podcast 0.1
March 08, 2005 by Eric Richardson
When KCRW started podcasting I mentioned I wanted to write a script to manage downloading the files and getting them over to my cell phone each night. Well, I haven't quite done that yet. But I have written the first steps, and put my perl podcast app over at eScripting. This is the first thing I've put up there in a bunch of years. archive.org last shows a change in July of 2002. I'm using the URI::Fetch CPAN module that jim mentioned a few weeks ago.
My Windows Don't Block Smell
March 08, 2005 by Eric Richardson
CSI:NY is shooting in my alley today, which is fine. We got the notifications a couple days ago and they did a really good job of detailing what would be happening when. Here's the problem, though: right now they're grilling some really good smelling meat directly below my window. Delicious aromas are wafting in through my windows. That's just unfair.
Flexcar: A Full Weekend
March 07, 2005 by Eric Richardson
This weekend I actually used Flexcar quite a bit. Kathy's car is in the shop, so I first picked up car 6926 (which Flexcar's site at the moment lists as a mini-van... I assure you it isn't) on my way back from work Friday and we made our way over to the west side. Then Sunday I again got a car -- though this time car 6925, just for variety -- for church and errands. I'm really enjoying the Civic hybrid, and I finally noticed that the trip odometer would let me get a MPG number for my time in the car. Average MPG's for the two trips: 38.1 and 38.6. — Continue Reading...
Another Big Park
March 07, 2005 by Eric Richardson
This weekend I was introduced for the first time to Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area in Baldwin Hills. For a big city, Los Angeles keeps surprising me with these massive parks that you don't really understand the scale of until you're there. Griffith Park is amazing, and I've been there many times, but I had only driven by Kenneth Hahn SRA before Saturday. The site was home to the Olympic Village for the 1932 games, and then did some time as an oil field before the state bought the hilltop in 1983 and made it into a really nice looking park. There are pictures in my flickr gallery.
Scott Garner: 0-2 in My Book
March 03, 2005 by Eric Richardson
You may remember that a little over a week ago I criticized Scott Garner over at LAist over a piece he wrote on the committee subway vote. Garner at the time wrote this:
Regardless, Labonge and his subway-lovin' wrecking crew will take their fight straight to the man tomorrow, going before the full MTA board to make their case that a subway that actually relieves traffic is a pretty darn good idea.
What are the odds that they'll be successful? About the same odds that Jamie Foxx will go home empty-handed on Sunday, but good on 'em for trying.
Of course the next day the board passed LaBonge's motion 11-2.
Today Garner has another piece on the subway, of course making no mention of his previous piece. And then he goes on to criticize the MTA's art program... — Continue Reading...