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Month: August 2004

  • Fool’s World Map

    Via Boing Boing tonight comes the Fool’s World Map. Brilliant.

    This is a project visualizing the world map which many fools in the world imagine. If you can see this map comfortably, you are definitely a fool.

     

    One day, a Texan asked me a question when I lived in U.S…

     

    The question was “How many hours does it take to go to Japan by car?”. (true story)

     

    He didn’t know where Japan is, and even bofore that, he didn’t know that Japan is an island. And then, I thought. “What kind of world map is pictured in his mind?”

     

    This was a beginning to think that it might be fun to gather those mixed up recognitions of countries and visualize it as a world map imagined by the fools in the world.

    I love the map, although it’s kind of depressing how dumb the world seems to be in general…

  • Bits and pieces

    Odds and end, bits and pieces tonight.

    Looks like the Bulletin article won’t be appearing Friday (tomorrow). Nobody knows when for sure. I’ll post here when I find out.

    Interestingly, the guy who interviewed us for the story on blogs now has a blog: Drunk with Ink. Cool!

    Tonight on a whim I set up my old Sega Genesis game system, and introduced the kids to it. They seem quite taken with Sonic the Hedgehog, although they really can’t work the controls very well.

  • Interview photos

    Following up on my interview for the Bulletin last week, today I went over to the Bulletin building to have my photo taken for the article. Actually, it was myself, Jake, and Chris from monkeyinabox all there for photos.

    Very interesting. The photographer took a bunch of pictures of each of us, then put us together in several ways; I’m very curious to see how they turn out. It was certainly a new experience for me—not that big a deal, really, but still kind of cool.

    I’m told this article should be appearing in the Friday edition of the Bulletin. Stay tuned!

  • Lightning

    We’re currently having an impressive lightning storm here in Bend, one like I haven’t seen around here in a long time. I went out on the porch to watch it for a few minutes; I guess I’m easily impressed when Nature decides to put on a show. :)

  • Quota Woes

    The Deschutes County Sheriff just can’t catch a break. Not only are they dealing with some eyebrow-raising issues dealing with their budget and money, which I blogged about here, but now they’re awash in controversy over the establishment of quotas (“don’t call them quotas”).

    Jake has already written about this twice, here and here. And of course, since the story broke on Bend.com—and continues to unfold—here’s the links to the relevant articles:

    I’m not as bothered by this as I was by the “found money” deal, but some people are. (You know who you are! *heh*) Hey, it’s what passes for drama here in the High Desert.