Book reviews for January 2016
Starhawk (The Academy, #7) by Jack McDevitt
3/5
It's a prequel - how Hutch became Hutch - and because of that it's a bit limited in scope. Comfortable filler with a few good moments - worth reading for completeists.
This timelapse contains edited highlights from January 2015 to January 2016. I have a Nest Cam (previously DropCam) pointed at the Pacific from the back of my house. To create the footage I grab a frame every 20 seconds and save it to Google Drive using Google Apps Script. I fire up a program about once a week that creates a daily timelapse movie from the frames.
The music on the video is from the excellent JukeDeck. This particular track was randomly but happily called California Battle.
As well as the conventional timelapses I'm creating a couple of different videos from all of the footage. More over the next few months.
(Published to the Fediverse as: West of West Portal #timelapse #westportal #video Highlights from one year of timelapses looking over the Pacific from West Portal in San Francisco, CA )
Bayview Rise is a large work of art created by Laura Haddad and Tom Drugan installed at Port Pier 92 in the Bayview district of San Francisco.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Bayview Rise #photo #sanfrancisco Bayview Rise, an illuminated mural by Laura Haddad and Tom Drugan at Port Pier 92 in San Francisco, California. )
3/5
It's a prequel - how Hutch became Hutch - and because of that it's a bit limited in scope. Comfortable filler with a few good moments - worth reading for completeists.
Wisdom teeth removal is rarely necessary
Glad to hear it because my dentist is always wanting to rip out my wisdom teeth and I've always refused...
A few people have asked for 3D shape support in my ESRI Shapefile library. I've never got around to it, but CodePlex user ekleiman has forked a version in his ESRI Shapefile to Image Convertor that supports PointZ, PolygonZ and PolyLineZ shapes. If that's what you need please check it out.
San Bruno Mountain State Park has outstanding views of San Francisco, the Pacific out to the Farallon Islands and much of the bay. We did the three mile summit loop (the wrong way round, San Bruno pros do it counter-clockwise).
Hike starts at 37.6888964,-122.437008 (Google Earth).
(Hike Map)
3/5
I always want to like Kim Stanley Robinson more than i do, this time was no different. It's a generation ship colonization story with a pretty decent if depressing twist and I really enjoyed the fist half of the book. After that it gets pretty slow and repetitive and then ends in a pretty unsatisfying and trite way.
360 degree 4K timelapse from Mount Davidson, the highest peak in San Francisco. Shot in five segments.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Mount Davidson 360 4K #timelapse #360 #4k #video Timelapse showing the views from Mount Davidson in San Francisco, California. 360 4K. Highest peak in San Francisco. )
Winter Solstice 2015 rendered in Catfood Earth (Windows, Android).
(Published to the Fediverse as: Winter Solstice 2015 #code #earth #solstice #winter #summer #hibernal #southern The exact moment of Winter Solstice 2015 as rendered in Catfood Earth. )
Export Google Fit Daily Steps, Weight and Distance to a Google Sheet
Accessing Printer Press ESC to cancel
Monitor page index status with Google Sheets, Apps Script and the Google Search Console API
International Date Line Longitude, Latitude Coordinates
Upgrading from word2vec to OpenAI
Enable GZIP compression for Amazon S3 hosted website in CloudFront
Scanning from the ADF using WIA in C#
User scoped custom dimensions in Google Analytics 4 using gtag
Is it safe to open securedoc.html (Cisco Registered Envelope)?