I Thought He Came With Youhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/Robert Ellison's Blog(c) copyright Robert Ellisonrob@catfood.nethttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/muc-sfo?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/muc-sfo?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netphotoMUC SFO<p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=MUC-SFO-2.jpg" title="MUC SFO"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=MUC-SFO.jpg" width="630" height="354" class="u-photo" alt="MUC SFO" srcset="/image.axd?picture=MUC-SFO.jpg, /image.axd?picture=MUC-SFO-1.jpg 2x, /image.axd?picture=MUC-SFO-2.jpg 3x"></a></p><p class="exif">Google Pixel 8 Pro 7mm f1.7 1/440s ISO21 </p> <p>LH458</p> 2024-03-17T14:06:56Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/krk-muc?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/krk-muc?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netphotoKRK MUC<p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=KRK-MUC-2.jpg" title="KRK MUC"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=KRK-MUC.jpg" width="630" height="354" class="u-photo" alt="KRK MUC" srcset="/image.axd?picture=KRK-MUC.jpg, /image.axd?picture=KRK-MUC-1.jpg 2x, /image.axd?picture=KRK-MUC-2.jpg 3x"></a></p><p class="exif">Google Pixel 8 Pro 7mm f1.7 1/1,250s ISO21 </p> <p>LH1621</p> 2024-03-17T11:56:53Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/budapest?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/budapest?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netphotoBudapest<p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Budapest-2.jpg" title="Budapest"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Budapest.jpg" width="630" height="354" class="u-photo" alt="Budapest" srcset="/image.axd?picture=Budapest.jpg, /image.axd?picture=Budapest-1.jpg 2x, /image.axd?picture=Budapest-2.jpg 3x"></a></p><p class="exif">Google Pixel 8 Pro 7mm f1.7 1/4s ISO88 </p> 2024-03-12T07:09:05Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/dxb-bud?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/dxb-bud?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netphotoDXB BUD<p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=DXB-BUD-2.jpg" title="DXB BUD"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=DXB-BUD.jpg" width="630" height="354" class="u-photo" alt="DXB BUD" srcset="/image.axd?picture=DXB-BUD.jpg, /image.axd?picture=DXB-BUD-1.jpg 2x, /image.axd?picture=DXB-BUD-2.jpg 3x"></a></p><p class="exif">Google Pixel 8 Pro 7mm f1.7 1/20s ISO21 </p> <p>EK111</p> 2024-03-09T07:17:23Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/blr-dxb?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/blr-dxb?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netphotoBLR DXB<p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=BLR-DXB-2.jpg" title="BLR DXB"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=BLR-DXB.jpg" width="630" height="354" class="u-photo" alt="BLR DXB" srcset="/image.axd?picture=BLR-DXB.jpg, /image.axd?picture=BLR-DXB-1.jpg 2x, /image.axd?picture=BLR-DXB-2.jpg 3x"></a></p><p class="exif">Google Pixel 8 Pro 7mm f1.7 1/15s ISO165 </p> <p>EK569</p> 2024-03-08T21:30:10Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/download-a-sharepoint-file-with-graphserviceclient-microsoft-graph-api?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/download-a-sharepoint-file-with-graphserviceclient-microsoft-graph-api?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netcodeDownload a Sharepoint File with GraphServiceClient (Microsoft Graph API)<p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Demons-protect-a-PowerPoint-presentation-from-developers-trying-to-access-it-1.jpg" title="Demons protect a PowerPoint presentation from developers trying to access it."><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Demons-protect-a-PowerPoint-presentation-from-developers-trying-to-access-it.jpg" width="630" height="360" class="u-photo" alt="Demons protect a PowerPoint presentation from developers trying to access it." srcset="/image.axd?picture=Demons-protect-a-PowerPoint-presentation-from-developers-trying-to-access-it.jpg, /image.axd?picture=Demons-protect-a-PowerPoint-presentation-from-developers-trying-to-access-it-1.jpg 2x"></a></p> <p>There is a stunningly simple way to get a file out of sharepoint and I&#39;ll get to that soon (or just skip to the very end of the post).</p> <p>I have been automating the shit out of a lot of routine work in Microsoft Teams recently. Teams is the result of Skype and Sharepoint having too much to drink at the Microsoft holiday party. It often shows. One annoyance is that channel threads are ordered by the time that someone last responded. Useful for quickly seeing the latest gossip but a pain when you need to keep an eye on each individual thread. After listlessly scrolling around trying to keep up with the flow I came up with a dumb solution - I sync the channel to Obsidian (my choice of note app, could be anything) and then I can just check there for new threads. It&#39;s a small convenience but has meaningully improved my life.</p> <p>Unfortunately I got greedy. These messages usually have a PowerPoint presentation attached to them and so why not have an LLM summarize this while updating my notes?</p> <p>It doesn&#39;t look like Copilot has a useful API yet. You can build plug-ins, but I don&#39;t want to talk to Copilot about presentations, I just want it to do the heavy lifting while I sleep so I can read the summary in the morning. Hopefully in the future there will be a simple way to say hey, Copilot, summarize this PPTX. Not yet.</p> <p>So the outline of a solution here is download the presentation, send it ChatGPT, generate a summary and stick that in Obsidian. This felt like a half hour type of project. And it should have been - getting GPT4 Turbo to summarize a PPTX file took about ten minutes. Downloading the file has taken days and sent my self esteem back to primary school.</p> <p>You would think that downloading a file would be the Graph API&#39;s bread and butter. Especially as I have a ChatMessage from the channel that includes attachments and links. The link is for a logged in human, but it must be easy to translate from this to an API call, right?</p> <p>It turns out that all you need is the site ID, the drive ID and the item ID.</p> <p>These IDs are not in the attachment URL or the ChatMessageAttachment. It would be pretty RESTful to include the obvious next resource I&#39;m going to need in that return type. No dice though.