[ Picture removed ]… I’ll try to be on better behavior!
Times … they be changin’!
Merry Christmas everybody!
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Is this Mervin’s alter ego? I think Calvin posts here on occasion…
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“You might want to sleep on this one” should be my motto. Or it’s probably the mantra of the better angel attending me.
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We three kings disoriented are?
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If they are wise men from the east, they should be heading west. The wisest one in front is right, forget google maps and stick with the star.
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Plus, their GPS is clearly not working right. It should say head west. Not the GPS has never led anyone astray, right?
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Of course, the recent blog post on the main page What Nature and Scripture Tell us About the Bethlehem Star speaks to that a bit, regarding the rising and retrograde movement transition being the stopping of Jupiter. It is interesting how we have had popular culture influence our reading of scripture.
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9,999 times out of 10,000 it’s not the GPS that’s at fault, it’s the map data.
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Indubitably, but there’s the rub. Garbage in, garbage out. We have a notoriously steep and windy road between the Napa Valley and Sonoma, just over the ridge. It is the shortest route, by mileage, and so people routinely get sent that way by their GPS, including trucks that have no business being on that road.
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My Garmin I got last year warns me about such routes – my previous one didn’t.
Slowly we catch up to the implications of our technology.
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Yeah, Highway 80 between Marion, NC and the Blue Ridge Parkway and Highway 56 between Montebello, VA and Vesuvius, VA take about twice as long to drive on, particularly going down, than GPS or Google Maps think they do. We’ve also found two places where Google Maps thought that two roads connected, but walking, or maybe an ATV, would be the only ways to get between the roads.
My favorite map error that I’ve found is this:
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How long would it take most people to notice this one?
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Does he include the states of confusion and denial?
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You got me. I immediately starting whipping across the SW and then up the Rockies until realized there were too many Colorados and then looked back to see New Mexico too had cancerous growth going on.
At first I thought the joke was just in the caption. But now that I take a closer look at the map …
I bet I could get close … North Dakota, Middle Dakota, South Dakota …
And I think Texarkana is in there.
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But you have to ask for 50 seats for the full effect: "Dinner, party of 50.” 
Sweet dreams, Mervin
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