Re: A slow day

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 17:43:30 EST, Dave Bell wrote:
>On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Jim Bianchi wrote:
>> The geographical center of Boston is in Roxbury. Due north of the center we
>> find the South End. This is not to be confused with South Boston which lies
>> directly east from the South End. North of the South End is East Boston and
>> southwest of East Boston is the North End.
>> 
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>If I followed the directions right, I make it somewhat like this:
>
>
>      EB        N
>   NE SE SB     ^
>      Rx        |
>                |
>
>Oddly, this looks *internally* consistent - ignoring only the True North
>orientation. If it's analogous to the situation in California's Silicon
>Valley, I'd guess there was a freeway or geographical element that is
>"known" to have a certain orientation "everywhere", but runs 90 degrees
>off-course through Boston. Out here, US 101 is well known to be a
>North-South freeway, and it's common to refer to all directions relative
>to it, even for other, parallel roads. Too bad it runs almost directly
>East-West through the southern San Francisco Bay Area! In a geek territory
>like this, it works to have "logical North" and "physical North"...

        ahh, Silicon Valley. Isn't that where the major road is El Camino
Bignum? (For the non-geeks, that's as opposed to El Camino Real, and if you
still don't get it, forget it, you never will.)

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