see a puffin eat a fish

Here’s a screen grab from newsweek.com. Looks like we’re only loosing to Afghanistan in Europe. (Click to get larger image)

We’re gearing up for Conflux. It starts today and our presentation is on Saturday. We now have cards to hand out, a slight buzz and a lot of enthusiasm. We’ll see where it takes us. I’m also working with the Lower East Side Girls Club to see if I can get them some phones and using the Waymarkr. The more people we can get using it the more emerging effects!

I’ve also reshuffled my schedule and replaced two theory classes with production. I was overloaded with theory but it didn’t really hit until I got to school. I’ve been considering my thesis and would like to take a risk by not making something screen based. Not sure if it will happened but taking more production classes is going to take me in the right direction. A physical object might not be the smartest career move but I feel strongly that if I put something out there that I believe in, people will notice.

I went one block over today to the CS department on Mercer street to meet with Chee Yap about the work he has been doing with mapping and GIS. I found him because I was searching around for information on how to import tiger/line data and a lecture from his course showed up in my search results.

This was Jean-Marc’s suggestion, try to meet with an interesting person at least once a month. And then write it down.

I’m going to start going to Chee Yap’s lecture series and see if there is room for us to work together. I want to use his apis to expose interfaces for end users.

My powerbook is in texas, getting repaired so I can up my memory to a gig and a half. I’m having serious withdrawal. I obsessively refresh the repair scree and now see that my laptop has moved on to step 2, ’service’.

I really do everything on that computer. Come back soon. Please.

It’s on people and it doesn’t impact me one bit. But I feel for everyone else. Here’s one of the better suggestions:

6. Doug Gordan Hack for walking Brooklyn Bridge: “have George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” loaded into my iPod. (You may know it as the song that opens Woody Allen’s “Manhattan” or from its use in an American Airlines commercial.) If you are walking from Brooklyn, start the song when you are about fifty feet up the walkway from where you can enter at Tillary Street. The song is just over 16 minutes long and if you walk briskly enough you can make it past the bridge’s second tower on the Manhattan side and then a little way down the walkway towards City Hall before it ends. It’s the perfect remedy to the transit strike blues and brightened my day.”

They are calling these transit hacks, how played out can a word be? soon they will have the ‘mashup hacks’ burger at Bartley’s.

More of these can be found here.