Fat Dog To The Big Apple: Fat Dog To The Big Apple 61 : Pig's Ears, Black Elk And Herman's Hermits

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

Fat Dog To The Big Apple 61 : Pig's Ears, Black Elk And Herman's Hermits

"No, not pig's ear, new year". I sometimes wondered whether Amy, my soft-coated wheaten terrier, misunderstood me on purpose, just to wind me up. We were walking north along Highway 101 sandwiched between the great Oregon sand dunes to our left and Woahink Lake to our right. I was trying to explain to my occasionally-faithful travelling companion that we needed to make a New Year Resolution to send regular reports of our epic virtual dog-walk to the News From Nowhere Blog. ......... CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

2 comments:

Christine H. said...: I had some German friends who just spent several nights at Heceta Head lighthouse. They have a bed-and breakfast to go with the lighthouse. perhaps you and Amy stayed there? I also have fond memories of the sand dunes. So magical, and it's fun to try running on them.; 4 January 2011 at 19:08
Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy said...: Hi Alan, this is my first time to this cool blog of yours. I'm so glad that you were in Lane County. I have a bunch of photos from the North Bend/Coos Bay area that I took last summer. I'll round up some links for you.

What a wonderful and clever idea this whole blog is!

Take care,
Kathy M.; 2 April 2011 at 13:04

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About Fat Dog

Fat Dog to the Big Apple is, in part, an exercise in virtual reality and, in part, a pleasant but meaningless diversion. Bored with walking his slightly overweight Wheaten Terrier, Amy, around the same grey streets of West Yorkshire, even more overweight writer and blogger, Alan Burnett, decided to let his mind wander where his feet could not. The two therefore embarked - with the help of pedometers, interactive maps and all the information resources of the limitless World Wide Web - on a virtual reality journey from Los Angeles to New York.

Their daily walks on the streets around their home town of Huddersfield in the UK are plotted on a map and the Web allows them to sample all the sights and sounds of the real-time traveller. But, how rich is the web's information resource? Can this web-based resource support the virtual travellers on their entire epic journey or will the intrepid pair eventually wander into an information black hole? These are some of the questions the project is designed to address.