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| "we need a less incestuous social circle." - anon. - ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) reporteralizaunless anon identifies anon-self, and asks to be de-anonyfied | |
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| So... its not that often I have friends who have books coming out.
Well, not books that would appeal to anything greater than a tiny academic audience wherein quality may or may not have anything to do with content, writing style, or the mad rush to get tenure. ;-p
In any case... Shoutout and 'grats and semi-gratuitous unsolicited advertising to mabfan on the upcoming publication from Apex Books of I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein.
... and now, the cover, because ... well, cool Bob Eggleton, spaceships, etc.
Oh... if you're Michael, or Apex, and don't want me linking through to the cover, drop a comment, and I'll fix that
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| ... anyone have any experience with them, especially the wireless variety? | |
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| Riiiight. So, tried Hulu for the first time. How did I miss the Total Recall 2070 TV Show? Alexis enjoyed watching it too, not for the show, but for the brilliant commercials. ( ... ) | |
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| This is just an FYI for anyone out there who's a student taking at least 1 credit: http://www.theultimatesteal.com/store/msshus/ContentTheme/pbPage.microsoft_office_ultimateThrough May 16th, microsoft is selling copies of Office 2007 Ultimate for 60 bucks, to anyone with a .edu address. ToS claim you need to be enrolled in .5 credits of classes as well, and they may track you down, kill you, steal your first born, and sacrifice you to the goddess... er... and make you pay the $620 difference if they find out you weren't actually a student. Still. Might be of interest. | |
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| Once more, I'd like to thank the MBTA for reminding me why I'm a Yankees fan, and will continue to be, until I stop having to commute on the Green Line. Damn Red Sox fans.*
*I have been asked to clarify that not all Red Sox Fans are damned by this generalization. Just the overwhelming majority of the ones I've encountered. That overwhelming majority includes the mob on the T the other day, who almost knocked over the guy with a child strapped to his front when he tried to get out, and later pushed me down the steps when they decided to get out. | |
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| Right, this question is for those of you out there who dabble in web development. (The professionals can answer too, if they feel like it)
The pet project combines google maps api and virtual earth api, such that when one drags a marker on the google map, a birdseye view pans to follow it. This works fine. The birdseye view can be in the same page, or in a popup window which holds all 4 birdseye views. No problems. However, I'd like the tool to be usable by government offices, and I think the VE API is off limits to government use without significant fees, and probably not even then for the birdseye views. The same is not true for the birdseye views accessed through map.live.com, directly though the URL(?cp=lat~lon, etc). It will be significantly less smooth, but the base functionality can be provided by simply reloading the birdseye views directly through maps.live.com with new coordinates after every movement of the marker.
So, this is simple. Use window.open to generate a named popup window, then update the location.href everytime the google map marker is moved. This works fine in IE. It breaks in FF. The popup claims to be loading, our favourite little spinning icon spinning away in the top right of FF (2.0.0.12), but nothing ever happens.
Solution.
Everything needs to return false, all the way back down. And then it works. The post I found which hinted at this was based upon activating through a button, and claimed that the button was submitting, and thus needed a return false to stop it, but I'm activating it through javascript only (either via the event on the marker, or in the onclick on a link). So... why do I need to return false?
Functional code snippets:
function LocateVEMap(VELat,VELon) {
return updateBirdseye(VELat,VELon); // Structured as a return to return false, to allow FF functionality.
}
function getBirdseye() {
if (winBirdseye == null || winBirdseye.closed) {
var valLat = document.getElementById("latbox").value;
var valLong = document.getElementById("lonbox").value;
var strHref = 'http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?cp=' + valLat + '~' + valLong + '&style=o&lvl=2&v=2'
winBirdseye = window.open('about:blank','winBirdseye','location=no,resizable=-1,menubar=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes,width=600,height=600');
winBirdseye.location.href = strHref;
winBirdseye.focus();
winBirdseye.moveTo(800,0);
birdseyeVersion = 1;
return false; // Allows FF functionality
}
}
function updateBirdseye(aLat, aLng) {
if (winBirdseye != null && !winBirdseye.closed) {
winBirdseye.location.href = "http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?cp=" + aLat + "~" + aLng + "&style=o&lvl=2&v=2"
winBirdseye.focus();
return false; // Allows FF functionality
}
}
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<a href="foo_spaceholder" onclick="return getBirdseye();">Open Birdseye Window</a> | |
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| Huh. I figured this was due a heads up. https://diamondsclassaction.com/Apparently, there is a class action law suit against deBeers for price fixing (and more). The settlement is such that you are eligible if you bought diamonds from 94-06 in the US from anyone. I'm pretty sure at least a few of you might qualify. 292 million isn't much, but... hey. | |
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| In answer to the question of what Google has for us next, we proudly present... Google PoliceIt's like the start of a bad post apocalyptic story, or a scifi channel movie. Everyone knew the Google slogan. "Don't be Evil" We smiled as they set about rebuilding everything we knew, laughed as they cataloged us, indexed, measured...
