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Some TV shows might be more worthwhile than building an Eiffel tower out of match sticks.
I still have to find one.
Buffy & Angel
How to Take a Walk
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#132"You will not sweat." The author has clearly never lived in Texas during the summer. (A decent-length leisurely walk around Austin at midnight during this time of the year will inevitably result in more than enough sweat.)
Actually, I did spend a year (and parts of 2 summers) in Austin. I used to go for late night walks near my apartment, which was just off 183, well north, in strip-mall land.
If you walk slowly enough, you won't sweat. Or maybe that's just Austin.
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Woah, we've had some 'pack 'em in' zoning here in New Zealand but I've never seen anything where they left out footpaths entirely. Has anyone got a representative Google street view link for SW Portland or something similar? (And is this really quite common across the US?)
This is the American suburbia I know best. Falls Church VA. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&... Portland is not a good example of American urban planning gone awry. As it's probably one of the most sensible cities in the US. And yes, unfortunately neighborhoods without sidewalks are all too common in American suburbs.
Bah, Falls Church isn't a suburb anymore; anything inside the beltway is basically just more of DC.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the American suburbia I know best. Falls Church VA. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&... Portland is not a good example of American urban planning gone awry. As it's probably one of the most sensible cities in the US. And yes, unfortunately neighborhoods without sidewalks are all too common in American suburbs.
Are you sure that's Falls Church? I don't see a single Super Mutant.
Please confine your references to classic games like Fallout or Fallout 2.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Woah, we've had some 'pack 'em in' zoning here in New Zealand but I've never seen anything where they left out footpaths entirely. Has anyone got a representative Google street view link for SW Portland or something similar? (And is this really quite common across the US?)
Fairly large stretches of the Washington, DC, suburbs have no or few sidewalks once you are off main streets. I have read the explanation that the developers wanted to give the original buyers, 55 or 60 years ago, the feeling that they were out in the country. (Given that some of these streets had little bungalows wedged tightly together, the buyers must have been oddly susceptible.) A number of neighborhoods within…
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Re: How to Take a Walk
#136I took a stand-up comedy course a couple of years ago. I found out that it takes a long time to come up with material. You can't just sit down and start writing jokes. They come when they are ready and you'd better be ready to write them down. When I had some time in the evenings to come up with material I would sit at home without much inspiration. However, I found that when I walked to the convenience store to get…
Turns out it's easier to let your mind wander if you're busy with a simple activity, like walking: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/science/29tier.html
That's why we all need treadmill desks.
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#137Tangent, on "having a life". I met a woman from New York who was visiting SF. We both had been to Burning Man. She expressed her distaste at how much time San Franciscans spend on their art projects. According to her, New Yorkers "have a life". So, that bar conversation ended pretty quickly. But later on I got to thinking about it. There might be positive senses of "having a life", but I think she meant it in the mor…
"Having a life" is how people explain why they don't do anything fun with their friends except eat and have drinks. "Want to ...?" "Well, yeah, that sounds great, but unlike you I have a frickin' life." For most of my friends these days, "a life" is a wife and kids, but for some of them, it's just a house, or pets, or even a job. Strangely, "a life" never stops them from having dinner with you or meeting for beers af…
"Having a life" is how people explain why they don't do anything fun with their friends except eat and have drinks.
It's funny, I always think the opposite. Whenever I'm working hard at my job during the week and then just eating and drinking with friends on the weekends, I feel like don't "have a life." I do these things most often for lack of other opportunities, and then I start to feel don't have anything more interesting to do than eat and drink and talk. At these junctures, I start thinking more about potential activities, projects and travel opportunities in order to get my "life" going again.
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#138I strongly disagree with this point: > If you pass anybody, you are not walking slowly enough for it to be “taking a walk.” There are people around who walk painfully slowly. When I go for a walk, I let my legs swing at a natural cadence, with my natural stride length. If I have to change that, to ensure I don't overtake some dawdler, it places a stupidly unnecessary restriction on the definition of "taking a walk".…
I think he was trying to say that "speed walking" is not the same as taking a walk.
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These are already too many instructions. When someone provides a plan, for some reason I am compelled to follow it meticulously or reject it entirely. I could use an Ask HN on how to loosen up.
How's this: "Be."
Does this thing have a downvote arrow?
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#140Tangent, on "having a life". I met a woman from New York who was visiting SF. We both had been to Burning Man. She expressed her distaste at how much time San Franciscans spend on their art projects. According to her, New Yorkers "have a life". So, that bar conversation ended pretty quickly. But later on I got to thinking about it. There might be positive senses of "having a life", but I think she meant it in the mor…
"Having a life" is how people explain why they don't do anything fun with their friends except eat and have drinks. "Want to ...?" "Well, yeah, that sounds great, but unlike you I have a frickin' life." For most of my friends these days, "a life" is a wife and kids, but for some of them, it's just a house, or pets, or even a job. Strangely, "a life" never stops them from having dinner with you or meeting for beers af…
> It's got to the point where I'm trying to figure out how to make new friends at an age where it doesn't happen by accident.
Clubs (not the music type), Meetup.com, user groups.