</p> <p>I tried ChatGPT which helpfully suggested API calls that looked really plausible and helpful but that did not in fact exist. So I then read probably hundreds of blogs and forum posts from equally confused and desperate developers. Here is a typical <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1347062/download-and-upload-files-via-graph-api-from-share">example</a>:</p> <blockquote>&quot;Now how can I upload and download files to this library with the help of Graph API (GraphServiceClient).&quot;</blockquote> <p>To which Microsoft, terrifyingly, reply:</p> <blockquote>&quot;We are currently looking into this issue and will give you an update as soon as possible.&quot;</blockquote> <p>Before eventually suggesting:</p> <blockquote>&quot;await graphClient.Drives[&quot;{drive-id}&quot;].Items[&quot;{driveItem-id}&quot;].Content.GetAsync();&quot;</blockquote> <p>Ignoring the sharepoint part and glossing over where that drive ID is coming from. Other documentation suggests that you can lookup your site by the URL, and then download a list of drives to go looking for the right one. Well, the first page in paginated drive collection anyway implying that just finding the ID might get you a call from the quota police.</p> <p>I know Microsoft is looking after a lot of files for a lot of organizations, but how can it be this hard?</p> <p>It isn&#39;t. It&#39;s just hidden. I eventually found this <a href="https://blog.aterentiev.com/ms-graph-get-driveitem-by-file-absolute">post</a> from Alex Terentiev that points out that you just need to base64 encode the sharing url, swap some characters around and then call:</p> <blockquote>&quot;GET <a href="https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/shares/{sharing-url}/driveItem">https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/shares/{sharing-url}/driveItem</a>&quot;</blockquote> <p>If Google was doing its job right this would be the top result. I should be grateful they&#39;re still serving results at all and not just telling me that my pastimes are all harmful.</p> <p>The documentation is <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/shares-get?view=graph-rest-1.0&amp;tabs=http#encoding-sharing-urls">here</a> and Microsoft should link to it on every page that discusses drives and DriveItems. For GraphServiceClient the call to get to an actual stream is:</p> <blockquote>&quot;graphClient.Shares[encodedUrl].DriveItem.Content.GetAsync()&quot;</blockquote> 2024-03-03T08:27:23Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/links-for-march-2024?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/links-for-march-2024?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netetcLinks for March 2024<div class="h-entry" id="ebcc6208dbe946f19b4df3c71a7d1a65"><blockquote class="e-content"><a href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3713203/white-house-urges-developers-to-dump-c-and-c.html" title="InfoWorld: White House urges developers to dump C and C++ clipped to ItHCWY on 2024-03-03">InfoWorld: White House urges developers to dump C and C++</a></blockquote><p class="p-name">Developers urge White House to dump Electoral College and supermajority cloture. <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/tag/politics" class="p-category" rel="nofollow">#politics</a> <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/tag/electoral college" class="p-category" rel="nofollow">#electoralcollege</a> <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/tag/cloture" class="p-category" rel="nofollow">#cloture</a> <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/tag/c" class="p-category" rel="nofollow">#c</a> <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/tag/c-plus--plus-" class="p-category" rel="nofollow">#c++</a> </p><a class="u-bridgy-fed" href="https://fed.brid.gy/" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" hidden="hidden"></a></div>2024-03-03T05:44:26Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/fra-blr?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/fra-blr?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netphotoFRA BLR<p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=FRA-BLR-2.jpg" title="FRA BLR"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=FRA-BLR.jpg" width="630" height="354" class="u-photo" alt="FRA BLR" srcset="/image.axd?picture=FRA-BLR.jpg, /image.axd?picture=FRA-BLR-1.jpg 2x, /image.axd?picture=FRA-BLR-2.jpg 3x"></a></p><p class="exif">Google Pixel 8 Pro 7mm f1.7 1/100s ISO21 </p> <p>LH754</p> 2024-03-01T11:23:46Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/sfo-fra?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/sfo-fra?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netphotoSFO FRA<p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=SFO-FRA-2.jpg" title="SFO FRA"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=SFO-FRA.jpg" width="630" height="354" class="u-photo" alt="SFO FRA" srcset="/image.axd?picture=SFO-FRA.jpg, /image.axd?picture=SFO-FRA-1.jpg 2x, /image.axd?picture=SFO-FRA-2.jpg 3x"></a></p><p class="exif">Google Pixel 8 Pro 7mm f1.7 1/3,800s ISO21 </p> <p>LH455</p> <p><strong>Updated 2024-03-01 04:28:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=SFO-FRA-5.jpg" title="SFO FRA"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=SFO-FRA-3.jpg" width="630" height="354" class="u-photo" alt="SFO FRA" srcset="/image.axd?picture=SFO-FRA-3.jpg, /image.axd?picture=SFO-FRA-4.jpg 2x, /image.axd?picture=SFO-FRA-5.jpg 3x"></a></p> <p>Northern Lights</p> 2024-02-29T21:42:26Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/tdcommons-and-the-future-of-patent-law?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/tdcommons-and-the-future-of-patent-law?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netpoliticsTDCommons and the Future of Patent Law<p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=An-illustration-of-a-patent-figure-for-some-Hello-World-generation-1.jpg" title="An illustration of a patent figure for some Hello World generation"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=An-illustration-of-a-patent-figure-for-some-Hello-World-generation.jpg" width="630" height="360" class="u-photo" alt="An illustration of a patent figure for some Hello World generation" srcset="/image.axd?picture=An-illustration-of-a-patent-figure-for-some-Hello-World-generation.jpg, /image.axd?picture=An-illustration-of-a-patent-figure-for-some-Hello-World-generation-1.jpg 2x"></a></p> <p>Paresh Dave in Wired <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/google-tdcommons-dpub-patents-prior-art/">writes</a> about <a href="https://www.tdcommons.org/">TDCommons.org</a>, a Google funded but bepress operated site. The idea is to publish technical disclosures as prior art that might invalidate future patents. It&#39;s an interesting overview of the subject, including a USPTO attempt to do the same thing (I covered this <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/you-wont-believe-this-one-crazy-trick-that-would-fix-the-broken-patent-system">here</a>) and a commercial competitor, <a href="https://ip.com/">IP.Com</a>. Apparently USPTO is looking for help with this problem:</p> <blockquote>&quot;Google is hoping TDCommons has a chance to be embraced as Kathi Vidal, a tech patent attorney who was sworn in as director of the USPTO almost two years ago, settles into her role. Deciding that generative AI programs can’t be patent holders has been a higher priority, she says, but creating a better search tool for prior art is an issue she’s discussed with a lot of organizations. Vidal says she’s open to the USPTO administering and funding its own prior art repository, offering up her email, <a href="mailto:director@uspto.gov">director@uspto.gov</a>, for feedback on how to do so.