Chalkbot Pic, Jargon Filled Post
Huh? You’re Saying.
I watch the Tour de France every year, the race amazes me. It’s the reason we have all those high channels on our TV, which now mostly give us Disney XD and other junk. If you’ve ever watched, you notice the randomness written on the routes in chalk or whatever each stage.
This year, Livestrong and Nike teamed up to make a “Chalkbot“. You could tweet (use twitter) your message to them, they’d write as many as they could on the course. Today I received the photo below of the message I’d sent them during the race. (actually a DM on twitter pointing to a twitpic, just to add some more jargon)
The message was printed here, according to the GPS info anyway.
SEMB Still Loved message in 2009 Tour de France, by the Chalkbot
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