kathym

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• Commented on Chicago's Street-Grid System Turns 100
  granted i've only spent about eight days of my life on manhattan, so i may be wrong, but isn't the addressing on that grid done by some really convoluted formula? maybe it's because i'm good at memorizing street names, but...
• Commented on Chicago's Street-Grid System Turns 100
  because then the numbering wouldn't fit the 8 blocks to a mile rule. i mean, it already kind of doesn't on the near south side, but it gets back on track after 31st street....
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• Commented on If You Find Free, Naturally Occurring Weed In Indiana, For God's Sake Call the Cops
  I spent the summer after my freshman year of college working as an intern on a surveying crew. One day we were out surveying in the middle of a corn field in Plainfield (which they were presumably intending to plow...