Why? Because Beff and I have the mobile versions of our blogging things on our iPhones and iPads, and this seems like the right place to waste bandwidth on things I do other than muse about music or post videos of my music. So there. I've got blogger, and Beff has wordpress.
I look forward to posting food pictures, for instance, from my iPhone. Or random stuff from work. Or from, uh, when I'm in a car and not the driver.
So take today, for instance, I have found out that I can share 3-D playbacks of the bike rides that Beff and I have been taking, thanks to MapMyRide — the iPhone app and the webpage.
Thus am I able actually to post these playbacks right here, using a little strategy and a bunch of embed code. Apparently you have to have the Google Earth plug-in active to watch these suckers. Or if you are French and very sweet (or aspire to sweetness), these sucres.
So this morning I did our usual ride to West Concord and back. Behold.
Yesterday I did our usual route through the Assabet National Wildlife Refuge — formerly the Assabet National Guard Training Ground, and formerly the Assabet Munitions Storage. Before all of that, south Maynard and southeast Stow.
On Monday, late in the day, I had gotten the advice on Facebook from Jake Runestad for an iPhone app to get to track bike rides, and Beff and I wanted to try it out. We did our shortest ride — our first ride of every spring — and found out that what we thought was a 3-mile ride is 5-1/4 miles. Zowie.
It's got a pretty high cool factor and a pretty short shelf life. Thus do I end this post here.
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