It looks like we’re finally going to link Downtown Culver City to Downtown LA in a way that makes sense. The MTA has proposed building the Mid-City/Exposition Light Rail Transit Project to connect the two downtowns. This is pretty awesome. It’s too bad they didn’t start this project ten years ago. I’d love to be able to take the train to class. Driving takes between 30-60 minutes. The bus takes over an hour. The train would probably take 30 minutes. Kick ass.
NPR : Job Interviews Get Creative:
QUESTION 3: If you could remove any of the 50 states, which would it be? Be prepared to give specific reasons why you chose the state you did.
I think the analysis they offer is missing an option:
Case (f) is that the state is absorbed into another. In this case, my non-partisan choice is Rhode Island. Since one can throw a baseball from one end to the other, it really shouldn’t exist as a state. My partisan choice is one of those states that has voted Republican consistently and with large majorities over the past 20 years.
I’m going to buy a lot of land in Oregon and establish the town of Either.
An interesting idea from PPD 524: Planning Theory:
There are approximately 100,000 new homes sold every year in California. Most of these are on the edge of our cities. This number represents 1-2% of California homeowners. Furthermore, new home buyers tend to repeat new home purchases. Is this one percent minority representative of the population? If not…
The city is being built, year by year, by a minority. One percent dictates the future.
Had lousy cards for most of the night. I probably played fewer than half the hands I was dealt. Yet I managed to finish up for the night, due largely to Bandur’s willingness to call my 50 cent bets in one hand, as well as a couple other good hands.