Time and Maps

Randomness because I can’t focus on one thing to write about today.

If nobody comes from the future to stop you, how bad can the decision really be?

— Bill Murray (@BiIIMurray) October 21, 2014

Bill makes a good point. I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with time travel storylines in sci-fi, partly because of this – if time travel was an actual thing, why aren’t time travelers showing up to make our world a better place?

Speaking of time passing, check this out:

NASA Weather Data Reimagined as a Gorgeous Antique Map

I’ve always been a fan of maps – I think if I ever became ridiculously wealthy, I might spend a lot on collecting antique maps. Come to think of it, that love of maps may have started with this:

I had one of those when I was little, I remember being intrigued by the livestock and oil wells in the Plains states, and the jumping fish (okay one’s a dolphin) around Florida. It also annoyed me that the Alaska piece didn’t include the right dangly piece of the state (where Juneau and Ketchikan are) in the cutout. It’s printed on the map but when you take the piece out, it stays with Canada!

I really love the Map view that Apple Photos provides – but I’d really love to know why it shows six of my pictures being taken in Kyrgyzstan and not Connecticut where they were actually taken 😜 – that’s the image at the top of this entry.

It’s funny how we remember time and place – I’ve always “remembered” that I was at Pine Knob Music Theater when they filmed this video:

but actually, that was filmed at a time I couldn’t have been at Pine Knob and on further investigation and thought, what I was misremembering was that I actually was at Pine Knob when they recorded this album:

Which anyways that’s a cooler bunch of songs anyhow.

I wonder how many crazy half-true stories I will tell when I’m an old man 😂

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If you want one of those map puzzles, you can buy it here

And apparently when your photo location is set wrong by Apple Photos, you can fix that!