I know that Penn Jillette talks about how he loves his unique name and how much he hates the name "Dave" for its plainness.

That was a great article for a slow Christmas-y morning.

I've realized that we all overestimate the ability of our future selves regarding doing responsible things. Like I when we say we'll get around to it later. I've been trying to stop dumping everything in the infinite space of "later" and create some tricks to help my future self to do the right thing. This is one of my tricks I've been practicing, and it's fantastic.

I love this idea! The creation process was fascinating!

I'm definitely a fan of not using more than the alphabet and numbers for readability and ease of sharing. You could make it not need the "+" specification by default so you only need to specify if it's on a "-" part of the globe, and if you use + it's still acceptable. Kind of like how in math you specify negative numbers but you don't need to put a positive symbol when it's above zero, but you can if you want.

The API is a great and obvious method to get more people to use it, in addition to the mobile hardware support coming up (are you making it usable on the Kindle webkit browser or using the actual app API? I haven't actually seen any useful native kindle apps yet). Like Trapster, the mobile app that allows drivers to share speed traps, stop light cameras, and other law enforcement, the value of this will increase as more people use it, so think of ways to make it easy for people to share their Tynanified coordinates (lol) over Twitter or Facebook, especially for things like making events on Facebook. Think through a few ideal use case scenarios like helping people share locations of events at SXSW easily using this. How would they share it digitally? How about in real life like signs for presentations and after parties? On powerpoint presentation slides? Speaking of which, how will people easily tell others what it is and how to use it at various levels of popularity? E.g. Twitter first had to be something like "Follow me at twitter.com" and link to a twitter username. Now, people can just write @username and people understand what it is, like how anything that begins with http or www is a web address and how anything with something at something dot something is an email address.

It would have been really awesome if the cakes also included a cupcake or series of cupcakes with @tynan on it. :D

I agree with the good first impression that comes with a .com over a .org or .net domain name. That's why I had to settle for a .com with a hyphen between my first and last name. :( Someday I suspect I'll be willing to pay a similarly ridiculous amount for a non-hyphenated version.

Thanks for the post! I can finally start assembling my own pack now that I have this added information.

Please explain on the blog how your bag works out if you ever have to use it as a flotation device or something insane like that.

I wouldn't mind a packing video just to get a sense of how much space the stuff is and more about what the bag is like, since I'm probably going to buy it anyway. :D

Oh, and I forgot to add that my writing lacks my natural humor just like you.

And if you were to offer premium bonus content, I don't know that I'd pay. If it's not good enough to make it to your blog I'm not sure that I could convince myself to do it. It would be tempting at $5/mo. though.

So the Chris Guillebeau bug bit you, too? I've been going over his old stuff in the past week also. :D

I've been writing 4,000 words a day in anticipation for a blog I'm starting this week. It's a nice, productive feeling to just let my fingers off the leash and let them write freely. I end up with some garbage content to sift through, but also a lot of topic ideas to go into further. I don't aim to hit 4,000 words or anything, either, but instead I just give myself a half hour or so to just write whatever is on my mind and it always tends to end up around there.