Thomas Guy

Little Osaka, Part II

I went back to Sawtelle again last night. I wanted to go alone so I could walk around at my own pace and take my time wandering around. I spent a lot of time in Tokyo Japanese Outlet, trying not to feel rude for taking photos of their merchandise. I did buy some chewing gumContinue reading “Little Osaka, Part II”

Talk to the Bunny

Talk to me through the bunny. I just got my nabaztag set up again. It is on the net and bringing weather, news, and bunny emotion feeds into our living room. Have at it. Send an e-mail message to quantumbunny@things.violet.net. The Violet speech synthesizer will speechify it and send the recording to the bunny, whoContinue reading “Talk to the Bunny”

LDAP Date Converter

I used to always have to go look up how to convert dates to and from UNIX format. I still would, if I hadn’t made this little Excel spreadsheet that does it for me. Whenever I need to bring a date in or out of UNIX format (especially for LDAP filters) I use this littleContinue reading “LDAP Date Converter”

Search LA Tweets

Search “jazzercise” near:los_angeles TWITTER PROTIP: Use an inclusive location-based filter to search tweets. Visit search.twitter.com, enter your search term, then add “near:your_geocode” to include in that location in the filter. Tighten it down by specifying a search radius by using the “within” parameter. E.G., “freeway near:90404 within:5km“

Spun Out on the Freeway This Morning

Spotted this Mitsubishi Evo spun out on the embankment this morning. The traffic report on KCRW this morning said a car had spun out westbound on the Santa Monica freeway just before the 405 interchange. Sure enough, it was still there over an hour later. Click for embiggenned version. The traffic was moving so slowContinue reading “Spun Out on the Freeway This Morning”