For some reason this morning, I decided to see how well I could draw the continental United States from memory.
I started with California and worked my way generally to the east and then north. Michigan and New England are particularly atrocious. I forgot that Maine comes off the side of NH/VT. Which themselves come off the side of New York. I guess those states are just so small that I felt bad for them, and drew them bigger. Then Minnesota totally got embiggened. But all in all I think it’s still a perfectly cromulent map.
February 13, 12:04 pm
This post reminded me of a story I saw on Digg a while back where school children were asked to draw the continental US from memory (though they just drew the overall outline ... not the state borders).