&quot;</blockquote> <p>I&#39;m not super-convinced that she&#39;s providing her actual email address, but when I have a few minutes I might suggest <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/how-to-fix-software-patents">my own plan</a> - issue all patent applications and shift the examination to the start of any litigation or enforcement attempt.</p> 2024-02-24T22:08:21Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/links-for-february-2024?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/links-for-february-2024?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netetcLinks for February 2024<div class="h-entry" id="07b860c11ff8406e8ca87d6fa08dcaee"><blockquote class="e-content"><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68355395" title="Trident missile test fails for second time in a row clipped to ItHCWY on 2024-02-21">Trident missile test fails for second time in a row</a></blockquote><p class="p-name">We should be kicked off the security council until we can make this work. <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/tag/uk" class="p-category" rel="nofollow">#uk</a> <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/tag/trident" class="p-category" rel="nofollow">#trident</a> </p><a class="u-bridgy-fed" href="https://fed.brid.gy/" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" hidden="hidden"></a></div>2024-02-21T02:25:25Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/tide-line-from-lands-end?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/tide-line-from-lands-end?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netphotoTide Line from Lands End<p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Tide-Line-from-Lands-End-2.jpg" title="Tide Line from Lands End"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Tide-Line-from-Lands-End.jpg" width="630" height="315" class="u-photo" alt="Tide Line from Lands End" srcset="/image.axd?picture=Tide-Line-from-Lands-End.jpg, /image.axd?picture=Tide-Line-from-Lands-End-1.jpg 2x, /image.axd?picture=Tide-Line-from-Lands-End-2.jpg 3x"></a></p><p class="exif">Google Pixel 8 Pro 7mm f1.7 1/1,000s ISO21 </p> <p>View of a very distinct tide line from Lands End in San Francisco.</p> 2024-02-17T21:49:03Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/sunrise-ulloa-and-15th?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/sunrise-ulloa-and-15th?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netphotoSunrise, Ulloa and 15th<p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Sunrise-Ulloa-and-15th-2.jpg" title="Sunrise, Ulloa and 15th"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Sunrise-Ulloa-and-15th.jpg" width="630" height="354" class="u-photo" alt="Sunrise, Ulloa and 15th" srcset="/image.axd?picture=Sunrise-Ulloa-and-15th.jpg, /image.axd?picture=Sunrise-Ulloa-and-15th-1.jpg 2x, /image.axd?picture=Sunrise-Ulloa-and-15th-2.jpg 3x"></a></p><p class="exif">Google Pixel 8 Pro 7mm f1.7 1/45s ISO18 </p> <p>Dramatic sunrise at Ulloa and 15th Avenue in San Francisco.</p> 2024-02-17T21:42:03Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/reviews-for-february-2024?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/reviews-for-february-2024?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netreviewsReviews for February 2024<ul> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#tv-2024-02">TV</a></li> <ul> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#54bb9a25-de2f-45d2-92d3-5d086b178879">A Spy Among Friends</a></li> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#ff675a27-4d65-4d88-a71c-e595865444e0">Bodies</a></li> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#9e9465b3-0265-452a-9e23-28c41f7f0671">Reacher Season 2</a></li> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#9f8251f2-98f8-4073-a22c-d694f412e62a">The Crown Season 6</a></li> </ul> </ul> <h2 id="tv-2024-02">TV</h2> <h3 id="54bb9a25-de2f-45d2-92d3-5d086b178879">A Spy Among Friends</h3> <p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=A-Spy-Among-Friends.png" title="A Spy Among Friends"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=A-Spy-Among-Friends.png" width="630" height="309" class="u-photo" alt="A Spy Among Friends"></a></p> <p>Not since the Kenneth Branagh version of Wallander has a TV series put me so comprehensively to sleep. I love Scandi Noir, I love Kenneth Branagh and yet through four seasons I didn&#39;t finish a single episode. A Spy Among Friends is an espionage &#39;thriller&#39; with a fantastic cast set around the penetration and defection scandal of Kim Philby. It should be a compelling story but I can&#39;t say for sure because it was like a  rohypnol in a double Long Island Iced Tea. YMMV.</p> <h3 id="ff675a27-4d65-4d88-a71c-e595865444e0">Bodies</h3> <p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Bodies-1.jpg" title="Bodies"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Bodies.jpg" width="630" height="354" class="u-photo" alt="Bodies" srcset="/image.axd?picture=Bodies.jpg, /image.axd?picture=Bodies-1.jpg 2x"></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81252916">Bodies</a> starts with the same dead person in several different periods and pretty soon four detectives are investigating four strangely similar cases. It&#39;s the most BBC thing I&#39;ve watched in years, I really enjoyed it.