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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #13830 on: July 27, 2015, 03:01:02 pm »

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.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #13831 on: July 27, 2015, 10:21:07 pm »

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.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #13832 on: July 28, 2015, 09:37:17 am »

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.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #13833 on: July 28, 2015, 08:18:12 pm »

TIL Spain is in the American Midwest.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #13834 on: July 28, 2015, 08:20:18 pm »

TIL Spain is in the American Midwest.

Come to America and feel free to be geographically confused!
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #13835 on: July 28, 2015, 11:37:36 pm »

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.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #13836 on: July 29, 2015, 12:43:00 am »

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.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #13837 on: July 30, 2015, 01:49:09 pm »

High school orientation is today. I get to talk to people, woo.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #13838 on: July 30, 2015, 01:53:36 pm »

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.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #13839 on: July 30, 2015, 02:01:39 pm »

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.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #13840 on: July 30, 2015, 03:28:29 pm »

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!

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #13841 on: July 30, 2015, 04:14:25 pm »

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.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #13842 on: July 30, 2015, 08:39:07 pm »

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.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #13843 on: August 02, 2015, 06:21:19 am »

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. :-/
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #13844 on: August 02, 2015, 06:47:29 am »

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]
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