Perhaps Frodo and Sam would have had an easier trip if they had had Google Maps.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
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This is not a diary. It is a collection of thoughts, essays, stories, etc on those topics that are of interest to me. Being a blog, it goes without saying that it is utterly self-indulgent.
Andrew Lias
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- Originally a Precambrian paramecium, I have recently hitched myself up by my cilia and have made substantial progress with my phenotype. Rumors that I have "slept my way up the evolutionary ladder" are without foundation.
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1 comment:
They only really screwed up once ("short cuts make long delays"), and for the rest of the trip they had very good "maps" (aka guides, such as Tom and Strider). Still, cute little map. What I would like to see next, however, is the turn-by-turn driving directions for both Hobitton-Rivendell and Rivendell-Mt Doom.
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