ALL HAIL THE PRET HOLIDAY LUNCH SANDWICH AND ITS AWESOMENESS.
Yum.
And we live to fight another day.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
Jessica - Nov 12, 2009 8:12:00 am PST #18926 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Zenkitty - Nov 12, 2009 8:12:52 am PST #18927 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I'm definitely not more productive when I'm WILBing. Mainly because I use the Internet to avoid working.
§ ita § - Nov 12, 2009 8:16:56 am PST #18928 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ooh, I was way wrong....
And I wasn't all that wrong! Okay, I had no idea no idea of the actual most populous cities (Istanbul? No freaking idea), but Moscow is the second most populous non-ocean-adjacent city. Total guess on my part.
Typo Boy - Nov 12, 2009 8:18:36 am PST #18929 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I like how NYC is the 13th largest city in the world in terms of populaton, and the only other USA city to make the top 60 is Los Angeles at 47.
Jessica - Nov 12, 2009 8:20:09 am PST #18930 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
“People who do surf the Internet for fun at work - within a reasonable limit of less than 20% of their total time in the office - are more productive by about 9% than those who don’t,” he says.
Yeah, I think I'm probably beyond that 20% threshold.
brenda m - Nov 12, 2009 8:21:09 am PST #18931 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Mexico City's got to be up there too.
I wonder if there's any correlation if you just look at post-Industrial Revolution cities. (And even there, as someone pointed out, Chicago's not as much of an outlier as all that because it is on a major shipping route. Ditto Montreal and Toronto.)
tommyrot - Nov 12, 2009 8:22:19 am PST #18932 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I like how NYC is the 13th largest city in the world in terms of populaton, and the only other USA city to make the top 60 is Los Angeles at 47.
When I was a kid, I think LA and Chicago were both in the world's top ten. But since then, a large number of third-world cities have seen huge population growth....
Jesse - Nov 12, 2009 8:24:14 am PST #18933 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I always wonder about physical size, too -- Philadelphia's central city is tiny, but they absorbed the nearby municipalities so the city population is relatively big.
Jesse - Nov 12, 2009 8:25:50 am PST #18934 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, tommyrot's link does speak to that. I am fascinated by the density figures. Fascinated! India is Not Fucking Around with their urban centers, but you can see that some of those place are just large because they are physically (geographically) large.
sarameg - Nov 12, 2009 8:27:45 am PST #18935 of 30001
Autumn means winter is coming. Winter is evil. Autumn is the harbinger of evil.
I had a moment of wondering how I posted when I was offsite at lunch, and then I saw it was ita, not me, posting.
I had a chicken sandwich, hoping it would be light. It was one of those breaded patties. Now I'm sleepy.