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The sneaky thing about the geography of Kansas is that it's longitudinally exponentially-scaled, with distances between stuff (people, raindrops, ...) exponenti
by cossatot 3y ago
The sneaky thing about the geography of Kansas is that it's longitudinally exponentially-scaled, with distances between stuff (people, raindrops, ...) exponentially increasing as you go west. No one tells you this, though, so when you're in the western Kansas outpost of Hays, you're actually pretty close to the center of the state. You're almost to Colorado! Just stay awake and you'll be there in like 3 hours. It's OK, your mind is already dulled and your resting heart rate at refrigerator temps. Just... stay awa.... [snore sounds followed by the screech of broadsiding a barb-wire fence at 85 mph]
- cossatot 3y agoTrue story: I was in a bar in Lawrence with a friend late one night, being chatted up by a student of mine. When we asked her where she was from, she said some town in extreme NW Kansas (Bird City maybe? Atwood?). "I've been there!" my friend said. "No you haven't." my student said. "Yes, we went there on a geology field trip last summer. That morning as we left the campsite, the back door of one of the vans was open and and a food cooler fell out. We needed food so we stopped for lunch at a restaurant when we went through that town. The restaurant wouldn't serve us because they said that they only buy enough food for the regulars, because no one else ever comes in." The girl was quiet for a bit, and said "My mom wrote about that in a letter."
- ecommerceguy 3y agoRCJH
- mcdonje 3y agoThat's amazing. A town that small seems like a whole other world. The pressures and calculations at that scale are so different from medium and large sized population areas.