A public service announcement

Sushi is quite tasty with Thousand Island dressing.

Thank you.

Random cool discovery while bored at work

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:John_Speed%27s_map_of_Oxford%2C_1605..jpg

A map of Oxford drawn almost exactly 400 years ago, in 1605 (for some reason, north is down and east to the left). The last place I lived there before moving to the US is just off the left of the map, past the bridge (in what were evidently fields at the time). The first flat I lived in there after college, on Abingdon Road, would be opposite Christ Church meadow, at the top of the map.

I was at New College; the older half of it had existed for about 250 years at the time the map was drawn and is shown down in the bottom left, just inside the city wall. The only remnant of Oxford's city wall still runs through the college, dividing the old part:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Newcollege_oldwall_oxondude.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Newcollege_old_quad_oxondude.jpg

from the part built on the other side of the wall a bit later in the 17th century, which is where my first year room and the computer labs were/are:

http://hu.gs/~emily/nc1.jpg