It's cruel to mock the stupid

[pecunium]

Which is why I am not linking to this, but it's an amazing moment of WTF!?!, and I can't keep it to myself (I'm not always the nicest of people).

Today I’m on a flight to San Jose, CA. Well, two flights. Couldn’t find a direct flight.

It was yesterday that I discovered LA and SF were not in the same location… See, I don’t know CA very well and I’m actually headed to Palo Alto. So I mistakenly assumed that LA was pretty much right there, too.

I think the confusion came from last time I was in CA, I flew into SF and out of Oakland, so I had this impression of all the cities being close to each other.

I'm croggled. Not so much that a grown man, and an american citizen, might not know LA and SF are 400 miles apart from each other, but that he would look at a state the size of California, and assume all the metropli are adjacent because two of them were so colocated the last time he was here.

That's the first bit.

The second is that he admits it, with a sense of blasé delivery which implies he thinks this a reasonable mistake to make.

Comments

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

It's not map-geek, it's information junkie.

Tennesee is sort of large, I don't know it in detail (though I can tell you that Memphis is West, Nashville is Central and Knoxville is East, then again, my theory instructor could tell you why waltzes are really in 6/8, even though they are written in 3/4, so that info-geekery may be affect how I look at a lot of things), which is why, even if I didn't know that, I'd not fly into Knoxville, and plan to rent a car to Memphis, without checking it out before I booked the flight.

TK

[urox.livejournal.com]

Still, people are information junkies about different things. But yes, one should check out distances before making plans. Better yet, one should ask locals about the best places for things. :)

Google Maps is my friend. I can't keep all the counties in LA straight in my head despite the number of times I've visited, but I'll definitely map one location to another to find out if I'm likely to visit or go to an event elsewhere while I'm down.