So, what have you

been up to?

It’s the wonder of technology. Anyone can find anyone on the ‘net. Even Ted Kaczynski would find it difficult to avoid a web capture these days.

But I’m no Ted Kaczynski. My crimes consist of too much navel-gazing. I don’t even jump turnstiles (anymore.) I have a hard time writing “she didn’t feel well” on excuse notes to my daughter’s school. “Can’t I tell them you were up late on Facebook last night?” I plead. So, who do I have to hide from?

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The Peoples’ Independent Republic of—The Upper Delaware?

Must be tough being a cartographer these days. New countries springing up, borders shifting left and right, increasing instability among nations—things must get pretty confusing. Even where borders have been settled for a while, nothing can be taken for granted. Take Georgia, for example: according to a recent National Public Radio story, it now wants to move its northern border about a mile further north to gain access to the waters of the Tennessee River. But then again, maybe it’s good for the map business when all the maps become obsolete, as they did once again recently when the Serbian province of Kosovo declared its independence.

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