sam, let's face it, you're the fbi friend
My mother once asked me if I worked for the NSA, and I told her no, of course not, she knew I worked for a nonprofit. She said “Well, you’d have to say that, wouldn’t you.” :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Strangler This is the big one, The Chicago Strangler. The true crime communities know about it. But in a city with 600+ murders a year, a ton unsolved building up for years, and the propensity for bodies to be found in construction, railyard, or alleyways starting at the downtown line I just thought “yikes.” But I’m new to Chicago so the city stills scares the crap outta me.
Ah, I can probably help out with the fear a bit! There’s a great Chicago crime map data portal here (click “explore crime” for the map) that I consulted when I started early morning running. I was mostly concerned about being mugged for my phone, but it turns out you’re probably more likely to get stabbed at 2 in the afternoon in the loop than you are at 3 in the morning, and most phone thefts are on train platforms. Crimes in my neighborhood at the time of day I run are generally shoplifting or drunk driving. You can find your neighborhood or areas you frequent and look at exactly what kind of crime generally happens, statistically speaking.
The areas I run do pass over the tracks, but are extremely well-lit, generally major thoroughfares with buses and plenty of security cameras. As a middle-aged white dude I’m also an extremely unappealing target. The Chicago Strangler looks like he’s primarily taking extremely vulnerable sex workers -- which is horrific, don’t get me wrong, but means he’s very unlikely to take a swipe at me even if he’s got a few weeks of my post-run maps stored up.
To be honest I don’t really see how posting a map of my run creates any more danger than simply running. The maps go up after the run is over, they vary significantly by route, and I don’t post the days I run ahead of time. If someone really wanted to serial kill me, they could just go hang out in the South Loop at 3am for a few weeks, which is obviously where I live even without the maps.
I assume the fig:egg debate settled on the variety of egg? Like a fig will be larger than a quail's egg, smaller than an ostrich egg for sure, and it could go either way for chicken eggs or duck eggs. Though I feel like if you've eaten an entire ostrich egg to yourself that counts as too much.
Oh yes, they specify chicken egg, though I believe at some point there was a debate over chicken versus duck. “Olive” is also a popular form of measurement for the size of a portion of food.
And I should correct myself -- the debate is about DATES and eggs, not figs and eggs. For some reason I have trouble separating the two, like “date” and “fig” somehow got tangled up in my brain and I often say one when I mean the other.
