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Monthly Archives: September 2005
Patriotism
September 27, 2005 – 6:39 pm
Patriotism, defined: Capt. Ian Fishback, 82nd Airborne, US Army.
CTA transit map
September 27, 2005 – 5:44 pm
Lots of people have them. I like mine. Check it out.
How I did this:
Installed PostgreSQL and PostGIS
Tried to load data from the City of Chicago Maps SHP file.
Discovered the City uses a weird, us-ft based projection. Installed proj4 to reproject data.
Reinstalled postgis to get proj4 support.
Realized that doing reprojection inline was crazy, […]
Help me move!
September 24, 2005 – 10:55 am
If you’d like to help carry furniture and boxes down three flights of stairs, into a truck, and up one flight of stairs, in and around Evanston and Rogers Park, between 9am and 3pm Sunday October 2nd, please let me know.
Compensation includes pizza and beer. (We’re moving in a block from Giordano’s.)
Thanks!
Update: If […]
Overrated sucky team pool!
September 24, 2005 – 1:18 am
Morons who make a living writing about the NFL have claimed before the season that certain teams will make the playoffs. I think none of them will.
Ravens
Packers
Vikings
Cowboys
Seahawks
If you want to play along at home, it’s easy. Tell me which of those teams you think will not make the playoffs. One point for […]
m4 quoting
September 21, 2005 – 5:54 pm
m4 quoting examples:
define(A,1)dnl
define(B,A)dnl
define(`A’,2)dnl
B should be 1
define(`B’,`A’)dnl
A should be 2
B should be 2
define(`B’,“A”)dnl
B should be `A’
Jury Duty
September 16, 2005 – 7:46 am
Off to go get picked for a jury … or not. Gotta bring a book or 4.
War On Tape?
September 14, 2005 – 1:43 pm
Is that like a book on tape?
Terror Leader in Iraq Declares War on Tape
Katrina and Busing
September 13, 2005 – 2:06 pm
Look familiar? By now you’ve probably seen this image on the news, the daily show and convservative websites. To many people, it proves that mayor Nagin was incompetant, for not using these buses to evacuate people from the city.
Here’s what Nagin had to say on Meet the Press:
Sure, here was lots of buses […]
Katrina, Again
September 8, 2005 – 4:14 am
Nobody was raped and killed in the Superdome bathrooms.
Nobody was shooting at helicopters.
There weren’t race riots in Baton Rouge.
But these rumors probably killed people by guiding them away from shelter.
Also, it wasn’t just a rumor that there were thousands of people at the Convention Center waiting for rescue, and that the head of FEMA didn’t […]
