Caitlin Burke

… to dismount.

Mr Bun is so tired of my lame excuses, but I have been taking pictures, I swear. I am suffering from two problems: not doing the processing and not doing the writing about what I learned. Also, not doing the planning for the next shot. OK, three problems.

I’ll be doing some traveling from the end of next week, and I’m a little frantic while I get ready. I’ll still do shots there, though – in fact, maybe particularly good ones (we’ll see), because I’ll be seeing my brother, and he’s much more creative than I am.

In the meantime, I’ll be the object of plenty of eye rolling and weary yawns from the little emperor.

Strange maps traces cartography from the sublime (a floor map of his home derived from notes taken on all the Sherlock Holmes stories) to the tragic (single men live in LA; single women live in NYC – nota bene, though, plenty of girls in SF as well).

And, of course, as in the April Fool’s map above, first run by the Guardian in 1977, it also brings the ridiculous.

Class Sauropsida (reptiles; 8,225+ species)
Class Aves (birds; 8,800–10,000 species)
Class Synapsida (mammal-like “reptiles”; 4,500+ species)
Class Mammalia (mammals; 5,800 species)

Source: Wikipedia

Kikkerland Design offers fabulous “puzzles” that illustrate anatomy of various animals, including pigs, beetles, frogs, and snails. Oh, and people.

I’m not a big Hitchens fan, but I am glad he exists if only to have occasioned this cartoonish review.