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Lockhart, TX's, urbanism problem is not the courthouse at the center of its civic square. That part is fine. The problem is the urban fabric surrounding it. The problem begins with the parcels. Their street frontages are too narrow, encouraging buildings to extend deep into the lot and consume most of its area. That geometry leaves little room for interior courtyards, gardens, or mixed use programing. The buildings are also too short and overwhelmingly commercial. Downtown therefore lacks the residential population needed to sustain public life throughout the day and week. Too few people actually live there to animate the streets, use the square, support local businesses, watch over public spaces, and turn the courthouse district into a great neighborhood. Where people live.  This is probably why there are many empty storefronts. It could be a great neighborhood, though, with the right zoning overlay, and maybe a few adjustments to the street layout, some new parks.

A place for everything Scanned from Fine Homebuilding: Remodeling, 1997.

Your calendar was full at 21 and empty at 26 for a reason MIT discovered in 1950. Researchers studied a housing complex called Westgate and found friendship was predicted by one variable above everything else: physical distance between front doors. Students living near stairwells and mailboxes made the most friends. Shared interests, values, personality? All downstream of foot traffic. They named it the propinquity effect. Researcher Rebecca Adams later distilled friendship formation into three conditions: proximity, repeated unplanned interactions, and settings where people let their guard down. A college campus delivers all three automatically, dozens of hours a week of engineered collisions. Adult life delivers zero by default. That's the entire mechanism behind days blending together. Your brain registers novelty from unplanned human contact. Remove the collisions and time loses its texture. The fix is repetition. One dinner party changes nothing. The same gym class, same coffee shop, same pickup game at the same time every week rebuilds the structure school gave you for free. Friendship grows from accumulated accidental contact, so frequency wins. College handed you a collision machine. Adults who stay social just rebuilt one.

インターネット百景 天王洲の運河にある取れない謎のHDD 初確認が2023年なのでかれこれ3年間は放置中。もしかしたら凄い額の暗号資産が眠ってるのかもしれないし収集したエロ画像データを海に沈めようとしたらたまたま乗っかってしまい手が出せなくなったのかもしれない。とにかくロマンがある。

1959 house in Indianapolis by architect Evans Woollen III Interior photos via Zillow

meet me at the refreshment center

Apple Park shot on iPhone 1

Where did all the Japanese guys go

replaying LA Noire has got me thinking again about the "legally distinct Columbo" game I would like to make set in a small but very dense town in 1960s coastal California

The Sondern-Adler House by Frank Lloyd Wright built in 1940, Kansas City, Missouri

There's much worse instances of internet rot than Google Image Search but holy shit did they ruin that. You used to be able to find the highest-definition version of whatever obscure shit you sought without even trying. Now you try to find a poster of a major film like fuck you.

Finnish building codes have actually required these in every bathroom since the 50s.

Bramham Park, Yorkshire, England

This is the 1990 Star Wars VHS box set that I bought when it was first released during my junior year in high school. Not only did I repeatedly watch all three films, but there was a time when I watched the finale to Return of the Jedi multiple times a week for months (I even had memorized the amount of time I needed to rewind the tape to stop exactly when Han and the rebels blast open the inner bunker doors and capture the Imperials right before the fleet comes out of hyperspace in front of the Death Star.) And do you know what? I didn't have any belief that I'd ever get to see any more Star Wars movies or TV shows, ever. There were no new comics, no new toys, just the awesome RPG from West End Games. But that didn't stop me from enjoying the films one bit. It's okay to let go of any "need" for Disney to "make things right" or produce new content to keep the brand alive. As long as we can own and watch the Saga that George Lucas created, Star Wars will never be "dead."

forgot to mention this when I got it cause some stuff was going on but the Myst shirt I got from Night Gallery fucking rocks

Happy 10 year anniversary of Cum Town for all those mothers who celebrate. @nycguidovoice @stavvybaby @AdamFriedland

I agree but it is funny to imagine that Episode 7 is the way it is because of Prequel backlash AND that Episode 9 is the way it is because of Episode 8 backlash. 2/3rds of this trilogy was made out of spite!

The aesthetic of youth baseball bats parallels that of energy drinks. Let’s begin with the 80s: