If Monday is get up off it ( the tush) and on it (the work) day, then allow me a brief meander on Tuesday.
My map has more pins on it than ever: Places I want to see. Maybe it’s inverted from Places I’ve been but reminding myself of the world at my door is either masochistic or motivational, depending on coffee intake.
Successful or not, I’ll admit it: This clever and collaborative travel campaign has me that much closer to another land of ice and snow.
Earlier this year, Inspired by Iceland invited fans through Facebook to create a map of Iceland’s secret spots for the winner of the World’s Most Intrepid Tourist.
Here’s the result:
I know. Vistas of cold. Do we not have enough of these here?
The cold there just looks better.
Albertosaurus:Surely the future is more lekliy to have robots than people driving the trucks. Robots will probably not need much armor–better to make more and faster vehicles than fewer, slower ones, all else being equal. One day, we’ll fight someone in our own technological league. And I rather suspect we’ll get a painful lesson in all the ways our wars with third-world peasants over nothing have shaped us in the wrong ways, rather like all the great European colonial powers did when their armies discovered the difference between shooting at bare-assed savages with muskets or spears, and shooting at Europeans with machine guns and barbed wire and artillery.