Love me some xkcd.
Yeah. So. Google Maps and I don't get along that well. The blue dot and I frequently argue. It likes to tease me, lead me astray, lead me down imaginary paths and leave me for dead in strange lands. I have gotten lost rather famously trying to use it to get places in San Francisco, Rome, and other locales. Recently, I got SO lost trying to use it in Tuscaloosa that a friend of mine had to come find me. I just parked the car in a bank parking lot, told him Tuscaloosa wasn't that large and he knew it better than I did and to COME GET ME.
It always starts out FINE. I'm on the blue trail. My dot is headed for the red dot. I feel happy, getting that positive feedback technology gives us when we use it and it works. Then something always goes awry. The road dead-ends. There is unexpected construction. There are solar flares and Google's maps are all wonky (this was the explanation somebody offered me today).
Privately, though, I think the little evil imps sit back and just wait for me to push that button, and then they high-five each other and say, "GAME ON." They probably play rock-paper-scissors to decide whose turn it is to lead me on a merry dance this time. Maybe it's like, I don't know, a company bonus?
I did get back from the Smithsonian to the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel where we are having our TGC Global Symposium this evening, but I took a long, long, LONG walk through much of the Mall and other parts of DC to do it. Had it not been for a very nice gentleman in a guard booth who took pity on me and told me how to get around the block of the road that just ceased being there (really. it wasn't me this time. really.), I might be walking still. Sigh. Yeah. Google Maps, you are not my friend.....
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