TenuredVulture wrote:There's a little sleet outside. Head for the grocery store!

51 degrees here

going to the washroom on a different floor of the building in a different department's spot feels 10x better than just going into your department's washroom. it's like you're trespassing in a foreign land

pacino wrote:going to the washroom on a different floor of the building in a different department's spot feels 10x better than just going into your department's washroom. it's like you're trespassing in a foreign land

Next time try the women's room

I threw up in the women's restroom at the Great American Diner on Street Road back in '99. Those were heady times.

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Warning on link.

The Danish way of stopping speeders. I like it.

kruker wrote:http://www.speedbandits.dk/

Warning on link.

The Danish way of stopping speeders. I like it.

what he meant to say was NSFW

philliesphhan wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:There's a little sleet outside. Head for the grocery store!

51 degrees here

win

CWID

So they just said Houston is 596 square miles on MNF. That's just about the same size as Bucks County, and more than four times larger than Philadelphia proper. Almost double the land area of New York City, which is five counties. Jesus.

It's Texas, everything is big in Texas

Jacksonville is bigger.

- City 885 sq mi (2,264.5 km²)
- Land 767 sq mi (1,962.4 km²)
- Water 116.6 sq mi (302.1 km²)

They incorporated a ton of the surrounding towns into the city.

jerseyhoya wrote:So they just said Houston is 596 square miles on MNF. That's just about the same size as Bucks County, and more than four times larger than Philadelphia proper. Almost double the land area of New York City, which is five counties. Jesus.

Yeah, Houston's huge. I remember it taking 45 minutes to drive through it north to south on the interstate.

Amazingly, Jacksonville is considerably larger at 885 square miles. I'm pretty sure it's geographically the largest city in the country.

The only places larger than Jax are in Alaska, so that doesn't really count. Oklahoma City is also larger than Houston.

So Houston is about 50 square miles bigger than Hudson, Bergen, Essex and Union Counties put together. Combined population of those four New Jersey counties, 2,830,247. Houston's population, 2,208,180. I mean, North Jersey is heavily populated, but an area that's 10% smaller than Houston is 28% more populated.

And I knew Jacksonville was huge (isn't there a really big Army or Navy base there or something inflating the size of the city?), and I guess I knew Houston was really big, but I never really thought about it in the perspective of something I could relate to.

New Jersey is more densely populated per square mile than India. If it were a country or independent territory, Jersey would be the 23rd most densely populated country in the world.

Population - Density: 1,134/sq MI

Always found that interesting.

When you consider how much of New Jersey is protected wetlands/pine barrens, it kind of puts the whole population density panic into perspective.

I know New Jersey is absurd in population density, but Houston is the fourth largest "city" in the US. It's just really weird to me that the towns that my parents grew up in and area where I was born and lived for a bit is 40% more densely populated than such a major city.

TenuredVulture wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:well, no going back now. I just married my fiance's CD collection with my own.

On a related note, I'm not responsible for all the Jewel CDs now contained in "my" collection.

This was a big mistake.

Perhaps, but it really made sense from a space perspective. I'm sure I'll get frustrated on occasion when she takes one of my CDs to work and it disappears, but it's all in the name of love.

jerseyhoya wrote:So Houston is about 50 square miles bigger than Hudson, Bergen, Essex and Union Counties put together. Combined population of those four New Jersey counties, 2,830,247. Houston's population, 2,208,180. I mean, North Jersey is heavily populated, but an area that's 10% smaller than Houston is 28% more populated.

And I knew Jacksonville was huge (isn't there a really big Army or Navy base there or something inflating the size of the city?), and I guess I knew Houston was really big, but I never really thought about it in the perspective of something I could relate to.

There are a lot of cities out there(mostly in the south)that have annexed their nearby suburbs. Jacksonville has entire areas of nothingness.

It's like if Philly suddenly annexed all the mushroom farms around

Anybody know anything about Savannah, Georgia? I'm considering moving there.

Ramon Gris wrote:Anybody know anything about Savannah, Georgia? I'm considering moving there.

It's pretty, the prailines are to die for, but it's swampy like a gorilla's foot.