Entries this day: Dream Music_Genome_Project-pandora.com Programming_images_code Sayuri_in_Shibuya Site

Dream

11:11am JST Wednesday 26 July 2006

Trying to carefully climb over the bunk beds with YRUU and PB people sleeping: PB Stacy, YRUU Robin, others; Jesse had just asked me to get the tapes from the transcription project and try again to transcribe everything. I was not impressed with the dumbness of his idea; I had just transcribed them to the best of my ability; transcribing them again wasn't going to increase accuracy. He was like, "I know, but I don't know what else to do."

I apologized to those people I woke up, and stuck my head into the window where the tape office was located, and asked if I could come in. The woman was basically like "no" but was quick to obtain the tapes I needed, and said she would bring them over as soon as they were copied again. She was actually downloading them from her server, and I couldn't imagine why they had the audio in a digital format, but were then recording it onto casette tapes. Why not just email it to us?

Music Genome Project pandora.com

12:17pm JST Wednesday 26 July 2006

Wow. I just entered "nine inch nails" into pandora.com and it came up with "The Wretched (Remix)" which I played relentlessly in headphones while working at FSD back in the day. That's when I used to use terms like "until my ears were bleeding" after listening so long and so loud.

Programming images code

6:32pm JST Wednesday 26 July 2006

After a break of sorts, I have begun to make forward progress on my images code again. I was stuck behind trying to make it all optimal and shit instead of just knocking it out. It now can create most of the tables needed and detect when tables need to have data before it can be used.

I still need to write out table definitions for image_tags, image_events, image_people, and image_locations, but these should be supa-easy; they are just links to say which images have which tags, etc.

After that will be figuring out how to populate the tables.. more user interface design should be done first.

Sayuri in Shibuya

6:37pm JST Wednesday 26 July 2006

Will be meeting Sayuri in Shibuya soon. 7pm at ハチ公。 This will be our first lesson; I hope it goes wonderfully for both of us.

May meet near a Yahoo!BB wireless port to give her the added benefit of email with corrections.

8:01pm JST Wednesday 26 July 2006

Nice. We're having great fun; I can hardly believe it's been an hour already. We're at Mickey D's and have just chowed and have started talking about days old because she was concerned about upcoming birthday.

I'm like "no worries, mate!!"

And super thanks to Hitomi for hooking me up with internet access here!!

8:11pm JST Wednesday 26 July 2006

Holy shit!!! Today is one of her 500 day anniversaries!!!!! (which one is a secret, she says)

9:18pm JST

We had a great lesson; I showed her some pictures from PB and Bali.. I suddenly realized I can make quick indexes for the PB pictures, so I did that.

We will meet again in 2 weeks at the latest; hopefully next week some time, though my Wednesday is already double booked with Miki and Miki.

Site

2:12am JST Thursday 27 July 2006

I officially love my website. I just got an email from Jimmy da Magnet, who said he is in SF, and I was able to pretty quickly find my San Francisco Wild Skating Adventure, a story I recently relayed to someone. Probably Hitomi or one of the Mikis.

Anyway, it was like "bang!" there it is - a journal entry I took time to write a long time ago, still there, just ready to be read.

Still working on my image indexer, but here are the pages for which I just whipped together static indices.

/images/travel/Pb/49th_May-Aug_2005/Best%2010%20get/
/images/travel/Pb/49th_May-Aug_2005/the_rest/
/images/travel/Pb/49th_May-Aug_2005/Francois/