Asakiyume mita

Last entry I said my thumb would be a steep climb if the lines of its print were topographical. Here now are some mountains' "fingerprints."

I was imagining a person who had the fingerprints of a mountain peak. sovay asked who would have these. I'm not sure, but I can imagine an egotistical jewel thief or other flamboyant criminal who would mask their own fingerprints with the prints of a mountain.

Which one though?

Mout Rainier looks good:



How about K2?



The volcano Popocatépetl has a beautiful fingerprint:






Fingerprints for the Matterhorn and Mt. Fuji are in comments (Dreamwidth comments) in the previous entry. Do you have a favorite mountain? Check out its fingerprint. You can see the fingerprint of Nyiragongo, the volcano in my icon, here.

Elsewhere I mentioned in passing a wonderful creation of the tall one's: a transit map for western Massachusetts. Here you can see it in its native habitat, on the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority's website--and you can click for finer and finer detail. And here is the whole map, hanging on my basement wall:



What's wonderful about transit maps is how stylized they are. Boston's higgledy-piggledy becomes this; central Tokyo's spiraling layout become this. (I link to Boston and Tokyo, instead of London, whose stylized transit map was the first of its type, or New York, which is much bigger and more complicated than Boston, because Boston and Tokyo were the tall one's first experiences of transit maps, and their transit systems were what whetted his interest.)

The tall one has been designing transit maps for a long, long time. Here's one from when he was in fifth grade or so:



So wonderful to see a childhood interest carry through to adulthood.