Hurley's World

Back before Jonathan took off on his whirlwind world tour, we were having a farewell dinner with a group of friends here in Boston. At some point during the dinner, we had a dispute over a few dollars. Nothing nasty, just a little push and pull over the details of a prior transaction. Somehow, though the details are a little hazy (probably due to the drinks consumed at that dinner), Jonathan ended up taking the $10 bill I had in my wallet and tearing it in half, telling me that when he returned, I could meet him in Vegas and collect a crisp new $10 bill. At first I was horrified, but then I had a thought. I was ok with the $10 being torn, and even the idea of turning it whole in Vegas, but I wanted Jonathan to take his half around the world and photograph it, Travelocity Gnome style, in front of lots of cool things all over the world. Well, true to his word, he has done just that. My $10 bill has seen some pretty remote places in South America and Africa so far, and I am hoping, that it makes a stop in Antarctica before the year’s end…but who knows. My half…well…my half has seen the second bedroom in my apartment. On as related a note as I can imagine, there was a post some time back that Jonathan also made regarding his Flickr limit and an inability to purchase more bandwidth. Seems like Flickr, being such a cool company and the darling of the Web 2.0 crowd, would have been more accommodating. Guess not. More here.