction then walk in the direction of where you have a green light.  If you have no green light, walk the length of the block toward your destination and then follow the green at the next intersection.

In my experience, directions tell you generally to go all East and then turn North and handle the rest... That's not my way.

(This seemed important to me at the time... for some reason).

11 September 2013

On this Border in History

Rather than choose what day this write-up belongs in, given its border-ity, I choose a historical Roman Numeral J entry dualism, with a 9/10 and a 9/11 entry and want to gain insight from the separations from the two different years.  What might we understand by looking at Joel 2006 & Joel 2008?

Here are some dates in history to try to dig...

2008 - Grad-school

2006 - Just done (and pre-) Grad School

It's useful to understand the way that your thinking has changed over time... My curiosity is whether mine really has.  Certainly I now, as a stooge for the right-est economy, would see my earlier take as a youthful-fool, an un-refined see-er.  That said, I am what I have been.  Radicalism is a situation of convenience.

I am decidedly inconvenient, but am happy to listen...

10 September 2013

Love li'l sandwiches

I love cucumber sandwiches. Saturday I picked up a few weird little cukes (one was called 'lemon' - I don't recall the name of the other one). Some thin-sliced radish, smoked salmon straight from Alaska (thanks in-laws)...


Oh, 1Q84, great book. Also, a celebratory vodka martini in honor of understanding and curing Rex Grossman's summer long meh-ness.