ME: "I'll add that stopper you need to this McMaster order, what size is the opening?"

STUDENT: "40.4 mm"

IMPERIAL UNITS:

reaction A: "WTF is wrong with this country"

reaction B: "this is a resilient grassroots transit workaround for a kind of driver and a kind of trip the US auto industry has utterly abandoned"

#badgerbadgerbadger always pulls up a strangely clear memory for me (maybe it stuck with me as a moment where a starstruck grad student sees the lofty faculty come down to earth? was I that starstruck?) of overhearing Herman Marshall trying to describe this dumb flash animation to Deepto Chakrabarty and basically performing the whole badger song, quietly, in the lounge before the astro colloquium.

Happy 20th anniversary (!) to the badger song.

#MIT #astronomy

My candidate for the Single Worst Land Use In #shakerheights:

Not only is it a gas station and a car wash

Not only is it a gas station and car wash with an inexplicable half-acre of extra asphalt

But also (since it's so close to Shaker Square, the Larchmere shopping district, bike trails, parks, and multiple transit lines) this corner has literally the highest WalkScore (87) in the whole city.

Scene: An extremely creepy man, so creepy his neighbors all had him pegged as the serial killer type, walks into a gun store.

MAN: I need a gun

SALESMAN: Why?

MAN: for ... uh ...

SALESMAN: Just kidding, here's your gun

MAN: Whew, because I was

SALESMAN: Skip it, I don't care

MAN: Wouldn't you get in trouble if I turned out to be a depraved serial killer?

SALESMAN: Nope, I'm totally immune. You wouldn't see my name in the news, even.

MAN: Thanks, bye!

<repeat scene 278 more times>

what the hell is this logo

this belongs on the control panel of an off-brand toy spaceship playset circa 1985

I am not a deep transit expert but I enjoy drawing imaginary #Cleveland #RTA lines. Here's my Waterfront-to-Heights loop.

Hough (along Ansel) and that Euclid Heights corridor are super high population density---they're two of only three 10k/sqmi census tracts in the area shown. (Shaker Square is the third.)

I bet the E 79th--University Circle--Lee Road stretch would be useful by itself (and look how much the existing road infrastructure helps you) as a start.