Category: Announcements
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Make My Trip, Again
Twelve Mile Circle picks a different state for its vacation each summer, and concentrates on an aspect of it intensely. Previous examples have included Alaska, Utah, and Oregon. The ultimate purpose of these holidays is to focus on unusual or oft-overlooked sites within the United States while sprinkling-in a few of the more famous sites…
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Hit the Twit
Twelve Mile Circle now has a Twitter presence. I began a soft launch with 12MC’s Google+ followers two weeks ago so I could work out the details. I’m now able to post a variety of ways including by mobile phone, and I’ve successfully posted a photo from that source as well. I’m ready to take…
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Search for Search and Other Tales
Longtime readers may recall my fascination with people who come to Twelve Mile Circle, click on the search box on the upper-right corner of the page and then search the word “search.” I don’t pretend to understand the logic although I’ve come to accept it. There is an odd chink in the human psyche that…
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Best Comments of 2012
It is the last 12MC post of 2012 and a perfect time to wrap-up the year with a summary article. I decided to follow the example of Steve of Connecticut Museum Quest who featured his 2012 Top Comments. It seemed like an interesting twist, focusing on the audience rather than the articles. So in the…
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Christmas Fluff
Who reads 12MC on Christmas Day? Right. It’s just you and me today. Throw another log on the fire and don’t expect anything requiring research. This leaves me in a bit of a conundrum. I usually post an article on Tuesday. I suppose I could take the day off which would be a sane and…
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Editorial: Numerical Irrelevance
Fair warning, this article contains opinions and editorial content. You’re welcome to continue reading or come back in a couple of days. Then I’ll return to the more traditional mix of geo-oddities and weird locations. First, let me leave a note to myself in the Year 2050. Hopefully I’ll still be alive and writing 12MC,…
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Five Great Years
There were 57,482,609 WordPress blog sites in the world when I checked this evening. Twelve Mile Circle is merely one. What is the average lifespan of a blog? I don’t know although I suspect it’s short. Most probably bite the dust in their first month. Those making their way through that first crucial phase tend…
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Help Identify Hurricane Sandy Damage
Greetings map-obsessed readers of the Twelve Mile Circle. Is it a slow day at work and you’d like to fritter away a few moments on something that’s actually useful and productive? Would you like to help identify and categorize Hurricane Sandy Damage? If so, please visit the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team website. From their website: “Hurricane…
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Batten Down the Hatches
I’ve been familiar with the phrase “Batten Down the Hatches” for so long that I can’t even recall when I first heard it. I’ve always understood it to derive from a nautical origin. However, in current usage it seems to mean a more general effort to prepare for the worst. One would want to cover…
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A Plan for Rare Visitors
I have a love/hate relationship with my relentless need to count. For example, I enjoy seeing visitors from so many different nations stopping by Twelve Mile Circle. I understand I should count my blessings yet it frustrates me to know that a handful of places have never appeared in my logs. One would think this…