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On one of his Saturday news broadcasts in 1998, veteran radio newsman and Tulsa native Paul Harvey read a letter that had already been floating around for a few years. I fell in love with the article the first time I heard it (I've still got the recording around here somewhere) and decided to re-post the transcript when I got the chance. Well worth a read.


One of the road-related websites that I frequent, OKroads, has a section where the author puts forth his idea for a major beltway completely encircling Oklahoma City, which he called I-635. I thought I'd try the same thing for Tulsa. If we consider the I-44/244 combo the Inner Loop, and make the Creek Turnpike and (once it's completed) Gilcrease Expressway a weird-looking Central Loop, this road would most definitely be The Outer Loop. Or as I refer to it there, The Big Outer Beltway.

Wherefore Art Thou 94D
There's an exit eastbound along the south leg of the Inter-Dispersal Loop in Downtown Tulsa with an unusual sign. At the actual exit itself, the exit sign is marked "Exit 94D". Why? there's no Mile 94 anything in Tulsa. Inside, the pictorial explanation.

4: The Thermicity of Hell
This one's been floating around the Internet for several years, and I wanted a copy of it in a spot where I could find it easily, so here it is: the "Is Hell Exothermic or Endothermic" question.