goddamn google just doesn’t know what to do with itself, anymore.
View of the Golden Gate Bridge from I-house Cafe
Oh yeah, feel free to drag the little man around the blue highlighted streets, and then rotate / zoom in the overlaid photo. Here’s the official demo (cheesy video).In San Fracisco, almost every street is completely covered. They also did much of Mountain View, Palo Alto, San Jose, and all of Manhattan, that I’ve checked.
Rediculous.
To start off with the latter: on Friday, after dinner with Robert and Julia at Zachary’s, we went to a screening of An Unreasonable Man – which filled the gap in my knowledge of Ralph Nader between Unsafe at Any Speed / Nader’s Raiders and the 2000 election. Fascinating balanced documentary. You can still see it this week, but it’ll only be around the theatres a short while.
| The practical: After getting lunch with Robert and Jon on Saturday, I got the chance to hear recent UCSB alum Logan Green talk about Zimride, this new cool webapp he’s just put together. Carpooling made easy and safe. Here’s what it looks like: |  |
 |
|
 |
 |
Zimride integrates with facebook, so you actually get to know something about your potential drivers/hitchers, and they might even end up being someone you know! Moreover, you can advertise your ride via those facebook stalker feeds.
I’m going to a conference for a week in Utah. It’ll be my first time in Park City, and my second time in Salt Lake City. Here’s a map of downtown SLC, color-coded to emphasize the insanity:
worst. planning. ever.
(…and I don’t buy their propagnda – next to the green arrow on the map above, you could be on N W Temple, between W N Temple and W S Temple [or is it E S Temple?])
So I’ve finally gotten a new phone and my camera that had been flakey for the last year decided to start working properly again – and I am happy with technology! In celebration I decided to take some pictures of my room (messy edition)
I imported these pictures using F-Spot, which has a decent tagging interface that I should make use of to catalogue a bunch of old photos. F-Spot also happily resized and exported them to Flickr, tags and all (other stuff also supported). Hopefully this also means I’ll start taking pictures again.
I-house is a pretty fun place to live (I’m off on the right side).
P.S. Ñ Ð½Ð°Ñтупающим Ñтарым новым годом! happy old new year!
