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Milwaukee’s city government is very tech-savvy, with its Google Maps transit integration and fresh, easy-to-navigate webpage and all. Turns out the city also has free municipal wifi in a few of its parks.
Its a model I’d like to see Raleigh emulate some day.
Lee Wilson, Raleigh Fire Department’s semi-official photographer, just posted his photographs of the fatal Mustang accident that occurred at 2:30 Sunday morning near the bowling alley on Capital Boulevard. This is the accident where the driver was exceeding 105 MPH when his car left the road, hit a tree, and split in two.
I’m amazed that ANYONE walked away from that, but the odds are that all three might be alive if they’d been wearing seatbelts. That and if they were not driving 105 MPH.
Remember my mythical weather balloon project? Its become totally lame in light of Jonathan Trappe’s trip in a chair tied to 55 balloons. Saturday, he strapped himself in at the Franklin County Airport and flew 50 miles east, reaching an altitude of 14,000 feet. My put-a-camera-on-a-balloon idea just doesn’t measure up.
And how is it that a guy can risk his life tied to an office chair floating at 14,000 feet but he can’t put up a webpage chronicling the project? There’s not even anything on Youtube yet.
Update 28 May 2010: Jonathan’s crossed the English Channel!
Remember the Neuros Recorder2, the tiny MPEG4 recorder I’ve raved about?
Old and busted! The new hotness is the FlyCamOne2. It is a gadget with 640×480 video and audio recording, built-in camera, and an infrared motion sensor. It records straight to an SD card. Heck, it even charges from a USB port! And the whole thing is just 100 bucks!
This thing might be small enough to mount on my mythical weather balloon project.
Update: Nevermind….the FlyCamOne2 is old and busted, too. That didn’t take long. The new hotness is the Oregon Scientific Action Cam, which apparently has better video (and the upcoming 3K release supports 4GB SD cards). The 2K model can be had for $92 at Circuit City.
Check out the videos [warning: self-playing flash] from the ATC 2K, including this cool model rocket video.
My friend Scott Reston, an avid cyclist, has some choice words for idiots who don’t give cyclists their space on the road. His post is worth a read.
When you’re driving, please share the road with your neighbors out biking. Its our road, too.
The governor’s office announced today that a midday train will be added to the Carolinian route between Raleigh and Charlotte. Woot! Woot!
Now if we can only convince our two brain-dead senators that efficient passenger rail service is a vital homeland security issue, we’d be all set.
There is nothing funnier than Carol Burnett Show skits that go completely off the tracks with Harvey Korman and Tim Conway ad-lib themselves into hysterical fits. Today I was sad to read that Harvey Korman died today at the age of 81.
Here is Harvey playing straight man to Tim Conway’s dentist. Comedy genius.
We’ll miss you, Harvey.
I’ve been having some fun with the RBC Plaza webcam. Click on the presets at the bottom of the screen to look around downtown Raleigh.
My building can’t be seen as its on the north side of the RBC Plaza building. Its fun, nevertheless.
Only in Florida could a substitute teacher doing a magic trick be fired and accused of wizardry. Jim Piculas wowed his students with a simple toothpick trick and wound up losing his job when the principal wanted him out.
Man, you gotta love the state of my birth.
Saturday, the family and I decided to explore our world by bike, so we rode through the neighborhoods to the nearby Raleigh city greenway. Our destination was the section of greenway between Raleigh Boulevard and Capital Boulevard known as the Middle Crabtree Trail. Getting there wasn’t a problem, as we could ride on low-traffic streets all the way to Raleigh Boulevard. Once to Raleigh Boulevard, though, we had to stick to the sidewalks for a block as that street appears too dangerous for safe biking.
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