Sunday, February 13, 2011

A Year of Living Google Maps

google maps has been acting all goofy-like on my laptop lately. last week, i entered the address for mills college in oakland, CA, and it spit out directions to saskatoon, which is a dot in saskatchewan county, Canada. 29 hours in a car- that's all? a couple days later i put in an address for a palo alto location, and although the turn-by-turn directions listed in the left hand column were accurate (they ended in palo alto), the map view showed a big fat purple line shooting down into Honduras. my roommate says the purple line is probably accurate, but the map function somehow got messed up so google just superimposed the purple line on the initial north/south american map that comes up when you enter maps.google.com.

maybe the universe is speaking to me through google maps. what would have happened if i'd driven to saskatchewan instead of to my gig at mills college? i wouldn't have gotten paid that day, that's for sure. but i like the idea of a quest, with google maps as my oracle.  

1 comment:

Tim Chou said...

=) im sure someone has done that before on accident more than one.