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Written by Jon
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Saturday, 06 March 2010 18:24 |
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Note to Greyhound: I'm posting this from one of your busses and overall I'm pretty pleased with it. Super comfy seats, big enough carry-on allowance that my camera bag didn't get stuffed into the under-the-bus luggage compartment for me to stress about (which I can't thank you enough for, seriously. My cameras and my laptop are my babies and the idea of them sliding around under the bus fills me with dread), and judging by the amount of people on the bus, a significant number of cars are parked today instead of burning fossil fuels all the way to Toronto and back. I have one minor gripe though: Where is the recycling at your Cambridge bus station? It's entirely possible that there is in fact somewhere to recycle the bottles that are sold in your vending machines at the station, but if there is I sure didnt see it. I fully agree with the statements you guys have made about how taking the bus is a greener choice than driving, but not offering recycling for products sold at your stations seems like a pretty brown (read: shitty, non-green) move on your part, and something thats pretty easily fixed. So get on it. |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 06 March 2010 18:40 |
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Written by Jon
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Monday, 22 February 2010 00:05 |
I don't know if I think this qualifies as graffiti or not, but here it is:
Stickers with data encoded on them, in a format readable by many mobile devices, thanks to ScanLife. These are really just proof-of-concept, but I'm pretty excited about the overall idea of stickers containing encoded links and messages.
I want to explore stickers with the barcode a little more integrated into the graphic, and stencils using different colours for the barcodes, but I can see both of these not working quite as well as these simple, black & white stickers. |
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Written by Jon
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Tuesday, 02 February 2010 02:34 |
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...actually they don't. That's the problem I'm hoping to solve with a new mobile application that I'm working on starting tonight! I don't have a lot to say about it right now, but I'm going to adhere to the FAT Lab/GRL mantra of "release early, often, and with rap music", so updates will be posted here as I get things put together. |
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A little bit of a love letter to the city of Montreal |
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Written by Jon
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Sunday, 03 January 2010 00:21 |
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I'm home from Montreal, and currently waiting for the bulk of this trip's pictures to upload to my Flickr. Once that happens, they'll be available right here, and I'll probably throw up another post with some of my favourite shots.
This was my second trip to Montreal. The first one was in August for Under Pressure 2009, and I loved it. I had to head back to Ontario before all the pieces were done on the final day of UP, so one of the main things I wanted to do this time was go back and get pictures of the finished work to go with my work in progress pics. It was a cold afternoon when I went to get pictures this time around, but I got some decent ones so Mission Accomplished I suppose.
On the last trip I spent a lot of time at Under Pressure events and hanging out in the general area of rue Ste-Catherine, which I really liked. On this trip I had more time and less of an agenda. With the help of Aloqa and a little bit of planning ahead with my friend Eric (who I was traveling with this time around), we spent a lot of time kicking around various different parts of Montreal that I didn't check out in the summer, and hitting an endless string of great bars, restaurants and cafes, never ending up anywhere very touristy. None of the art galleries we passed by seemed to be open, which was unfortunate but there's always next time.
Both times that I've been to Montreal I've come home super excited about making another trip back there. Montreal is definitely my kind of city. There's music, micro-breweries, cafes and art everywhere, I always run into friendly locals, and it seems like every major gripe I have with Cambridge has some completely positive counterpart in Montreal.
There's probably not-so-great things about Montreal that just haven't come up for me in the time I've spent there, and a big city doesn't have to do very much to highlight how much of a backwater ghetto Cambridge is, but I tend to enjoy my time spent in Montreal even more than I enjoy my time spent in Toronto.
I'm starting to think I've spent far too much time in Cambridge, but I'm not at a point where I'm ready to move 6 hours away so for right now Montreal will remain my road-trip destination of choice. If it feels like I cut this post off early, it's because I'm pretty sure I did. It's late and I'm tired though, so that's all I've got to say for right now.
Tags: Montreal, Travel |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 03 January 2010 05:26 |
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The joys of server maintenance |
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Written by Jon
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Tuesday, 29 December 2009 12:39 |
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Right now it's just about 12:30pm, the day before I bail to Montreal for 4 days courtesy of a random phone call from a friend of mine asking me to team up with him for a cardboard boat building contest.
Not only did the boat contest spawn this beautiful specimen of nautical engineering, it also won us a trip to Montreal for New Year's!
For now though, this is basically my life.
It started an hour or so ago, with one simple idea: "Hey, I should set up Twitter updates on hqas.com so I can easily post stuff right from my phone to the site during my trip!".
That has developed into finding out that I didn't have curl installed on the server, which seems like a pretty big oversight because I really like curl and have used it on things I've written in the past. Apparently not on things I've tried to run on the server I guess.
Either way, what should've been a simple 'apt-get install' operation has ended with me finding out a bunch of other stuff needed updating, and now apt is a confused mess.
Good times.
And of course, now I'm on the case and really want this whole mess fixed, but I also have to do some running around to pick up a few last minute things today, get packed for the trip, and I'd really like to remote in to work and fix a couple bugs. I think the plan for now is to get apt back to a usable state, and then do everything else. This is the sort of thing that will bug me for the whole trip if I don't get it dealt with. In the future I guess I'll have to be more on top of keeping things up to date on the server.
Tags: debian, linux, twitter, apt, Montreal, mess
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 December 2009 18:04 |
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