Since Judge Caprio just died… In Chennai, India, last Feb, I met a distant cousin who has always lived there. Him: Where do you live? Me: It's a city called Providence… H: An island, right? M: Sort of?!? H: Ah, that's where Judge Caprio is from! M: ?!?!? H: Oh, he's very famous!
That's so much better than the one I usually hear. "Isn't that where the mayor..." Yeah, that's us.
Why "sort of"? It's not an island? (checks google) So "Rhode Island" not being an island is another thing to add to the list that includes "game played by throwing non spherical object is called football"?
Oh, we have plenty islands! Some big, some tiny. But the state as a whole is not an island. The old official name is "Rhode Island and Providence Plantations", even though there's not quite an island named Rhode. I'm writing from the former Providence Plantations.
Ah thanks. Having been used to the way Indian states were drawn up, I've been intrigued since school by how the US draws state boundaries with many sides being straight lines. Never really followed up on that curiosity though.
For whatever inaccurate meaning of "straight". I suspect they didn't do proper geodesics for these.
Then you'll want to look at this! cs.brown.edu/~sk/Personal...
Whoa! Thanks a ton for killing my weekend 😃 (in a good way)
As they used to say back in the bad place, #KnowledgeableChennaiCrowd