I went to Bilbao for a conference and to Barcelona for fun, since you've got to make the most of an international flight. Here are my thousand+ pictures of stoplights, crosswalks, bike lanes, and other stuff in Spain.


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Today seems to be the day when everybody is posting about their sick cats, so I will too. Neo has cancer and it's too far along to do much besides encourage him to keep eating. He's a good cat.

I never post any more! But then sometimes I do.

Back in February, somebody broke into our garage and stole my bike. I hope the burglar gets lots of flat tires. Then I got sick and was in no state to be doing anything even vaguely active for a while. Fortunately that is over with now so a few weeks ago I went shopping for a new bike.

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moominmolly asked for childhood pictures, so here are a couple. (Click to zoom)


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I never seem to post here any more. But you can find me on Twitter, Flickr, or Facebook.

The big thing this year was that somehow, unexpectedly, I went from being an unknown to being that guy who made those maps. Things that I made have appeared in more national and international media than I can keep track of, and people whose work I have long admired from afar know who I am ( Read more... )

Who knows the least awful way to bicycle from Piedmont Avenue to the Lakeside Apartment district of Oakland ( Read more... )

What is the right place to do linkblogging? Here? Facebook? Twitter? Nowhere?

Anyway, here are the interviews for Kevin Lynch's The Image of the City, where people are trying to describe how to get to the Public Garden in Boston. Via Bostonography, via Tecznotes.

We're back from the East Coast. I should have more to say about that, but before I forget:


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Steph eats corn like it was on a typewriter -- eating an entire row from left to right and then rotating the cob to bring the next row into place. She says all her relatives eat corn this way ( Read more... )