Thursday, July 19, 2007
Live and Learn.
I consider myself to be a pretty smart guy, with 25+ years of life under my belt, good SAT scores, a degree from a respected small liberal-arts school, and a vast array of knowledge, both trivial and supertrivial. I can multiply and divide medium-sized numbers in my head, I can catch a ball thrown towards my vicinity, I can draw a map of the United States of America and get each state in the right spot, and I can get back into a sea kayak after falling out as many as 10 times in 20 minutes. True, it did take me seven years to achieve degreedom, and my trivia knowledge can fail me at the most crucial of moments, and I can fall out of a sea kayak after getting back in as many as 9 times in 20 minutes, and once I included a 51st state, "Alabippi." Still, I really think I ought to have known better than to eat THAT WHOLE FUCKING CHOCOLATE MILKSHAKE AS WELL AS THE REST OF KIM'S, RIGHT AFTER THAT BIGASS CHICKEN SANDWICH AND ALL THOSE DELICIOUS FRIES. ohhhhhh my tummy....
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Of equal concern to me with your inclusion of an imaginary 51st state, (because who wouldn't want more potential Confederate states?) is the fact that your map of the contiguous 48 seems to be surrounded by vast expanses of marine waters. The absence of Canada and Mexico are greater insults to geographic morality than the presence of an extra state or two.
Oh, but I do like the little blobs for the San Francisco Bay and Lake Tahoe. And no glimpse of Lake Champlain. That sort of snub to the East Coast makes a Great Lakes Stater happy, in solidarity with our West Coast friends.
That is a very impressive map!
Thank you!
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