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    It's a pretty state.

    With a lot of good photographers.

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      The Claremont Colleges (of which Harvey Mudd is one) are all beautiful, for the most part (not everyone likes the more modernist architecture of HMC or Claremont McKenna). It's just too bad that they're out in Claremont.

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        Well, it's admittedly more lovely when it's not in the middle of a Stage 2 Smog Alert and you can't see (or walk quickly) all the way across the campus -- although, to be fair, those have become fairly rare i think.

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          Worn Old Motorbike wrote:
          Never heard of HMC. But, having now checked them out, is there such thing as a college campus in California that doesn't look lovely?
          Cal State Fullerton isn't particularly picturesque.

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            alyxandr wrote:
            Well, it's admittedly more lovely when it's not in the middle of a Stage 2 Smog Alert and you can't see (or walk quickly) all the way across the campus -- although, to be fair, those have become fairly rare i think.
            True. I was thinking of it being typically 15 degrees hotter there than in the LA basin. The proximity to the Donut Man is a big plus, though.

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              The proximity to the Donut Man is a big plus
              Did that used to be called Foster's? Open 24 hours? Man, there's nothing better than a fresh raised glazed at three in the morning to break up a drab, wretched life of studying.

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                Not sure what it used to be called, but the place I'm thinking of is in Glendora, and yes, open 24 hours. It's the place that does the fresh strawberries and peaches on the glazed donuts. Amazing.

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                  A friend of mine is a prof at Scripps College and it looks particularly lovely.

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                    Incandenza wrote:
                    Cal State Fullerton isn't particularly picturesque.
                    No, but it has palm trees, a temperate climate, and they don't have to drain the water features for 8 months of the year.

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                      Incandenza wrote:
                      Worn Old Motorbike wrote:
                      Never heard of HMC. But, having now checked them out, is there such thing as a college campus in California that doesn't look lovely?
                      Cal State Fullerton isn't particularly picturesque.
                      Or Cal State Dominguez Hills (conveniently located next to the Home Depot Center!).

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                        The Scripps Institute, which is on the Pacific in La Jolla Shores, makes Scripps College look poorly situated.

                        These beauties are from the Donut Man:

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                          I can confirm that Claremont is a few square miles of lovely surrounded by a lot of brown nothing.

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                            Those are doughnuts?

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                              In the sense that they share a number of ingredients and are distributed by a company with the word "donut" in its name, yes. Otherwise, no.

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                                Given the wide variety of baked goods marketed as doughnuts or donuts in this country, I don't have any problem with the strawberry extravaganza. I'd certainly prefer it to these things:

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                                  One should never patronize a business with 'Time' in their name. Based on a focus group of one, nothing good will come of it.

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                                    They are glazed donuts that have been cut in half.

                                    The peach ones are even better, I think. Hard to justify a drive to Glendora from the westside just for those, though.

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                                      How far do you live from the ocean?

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                                        About 2.5 miles. It's 42 miles from my house to the Donut Man.

                                        Not really WTF worthy, but more "what?": a young Donald Rumsfeld appears on the wrapper of a spicy peanuts package in the UK.

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                                          Proposed residential towers in Seoul ape World Trade Center under attack.

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                                            1st reaction: Stay classy, Korea. First the short-track-speedskating goal celebration, and now this. Nice.

                                            2nd: But that actually looks pretty damn cool. I mean, i'd live there.

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                                              alyxandr wrote:
                                              First the short-track-speedskating goal celebration, and now this...
                                              Eh?

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                                                I actually thought the speedskating goal celebration (2002 World Cup, a South Korean player imitated a speed skater after scoring the equalizer against the U.S., in reference to a short track speed skating race in the recent Olympics won by the U.S., unfairly according to the defeated South Koreans) was funny, but point taken.

                                                The building is actually really cool looking, except for the fact that it makes you think of 9/11 every time you look at it.

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                                                  Renart wrote:
                                                  I actually thought [it] was funny, but point taken
                                                  So did i, not entirely serious there

                                                  except for the fact that it makes you think of 9/11 every time you look at it
                                                  But if you lived in it, no worries. Except you'd be looking out at that wavy building to the left, and thinking you were hungover, even when you weren't.

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                                                    The Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico has a rather amazing Christmas card.

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