1st Annual Bainbridge Mapping Party

Great mapping party by the CUGOS gang last weekend -- full post here.

And in sports news today...

From today's NYTimes:

N.F.L. Sets New Guidelines on Concussions

A new rule will bar pro football players who show major signs of head injuries from returning to games. [...]

Wait -- what?

They're just now figuring this out?

And they have to make a rule about it?

Just because you can doesn't mean you should

From Scott Berkun, on the use of animations in PowerPoint:

Animations are almost always a distraction If I’m telling a story you care about, I don’t need to animate a thing, the story animates enough. When you asked your spouse to marry you, did you need flyouts and animations? No. The content was interesting enough all on its own.

'Nuff said.

Chickens in the NYT

See, I told you -- everybody's doing it now.

In September, she began selling some of the eggs and started keeping track of her income and expenses. [...] She has taken in $457 from egg sales and spent $428, mostly on feed. That left $29 in the Mason jar where she keeps her earnings, to spend the next time she buys feed. But that accounting does not include [...] the $1,500 she spent converting the old shed in her yard to a henhouse.

Emphasis added. Welcome to the club.

What I Did on My Summer Vacation

GeoWeb trip report published here.