Final project and paper proposals

FINAL PROJECT:

One thing I found very interesting about fast food chains, especially McDonalds, is that wherever you go in the world, McDonalds offers different menu items based on the general demographics, the laws, and what resources they have available. My idea is to create a poster/infographic of the earth, showing the different availability of menu items they have throughout the world. I plan on using this wikipedia article to get my information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_availability_of_McDonald's_products

FINAL PAPER:

Location based gaming is always something i've found very interesting ever since the first time I tried it. For my final paper, i'd like to research a few different location based games, and find out the different ways people have used technology/smart phones to create location based games. To pick a few games I might research, I will start with this article on location-based gaming:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_gaming

Wandering

After coming to a better understanding of the wandering assignment, I completely changed my entire idea of what to do when I would wander. One route that I am very familiar with is either coming home from the Castro area on the L-Taraval Muni, which drops off only a few blocks away from my house, or driving home. When taking the L, it goes underground and takes me through West Portal station. When driving, I take Market to Portola, and kind of pass Forest Hill Station on the way home. We all know also, that Muni is a joke, and sometimes I just want to get home, so I will take whatever Muni comes first and get to West Portal station, and sometimes walk home from there.

To make this route a new experience, I decided I would walk from Forest Hill station to my house. Below is a link to a map of the three different routes, 2 of which I would be used to, and one which is the route of my wandering.

Wandering

After taking this walk from Forest Hill to my house, there were some cool things I had never noticed before. Mainly the things I would notice are the houses. Most of the houses in San Francisco I find very interesting to look at, and I was surprised that I had never seen some of these houses before. Also, behind the Forest Hill station, there is a whole grassy area and some stairs, and it's kind of like a park, which I had never noticed before. Another thing I noticed was a staircase that seemed as if it might have led to a park, which I definitely will be going back soon to check out.

Videos:

Wandering

I have yet to come up with an idea for what I will do for my wandering project, but here is a link from my previous wandering project I did last time in this class.

http://shakosrsexylm.blogspot.com/2010/02/wandering.html

What I most likely will do is come up with a set of rules, maybe while listening to music, to interact to while driving around San Francisco, starting at my work. There will be different directions based on things you might see, or things you might hear in the music. These directions will tell me when to turn or when to stop and look around or even turn around. I plan to follow these directions for 30-60 mins, and see where in San Francisco I end up.