Hey Thingvellir, That’s a Mighty Big Atlas You Were Published In

Way out here on the marginal reaches of the withering web, the connections that weave together are of statistical aberration, where no language model of any size would draw a path. As thus it was following the adventures of Stephen Downes as he bicycles around Iceland that got me thinking of places I saw there for my month of house sitting in 2008 including a Gigapan panorama image I made on my last day seeing Thingvellir somehow becoming used in print form in a 6 foot printed high atlas. Find the thread there! And thus I am spending more time in 2026 re-writing a blog post from 2010 fixing links, adding images, and filling in what was a skimpy post. Why? Shrug. Because it’s my blog and I care about what’s left there hanging in the dusty corners of not too many people’s interest. Zzzzzzzzzip rewind, let’s dial this back a few clicks. Following Stephen Downes Iceland Bicycle Trek I gotta admire how Stephen retires, far from puttering around on a golf course and sleeping in, he flies to…