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No, I’m not getting a new car. The ol’ spoilered speed demon Corolla is doing a fine job. But as I was driving the 4-hour commute to Grinnell, Iowa, watching gas prices rise and rise, I started thinking about how much a weekly drive there would cost. Even in a car that gets +30mpg (up […]

There’s a not-too-complicated web app to manually generate geotags for your Flickr! photos at beeloop.com. Just

drag and zoom the map center to the location that the pic was taken,
copy and paste info generated in the first field into your Flickr! tags for the pic,
copy and paste info generated in the second field into your Flickr! […]

If you’re interested in place-based stuff, and haven’t already been accessing the Ogle Earth site, you should start now. Their list of links has a lot of cool things like Panoramio, and Mappr!, etc. And the blog itself highlights some of the sorts of things potentially of interest to place-based game developers — for example, […]

It may be that I’m overlooking something obvious, but if my experience is typical, I’m at a loss to understand why anyone keeps using this platform. Here’s my question: “If the battery is completely discharged, do I lose everything on it?”
It seems as though, on my 3 day drive back to Wisconsin, where my […]

Camp ended again. The campers left. The counselors helped take everything down and left. I took a day to paint the floor in my cabin and left. I visited my dearest friend Ali and her BF Rob in Boston, and drove to Michigan. It was MIS Weekend, or something like that. NASCAR. Not a great […]