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The view of the world right now, centered on me, as it should be.
Up on the image is oriented toward the current location of galactic north. (OK, this is actually what it looked like about half an hour ago, it took me a little bit to get it online… since then galactic north has moved a little bit relative to the planet, and of course the sun has too, and the cloud patterns may be a few hours old… but basically this is what it looks like.) It is pretty. I like it. Just saw a link on Fark to a cool little Tool from World 66 that lets you easily plot a map of where all you have been in your travels. So of course I did so… I used my memory and also looked through the Visa’s in all my old passports going back to childhood. Here is what I came up with: Note: On the world level they count Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands as countries, and on the Europe level they break the United Kingdom up into its parts… I wouldn’t have done either of those, but I’ll stick with how they set it up. Countries of the World: Canada, United States, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom Countries of Europe: France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, England States of the USA: Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachussetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin [Edit: See my comment in the comments section for revised map based on new information.] Provinces of Canada: Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec And that’s it! I need to get back into the grove of the random trips so as to fill in some more! Like I’m not sure how I missed Kentucky and Michigan! I have a call in to my mom to see if I visited either of them as a child and don’t remember. Those are the only two east of the Mississippi that I haven’t been in. And the next random trip will fill out Mexico, whenever we are actually able to get to it… Anybody else want to share those? After you do it, they give a chunk of HTML which I think (although I am not sure) will work if you just cut and paste it into the comments here. [Edit: Looks like the site might be farked now… if it doesn’t work, try again later…] [Edit again: Farking has subsided, and pasting the HTML it gives you works fine except for a little extra code that shows up, but that is fine, it works.] Of the regular readers here, I bet Ivan can do best on contries worldwide. Not sure if he is also who would do the best on states. And beat me by five months too! I’ll have to get that HDTivo sometime! But new house and computer and maybe car will call come first. Darn Marcus! Well, at least it is broken. :-) HD Tivo becoming unusable over the last few days
Oh, and hi to Marcus and congratulations on the new baby. :-) Our birds haven’t done this… yet. ‘Rat bird’ feels at home
(via Fark) At October 28, 2004 18:36:46 UTC out of the blue I got an email from Frank:
And forwarded along under the message was one of those emails that gets forwarded all around the Internet with inspirational little messages interspersed with cute pictures of animals. But lo and behold, one of the pictures in the email was this one. From my website! That is a picture of Sara, the puppy I found trying to cross I-95 in July 2001. The picture is from August, when I came home one day to find out that Sara had basically torn up the whole house. I had posted the picture on PhotoSig where it is still the fifth highest rated picture using the camera I had at the time. Then this guy saw it there and made it the Daily Pet Photo on his site (with permission). And I guess someone saw it there, or somewhere else, and decided to add it to this inspirational email thing and then forward it to all their friends, who forwarded it to all their friends, who forwarded it to all their friends, until it eventually got to someone who knew me and had seen that picture before. On the one hand, it is uncredited, and that isn’t the coolest thing, but on the other hand, my very own picture of my very own dog (well, my mom’s dog now) is making the rounds in one of those email messages that gets passed around forever all over the place! How cool is that? I’ve seen bunches of versions of this email with most of the same pictures and slightly different messages, but this is the first time I have seen one with my picture of SARA in it!!! Sara is famous now! Here is the message itself, including my pic and all the rest that were in the email. This is the best I could reproduce the email in this forum…
I updated the State Department Warnings Graph again. Since last time the world is a little safer. Down to 28 countries with warnings from 29 before. The Turks and Caicos and The Bahamas are now safe to visit again. Guess they fixed their hurricane damage. Meanwhile though the Cayman Islands got hit by Hurricane Ivan and got added to the list. So wait a little while before you visit there, K? As a quick explaination of the last three posts… I was actually just testing some formatting stuff to help Rebecca out on something which may hit her motel sometime in the future. Those wacky poets and their formatting! The poems were just random words to fill the space in order to test the formatting, not deepfelt expressions of my innermost heart and hours of effort put into the poetic artistry…. yeah… thats it… that’s the ticket! The red robin was in the house abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz The cow is in the barn. The cow is in the barn. Moo Moo Moo. The duck is in the water. The duck is in the water. Quack Quack Quack. The sheep is in the field. The sheep is in the field. Baa Baa Baa. The cow is in the barn. The cow is in the barn. Moo Moo Moo. The duck is in the water. The duck is in the water. Quack Quack Quack. The sheep is in the field. The sheep is in the field. Baa Baa Baa. The cow is in the barn. The cow is in the barn. Moo Moo Moo. The duck is in the water. The duck is in the water. Quack Quack Quack. The sheep is in the field. The sheep is in the field. Baa Baa Baa. The cow is in the barn. The cow is in the barn. Moo Moo Moo. The duck is in the water. The duck is in the water. Quack Quack Quack. The sheep is in the field. The sheep is in the field. Baa Baa Baa. The cow is in the barn. The cow is in the barn. Moo Moo Moo. The duck is in the water. The duck is in the water. Quack Quack Quack. The sheep is in the field. The sheep is in the field. Baa Baa Baa. The cow is in the barn. The cow is in the barn. Moo Moo Moo. The duck is in the water. The duck is in the water. Quack Quack Quack. The sheep is in the field. The sheep is in the field. Baa Baa Baa. The cow is in the barn. The cow is in the barn. Moo Moo Moo. The duck is in the water. The duck is in the water. Quack Quack Quack. The sheep is in the field. The sheep is in the field. Baa Baa Baa. The cow is in the barn. The cow is in the barn. Moo Moo Moo. The duck is in the water. The duck is in the water. Quack Quack Quack. The sheep is in the field. The sheep is in the field. Baa Baa Baa. The cow is in the barn. The cow is in the barn. Moo Moo Moo. The duck is in the water. The duck is in the water. Quack Quack Quack. The sheep is in the field. The sheep is in the field. Baa Baa Baa. The cow is in the barn. The cow is in the barn. Moo Moo Moo. The duck is in the water. The duck is in the water. Quack Quack Quack. The sheep is in the field. The sheep is in the field. Baa Baa Baa. The cow is in the barn. The cow is in the barn. Moo Moo Moo. The duck is in the water. The duck is in the water. Quack Quack Quack. The sheep is in the field. The sheep is in the field. Baa Baa Baa. Awww… poor baby squirrels! Couple Care for Wildlife After Hurricanes
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