</p> <h3 id="9e9465b3-0265-452a-9e23-28c41f7f0671">Reacher Season 2</h3> <p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Reacher-Season-2.png" title="Reacher Season 2"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Reacher-Season-2.png" width="630" height="266" class="u-photo" alt="Reacher Season 2"></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Reacher-Season-2/dp/B0CH99VGR8">Season 2</a> takes on Bad Luck and Trouble. I wonder what they&#39;re going to do when they run out of books where Reacher has collaborators. His inner monologue is pretty hard to translate to TV. The first season went for a comedy sidekick cop to add in the humor and it worked pretty well. Season 2 is a lot darker and a lot less Reacher as a result. Hopefully they tack back and find a better tone for Season 3.</p> <h3 id="9f8251f2-98f8-4073-a22c-d694f412e62a">The Crown Season 6</h3> <p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=The-Crown-Season-6-1.jpg" title="The Crown Season 6"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=The-Crown-Season-6.jpg" width="630" height="354" class="u-photo" alt="The Crown Season 6" srcset="/image.axd?picture=The-Crown-Season-6.jpg, /image.axd?picture=The-Crown-Season-6-1.jpg 2x"></a></p> <p>The Crown putters to a quiet end. It was quite compelling to start with and got less so the closer it gets to the modern era. I think probably because it starts to overlap with events I remember quite vividly, and can&#39;t really compete with those memories. In the last episode we jump back to WWII era Elizabeth and I wish they&#39;d done a whole series just on that. Maybe that will be a spinoff. While an interesting historical drama, the fantasy ending I&#39;m looking for is more like <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/coronation">this</a>.</p> 2024-02-12T00:48:26Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/san-francisco-and-california-march-2024-ballot-measures?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/san-francisco-and-california-march-2024-ballot-measures?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netpoliticsSan Francisco and California March 2024 Ballot Measures<p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Kids-learning-Algebra-1.jpg" title="Kids learning Algebra"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Kids-learning-Algebra.jpg" width="630" height="360" class="u-photo" alt="Kids learning Algebra" srcset="/image.axd?picture=Kids-learning-Algebra.jpg, /image.axd?picture=Kids-learning-Algebra-1.jpg 2x"></a></p> <ul><li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#c80d683e434b41a694417b6e2c9ce3c6">California Proposition 1, Behavioral Health Services Program and Bond Measure</a></li> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#531732990d4f435cb3cc611c35dc2973">San Francisco, California, Proposition A, Affordable Housing Bond Measure</a></li> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#bbe7a695678d42a995456e3f1046993f">San Francisco, California, Proposition B, Minimum Police Staffing Amendment</a></li> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#3e3b4e8fad6a4691862163d6d49d3b8f">San Francisco, California, Proposition C, Real Estate Transfer Tax Exemption for Properties Converted from Commercial to Residential Use Initiative</a></li> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#72a47c74cbe6421db8779ceab0a8ed9b">San Francisco, California, Proposition D, Amend City Ethics Laws and Expand Restrictions on Gifts to City Officers and Employees Initiative</a></li> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#8ccabddc3b9c449780dfe68b456d2c4e">San Francisco, California, Proposition E, Limit Police Department Administrative Task Time and Increase Use of Camera and Drone Technology Initiative</a></li> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#fc6f362a6a074beba9f3e412d2f772c0">San Francisco, California, Proposition F, Require Drug Screening for Certain Beneficiaries of the County Adult Assistance Program Initiative</a></li> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#a8dbc438717646b8a9f5ec86d731e523">San Francisco, California, Proposition G, Declaration of Policy Urging San Francisco Unified School District to Offer Algebra 1 to Students by Eighth Grade Measure</a></li> </ul> <p>While waiting for the horror of <i>Weekend at Bernie&#39;s</i> vs. <i>A Clockwork Orange</i> in November there is time to contemplate another slate of job-outsourcing ballot measures. Just one for California and seven for San Francisco so it could be worse. Here goes...</p> <h2 id="c80d683e434b41a694417b6e2c9ce3c6">California Proposition 1, Behavioral Health Services Program and Bond Measure</h2> <p><b>Yes</b>. <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1,_Behavioral_Health_Services_Program_and_Bond_Measure_(March_2024)">This</a> funds housing and treatment for the mentally ill, homeless and veterans in need. It also requires counties to put more of their existing funds into housing.</p> <h2 id="531732990d4f435cb3cc611c35dc2973">San Francisco, California, Proposition A, Affordable Housing Bond Measure</h2> <p><b>Yes</b>. <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/San_Francisco,_California,_Proposition_A,_Affordable_Housing_Bond_Measure_(March_2024)">$300M</a> in bonds to build, buy and repair affordable housing. Homelessness is driven by a lack of affordable housing. In addition to building more I&#39;d love to see us cut more of the red tape, but this is a necessary measure to meet our existing obligations.</p> <h2 id="bbe7a695678d42a995456e3f1046993f">San Francisco, California, Proposition B, Minimum Police Staffing Amendment</h2> <p><b>No</b>. I voted against minimum numbers in <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/san-francisco-november-2020-ballot-measures">2020</a>, and I don&#39;t see a good reason to bring them back today. I also recoil at the thought of a dedicated police recruitment <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/San_Francisco,_California,_Proposition_B,_Minimum_Police_Staffing_Amendment_(March_2024)">tax</a> as this measure suggests. Funding the police is a very basic city service, as is determining the appropriate staffing levels at any particular moment in time. I&#39;m not against recruiting more police at all, but this is a bad proposal.</p> <h2 id="3e3b4e8fad6a4691862163d6d49d3b8f">San Francisco, California, Proposition C, Real Estate Transfer Tax Exemption for Properties Converted from Commercial to Residential Use Initiative</h2> <p><b>Yes</b>. I voted in favor of this <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/San_Francisco,_California,_Proposition_C,_Real_Estate_Transfer_Tax_Exemption_for_Properties_Converted_from_Commercial_to_Residential_Use_Initiative_(March_2024)">tax</a> in <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/san-francisco-november-2020-ballot-measures">2020</a>. Post pandemic San Francisco has one of the worst return to office rates and a huge decline in retail. We need to rethink what downtown is for and I love the idea of bringing in more universities and more homes. So this is a tax break that makes sense for now.