04/17/05 04:52 - ID#31851

Public Transphere

Take 600 - Despite all the drama with the address and latitude/longitude mixups I have managed to get something up and working. Both the streaming server and the map that can get readings from the database. Right now it just loads up random stop values, but it works!!!! Should be done tomorrow. That gives me one day to work on my own project.

You can check out the beta version here

. I may do some redesigning too. I just depends how long I have to work on it.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

04/16/05 10:50 - ID#31850

The world is flat

Jesse and are ar spending the entire evening driving around the city collecting GPS data. It is fucking annoying. I hate GPS. It never seems to be accurate. I did ,however, learn a forumla for converting old formal geographic data to new decinimal format.

degree + (60 * minutes) + (3600 * seconds) = decimal value for location
Use it wisely and you will live long and propsper. thank god for my extreme math skils and thanks to (e:shawnr) for getting us the formula.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

04/16/05 03:34 - ID#31849

Google Map Hack

I was trying to figure out a way to easily save out my google maps without screen shots and was using the firefox page info to try and figure out the tile names but then I decided someone must have already figured this out. I decided to search google for google map hack (GOOGLE - google map hack) and guess what came up on the first page. A link to our very own (e:ajay) and his site

about the formula used to get the tile names. Thanks for the formula (e:ajay) .

I decided to adapt his formula to a PHP tool that runs off of gd in a similar way to the way he was using imagemagick with perl. I created a class called google_maps that takes some information and returns a map.

I added a little user interface and it seems to work pretty good. I will be adding a way to add waypoints and info in the near future.

The number of tiles is how big the map is. The latitude and longitude you specificy is represented by the second tile to the left from the top. I will add a you picked here spot or something when I get a chance. First I have to go finish working on (e:rzoo) 's project. It is making me mad because I don't have all the data I want and really don't feel like collecting it as I am supposed to be doing my clothing project right now instead.

[size=m]The link[/size]
Well, if you want to save out your own maps, even gigantic ones, simply visit my page

until they take me away in handcuffs.

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04/16/05 11:48 - ID#31848

Xenedrine

Which one of my oh so fat friends is now on xenadrine - the rapid fat loss catalyst. I found a family size bottle of it in the medecine cabinet. In case you don't know, I live with (e:matthew) (mega skinnymini) and (e:terry) (skinnymini).

Someone either has a major body image complex or they are addicted to diet pills.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

04/16/05 03:26 - ID#31847

Ghana Government Page for Japan

I am sold. I am so going to stop doing so much work and hire a ghanese customer service team. According to this web site of the Ghana Embassy to Japan

, I can pay a laborer only $1.50 /day. (e:mike) and (e:terry) keep telling me that it's too high a price to pay and what I really need is a non-stable country. That way we could knock another $1.15 off that steep amount.

Some other benefts

[list]
Abundant, adaptable and easily trainable labour force.
Duty-free access of manufactured exports to USA and European Union market.
Excellent sea and air connections with Europe and USA.
A high degree of personal safety.
100% exemption is granted to investors from payment of income tax on profits for 10 years.
[/list]

Malaysia has lots of deals too

UPDATE: I found the best one for my task

Need someone to do the dirty job? (read: do the programming for you) You have a programming task but to busy to do it? Or maybe you simple don't know how to do it? Or maybe you want to outsource you prgramming task? Read this, may I'm fit for your task Programming: Visual Basic, C++, ASP, PHP, VRML Database: Access, mySQL, MS SQL, Oracle9i Job description: Freelance, part time, willing to try new thing, I'm a fast learner Price: based on neg. but don't worry, I'm just a student searching for side income, not make a living out of this, so expect lower price Other interest: Security, Network, Linux Location: Kuala Lumpur, Perak - suff

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Location: Buffalo, NY

04/15/05 08:31 - ID#31846

I love blinking stuff

Yes it is my weekness. I am going to start a blinking cell phone charm business to pay for my domain name habit. Back in the day me and (e:hodown) used to pay for our rave habit by dealing glow necklaces. Some nights we wopuld make like $70.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

04/15/05 06:26 - ID#31845

Dinner for Two

(e:lilho) and I hit the ambrosia for some calamari. I wonder why the greeks do it better than the italians. I also ntoiced that they call eggplant melajani which is really similar to the italian. Are greek and italian similar? What kind of language is greek?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

04/15/05 05:30 - ID#31844

Blogs live forever

[inlink]zipzock,7[/inlink] What that article said about blogs living forever in cyberspace is kind of true. I rememebr when (e:churchofjulie) deleted her entire writing only to find out google still had them cached for the public.

Speaking of which, soyeon and her infamous journal is also gone but if you type soyeon (GOOGLE - soyeon) into google it is the first thing that comes up. Unfortunately, sans text. I wonder how that feels for soyeon who hates me so much, to be defined through me and my project on google.

I should add something there about her.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

04/15/05 05:04 - ID#31843

Living on the edge

Something you don't notice living on elmwood is that our community rests on the edge of several really poor communities. You probably notice but you aren't really directly confronted by it.

Living on Linwood, it is much more apparent. Not ont the street itself, but because anytime I go anywhere I take main street.

There are not shades of grey here. Everyone appears either totally rich or super poor.

I took the subway today after a year vacation from it. It freaks me the hell out. Especially at night when there is no one around. I used to take it all the time to UB but then I saw it be sketchy a couple times and decided I would rather not be in it anymore.

On the way back from there I overheard some handicapped woman saying how she couldn't afford new wheels for her wheelchair cause they were $36 each. She was talking about it like it was $3600. Then I turned the corner onto mansion alley. It just seems really unfair. I always questioned why they don't kill us.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

04/14/05 03:13 - ID#31842

Racing for Nothing

I raced here and nothing happend. I can't wait for this life sucking project to be done. My partner wasn't in claas, my battery was dead, and someone borrowed my programming cable.

Missing Image ;(