Monthly Archives: June 2005

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This has been a strange week. Filled with some good news, bad news, folks I haven’t seen in
a while, and some odd coincidences. And it’s only Thursday.

gps, riding, etc

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So I’ve spent way to much time trying to do something that should be very simple. Download a track from my gps, and display it on a map.

This proved to be much more frustrating that I expected, and finally gave up trying to do it on os x and just did it with my linux box using gpsbabel (tiger seems to have broken the osx version).

Then I wrote a python script to split the GPX file into individual track files, and then used gmapper to display the results on google maps. gpsvisualizer works too, but the maps don’t look quite as nice.

If anyone knows of an easier way to do that on osx, that actually works, I’d like to know.

So anyway, Saturdays ride:

and the sat view:

fukadulagon review

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Fukadulaon played last night. Much fun. I think it turned out pretty well.

We were down to a quartet (Anthony couldn’t make it). But that was okay
because the performance space was a bit small. We did three sets, spread
out over the evening. Got to be plenty loud and noisy.

First set was probably my favorite, once we got rolling. Then ending
in particular. Nice crazy crescendo, and some nice call and response
between insane ring modulated guitar and tibetan ritual horn. Second
was cool, with another nice ending. Third set was a bit more laid
back for most of it, with a big crescendo (notice a theme ;->).

Had a blast. Playing with drummer/percussionists is fun, especially
when they are bad ass drummers like John and Will.

Thanks to moonflower, jason0x21, sylvia_wrath,
tree_ish, strontium90, grimepoch, and
any one who came out.

Recording seemed to come out pretty well.