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Jun. 30th, 2005
7513 - Looking at pictures.
Jun. 30th, 2005 07:03 am
Man, I got nothing on top of yesterday's triple-threat. Just as well. A hat trick is plenty for now.
good options are still open.
It's payday! I didn't bother to do laundry...I'll do it tomorrow, or this weekend sometime. Still going to see MP, after the club, maybe just a restful time at HQ.
Wow... the A9 maps beta is pretty impressive. they've taken photos of a lot of downtown areas, including about 100 feet from my house, all the way to where I work. Here's Andrews Ave, for example. Go about 2 blocks south to Andrews and Las Olas, and you can see the fountain, and where I hit the moonlight movies, and the Museum 'f Art. Other areas in my stomping grounds - the bus central terminal, a DOSE sticker (on the back of the one way sign, almost right in the center), In fact... if you start here, and walk east on Broward, you can see what I see on the walk home. Or, you can start here, and head west, and walk from close to my place all around my neighborhood downtown.
Farewell, Cheeburger, Cheeburger! You can tell the photo is a little old.. the fixtures are in there, and the "Now hiring sign" is up... not to mention the rolls of paper towels to catch grease and goo. Hmm... looking for when they took pictures. The big gay cow in front of Big Gay Al's gift store is unadorned, so it wasn't November, October, January, February, March, or July (he gets decked out for the season). The Issue of city Link is a little hard to make out detail on, too. A boxer? My Best guess is from this article - January? Jsut an educated guess at best. Between New Years and Valentines' day. A lot were taken early morning.. sun low in the east. Probably to keep traffic out of most of the shots. Lots of homeless caught on film.
Now I want to catch some sort of action scene or crime that the rolling truck missed.
I'm easily entertained.
I wonder how long it'll be before all of these pictures are live, and realtime? Oh! I know! Timeframe.. a movie theater! The Gateway (Where I met april, way back when) is on Sunrise. Ok.. when was Phantom of the Opera / Hotel Rwanda / The Woodsman Playing? All released about Christmas 2004. I suspect my guess of mid-late January 2005 is pretty spot on.
Apparently it works for a lot of major cities, now, and more are added all the time. A big competitor for google maps, maybe? I Checked out some streets Austin, TX and Boston, MA. Interesting to tour neighborhoods I've never been, or haven't been to in a decade.
[edit: the direct image links do not work... note to self, download and host them myself. the links marked "here" or for austin / bosotn work fine]
Moment of "I did not know that":
Pumpkins and squashes, like their cousins the melons and cucumbers, are berries. (Definition of berry - An indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary and having the whole wall fleshy, such as the grape or tomato.)
Awesome flickr / google world hack -
Ok, here you go...
In Google Earth right click the "My Places" icon and pick "New" "Network Link".
Add a name like "Flickr" and set the Location to:
http://www.geobloggers.com/makeXML.cfm
Change "View-Based Refresh" to "After Camera Stops"
Now you spin round the Earth and focus in on a spot, when the camera stops moving it'll go and grab the nearest 50 geotagged Flickr Photos (that are registered with geobloggers) within about 2,000km of the point you are looking at.
Very very cool (and addictive!) via
Long weekend ahead! I plan to see a zombie movie, and spend time with friends. Good Deal.
An incredible image here of burning oil fields in Iraq, just north of Basra. Zoom out to see how far the plumes of smoke have travelled, and zoom in to see how huge the fires are.
my Flickr calendar is spiffy way to track images. I like this layout, especially.
1 year ago - planning a trip, big rock candy mountain, getting journal-spam,
2 years ago - Heroclix Icon, Playboy Mystery, The Thorns, Octopus hot dogs, King Kong, Acme Illustrated Catalog, Newtcam pic (see the day prior for one of his gut sticking out), Lunch with Danny, Las Olas Walkies, a wonderful surprise chat.
3 years ago - settling in, south beach remote cam, Newt-lassie comparisons, power puff/marley
4 years ago - Rookie Bodine, good thoughts, crash test dummy plot seeds, redolent, the power of cheese, Ornj goes camping
5 years ago - shotgun