Cycling and Ingress

Recently my old colleague Joe Lewis conned me into playing Ingress, an online augmented reality game.  It turns out to be quite addicting, combining features of geocaching, capture the flag, Risk, and the oriental board game Go.  Ingress is ideally suited for walkers, runners, and cyclists.  Get to within 40 m of a "portal" and take actions--hacking, deploying resonators, and/or making modifications.

So I struck out on a windless spring day (hurrah!) to bike 4 miles over to the "Crying Face," a piece of street art.  The opposing faction, the blue Resistance, had made it the focus of a large control field.

The trails were hard-packed, smooth, and free of goatheads.  I made good time and I had my Google Glass with me for easy photography.  The ditches are running full, the early spring weather meaning that farmers need water in their fields.

I used a Jarvis virus to destroy the Crying Face and turned it to the green team, the Enlightenment.  #goodtimes