Why I Drive

This is a cool site - Mapnificent.  I saw this a few months ago and have been looking for it ever since.  You give it a starting point and it will show you everywhere you can get by public transit in a timeframe you select.  So I live on one side of Federal Way and work on the other.  It's less than 7 miles.  About 14 minutes to get to work, 20-24 to get home.   

It I slide Mapnificent out to its furthest (175 minutes), I can get to the far reaches of the map - Snoqualmie, Enumclaw, Everett, Tacoma (it only covers King County transit options, apparently) but I can't get to my workplace in the same town.  Despite the fact that there's a bus stop right across from the campus.

Sorry, couldn't resist

Makes you wonder why Luke is on his way here.  Hopefully you'll be able to click on this and read it easier. (This was from my Google Reader tonight.)

Another New Blog

Yeah, I like I don't have enough blogs. Ever since I closed down my L.A. Traffic blog (which seems to now be the home for someone who takes photos of their drive, though the photos weren't working for me tonight), I've wanted to do another civic blog up here. I didn't think I drove enough in King County to do a King County Traffic blog justice, so I finally hit on it. I would create a blog where people could submit photos (or the locations) of graffiti they saw in and around Federal Way, Washington. And so Federal Way Graffiti was born.

I think it has potential. You can e-mail me at federal.way.graffiti@gmail.com when you see graffiti and I'll go take a photo of it. Or you can save me the trouble and take the photo yourself and send it to me. I'll post it on the blog and on the map.

What's the point? Well, depending on how serious the City of Federal Way is about clamping down on graffiti, it will either help them to quickly find new graffiti or it will prod them to get it done quicker.