</p> <h2 id="72a47c74cbe6421db8779ceab0a8ed9b">San Francisco, California, Proposition D, Amend City Ethics Laws and Expand Restrictions on Gifts to City Officers and Employees Initiative</h2> <p><b>Yes</b>. Tougher ethics rules are needed. Can&#39;t find any reason to oppose this <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/San_Francisco,_California,_Proposition_D,_Amend_City_Ethics_Laws_and_Expand_Restrictions_on_Gifts_to_City_Officers_and_Employees_Initiative_(March_2024)">package</a>. We have <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/sf-city-hall-corruption-guilty-plea-khoshnevisan-18658766.php">bribing</a> of inspection personnel, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/san-francisco-city-workers-charged-corruption-scheme-bribery/">theft</a> of public funds, corruption in <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/ex-san-francisco-official-gets-probation-for-role-in-city-hall-corruption-scandal/">Public Works</a>, that inspector who inspected his <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/02/san-francisco-van-zeng-building-inspector-charged-conflict-of-interest/">own building</a>, etc.</p> <h2 id="8ccabddc3b9c449780dfe68b456d2c4e">San Francisco, California, Proposition E, Limit Police Department Administrative Task Time and Increase Use of Camera and Drone Technology Initiative</h2> <p><b>Yes</b>. Apparently when SFPD decides to chase someone they crash <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/10/san-francisco-police-chases-crash-data-police-commission/">38% of the time</a>, about twice the state average. This bill would let them chase more people and use <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/San_Francisco,_California,_Proposition_E,_Limit_Police_Department_Administrative_Task_Time_and_Increase_Use_of_Camera_and_Drone_Technology_Initiative_(March_2024)">drones</a> and GPS taggers to do it. I&#39;d like them to go on an advanced driving course or two, but if you can avoid consequences just by running away then we don&#39;t really have a law enforcement system. Maybe I&#39;ll regret this in a few years but it seems mostly common sense to me right now.</p> <h2 id="fc6f362a6a074beba9f3e412d2f772c0">San Francisco, California, Proposition F, Require Drug Screening for Certain Beneficiaries of the County Adult Assistance Program Initiative</h2> <p><b>No</b>. It looks like the recipients of most of these <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/San_Francisco,_California,_Proposition_F,_Require_Drug_Screening_for_Certain_Beneficiaries_of_the_County_Adult_Assistance_Program_Initiative_(March_2024)">funds</a> are not homeless and have plenty of hoops to jump through already. This seems like it would risk making their situation worse.</p> <h2 id="a8dbc438717646b8a9f5ec86d731e523">San Francisco, California, Proposition G, Declaration of Policy Urging San Francisco Unified School District to Offer Algebra 1 to Students by Eighth Grade Measure</h2> <p><b>Yes</b>. This is <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/San_Francisco,_California,_Proposition_G,_Declaration_of_Policy_Urging_San_Francisco_Unified_School_District_to_Offer_Algebra_1_to_Students_by_Eighth_Grade_Measure_(March_2024)">pointless</a> as it has no teeth and they&#39;re moving this way anyway. I still want to help make the pointless point.</p> 2024-02-10T23:22:17Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/ithcwy-newsletter-for-january-2024?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/ithcwy-newsletter-for-january-2024?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netetcITHCWY Newsletter for January 2024<p><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=ITHCWY-Newsletter-for-January.png" width="630" height="315" class="u-photo" alt="ITHCWY Newsletter for January 2024"></p><p>January has been nearly all timelapse at ITHCWY. First up I have my annual New Year&#39;s Eve production, this time a portrait of the <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/embarcadero">Embarcadero</a> in San Francisco. Apparently the Port Authority and US Army Corps of Engineers have <a href="https://sfist.com/2024/01/26/army-corps-of-engineers-unveils-plan-to-raise-sf-shoreline-by-as-much-as-seven-feet-for-rising-sea-levels/">a plan</a> to lift this stretch of shoreline by 7 feet to protect it from climate change. I also got a chance to visit Miami, and produced a timelapse of the <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/miami">skyline</a> and the world&#39;s latest largest cruise ship, the Icon of the Seas. It&#39;s so big it can spell it&#39;s own name out using windows as pixels. This is the ship causing the climate change that necessitates lifting the Embarcadero. Finally some present day construction, two months of light rail <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/l-taraval-track-replacement-the-movie">track replacement</a> on my street.</p> <p>Also, some reviews for <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/reviews-for-january-2024">January</a>. I would in particular recommend <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#403d8767-a9f7-4a99-86a4-d093e36641f5">Leave the World Behind</a>.</p> <p>Previously:</p> <ul> <li>2023: <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/reviews-for-january-2023">Reviews for January 2023</a></li> <li>2022: <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/build-back-betterer">Build Back Betterer</a></li> <li>2021: <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/style-transfer-for-time-lapse-photography">Style Transfer for Time Lapse Photography</a></li> </ul>2024-01-31T03:49:17Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/reviews-for-january-2024?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/reviews-for-january-2024?