defocus·blog

Put It In Neutral

In most of the stories of runaway acceleration in various Toyota cars, what puzzles me is why the drivers don't shift the transmission to neutral. If the entire incident unfolds in a few seconds, okay; but when the car is careening down the freeway for 23 minutes something isn't making any sense.

A Visited States Map Generator

Ever since I posted my Visited States Map, hand-made in Illustrator and color-coded according to how much time I've actually spent in each state, I've had it in my head that I should write a program to generate that map. I finally have.