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WalkScore is a site that rates towns and neighborhoods based on how easy it is to get around on foot - The way it works is essentially based on how close a place is to businesses. So in a way, the site is as much a measure of population density and zoning regulations as anything else.

When I think about the places I would want to live, it ultimately comes down to the single issue of how pedestrian-friendly the place is. Living in New York was great for this reason, and Lubbock, TX was terrible. As a kid, we lived across the street from a library, but the street was a 12-lane highway with no place to cross. We had to wait for my dad to come home with the car so that we could drive across the street.

My phone number is one digit off from the offices of Screw Magazine, and I've gotten some odd wrong numbers - typically awkwardness at the other end, then a hang-up.

Also, there's a bar called the Village Idiot - a theme bar owned by the Coyote Ugly people. It's phone number is not at all like mine.

But the other night the phone rings:
- hello?
- Hi, uh, is this the Village Idiot?

It's not the first time that's happened.