I love Waze. There are very few apps I like – waze being one of those few. You can navigate around your favorite city and if you have enough users you start getting “live” routing. If traffic slows down you know it – if it stops, and the app can find a way, it will
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Community, muffins and one kinky little snake
Next to NRGS – Athens, lives a sweet gentleman. I didn’t even ever need to meet him to know that about him. One has only to look at the love he puts into his plants and garden. Yesterday, I noticed something on the side of his house that I’d never seen before. Upon further observation,
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One Bad Day
All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That’s how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day. – the Joker, The Killing Joke. No – it wasn’t that bad. I was mad though. I got up Monday and everything was rubbing me the
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Square Peg
“Maaaan – If I was workin’ down there I’d be on the beach every night drinkin’ Rum”. “Dude – you’re working in Paradise. Nothing but beautiful women and partying every night”. When I landed Steve was here. Recently retired from the Federal government and he was going to run a restaurant here in the US
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Seaplane
I get motion sickness. I never know when it’s going to hit. Last week I was in a car and got sick. Monday I was on a ferry with 5 foot swells and thought that was the most fun I’ve had in a while. Today was Seaplane day. One trip over to another island and
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Carry my Bag…please
So I had one at one time. Oh those crazy geology days where I figured if I had at least one clean pair of socks, a swiss army knife, and three MREs I could conquer the world. That was all I needed…well and a blanket..and the remote control…and the paddle ball game….and this lamp. Anyway
1500 miles from there
A green jeep pulls up. “My name is “C”….you the addressing people?” I answer – “Yes” “I’ll let everyone know you comin’ – I run the interior section” and he drives off. I actually have no clue how far I am from home. I looked today and for all of my software wizardry I
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PERL at 25
The above video is essentially how I program. Have a problem – make a tool. Be happy when it works. So sometime back in 2002/2003 I really got fed up with GIS. I had been doing it for about 10 years. I decided that those years plunking away at a Unix terminal weren’t all bad
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Paint
“….and I couldn’t get the drum back on. You got fiddle with that wheel – turn it until they are about right then put the drum back on. I hate drum brakes” I faded back into the conversation from a day dream. “How long did you fool with them?” “They are the devil to get
Support? Make sure it fits first…..
So I’ve had this random theme over the last year – what do you offer for support? My answer had been we’ll work something out. I started doing a lot of digging around this week and making spreadsheets and drawing stick figures shooting at each other and came up with a plan. A plan that
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