SimToledo

Before I got my current job, there were only two reasons I ever had for going to downtown Toledo: to shop at the St. Vincent De Paul thrift store, or to go to the Greyhound bus station. For the past two years, though, I’ve been driving into downtown every weekday, and I’m honestly embarrassed at the state of my city.

Especially since my trip to Chicago this past Labor Day, I’ve been trying to think of ways to improve the things I perceive as problems with downtown. I’m not a civil engineer, a politician, or any sort of logistics guru, but I do play a mean game of SimTower. So, now I’m thinking of downtown revitalization in terms of a Sim / Sid Meier game.

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A New Option

Just noticed a new Explore feature on my Google Reader. When I clicked the little arrow beside one of its suggestions for me, this menu popped up:

Sort By Magic

Is there some way I can apply this sort to the reports I develop at work? Or maybe I should just pull this terminology out of my hat sometime when there IS no sort: “Oh, yeah, that’s actually not sorted by last name or by medical record number. It’s sorted by MAGIC.”

*snort*