mystery solved
March 09, 2004 by Eric Richardson
Yesterday I took a picture of a building getting demolished at the corner of Vermont and Washington. I had wondered for a while what was going in there, but today I finally figured it out. After wasting time on google for a while, finding nothing, I eventually made my way over to the City of Los Angeles site. There I used the very cool Automated Zoning Information System to take a look at information for the plots around there. Hidden deep in there was the info I was looking for... The plot will be the site of Central LA Area New HS #2.
I really should have expected that. LAUSD is building everywhere. It'll be interesting to see the site develop over the next two years and see how they fit a school into the surrounding neighborhood.
I guess the real moral of the story is that there's a lot of cool stuff on the LA site.
wifi: Casey's Downtown
March 09, 2004 by Eric Richardson
The official opening is April 8, but I just noticed in this downtown news article that the revamped Casey's Irish Bar & Grille will have wifi. It sounds like a very cool place. It's in the 600 block of Grand, so only a few blocks west of where I'm looking to hang my hat starting this summer. Definitely somewhere I'll be checking out.
from the office of...
March 09, 2004 by Eric Richardson
Ping-pong (or "table tennis", if you prefer) was on ESPN when I woke up this morning.
Current conditions? 87 degrees. Humidity, 26 percent. A nice variable 6mph breeze. No disrespect to those of you in other climes -- 'cause that's your choice and all, and I respect that -- but, why? Saturday I was waterskiing and wakeboarding. Yesterday I spent the afternoon getting work done at the beach. Today I'm hanging out in the shade, sportin' the pulled down low baseball cap to keep my gash from scarring, and it's amazing. In the shade you get that magic temperature where you really just sort of forget that there's weather around you. It's not hot, it's not cold, it just is. Then you get a breeze, or a little burst of a/c from an opened door, and it reminds you that you haven't lost all feeling and it really just is that nice outside.
I do have a midterm today. I do have to figure out what classes I'm taking next semester before I have advisement tomorrow. But you know, it's a whole lot easier to not worry about those when it's this nice outside.
ok, so apparently...
March 08, 2004 by Eric Richardson
Apparently the lag is traffic to the webcam. The "streaming" version is actually a reloading jpg straight off the webcam.
hmm... improving even today
March 08, 2004 by Eric Richardson
Still not great, but I noticed things seemed a little faster so I checked it out and now I'm seeing an average around 300ms. That's the type of thing that makes me think these big ping times were just an aberation.