I think you are confusing this Tech Blog with a News Agency. No where in “Writing 101" (which is probably about grammar and sentence structure instead of Journalism) does it say that blogs and their writers can’t have opinions.

In all of the cities I’ve been to in my life, I’ve never seen a Meridian anything.

That’s not anywhere near universal in my experience. In living in various cities and traveling to many others for business, I’ve actually never seen “Meridian St/Rd/Ave/etc” used as the demarcation between east and west (or north/south, or even northeast/southwest and northwest/southeast as one city I lived in used…

Most certainly it is not; I have never come across this in the UK, nor anywhere else in Europe. It may well be a north American convention, but not even close to universal, not even world-wide.

You mean Vox isn’t reliable? That’s unpossible!

Or why Alaska and Hawaii have interstate highways?

I’ve lived in 6 different cities and drive a commercial vehicle. I’ve driven all over every continental state. In my experience, the areas that actually follow these are the exception and not the rule. Most places just name stuff following whatever theme they want for the neighborhood. In my last neighborhood, things…

But do they explain why we drive on Parkways and park on Driveways.

That about sums it up for me.

Every company I’ve worked for. The trick is not letting them know how poor your work ethic is!

I always like these articles in theory. But the reality is that I won’t even walk on a hotel carpet without flip flops. No way am I getting close to lying down on it.

There’s a workout I like to do in hotel rooms, but 1) it requires another person and 2) it probably won’t take five minutes.

Oi. I used to work as a nursing assistant, and I was constantly tripping over wheelchair leg rests. My legs were black and blue all over. My family, friends, even my doctor suspected that my poor husband (then boyfriend) was beating me. I had to tell them all, “No! I’m just a huge klutz!”

Yep. I’ve lived here forever. I remember when you couldn’t buy alcohol on Sundays, and it was only just a few years ago that they started allowing Happy Hours. So uh, yeah. Welcome.

I grew up in Kansas City, Kan., so we frequently just drove over to Missouri to take care of that business. It’s a pain.

Unless you live in a state that restricts sale of any beverage over 3.2% ABV (!) to a freaking liquor store. Screw you, Kansas.

Our state does absentee voting. I’d be more pissed if half those companies even existed up here, though.

I’ve made a few of these before. Here are a few things I’ve done.

Haha I agree...they SHOULD give me ALL the free pairs!! :)

Haha I agree...they SHOULD give me ALL the free pairs!! :)