Re: A Pictoral Summary

"Last" set of photos: back-to-back sushi nights, walk through Nachalat Binyamin market, sunset.from long ago...

Fun with Online Mapping

So tomorrow we're going for National Trails Day to Bluejay Point Park to do some trail maintenance (and get free t-shirts). Go REI.

The thing is, we were looking for directions on their website, and we finally found a link to mapquest directions. Well, I'm partial to GoogleMaps, so I went to put the directions there instead. Being a conscientious/OCD person, I also wanted to include the given latitude/longitude coordinates, just in case they were more exact or were for a slightly different meeting point.

So, I went and wrote in the following:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=3200+Pleasant+Union+Church+Road+Raleigh,+NC+27614&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=68.229439,108.984375&ie=UTF8&ll=35.96639,078.6469&spn=0.139457,0.21286&z=12&iwloc=addr

Imagine my surprise when nothing showed up! I thought to myself, "maybe if I zoom out, something will show up." So I did -- still nothing. Okay, maybe a little more zoom...still nothing. Keep it coming then -- wait, what? "Jammu and Kashmir"? Where are we going tomorrow? After a little more zooming, I find out I'm looking at the map of Pakistan.

Further scrutiny of the full link revealed that I accidentally deleted a very important minus sign on the longitude coordinate...

When I showed Limor, she said "We are NOT going that far tomorrow!"