Hit the Road, Zach

Everywhere I go, people ask me “so what are you doing exactly?” I keep getting better at explaining the project, but I invariably leave something out. I could probably talk about the project and the philosophies/reasons behind it indefinitely.*
Despite my continually incomplete descriptions, I have gotten nothing but positive response to this idea [...]

Burlington! Small town or bustling indie music city? Answer: both.
But first, as promised, some beautiful mountainous territory of Vermont.

Now that’s out of the way.
We had a crazy adventure getting there. It took a bit longer than expected to get to Burlington from Buffalo. Then the carputer malfunctioned (cf. the previous post) [...]

Some non-critical updates for you.
A Technical Update
At the suggestion of my good friend Matthew Campagna, I have begun integrating Shadowbox, an excellent standards-compliant media viewing solution, into this blag.
Presently it seems to be working on the home page, but not individual post pages, although the page code is identical. ????
Check it out on this [...]

I’m pretty awesome at keeping my word. Every time I say “NEXT: blah blah blah” at the end of a post, I always deliver in the next post. If anyone cares to make me a trophy, perhaps saying “Internets Teaser Satisfying Champion” or “2008 Promised Topic Delivery Leader” or something, I’m pretty sure [...]

I promised you something exciting, and I’m about to deliver.
Buffalo! Amazingly, the origin of the name of this city is unclear — there are a number of contesting theories, with no clear winner. Also interesting is that the fictional Gotham City was modeled after Buffalo, with its abundance of Gothic architecture.
The drive to [...]

The next stop was Pittsburgh. I promise not to make a single joke in this post about anything being “the pits.”

Pittsburgh has terrible traffic/roads, a great feel, beautiful countryside, and a handful of these cool yellow bridges:

We drove around downtown a little bit looking at stuff.

We saw a huge amout of people hanging [...]