Posted by Jason on June 29, 2008 
this is my work day commute, as logged by a qstarz q1000p data logger boman got for me. i was looking for a device i could take with me on a drive or hike, and be able to mark spots i could come back to. boman found this device after much research — the q1000p does just what i was looking for. it has a slider switch to change modes (off, nav, and log). it has one button, which marks the current location as a POI (point of interest). you take it out with you, then eventually return home to dump the data into your computer. the included software comes with a gui tool which has a google mashup built in, which overlays the gps data on top (see above). sometimes it can take a while to get a good gps signal, which can be annoying. but once it’s locked you just throw it in your backpack and forget about it.
this satellite view shows me driving into work (blue line), parking, then walking into the left building. the pink line shows me leaving work, stopping by the gas station, then heading towards the freeway to go home.
gps data is weird stuff.
hopefully i will remember to take this device with me on drives and be able to easily return to spots i discover.
Posted by Jason on June 23, 2008 this dish, lomo saltado, is a dish i’ve cooked a few times. i made it for dinner tonight, for “monday night dinner,” a nearly weekly gathering of a few friends. this time i decided to add a little to what i’ve done before. this time, instead of chopped potato, i pre-made thick cut french fries to put in the dish. i also added quite a bit of heat (two cerrano chiles). the heat was great– not too crazy, but very present. along side this i served a chateau st jean 2004 malbec. equally spicy.. maybe a little too much? we cooled down with some grapes and pink lady apples before calling it a night.
Posted by Jason on June 23, 2008 two weeks ago i joined this month’s SFlickr Meet, a monthly flickr folk gathering. it was fun meeting other local flickr users. i brought my pentax 6×7 along to shoot some pics of the event on some ilford delta 3200.
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Posted by Jason on June 20, 2008 talk about a technology refresh.. i’ve moved my blog content from movabletype on solaris to wordpress on linux in a virtual machine!
my main drivers were:
- unhappy with where movabletype went in 4.x
- happy with wordpress at work
- start to consolidate where i publish content online
so.. done for now. i may work on the wordpress template a bit more.. i had to tweak the ‘classic’ theme to my liking. nothing too bad.. firebug makes doing css editing super easy.
Posted by Jason on June 09, 2008 
over the weekend, ryan and i made the first move on a big project to reduce the amount of stuff we have.
our first phase was to get rid of all the packaging that comes with compact discs, audio and video. some disks has very little material while others had inserts, advertisements, slip cases, liner notes with lyrics, and bonus material. when it comes down to it, we buy these things for the music or the video. did i really need a plastic case with a single sheet of paper (with no useful information on it), with a cover? all that goes away and one compact disc goes into a large caselogic album.
one thing i did find, after going through my 400 discs, was this ticket stub. i went to the test for echo tour concert for rush. this ticket was inside the cd case for the album, a reminder that i had seen the artist perform this live at san jose arena (now hp pavillion.)
the reminder has been transcribed into a blog post at this point. when you’re ridding yourself of non-essential items, it’s things like this that make you pause.
Posted by Jason on June 07, 2008 
last weekend i was in portland, oregon. ryan was attending a conference and i decided to tag along. i brought my pentax 6×7 and several rolls of portra 160vc. portland turned out to be a fresh, clean city that was easy to get around in.
this image is a picture of the portland center for the performing arts, the most iconic views of the city.
