Tyler Oderkirk's Blog

I had a nice leisurely morning today – waffles, some meditation, and a swim in the hotel’s pool.

I like this pace.

After a ham sandwich lunch, I listened to Jules Verne’s “Around the World in Eighty Days”¹ as recommended by John Udell in an insightful piece about trying to sip from the firehose.

The snow disappeared from the ground, but the air remained cold.

I’m staying at a $40 (woo woo) motel in Greenville Illinois tonight. 7hrs of driving remain.

Someone should make a radar detector with an integrated GPS receiver. This way, on your daily commute when you pass e.g. an “icy conditions” sign that causes a false alarm, you could press a “don’t alert me about radar in this location anymore” button. Even better, the device could allow you to download (user-submitted) “cops hide here” coordinates from the internet and warn you ”before” you drive into a suspected radar beam. For more road gadget ideas, check out this excellent story from Wired about a dude trying to cross the USA in under 32 hours: “The Pedal-to-the-Metal, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for Glory”

It’d be nice to see a cell service coverage map overlaid on my GPS too.

Did you know that Exxon Mobil made more profit in 2007 than any other US company in 2007?

1. I’d later learn from Jessica that “Around the World in 80 Days” was made into a 2004 film starring Jackie Chan. [↩]