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03/14/2006 19:03 #32521

restaurant and breaks
Category: work
I totally get absorbed in the form maker API I was making at work and forgot to take a break. I am so angry with myself because I promised I wouldn't do that anymore after 5 years of virtually no breaks at Canisius.

This was all my fault I just forgot to go until 6:59. I get out at 7PM. The thing is I always wait for terry till 8. I f his stupid phone wasn't broken I could have just called to say I am walking home, but as I have to wait anyways - I decided I would spend $11 on a fancy dinner at the hotel next door to roswell. Their food is amazing.

The guy next to me if freaking about about how he has some paycut and won't be able to afford the $500 trips to toronto on the weekends. His attorney says this and that. Blah, blah,blah Ans his property value need to be re-evaluated Thank god he has no debt, he says to some woman he is with.

In the end he decided it wuld be okay because his lower salary is still higher than most people in Buffalo.

This is a chicken focaccia sandwich. Nothing about this type of bread says focaccia to me. At least it tastes really, really good.

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kara - 03/14/06 19:38
That is definitely not focaccia, but it looks yummy.
metalpeter - 03/14/06 19:27
I had no idea there was a hotel next to Roswell, huh interesting. Secondly $500 weekends in toronto what a lucky guy. Wonder how many lap dances he gets. I wish I could do that every couple months.

03/13/2006 10:21 #32520

Google Mars
Category: web
Has anyone else seen google mars ? It is a new mars mapping interface based on the googlemaps interface. I cannot wait till they have the 3d version. You can see the data in elevation, visible image, and infrared image maps.

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03/12/2006 20:55 #32519

Sugar Gliders
Category: pets
The sugar glider found an organic crunchy cheese stick.

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And then spent the next half hour nibbling it.
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Eventually, the other sugar glider came to investigate and snuggle
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leetee - 03/13/06 10:08
aweee... they are so cute. I hope i get to meet them some day... I remember before you got them, you asked me if i would be mom to them if you were alergic. So i feel like i am thier almost foster mom. lol

03/12/2006 20:06 #32518

GPS comes so far
Category: gps
I remember when (e:jacob) stole my first Delorme Earthmate GPS for my iBook. I loved it. The maps it used were so innaccurate and Arizona was developing so fast . that it often showed us simply driving through the desert. Using it was the utmost complicated endeavor as it required a serial to USB converter, batteries, plenty of sky view and like ten minutes of setup before it was ready. No tto mention the software and iBook itself were flaky.

Then when I worked on Public Transphere we had some 2000 serial GPS unit that was a little more sophisticated but the interface was just as bad.

Recently I ordered a bluetooth gps for my phone and today I started actually playing wiht it. It is so incredible. It is tiny, like the size of a pack of gum, fully rechargable via usb and even works in the house. Furthmore, it is so accurate that it can detect me lifting up and putting down the phone or the speed at which I walk down the driveway. The potential is incredible and it output fully standard compliant NMEA sentences.

Look at the data mapped to google earth as I drive down elmwood. It's really great because my phone is also a 700k-1MB/s modem for my laptop.

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Before I even used it I ordered another GPS but this time just the little chip which can record to a SD card. The advantage of this setup is that it can be standalone and tiny, not much bigger than a quarter. I can attach it to anywhing and it will reocrd its position for up to two weeks.

Soon enough, I want to make my journal track me as I move around the city. To bad I sit at a desk for 8 hours a day. It might be kind of boring.



03/12/2006 18:18 #32517

Last Glimpses
Category: last
This journal is dedicated to last glimpses

The last glimpse of being sick
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The last glimpse of snow in the sun
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the last glimpse of my chicago burger at Jimmy Macs
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the last glimpse of my beard that got shaved
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metalpeter - 03/13/06 19:56
That Burger really looks good. Someday I will have to go to Jimmy Macs.