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Walking Distance from Wired: Kevin Kelly Surveys the Tech Scene
Wired magazine has been around now for 20 years. Kevin Kelly decided to commemorate the magazine's immersion in tech culture, and in particular the thriving entrepreneurial scene located in Wired's own neighborhood of SoMa in San Francisco, with a photo essay documenting and celebrating some of the startups that are active in that neighborhood now (like Scribd, Reddit, and BitTorrent) noting that some of the companies are led by people who were just three when the magazine was founded.
Alex, I'll take "Stuff White People Like" for $400.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Sounded like a cool idea, so I decided to make my own version of the story. But, the thing is, I Live in Houston, TX. My office is just outside the inner loop. I have to walk 2 miles to get to the closest grocery story. I once biked across the entire city, It took the better part of two days -- I had to get a motel room and sleep, and tried not to traverse the known "bad" parts of town alone in the dark...
So it turns out here's my list of businesses within walking distance, i.e., the distance I would walk a Labrador before feeling bad about animal abuse:
Starbucks
Wells Fargo
Taco Bell
United Way
Starbucks
Shell (fuel station)
Citibank
Burger King
Kroger (grocery store)
Pizza Hut
Texaco
Starbucks.
Super Cuts
Coin-op Carwash
Mobile (fuel station)
Sonic (fast food)
McDonalds
Frost (bank)
A Fire Station
Starbucks
Half Price Books
Starbucks -- Which you can see from the other one.
Well I ended up getting all my breathable vitamins for the day. Notably absent: A police station, or doctor's office...
For my next trick I'll be listing the individual ingredients of prepackaged food wrappers as steep in a burned coffee bean bath and gorge myself.
When can we expect the calendar!!