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<< January 1, 2005 >>
i got me a cool atlas

the first cd i bought in 2005 was raw power by iggy (pop) and the stooges.

i also passed another milestone on the road to car ownership: i bought a boston street atlas. but instead of using it while being lost, i am using it to do a boston region in sim city. a couple weeks ago i found a nice usgs map for sim city for boston on the internet, and today i rescaled it, mapped out city placement, and started interconnecting the cities.

the layout i settled on
the traffic jams are going to be brutal

some of sim city 4's weaknesses are painfully evident. the big dig is totally impossible, as is building bridges over waterways that span city boundries. the former is forgivable, as i would not allow that if i were designing a tool to build utopian cities. however, the latter is unexcusable. rivers and harbors make natural city boundaries, and it's tough to build cities if you can't build bridges and tunnels between them.

anyway the point is i don't think i've read another book as enthralling as this atlas. i don't know what it is about boston and maps, but i can't pull myself away.

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