Whatever, I'm STILL pissed about that when I come out of a downtown subway stop that's not my usual.
Kaylee: So, uh, how come you don't care where you're going? Book: 'Cause how you get there is the worthier part.
'Serenity'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Aug 21, 2008 5:38:54 am PDT #4614 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Connie Neil - Aug 21, 2008 5:41:45 am PDT #4615 of 10003
brillig
I navigate by the mountains, too.
Miracleman - Aug 21, 2008 5:43:15 am PDT #4616 of 10003
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I navigate by the Pacific Ocean.
Ever since I moved to LA, I've always known what direction I was facing by my orientation to the Pacific Ocean.
And it still works here in Michigan.
Which weirds some of my friends right out.
SailAweigh - Aug 21, 2008 5:44:20 am PDT #4617 of 10003
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
When I'm on the West Coast the ocean feels like its on the wrong side. I realize this sounds insane, but it really really does.
Imagine my disorientation living in Spain with the Atlantic ocean to my left instead of the Pacific. My sense of direction was totally discombobulated for a while.
I know I prefer living near water. I think I could be quite happy living near mountains, without water (such as the Denver area.) I loved living in San Diego because the beach and the mountains were nearly equidistant to most of the 'burbs I lived in. I could have 65-70 and sunny on the beach or 35 and snowy in the mountains, at the same time. Turn left or turn right, nothing more than an hour drive to either.
Sue - Aug 21, 2008 5:44:58 am PDT #4618 of 10003
hip deep in pie
I never know which direction I am heading. We're not built on a grid, so it does not matter.
Also, I am on a peninsula, and an never anymore than a couple of kilometers from water.
tommyrot - Aug 21, 2008 5:45:57 am PDT #4619 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Chicago is a very griddy city, so finding your way around is easy....
Barb - Aug 21, 2008 5:53:04 am PDT #4620 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”
Chicago is a very griddy city, so finding your way around is easy....
Miami's the same way. Jacksonville, NSM. And it's so damned sprawly. The only thing that really helps with Jax is to know where you are with respect to the St. John's River.
Jessica - Aug 21, 2008 5:56:41 am PDT #4621 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Fans mob BBC news reporter Steve Parry, thinking he is Michael Phelps. Funniest Olympic moment I've seen so far!
Sean K - Aug 21, 2008 5:57:02 am PDT #4622 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
When I first moved to Los Angeles, I lived in the Valley, which is an especially griddy part of the city. It made it very easy to get around, *except* when I would have to go somewhere in Burbank. When the grid hits the Burbank city limits, everything takes a 45 degree twist. There were several times that I would hit Burbank, get horribly turned around, and find myself in Silver Lake or Glendale when I got out.
Jesse - Aug 21, 2008 6:14:59 am PDT #4623 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG, I'm going to kill somebody. I have to send a proposal to the feds by 4pm, but I just realized I have to download a program in order to do it, and of course the install doesn't work, and then tech support was completely unhelpful. Turns out, I had called the wrong tech support, but I don't know why she didn't just say that in the first place!