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VDM pictures

some dude — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:49:06 +0000

Vicky asked me to take some pictures for a Virginia Discovery Museum event yesterday. Got a couple good pictures. I am so slow at downloading, organizing, and uploading pictures…I haven’t put any others up yet. And now I’m two weddings behind on pictures, after Nathan and Corenia’s on Saturday.

Charlottesville city council—suckers much?

some dude — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:59:35 +0000

What the god damn f-ing hell are the people in City Hall thinking? They spend $500,000 on dumb ass GPS units to track the transit system buses? The problem isn’t that we don’t know where the buses are—the problem is that they suck. They don’t run often enough and they don’t stick to their schedule.

Here’s the page where the buses are supposed to be mapped real time. Only works on IE, and you need the Adobe SVG viewer…. REALLY??? A $500,000 system that only works on IE?! IE isn’t supported by Macs. And a quarter of UVA students (and a whole lot of the rest of the population) use Macs. And SVG viewer??? Straight from the Adobe Download site, on the FIRST LINE: “Please note that Adobe has announced that it will discontinue support for Adobe SVG Viewer on January 1, 2009.” Plus, I’m assuming an SVG viewer isn’t going to work any portable internet savvy device (iPhone, crackberry).

They installed little interactive screens at some of the stops, but guess what… they’re only at some of the stops! What the hell good does that do if I’m not at one of those stops?! Even if my stop does have one—great thanks, I trekked out to the bus stop in the rain only to find out that my bus is 20 minutes behind schedule so I get to wait here and get wetter while watching a blinky light taunt me for 20 minutes… because I couldn’t check it before I left my home because I don’t have god damn Internet Explorer.

Here’s a big DUH-UH-UH-UH-UH to the city of Charlottesville on this one.

story and a lot of the links via cvillenews

… I changed my mind, I’m not done. Didn’t Curt (remember Curt, the really smart dude that we worked with that could do anything?)—didn’t he intern for a trucking company and make a system to track their trucks that just used regular old pagers? Definitely didn’t spend $500k on it either. So even if Cville thinks it really really needs a new tracking system, there are way cheaper ways to do it! Ok now I’m done.

A cappella concert

some dude — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:55:33 +0000

No college is complete without its a cappella groups. A couple pictures from the Rotunda Sing where they all perform to recruit new members.

Good Ole Song

some dude — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:48:58 +0000

First years singing the Good Ole Song for the first time at convocation. Fun.

For VT

some dude — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:02:47 +0000

UVA held a candle light vigil Tuesday night, “to honor the memories and lives of those killed and injured this morning and to express our support for our counterparts at Virginia Tech, for their families, and for their friends.”

The secret societies at UVA have their symbols painted all over Grounds. Yesterday the Z Society had their symbol at the amphitheatre painted orange and maroon—Tech’s colors. It’s pretty neat, since they are our rival school … probably the only time you’ll see Hokie colors painted at UVA.

More pictures here.

[Update 4/20]: The UVA front page used one of my pictures for orange and maroon day today.