"Don't Be Evil"
It was just supposed to be a general idea of their company outlook. No one ever thought, no one even suspected, that one day they'd start enforcing it....Terminator V: Rise of the Search-Bots. | |
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| So, I ask you.  Should I be worried? | |
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| In response to queries, yes, we're alive and (moderately) well (except for both spontaneously getting sick). Jewish Holidays, same as every previous year, about this time. We will once more clamber back up onto the face of the earth in a week or two.
Current Happy Good Things:
- Alexis
- Job
- Apartment
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Current Stressors:
- Chag... three days is just too much. Honestly, I don't get how some of you do it. I mean, menu planning and shopping for two meals is enough of a headache, even when it's just us eating, let alone 4-6 meals, with guests!? I really don't get it. So looking forward to things calming down a bit.
- Dual Sickness (even if low grade). Both at once, not fun. On the one hand, good to have chag to recover, on the other... doubly bleh.
- Job
- Apartment still not quite set up. Meh. | |
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| Right, so... meme. Stolen from sen_ichi_reiRules for this meme: (1) Go to http://www.careercruising.com/. (2) Put in Username: nycareers singapore, Password: landmark international. (3) Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions. (4) Post the top ten results. My list: 1. Archaeologist 2. Curator 3. Anthropologist 4. GIS Specialist 5. Historian 6. Planner 7. Air Traffic Controller 8. Cartographer 9. Forester 10. Pipefitter 11. Ironworker 12. Landscape Architect Anyone else impressed? Edit: Updated logon and password. | |
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| So... I know for some of you, I'll be speaking to the choir, but I'd wager theres a fair crowd of the readers to this occasional spot o' wall who've never seen a fan vid, and certainly wouldn't consider such as artistic, or literary in any particular form. I therefore direct your attention here: Beethoven's Fifth Gold Digger, footage from Gone With the Wind Commentary here. For those who like it, or those who aren't Gone With the Wind fans, check out his other work. | |
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| So, by now too many of you have seen the growing Quechup spam. Like some other social networking services, Quechup allows you to check to see if anyone else you know might use Quechup. It does not do this through some well designed contextualized search such as linkedin, rather, by inviting you to enter webmail logon/password information, and let it check those addresses against the database. What they don't advertise well, is that by default it will also mail everyone in your contact list, inviting them. If you get an invite, please avoid accepting it. If you must accept it, please make sure not to use this option, and warn anyone you wish to invite to avoid the option. At best it's an innocent piece of badly designed social networking. It'd also be a hell of an effective and low maintenance way to collect active email addresses to sell for marketing purposes. | |
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| So... those who've known me long enough might find this amusing. "I like riding Greyhound. Over the last eight years, I figure I've ridden at least a hundred thousand miles on greyhound. In total, about four solid months of my life have been spent cooped up in their buses. I would consider it my home away from home, if only I had a home. What I like most about Greyhound, is how long it takes to get anywhere on the bus. Airline passengers love to complain about the five excruciatingly long hours it takes to get from coast to coast. But on the bus, that same distance takes about three full days to cover, which is what I think is about the perfect amount of time for it. And unlike airplane flights, no movies are shown on greyhound, no headsets are handed out, no free magazine available, no waitresses force bags of peanuts on you every five minutes. On the bus, the passengers are largely left alone with their thoughts. I have this theory about people who ride greyhound, about, as we sit on the bus for hours and days, waiting to reach our destination, we travel in what I call, a transitional state. Thinking about where we're coming from and where we're going to. I know I do, and from my talking to other people on the bus, I know many others do as well. ..." Garland's amnesia of Travel, Travel time, a paper I wrote in Australia that got the highest mark in the class, along with a comment that it in no way showed any anthropological skill at all, the Long Night Home... I like his description of it, as well as the dilemma he addresses in researching it. (work listening) | |
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| Does anyone know how to create layers in an Acrobat PDF file, without using Illustrator, InDesign, AutoCAD, Visio, or ARTS PDF's Aerialist Pro (which is now the only way to get Stratify)? I can't get eDocPrinter PDF Pro to produce transparent layers effectively. There is a budget for this, but I'd rather not ask for Illustrator just to produce such maps. Oh, and we're not using ESRI products, so map2pdf isn't a solution. Why do I care? Trying to figure an efficient way to produce things along these lines.: http://www.cornell.edu/img/maps/large_search.pdfAny ideas? | |
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| Well, in theory, at least, we're here. Got in yesterday and no more travelling. I started back to work today, with my boss and the main fellow I work with on vacation, and my intern a week gone. Of course, we're nowhere near unpacked, still don't have our box springs, nothing is tovelled (if it doesn't make sense, don't ask), the stove isn't kashered since the landlord is, in theory, putting a new one in which leaves tuna fish as a far too regular food, (see last parenthetical) and scheduling and moving in is hectic.
But we're here. It's ours. And life can start taking its normal course.
About time.
Oh. And we almost made it to Montreal last friday on our way to Rochester. Go us. Next time, Alaska! | |
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| And, failing that, a google search to find YU. Of course, YU doesn't find YU, but rather, My Name is Yu Ming. Its cute. | |
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