I ordered some new sandals online this weekend, and they shipped last night from Wyoming, Michigan. Cities named like this confuse me, and I felt prompted to figure out what other cities are named after states. After doing some quick searches, I couldn’t find a full list, and decided it would be a fun little problem to solve.

So I coded it up really quickly. It turns out there’s a lot — 289 to be exact. Click through to the full post to see the complete list.

This list doesn’t include cities that are named after countries or foreign cities. For example, another common shipping origin seems to be Ontario, CA (California, not Canada). That one confused me even more when I first read it on my tracking information.

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So, the question I asked last time was this:
Name a situation when the global App object is nil (while executing user code).

The two answers that were submitted and correct are:

• Charles Yeomans pointed out that properties in modules are destructed after the global App object has been set to nil. Example project.
• Ben Johnson went the other way around and noticed that the global App object is nil in your Application subclass’ constructor. Example project.

However, neither of these were the answer I was looking for. What happens is that REALbasic does a bit of initialization before setting the global App object. Part of that initialization is setting up the menubar, which entails creating the MenuItems. If you have a subclass of MenuItem in that menubar, REALbasic invokes your constructor, and at that point, the global App object is nil. Example project.

Congratulations to Charles and Ben, both of which will be receiving a free license to CalendarKit.