Category: Announcements
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12MC Coming to New Zealand and Australia
A funny thing happened on the way to Oklahoma City, where I hoped to spend our summer 2018 holiday chasing new counties. The family overruled me. My wife pointed out that our older son will be on his own soon. He’ll be off to college in a couple of years. Opportunities for family vacations will…
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Before and After
I’ve returned, in a sense. The decompression lasted a little over two months and I’m ready to start posting occasional articles again. However, the old Twelve Mile Circle remains firmly in the past where it belongs. I don’t want to go back in time although I do miss interacting with the wonderful readers of 12MC.…
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Ten Years of 12MC
Ten years is a long time to do anything. I knew this day would finally come and I’ve watched it looming on the horizon for the last several months, with decidedly mixed feelings. The very first article on Twelve Mile Circle appeared on November 6, 2007. I never suspected this site would last another decade.…
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Five Years of Searching
Twelve Mile Circle featured an article with the curious title Search for Search and Other Tales about two years ago. This effort examined a year’s worth of search queries that people entered into the website. To be clear as before, these weren’t random searches from Google or other sources, these were actual words or phrases…
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2015 Travel Plans
Twelve Mile Circle has some bold travel plans for 2015 if I do say so myself. I’ll keep it domestic this year unlike 2014 although I might cross the border into Canada briefly during one of the trips. As always, I welcome assistance as I begin my initial planning. Please feel free to offer comments…
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Questions from the Swarm
Regular visitors to Twelve Mile Circle may want to skip the article today. I don’t discuss anything geographic. Also there’s nothing mentioned that hasn’t been revealed within these pages previously, the only difference being that every item has now been collected into a single spot. See you in a couple of days. For the rest…
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On Hiatus
The Twelve Mile Circle will take a little break while I’m collecting new material during the Riverboat Excursion. The driving distances are too great and the number of sites visited too numerous to do them justice in a bunch of rushed articles written from the road. Be assured, I’m gathering great stuff and the wait…
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The Pitch
A long-term member of the 12MC community and I were discussing dream jobs lately, ones that combined our slightly obsessive-compulsive list-making tendencies with our respective divergent interests. Mine focused on geographic and historic oddities of multiple flavors tied together with a healthy string of County Counting progressions. The trick, as we thought about it, was…
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The Article That Nobody Will Ever See
Of course you are not a “nobody”. I mean it in a statistical sense. Sure, you and I both stopped here today although we might be the only ones; visitors totals will still come mighty close to zero. Who’s going to read these words I’ve posted on Christmas Eve? Twelve Mile Circle has a diverse…
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Initial Thoughts on the New Google Maps
It’s like going to a fancy new restaurant with a months-long reservation list. You finally get through the portal, anticipating a remarkable culinary experience from a renowned celebrity chef. The waiter carries an enormous plate across the dining room, removes the cover from the dish with a flourish, and presents a tiny two-bite morsel plated…