American - Celebrity | May 23, 1974 -
Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.
Ken Jennings
BrainYouUnderstandMapsYourEven
There's just something hypnotic about maps.
MapsSomethingJustAboutHypnotic
You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.
LiveMeAmericaYouKnowWant
If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.
CarTimeStartTalkingLoseBox
It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.
MyselfWinBoringSameGuyAgainst
It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.
MoneyFunCakeSeemsJustIcing
Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.
SometimesBeingOffNerdReally
People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden in the woods. You go to a website, you get the latitude and longitude to get the specific location of a certain specific hiding space, and then you go there and see if you can find it.
SimpleSpacePeopleWorldWoodsYou
Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core part of my brain.
BrainRememberEveryoneCoreSure
For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.
ChildMeWashingtonMapFlorida
If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.
InternetBe TrueTrueThenGotta
It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
TimeMeTaxFirst TimeFirstFavor
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