I know I blogged about a countries visited site once before. Here’s the US equivalent showing the five states I haven’t been to yet.
If I were starting all over in life, I’d seriously think about majoring in geography. I love maps and the kinds of things that computers can do with spacial data. If I had the time and talent, I’d tweak this map script so that the colors of the states were dependent on how much time you’d spent in each state. Mine would show 24 years in CA (red), 18 in CT (orange), 7 in MA (green), 5 in NY (green-blue), and and just a few days to a month or so in all the others (blue to purple). My 2 years in West Africa would go elsewhere. It would be interesting to take that information and calculate some kind of measure of nomadicness based on the dispersion weighted by the time spent. Would that number correlate with other things? I’ll bet people who have lived more widely vote more liberally (or are on the run from the Law.)