Other than that, I don't have much to say this week. I've been happy to see that Pastor Dana of Kaleidoscope Faith is making her way steadily home to Michigan. I'm following her progress via posts from the people she's staying with along the way.
Jeff Dick has landed safely in Australia and is settling in.
There you go: since nothing momentous has happened in my own life, I'll update you on my friends.
Which reminds me, Mizz Jodi is about to start her job at Ivy Tech soon, so good vibes to her as she starts that new adventure.
For myself, I'm having a heck of a time trying to find a natural resources map of the United States. I found a whole bunch of other thematic maps, including maps of frog coverage, time zones and farm values, but try finding the one you remember from grade school with the little carts of coal...no dice. National Geographic rarely disappoints, however, and while looking for one thing, we find another.
It is in that spirit that I will conclude this short post by attempting to embed one of my favorite thematic maps of all time. Let's see... Haha! Good old Wikipedia! Since Wikipedia is, as the name implies, a wiki, I figure its content is ripe for stealing. I'll paste the description below the image, too. Heheh.
"The image shows the urbanization of the world's cities through the use of the DMSP satellite system. This image of Earth's city lights was created with data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS). Originally designed to view clouds by moonlight, the OLS is also used to map the locations of permanent lights on the Earth's surface. The brightest areas of the Earth are the most urbanized, but not necessarily the most populated. (Compare western Europe with China and India.) Cities tend to grow along coastlines and transportation networks. The United States interstate highway system appears as a lattice connecting the brighter dots of city centers. In Russia, the Trans-Siberian railroad is a thin line stretching from Moscow through the center of Asia to Vladivostok. The Nile River, from the Aswan Dam to the Mediterranean Sea, is another bright thread through an otherwise dark region. Even more than 100 years after the invention of the electric light, some regions remain thinly populated and unlit. Antarctica is entirely dark. The interior jungles of Africa and South America are mostly dark, but lights are beginning to appear there. Deserts in Africa, Arabia, Australia, Mongolia, and the United States are poorly lit as well (except along the coast), along with the boreal forests of Canada and Russia, and the great mountains of the Himalaya.
Date 21 October 2006 Source Imagery by NASA and/or the US Geological Survey.
Processed by Terra Prints Inc.
Author Data courtesy Marc Imhoff of NASA GSFC and Christopher Elvidge of NOAA NGDC.
Image by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon, NASA GSFC."
Don't let the bedbugs bite. ;)
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