Indoor track is an endurance event for spectators, especially when there are 43 teams. The last event finally ended just before 11pm. It started at 4:30, although I was there an hour earlier because that's what the school schedule said. At least I was able to get some Python scripting done for […]

Name this map projection

@mradamcox Have you ever heard of any projects that put a IIIF wrapper around a COG? It seems like this would be possible, but haven't even found anyone discussing the idea.

The map also assigns a unique ID to every farmhouse in the county, a numbering scheme that never caught on, probably because they expected the county government to pay for a number-plate for every farmhouse. I guess it was the what3words of its day.

The selling point of this 1924 map is that you will save time and money by not getting lost on the roads when you leave your neighborhood.

Looking forward to the week between Christmas and New Year's Day for getting some things done around the house!

I just had the best grilled sandwich made with some slices of this vegan "ham", which was left over from our New Year's feast.

I'm sad to report on the sorry state of consumer-grade slide scanners. I have one that was made no later than 2008. It clips the image too small, loosing details around the edges, and the image quality is not great. I looked to see what is available in this golden age of constantly-improving […]

I'm scanning some old 35mm slides, and it is a slow process, because you end up coming across things like a 1975 visit to "The Land of Oz" and wondering if it still exists...

@ianturton Do you have the EPSG number for this one? :)

I have a turntable mounted to the wall of my workspace in the attic, which is quite resistant to vibrations. You can jump as much as want without making the record skip. However, it fails spectacularly whenever the washing machine on the floor below reaches the final spin cycle. :(

Oops! I just missed the deadline for the Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge. I wrote an Apple ][+ assembly program a couple weeks ago but never submitted it... :(

I can tell that this expense report form is secure because it tells me that "Entry text must not include quotation or backslash"

@deater78 I'm hoping to write a disk read/write routine that is tight enough to encode/decode bytes on the fly, without relying on buffers for the 6+2 data. As someone who has studied this (e.g. your talk at DemoSplash2020), have you ever encountered an alternative DOS that doesn't use such buffers?

I don't know who else needs to hear this, but... > Persons wishing to imitate the writing technique of the RWTS subroutine should not substitute a "STA $C0EF" instruction for the "STA $C08F,x" at address $B83F of DOS 3.3. #appleii

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I ate just one piece chocolate-covered durian 10 hours ago, and can still smell it.

Very happy to introduce a new tool, BookReconciler! You can take spreadsheets with book data and add subject headings, descriptions, ISBNs, HathiTrust IDs, & more. You can also cluster editions & variations of the same "Work." Led by @thisismattmiller.com and supported by @post45data.bsky.social.

I just remembered this excellent guide to Landsat band combinations that was on the old SnapSat website https://web.archive.org/web/20151116120535/http://snapsat.org/guide/#combinations What a great site that was!

new band name: "Dirty Little Voltage"

The things I find (xiv) when skimming the minutes of a conference I didn't attend...

Pliny the seventh of nine children

I enjoyed the local performance of a modernish Christmas cantata yesterday, but one of the movements had a melody that kept reminding me of this song by The Specials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi_uV6ojDSs

TFW your code works perfectly on multiple emulators, but not the original hardware...

We are pleased to announce that we have archived all of the layers from the defunct HIFLD Open GIS repository! A big thanks to Frank Donnelly and all the volunteers who helped out, especially tripleshrimp, ciarra, sefk, and Frank's students! Explore more: www.datarescueproject.org/hifld-data-s...

I'm helping a student who is using ArcGIS Pro and needs to use data from a .MDB file. As far as I can tell, the viable options for converting this data are: 1. QGIS 2. GDAL Is there really nothing in the current Arc world to work with .MDB files???

So now they're handing out awards to people who don't even participate?

I should have brought more books with me on this trip.

Thank-you, IMDB for this warning about violence in a film I might watch tonight: "A young boy throws a plate of cream cake at a man. Played for laughs."

It's never too late to innovate on 43-year-old hardware.

I'm not buying it

those little differences between dev and prod that prevent things you've tested on dev from working on prod...

Only 17 days until the sunset starts getting later...

Wow, overpass query syntax is from another planet! (I've used simple queries for years, but finally needed to write one involving boolean operators.)

Outdated basemap alert! This cinema hasn't been around for at least 15 years... And I was having trouble tracking down when it closed, because it was actually called "Fall Creek Pictures"

Trying to help someone who can't access their ArcGIS Pro because they had authorized it to work offline, and no longer has access to that computer... What a waste of everyone's time! This sort of thing never happens with QGIS.

Why are people already talking about GIS Day??? It's not even Thanksgiving yet!

Thanks, AI crawlers. I can't access this site now.

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@emily_s/115571275418817382 More of this kind of news, please.

Thanks to aggressive AI crawlers, many websites have implemented defensive measures that also block legitimate users just looking for data. AI just makes everything worse, in so many different ways.

Is govdelivery.com legit? If so, why aren't they using a .gov domain?

RE: https://mapstodon.space/@WorldPopProject/115537353745760196 Looks like an interesting dataset. And they are looking for feedback on the "podcast-like audio conversation between two AI-derived hosts that summarise key points" ... in case anyone with strong opinions wants to weigh in.

So, after they stop minting pennies, they are finally going to start printing those new $20 bills with Harriet Tubman, right?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@regehr/115528060674188143 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geographic_portmanteaus

Now I'm wondering if all human languages have separate words for the concepts of AND and OR...

I just learned (the hard way) that state refund checks made out to "Name1 OR Name2" must be signed by "Name1 AND Name2" Where's the logic in that?

Cornell says that their agreement "is not an admission of wrongdoing" But one could argue that the agreement itself is an act of wrongdoing...

Having to spend limited work time doing annual training on sexual harassment, and filling out forms declaring I have no conflicts of interest with my job. I don't mind that, but am enraged that the current president has never done either one.

Salt of the Earth, number one spice

Oh, you want me to share my personal data? Nice try, #30DayMapChallenge! :) #privacy