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Looks like today will be a busy day. The fit is shitting the han in a number of areas, so I’ve got a lot to do. This is a good thing.
It’s fall, and this means fall trees are blooming. The last two mornings I’ve woken up with allergy attacks (why, with an allergy attack, do I get an urge to have ice cream at 2:00 AM?). This means I’ve been wheezing, and I had the side effects of ProventilTM (Albuterol). Bleh.
For those reading this in the Sacramento or San Francisco Bay areas: Please remember to let me know if you will be in the area around Thanksgiving. We’ll be up there then.
Oh well, back to work…
Another blah day. I’ve been home sick all day, although I should be back to work tomorrow. I’ve gotten a little done with respect to tutorials and the conference, and a little work on the highway pages, but not much else. At least the cold is a lot better, although I’ve been fighting a headache all day.
Sam Rami, the director of Spiderman 2, has come up with a remarkable idea. He proposed putting cameras above major cites (he doesn’t say how he would do this), and have a camera take a picture of the city at a rate of one frame a day. The article notes that “At a frame a day, a year’s worth of shots over a particular city would add up to 15 seconds of film, a decade would blow by in two and a half minutes and a century would run 25 minutes. A full 1,000 years of film would last just over four hours.”
Just imagine this. Watching cities rise, grow, fall, and change. It would be a fascinating study. Just as we all saw the time-lapse studies of flowers when we were in science class when we were young (some of us remember Walt Disney actually liked to do films like that). I wish I could see something like that for cities over time. But then, I enjoy comparative historical photography, books such as Los Angeles Then and Now, Main Street to Malibu: Then and Now; San Francisco Then and Now; or San Fernando Valley: Then and Now. Can you imagine someone doing this for transportation systems: Watching the railroads grow and shrink, the freeway system develop, and the rate of development.
Just fascinating.