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netreviewsReviews for January 2024<ul> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#movies-2024-01">Movies</a></li> <ul> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#403d8767-a9f7-4a99-86a4-d093e36641f5">Leave the World Behind</a></li> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#ca22c5c6-b77e-4f2b-aebc-9524500d9d0f">Level 16</a></li> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#944d6fc8-d1de-4ca5-99d3-f9cac47a45ff">Rebel Moon – Part One</a></li> </ul> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#music-2024-01">Music</a></li> <ul> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#28734cd9-91c1-4c03-bff1-b480bfbfe5a1">Lazy</a></li> </ul> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#tv-2024-01">TV</a></li> <ul> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#496ccd3e-4c1c-442a-a6d9-16d698ee4656">Doctor Who 2023 Specials</a></li> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#45a41584-93e2-4c23-9fe2-0de6aac985d9">For All Mankind Season 4</a></li> <li><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/#0a831f27-7a3e-493f-8a34-c29ba2290d8b">Slow Horses Season 3</a></li> </ul> </ul> <h2 id="movies-2024-01">Movies</h2> <h3 id="403d8767-a9f7-4a99-86a4-d093e36641f5">Leave the World Behind</h3> <p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Leave-the-World-Behind-1.jpg" title="Leave the World Behind"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Leave-the-World-Behind.jpg" width="630" height="354" class="u-photo" alt="Leave the World Behind" srcset="/image.axd?picture=Leave-the-World-Behind.jpg, /image.axd?picture=Leave-the-World-Behind-1.jpg 2x"></a></p> <p>This <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81314956">movie</a> hangs on the fact that dealing with the owners of your Airbnb showing up and needing to stay there is way harder to deal with than the actual end of the world. This is totally true and pulled off in a masterful and cringeworthy way. I loved Sam Esmail&#39;s Mr Robot and there are similar vibes and shots at work while leaving the world behind. I think it&#39;s supposed to be more explicitly about race, but nearly every line would work without that dynamic. The social awkwardness here is universal. The ending is great as well. Highly recommended.</p> <h3 id="ca22c5c6-b77e-4f2b-aebc-9524500d9d0f">Level 16</h3> <p><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81074410">Level 16</a> is about a residential school for girls who will get adopted soon. Of course something darker is going on and it&#39;s pretty dark. It&#39;s super derivative but nicely done and worth a watch.</p> <h3 id="944d6fc8-d1de-4ca5-99d3-f9cac47a45ff">Rebel Moon – Part One</h3> <p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=ReviewMoviesRebel-Moon--Part-One-A-Child-of-Fire-1.jpg" title="Review:Movies:Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=ReviewMoviesRebel-Moon--Part-One-A-Child-of-Fire.jpg" width="630" height="354" class="u-photo" alt="Review:Movies:Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire" srcset="/image.axd?picture=ReviewMoviesRebel-Moon--Part-One-A-Child-of-Fire.jpg, /image.axd?picture=ReviewMoviesRebel-Moon--Part-One-A-Child-of-Fire-1.jpg 2x"></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81464239">Rebel Moon</a> has an incredible visual style, a disturbing bad guy and some off-brand lightsabers. The dialog is clunky and I have already forgotten the plot. I&#39;m sure I&#39;ll watch the second part and maybe it ends up going somewhere but this installment is just pulling the gang together in the style of the first few minutes of an A-Team episode with a decent SFX budget.</p> <h2 id="music-2024-01">Music</h2> <h3 id="28734cd9-91c1-4c03-bff1-b480bfbfe5a1">Lazy</h3> <div class="video-container"><iframe id="player-gave" width="630" height="354" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ibZP6NqXxVQ?rel=0&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div> <p>I love a lot of Baby Queen. This one is an anthem for my current Saturday morning.</p> <h2 id="tv-2024-01">TV</h2> <h3 id="496ccd3e-4c1c-442a-a6d9-16d698ee4656">Doctor Who 2023 Specials</h3> <p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Doctor-Who-2023-Specials.jpg" title="Doctor Who 2023 Specials"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Doctor-Who-2023-Specials.jpg" width="320" height="480" class="u-photo" alt="Doctor Who 2023 Specials"></a></p> <p>I drifted out of watching Doctor Who at the start of the Jodie Whittaker / Chris Chibnall era. It has always been an uneven program with some silly concepts occasionally punctuated by enough sci-fi genius to make it all worthwhile. With Chibnall that equation changed for me and it just seemed boring. I was pretty excited to see that Russell T Davies was back at the helm and the four specials were pretty good, an unexpected encore for David Tennant and Catherine Tate and a brief introduction for Ncuti Gatwa. I&#39;ll be tuning in next year to see how Davies and Gatwa do once out of the confines of Christmas Special land. I couldn&#39;t be happier that the TARDIS is recognizably the machine from my youth even if it is filled with questionable ramps. What was great about the 80&#39;s TARDIS is that it was bigger on the inside but only a little bit. You have complete control over time and space and you just move the walls over a foot to fit in a hatstand (I know, there was more behind another door, but that rarely came into play). I really hated the steampunk control room and I hope it never comes back. My fondest wish for the program is that the Doctor drops his sonic screwdriver down a wormhole and has to start relying on his wits a bit more. An occasional plot device has become almost the only plot device and he&#39;s a Time Lord not a superhero Anyway, fingers crossed for the next series.</p> <h3 id="45a41584-93e2-4c23-9fe2-0de6aac985d9">For All Mankind Season 4</h3> <p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=For-All-Mankind-Season-4-2.jpg" title="For All Mankind Season 4"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=For-All-Mankind-Season-4.jpg" width="630" height="296" class="u-photo" alt="For All Mankind Season 4" srcset="/image.axd?picture=For-All-Mankind-Season-4.jpg, /image.axd?picture=For-All-Mankind-Season-4-1.jpg 2x, /image.axd?picture=For-All-Mankind-Season-4-2.jpg 3x"></a></p> <p><a href="https://tv.apple.com/us/show/for-all-mankind/umc.cmc.6wsi780sz5tdbqcf11k76mkp7">For All Mankind</a> is getting into middle age, but it&#39;s still a great series. This installment is all about an uneasy Mars base and the future of space exploration. Also some moonshine.</p> <h3 id="0a831f27-7a3e-493f-8a34-c29ba2290d8b">Slow Horses Season 3</h3> <p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Slow-Horses-Season-3-1.jpg" title="Slow Horses Season 3"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Slow-Horses-Season-3.jpg" width="630" height="264" class="u-photo" alt="Slow Horses Season 3" srcset="/image.axd?picture=Slow-Horses-Season-3.jpg, /image.axd?picture=Slow-Horses-Season-3-1.jpg 2x"></a></p> <p><a href="https://tv.apple.com/us/show/slow-horses/umc.cmc.2szz3fdt71tl1ulnbp8utgq5o">Slow Horses</a> just keeps getting better. A must watch series.</p> 2024-01-15T23:06:41Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/miami?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/miami?