My experience at the polling place was extremely boring compared to all the crazy reports of mass-mayhem at the polls. Everybody at the polling place was nice and polite. No problems with electronic touch-screen machines. Well, there can't be any problems when you use black-dot marked ballots. Yup, thats right, no hanging chads, and no mix ups with electrons.

So after voting I headed to work, and I realized I'm looking forward to nothing but sitting at the Sand Trap and drinking a beer. Oh, that and Tony Hawk's Project 8. Yup the new game is out and I think i might have to pick up a copy on my way home tonight. Actually... its lunchtime... I think i'm going to head to Fry's.

So i've been talking about doing this for a long ass time, but i've finally got around to it.

A couple years ago I got a Garmin eTrex Legend GPS unit from Jen as a XMAS gift. I started taking it with me EVERYWHERE, and i tracked EVERYTHING. First i just started screwing around with the track data, and then later i started making pdf maps of everywhere i'd gone.

Now these maps take on a timeline. After seeing Flight Patterns by Aaron Koblin at UCLA, i realized that the data I'd been recording could be much more beautiful.

I wrote a script to reduce all the timestamps to the number of seconds into a day. SO... a timestamp that told you it was Oct, 12,2005 00:01:15 would be reduced simply to 75. This was show that this timestamp was 75 seconds into that particular day. Using this method, i could enter all my data into a database and then make selects of blocks of data that represented everywhere i was at a particular second of the day. ALL the locations I'd been in at that moment in time of the day, for the last 2 years.

I focused on the LA area where i spent the majority of my time, and i made PNGs of 15 second blocks. I used GD to load the previous image and superimpose it over the current image at 99%. This created the trail effect of the location dots.

So now really what i see is that over the last 2 years, the clock on my GPS has not always been set accuratly. :P

Its still a work in progress, but this is the first animation.

Who every thought you could make a Mac Geek Joke that's so perfectly Political.

One small thing about the Casino Theater. They ALWAYS play the organ before the movie. And they always play patriotic music. With Veterans day, this patriotic music turned into a incredible patriotic medley of music. The theater is one of the most beautiful old theaters in Southern California. If you're on the island, it doesn't matter what movie is playing... just go see something. (or take the tour and see them play the organ)

It just happened that I wanted to see the Prestige so everything worked out great. I wont go into any huge details of the movie other than it was just as good as i had hoped. Christoper Nolan does a great job again with Christian Bale, and even Huge Jackman pulls out a decent performance. David Bowie's bit part as Tesla pretty much seals the deal.

Sunday morning i got up right after sunrise and started taking pictures. I got a bunch of great ones of the sun over the ocean that i'll post later. We headed back to Dockside for breakfast and then back to the condo to check out. We were on the 11:45 boat and back in LB at about 1. So between LB and Montrose we've gotta get off the 710 freeway and drive through Alhambra and South Pasadena. So on the way we stopped at Twohey's for lunch. After lunch we headed back home and relaxed for the rest of the day.

And i finally got GPS data for Avalon!

Limits the authority of the President to interpret the meaning and application of the Geneva Conventions and makes that authority subject to congressional and judicial oversight

HOLY SHIT! Do i smell the balance of power? Isn't this what WE SHOULD ALREADY HAVE? I am just so happy, and so disappointed at the same time. On one hand, this is a move towards government responsibility and balance, but on the other hand... its just a fuckin band-aid to fix a piece of shit law that never should have been passed (Military Commission Act of 2006).

Bill O?Reilly

Who writes his material? I mean he can't be writing this himself. He's not that smart. This is PURE genius. This is going to have EVERYBODY pissed off at him, and just get his name spread farther and farther into all types of media.

it worked here... but i just want to point out that he's a windbag that really needs to be laughed at and forgotten.

only 2 days left.

but no bullshit... there are a lot of things i'm gonna miss about the cannery.

"it's fun and medieval at the same time."

i think that about sums it up everywhere. It just gives me a great mental image of packing a broadsword.

Yup, thats right it took me an hour and a half to get to work. The best part was that even with traffic like shit because of the rain.... people actually caused a traffic jam on broadway to look at a sheet covering a dead body. Yup, thats LA for you. Two police cruisers, a couple cops with rubber gloves, a sheet covering a corpse, and a shitload of dumbass drivers going 3 MPH.

but its good to be back. Heh, they even assigned me a welcome buddy. So he's got an easy job, i've already been around the entire office and said hi to everybody. And introduced myself to the people that are new.