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dallas

shag — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 08:24:42 +0000

no explanation provided:
possibly, no explanation needed

25 BITCH

shag — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:25:13 +0000

looseleaf, roughly creased,
cast on a busy college-burg via.
what could it be?

Finals Week’s Herculean toils,
fraternity Augean think tank,
what a score.

SF Subway Map 2008

rajbot — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:09:19 +0000

SF has a public transit problem. Muni has great coverage, but travel times across the city are unbearably long. BART and CalTrain are OK for getting to the burbs, but what if you want to go to the beach? Taxis are only for the incredibly wealthy, and they won’t come to my neighborhood on weekend evenings.

That’s why I created the San Francisco Subway. Completely underground, the SF Subway never gets held up in traffic. I can get from my house to the gym in one stop, or to the datacenter in two. Dogs are allowed, and Fort Funston is only a 12 minute ride from Bernal. Instead of traveling at Muni speeds (5.3 mph!), the SF Subway reaches speeds of 75mph between stops!

I drew the map in Gliffy, so let me know if you want to add a stop or a line, and I’ll send you the edit link.

TikiRobot Subway Map – 2007

rajbot — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:22:04 +0000

Here is a map of the places the TR crew went in 2007! Let me know which cities I missed!

Zooming Out

may — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:43:36 +0000

This map shows the number of inhabitants per doctor in different parts of the world. In Cuba, the ratio is 170 to 1 and in certain parts of Africa, the ratio is 50,000 to 1.You can see a larger map here.

(via strange maps, which contains lots and lots of interesting maps).

Greetings from Las Vegas

peliom — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:32:01 +0000

I’m afraid these images speak for themselves … gotta love Vegas.

Link to Las Vegas on Google Maps

Personal Maps

peliom — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:41:46 +0000

They say a picture is worth a thousand words … it’s closer to a million for this map I made illustrating where my college friends live:

I’ve known forever that I’m somewhat bicoastal, but I’ve been lazy about flying and I hate airports. But looking at this map a few times reveals the undeniable truth: I’m bicoastal forever and there is no way for me to be happy without traveling a lot. In terms of center-of-social-gravity, it looks like NYC is the place to be. Luck you New York friends! That’s where we’re gonna party ….

Link to Friends map on google maps

The ECONO BIN EB-200 !!!

peliom — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:36:49 +0000

I’ve always been looking for some way to store, display, see and manage my maps so they were stored out of the way but not hard to get to. And no folding. I hate folding. This has been for years and last week I threw up my hands and just decided to order the first thing I found on the internet.

I had to back down off of that because the first thing I found costs $1249. It was then that I began to understand that this might get a little pricey. Even finding poster display hardware was a pain. Google search “poster display” and let me tell you … you’re not going to find anything that helps you display your posters.

So I opted for the EB-200 “Econobin” at a mere $200. I know as soon as I post this someone is probably going to tell me I can get the same thing at IKEA for $79.99, but whatever …. I like the industrial look. And this thing is built to last, it’s going to be the only thing left in my apartment after The Big One

The ECONO BIN arrived wrapped in so much packaging I had to play like a field medic and cut it all off. It’s made up of decent square and round powder coated steel tubes.

Here is The BIN assembled with the copious packaging in the foreground. I bet the UPS guy was glad I came downstairs to meet him and drag these boxes up myself.

And here are some extremely organized maps. Shown here are the SFBC Bicycle Map, The NYC Subway Centennial Map of 2004, and the AAA Baja California Travel Map.

Naturally I was kind of smoking crack when I bought this thing. It’s way too big, awkwardly shaped and doesn’t fit anywhere. But I like it and I’ll get to see my maps a lot more now. And I have a map bin in my house !!

Tour of California

may — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:46:19 +0000

So I’m kind of bummed that I missed all the bikes that zipped through the Bay Area for the Tour of California last weekend (my mom was in town and it was Chinese New Year so there was family stuff to tend to) but I just discovered that I can follow all the other stages live from this nifty web app. I don’t actually follow cycling and have absolutely no idea what’s going on (there’s some information overload happening on this app)…but I like looking at photos of the landscape because it gets me psyched for June when I’ll hopefully make a similar (but shorter and muuuch slooooowwwer) trip down the coast. It also gets me psyched for the weekend so i can go on a bike ride!

Wooster Linktopia

rajbot — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 16:53:45 +0000

I’m not sure why I don’t read the Wooster Collective blog every day. Every post is a work of art! Some of my recent favs: huge pieces, small pieces, post-it note jesus, paper sculpture, and this beautiful story:

Yesterday, Nico woke up in his flat in Split Croatia. On his closet door was a map created by his girlfriend, Andrea. The map showed different places for Nico to look as his took his usual route from his apartment to the academy where he studies.

What Nico found was an elaborate love poem done on the streets of Split by Andrea. She had put up stencils, paint, aerosol, collage wheat pastes etc. with last piece reading…. “i love you”.

Link to pictures of Andrea’s project.
Link to Fly me to the Moon on the wiki.