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.nettimelapseMiami<p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Sunset-over-Miami-from-South-Beach-2.jpg" title="Sunset over Miami from South Beach"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Sunset-over-Miami-from-South-Beach.jpg" width="630" height="268" class="u-photo" alt="Sunset over Miami from South Beach" srcset="/image.axd?picture=Sunset-over-Miami-from-South-Beach.jpg, /image.axd?picture=Sunset-over-Miami-from-South-Beach-1.jpg 2x, /image.axd?picture=Sunset-over-Miami-from-South-Beach-2.jpg 3x"></a></p> <div class="video-container"><iframe id="player-gave" width="630" height="354" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xBCLnIBVNnE?rel=0&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div> <p>Timelapse of Miami from South Beach. One cloudy night and then a nice sunset. At the end you can see a night departure of the Icon of the Seas, the new largest cruise ship in the world.</p> 2024-01-14T23:19:08Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/mia-sfo?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/mia-sfo?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netphotoMIA SFO<p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=MIA-SFO-2.jpg" title="MIA SFO"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=MIA-SFO.jpg" width="630" height="354" class="u-photo" alt="MIA SFO" srcset="/image.axd?picture=MIA-SFO.jpg, /image.axd?picture=MIA-SFO-1.jpg 2x, /image.axd?picture=MIA-SFO-2.jpg 3x"></a></p><p class="exif">Google Pixel 8 Pro 7mm f1.7 1/51s ISO28 </p> <p>AA2035</p> 2024-01-13T21:41:57Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/sfo-mia?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/sfo-mia?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netphotoSFO MIA<p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=SFO-MIA-2.jpg" title="SFO MIA"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=SFO-MIA.jpg" width="630" height="474" class="u-photo" alt="SFO MIA" srcset="/image.axd?picture=SFO-MIA.jpg, /image.axd?picture=SFO-MIA-1.jpg 2x, /image.axd?picture=SFO-MIA-2.jpg 3x"></a></p><p class="exif">Google Pixel 8 Pro 18mm f2.8 1/211s ISO17 </p> <p>AA2045</p> 2024-01-07T19:56:06Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/l-taraval-track-replacement-the-movie?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/l-taraval-track-replacement-the-movie?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.nettimelapseL Taraval Track Replacement, The Movie<p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Track-Construction-on-15th-Avenue-San-Francisco-2.jpg" title="Track Construction on 15th Avenue, San Francisco"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Track-Construction-on-15th-Avenue-San-Francisco.jpg" width="630" height="354" class="u-photo" alt="Track Construction on 15th Avenue, San Francisco" srcset="/image.axd?picture=Track-Construction-on-15th-Avenue-San-Francisco.jpg, /image.axd?picture=Track-Construction-on-15th-Avenue-San-Francisco-1.jpg 2x, /image.axd?picture=Track-Construction-on-15th-Avenue-San-Francisco-2.jpg 3x"></a></p> <p>My poor street has had the works over the past few years. PG&amp;E upgraded the gas lines. Then everything got ripped up for new water mains. We got two new poles. And then new sewers. I&#39;m a little surprised the houses are still standing.</p> <p>Over the last couple of months the train tracks for the L Taraval have been replaced. They&#39;re only two years younger than me, but I&#39;m happy to report that they looked in much worse shape. Here&#39;s a time lapse of the whole process:</p> <div class="video-container"><iframe id="player-gave" width="630" height="354" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EULXYzzCgPM?rel=0&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div> <p>You&#39;ll see that they opened a chasm right in front of my garage early in the project and the plan called for it to be almost the last hole to fill in at the end. I&#39;d be more excited if the L Taraval went anywhere useful. When I moved into my house it stopped right in front and then whisked you quickly downtown. Since then that stop was removed, and then the L terminated at West Portal to make room for M and N people and has been replaced by a bus for the duration of the pandemic and track replacement service.</p> <p>With perfect comedic timing we also just got a letter from PG&amp;E saying that they now need to dig everything up all over again. Probably we need medium rather than high pressure?</p> 2024-01-06T20:31:32Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/embarcadero?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/embarcadero?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.nettimelapseEmbarcadero<p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=People-walk-along-the-Embarcadero-in-San-Francisco-2.jpg" title="People walk along the Embarcadero in San Francisco"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=People-walk-along-the-Embarcadero-in-San-Francisco.jpg" width="630" height="354" class="u-photo" alt="People walk along the Embarcadero in San Francisco" srcset="/image.axd?picture=People-walk-along-the-Embarcadero-in-San-Francisco.jpg, /image.axd?picture=People-walk-along-the-Embarcadero-in-San-Francisco-1.jpg 2x, /image.axd?picture=People-walk-along-the-Embarcadero-in-San-Francisco-2.jpg 3x"></a></p> <p>I have a tradition of making a time lapse of San Francisco on New Year&#39;s Eve. This year I focused on the Embarcadero:</p> <div class="video-container"><iframe id="player-gave" width="630" height="354" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9dqkxuiIK6g?rel=0&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div> <p>The time lapse opens with a view of the Bay Bridge from Cupid&#39;s Span in Rincon Park. Then behind the Ferry Building for two departures and one arrival. Next is a view of downtown from the middle of Pier 7. From there some Embarcadero proper from the perspective of the glass tiles looking towards the Exploratorium and then looking across the street at Coit Tower and the Transamerica Pyramid from Pier 35. After that we have the Richmond Bridge visible behind Alcatraz and Angel Island and the SkyStar Wheel in its new home, both shot from the end of Fisherman&#39;s Wharf. Finally the Golden Gate Bridge with some brave swimmers in the foreground at Aquatic Park. This is just past the Embarcadero but I broke the theme a little to get all three bridges.</p> 2024-01-05T02:09:58Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/ithcwy-newsletter-for-december-2023?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/ithcwy-newsletter-for-december-2023?