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[itisnotlogical]

I thought that I was supposed to be to work at noon, but checked my phone and saw that I had written 3 to 11 on my little schedule note. At about one I check my phone and saw that I had a voicemail from work. I thought that maybe I'd messed up very badly and they were asking me why I wasn't at work! Good thing they were just asking me to come in early. If I no-call no-show'd so soon after the day before yesterday (five people called in, restaurant went to shit) I would probably be in pretty deep trouble.

[i2amroy]

I actually had a very long discussion with one of my professors about this, and a major part of this lies in whether or not cities actually have a defined city center. Those cities that do often have better public transportation, simply because the city itself is set up in a way to actually allow for a convenient, timely location for stops. Most often these are cities on the eastern seaboard, simply because they were designed and built before the creation of the car. For example it is totally possible to survive based solely on walking and transit options in the Washington DC area, because it's got a well defined city center and there are subway stations in most places.

On the other hand cities that are farther west tend to be designed after the advent of the car, and thus don't have clearly defined city centers. In places like Pheonix, Arizona, you have around 500 square miles with no clear definitions. People, eat, sleep, work, and have fun in areas totally spread out throughout that distance. There's no good places to say "this spot can access all of A, B, and C", so we should put a bus stop here. Correspondingly Pheonix's transit systems are mediocre at best, and downright bad in many cases.

[Lord Shonus]

I actually had a very long discussion with one of my professors about this, and a major part of this lies in whether or not cities actually have a defined city center. Those cities that do often have better public transportation, simply because the city itself is set up in a way to actually allow for a convenient, timely location for stops. Most often these are cities on the eastern seaboard, simply because they were designed and built before the creation of the car. For example it is totally possible to survive based solely on walking and transit options in the Washington DC area, because it's got a well defined city center and there are subway stations in most places.

On the other hand cities that are farther west tend to be designed after the advent of the car, and thus don't have clearly defined city centers. In places like Pheonix, Arizona, you have around 500 square miles with no clear definitions. People, eat, sleep, work, and have fun in areas totally spread out throughout that distance. There's no good places to say "this spot can access all of A, B, and C", so we should put a bus stop here. Correspondingly Pheonix's transit systems are mediocre at best, and downright bad in many cases.

That doesn't hold true for a lot of Midwest cities - Toledo, for example, was built before the car and has a clearly defined "city center", but the growth patterns in the last 60 years or so mean that a tolerable bus network is at the high end of cost-feasibility, and projections for a passenger rail or similar network involve multiples of the city's annual budget.

[Orange Wizard]

TIL Spain is in the American Midwest.

[Calidovi]

TIL Spain is in the American Midwest.

Come to America and feel free to be geographically confused!

[EnigmaticHat]

I actually had a very long discussion with one of my professors about this, and a major part of this lies in whether or not cities actually have a defined city center. Those cities that do often have better public transportation, simply because the city itself is set up in a way to actually allow for a convenient, timely location for stops. Most often these are cities on the eastern seaboard, simply because they were designed and built before the creation of the car. For example it is totally possible to survive based solely on walking and transit options in the Washington DC area, because it's got a well defined city center and there are subway stations in most places.

On the other hand cities that are farther west tend to be designed after the advent of the car, and thus don't have clearly defined city centers. In places like Pheonix, Arizona, you have around 500 square miles with no clear definitions. People, eat, sleep, work, and have fun in areas totally spread out throughout that distance. There's no good places to say "this spot can access all of A, B, and C", so we should put a bus stop here. Correspondingly Pheonix's transit systems are mediocre at best, and downright bad in many cases.

That doesn't hold true for a lot of Midwest cities - Toledo, for example, was built before the car and has a clearly defined "city center", but the growth patterns in the last 60 years or so mean that a tolerable bus network is at the high end of cost-feasibility, and projections for a passenger rail or similar network involve multiples of the city's annual budget.

I know in LA they had a good trolley car system and then the automobile companies successfully lobbied to get rid of it.

[Lord Shonus]

I know in LA they had a good trolley car system and then the automobile companies successfully lobbied to get rid of it.

They actually just bought it. The thing is, that was when things were half as spread out as they are now.

[technicallyAdventurer]

High school orientation is today. _{I get to talk to people, woo.}

[Arx]

High school orientation is today. _{I get to talk to people, woo.}

You'll be fine! Very nearly everyone's not a total jark, after all.

[Calidovi]

High school orientation is today. _{I get to talk to people, woo.}

That's coming sooner or later in the summer for me, can't wait to spill my spaghetti.

[Tawa]

High school orientation is today. _{I get to talk to people, woo.}

Whoops, I'm probably kind of late now. But, as Arx said, you'll be fine!
North Korean Interrogation: The Flash Game

Not so much terrifying as panicky and frantic, but it didn't fit anywhere else.

[Yoink]

I would cross-post about my earthquake-enhanced nightmare here, but my phone can't do that stuff. Oh well.
It definitely fits here too, though. The dream was bad enough to begin with.

[Rose]

There's no 'Things that are a constant worry on your mind' thread, so it goes here.

The river is rising constantly. It's only a few inches from going over the dyke, and I already have water in front of my house. Won't be long now before things get deep.

[Yoink]

Uh-oh.
I went for a walk whilst feeling irrationally superhappy, had a nice phone conversation, and now I'm feeling a bit tired and I feel like I may be starting to plummet back down to Earth on the mood swing. And it's a long way down.

Maybe I didn't dodge the family's history of mental illness as neatly as I thought. :-/

[Tiruin]

Maybe I didn't dodge the family's history of mental illness as neatly as I thought. :-/

...Mental illness? -.- That's...a long gap to conclude these things.
...Were you under the influence of any chemicals? [ie Caffeine or alcohol or endorphins]
Substances would be another word used, but that's assuming a lot.