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netetcITHCWY Newsletter for December 2023<p><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Stable-Diffusion-Global-Stereotypes.jpg" width="630" height="315" alt="Stable Diffusion Global Stereotypes"></p> <p>Happy New Year!</p> <p>Catfood Earth <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/catfood-earth-440">4.40</a> includes the latest time zone database and also some fixes for the locations, volcanoes and weather radar layers. If you use any of that please update.</p> <p>I&#39;m slowly replacing myself with an LLM. Currently I&#39;m on Rob <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/rob-20">2.1</a> which features a fine tuned version of GPT 3.5, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and some prompt tuning. You can chat with it in the <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/rob-20#start-comments">comments</a>. Don&#39;t worry, it&#39;s not blogging yet, the aim is to start sending it to some meetings.</p> <p>Just how different are <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/nanoplastics-microplastics-basketballs-rice-and-whales">nanoplastics and microplastics</a>? More on <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/do-free-will-skeptics-make-their-own-point-by-being-so-dumb">free will</a>. It is time we actually tried some <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/pew-two-thirds-of-americans-support-national-popular-vote">tyranny of the majority</a> for a bit.</p> <p>An animation of <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/animation-of-us-pm25-air-pollution-in-2023">PM2.5</a> pollution across the US in 2023.</p> <p>Time lapse of the full <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/hunters-moon-time-lapse">Hunter&#39;s moon and Jupiter</a> (and some Galilean moons).</p> <p>Reviews for <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/reviews-for-october-2023">October</a>, <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/reviews-for-november-2023">November</a>, and <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/reviews-for-december-2023">December</a>.</p> <p>Previously:</p> <ul> <li>2022: <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/stable-diffusion-global-stereotypes">Stable Diffusion Global Stereotypes</a></li> <li>2021: <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/the-secret-diary-of-a-xamarin-android-developer-aged-48-13">The Secret Diary of a Xamarin Android Developer, Aged 48 1/3</a></li> <li>2020: <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/accessing-printer-press-esc-to-cancel">Accessing Printer Press ESC to cancel</a></li> </ul> <p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/links-for-december-2023">Links for December 2023</a></p> 2023-12-31T03:13:28Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/3d-printing-a-discreet-wall-mount-shelf-for-the-aura-carver-mat?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/3d-printing-a-discreet-wall-mount-shelf-for-the-aura-carver-mat?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netetc3D Printing a discreet wall mount shelf for the Aura Carver Mat<p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=OpenSCAD-Design-for-Aura-Carver-Mat-wall-mount-1.jpg" title="OpenSCAD Design for Aura Carver Mat wall mount"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=OpenSCAD-Design-for-Aura-Carver-Mat-wall-mount.jpg" width="630" height="320" class="u-photo" alt="OpenSCAD Design for Aura Carver Mat wall mount" srcset="/image.axd?picture=OpenSCAD-Design-for-Aura-Carver-Mat-wall-mount.jpg, /image.axd?picture=OpenSCAD-Design-for-Aura-Carver-Mat-wall-mount-1.jpg 2x"></a></p> <p>I got the <a href="https://auraframes.com/digital-frames/color/carver-mat">Aura Carver Mat</a> for Christmas. It&#39;s a nice 10 inch digital photo frame with great Google Photos integration - hook it up to an album, invite people to the album, add photos. You can also use the Aura app for sharing but a Google Photos album is way easier. I got this to replace an Echo show because I had started spending too much time switching off all the ads. Even after you&#39;ve toggled off every bit of marketing fluff the thing still shows you ads. It&#39;s one thing if it was sold as ad supported but quite another to continually sneak them in via software updates. I like Alexa and so I replaced it with the Echo Studio (so much sound) and this frame which so far just works.</p> <p>One minor detail is that this frame is designed to sit on a desk or shelf and does not contemplate living on a wall. I designed this discrete shelf for wall mounting. It&#39;s pretty small which is good, I&#39;d recommend some double sided tape or similar to stop the frame from sliding sideways in case you&#39;re as bad at using a spirit level as me (or live in an earthquake zone, also like me).</p> <p>OpenSCAD code below, or grab the STL from <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6401984">Thingiverse</a>.</p> <script src="https://gist.github.com/abfo/f959cb6ee205c7bdd531e9610f4e7d23.js"></script> <noscript><pre><code>difference() { union() { cube(size=[61,85,5], center = true); translate([29.5, 0 ,5]) { cube(size=[2, 85, 10], center = true); } translate([-29.5, 0 ,15]) { cube(size=[2, 85, 30], center = true); } } rotate([0,90,0]) { translate([-15,25,-35]) { cylinder(h=15, d=3); } } rotate([0,90,0]) { translate([-15,-25,-35]) { cylinder(h=15, d=3); } } } </code></pre></noscript> 2023-12-27T01:09:14Z(c) copyright Robert Ellisonhttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/winter-solstice-2023?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrsshttps://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/winter-solstice-2023?utm_source=ithcwy&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=fromrssrob@catfood.netcodeWinter Solstice 2023<p><a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Winter-Solstice-2023-in-CatfoodEarth-2.jpg" title="Winter Solstice 2023 in Catfood Earth"><img src="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/image.axd?picture=Winter-Solstice-2023-in-CatfoodEarth.jpg" width="630" height="354" class="u-photo" alt="Winter Solstice 2023 in Catfood&#160;Earth" srcset="/image.axd?picture=Winter-Solstice-2023-in-CatfoodEarth.jpg, /image.axd?picture=Winter-Solstice-2023-in-CatfoodEarth-1.jpg 2x, /image.axd?picture=Winter-Solstice-2023-in-CatfoodEarth-2.jpg 3x"></a></p> <p>Winter starts right now for those of us at the top of the planet. It&#39;s summer time down under. Winter Solstice 2023 rendered in <a href="https://ithoughthecamewithyou.com/post/catfood-earth">Catfood Earth</a> (03:28 on December 22, 2023 UTC).</p> 2023-12-21T19:20:20Z(c) copyright Robert Ellison