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  1. Jax
    Wow this is great news! Does anybody know why all the lots around it are called "fairgrounds"?
  2. Jax
    Glad to hear it'll have retail. I always like the chance to have new places I can walk/bike to!
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    Walked by today and a fence is up around the lot.
  4. Jax
    Cool! One less empty lot!
  5. Jax
    I took a picture last saturday of all the beer taps.
  6. Jax
    I'm pretty sure this is the BBVA crane.
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    Another picture of the crane.
  8. Jax
    Very cool! My only critique would be that maybe some of the cityscape parts could have been a bit brighter. But aside from that it's very cool. I really dig the abstractness of the fisheye while driving, while at the same time realizing its Houston and recognizing the various streets.
  9. Jax
    I think this is what you're thinking about:
  10. Jax
    Great idea, thanks.
  11. Jax
    Anybody who checked it out last might should check it out again today because now you can actually see stuff.
  12. Jax
    I recently set up a webcam of the Houston skyline and it is going live tonight. The cam is located on a rooftop in Montrose. It's actually the same cam that was used to make the time lapse video I posted earlier. I'm not sure if it's going to be permanent yet, but I thought you guys might enjoy it while it's available. http://www.jackson-myers.com/Webcam/ I should probably add that launching it at night might be a dumb idea because you can't see as much in the dark, but I think the view looks pretty good in the day.
  13. Jax
    Thanks for looking that up. I tried to Google it, didn't come up with anything, and then I had to run. I just remembered from when I used to live in Canada that the street cars always felt kind of small compared to the light rail here.
  14. Jax
    Yeah that Trigger Trap thing sounds pretty cool. It's not shipping yet though. It has a photosensor that can be used to trigger the camera (for example lightning, or somebody turning on the lights, or the sunrise, or anything you can think of). Plus it has a sound sensor and a laser trigger (you can set up a laser pointer which is aimed at the device and when the laser path is blocked it will trigger), and it has a built in timer trigger which is compatible with the Canon IR remote. Plus you can trigger it off of external devices as well. It should due a really fun accessory. I'm not sure of there's anything like it on the market now but I really want one as soon as they are available.
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    Thanks guys, yeah I agree it's pretty cool, especially full screen . I setup a webcam on my roof (it's not public yet) and the webcam has a setting where you can have it upload the image it takes at a given time interval to an FTP server. I told it to give every image a different name based on a time stamp and take an image every second. I let it run for 8 hours, took the whole batch of photos, made a movie in Quicktime at 60 fps, loaded that movie into iMovie and adjusted the speed so it would be a bit faster and that's what I've got. One thing that stinks about YouTube is they keep blocking or modifying my movies that have music in them due to copyright reasons so I've started leaving music out. I can't believe a band or record company would really care if I used a 30 second clip of a song but I guess they do. I have one video with about 15 seconds of audio in it and that one didn't get blocked but the record company gets to put their adds in it now and collect revenue on them - kind of annoying. I'd like to repeat this with my digital SLR camera for a much higher quality video but the downside is, I don't have an intervalometer and if it started to rain I would have been screwed (the webcam is an outdoor cam so it's waterproof). I've been thinking of buying something like this for my SLR which has an intervalometer built in and also a lightning detector (which is awesome). So maybe if I get that, one day when there's less chance of rain I can try to do an HD time lapse with my SLR.
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    The street cars in Toronto are smaller though. A bit smaller than a typical Metro bus I think. The metro trains are huge in comparison, especially the double length trains they run at rush hour. So it'll be different than the Toronto streetcar junction in that sense. That's just from memory though so maybe I'm wrong. Last time I rode on one of those was probably 2003 or 2004. Here's a picture but I'd be interested to see a comparison.
  17. Jax
    This isn't the greatest photo (taken with an iPhone in Montrose), but it's nice to see some cranes on the horizon!
  18. Jax
    You can see the crane from the construction of this building way off in the distance...
  19. Jax
    This is the other thread: http://www.houstonar...-cancer-center/. Topics merged.
  20. Jax
    Groovy, I can't wait to see a rendering.
  21. Jax
    I made a time lapse video of clouds passing by the Houston skyline today and I thought you guys might enjoy it. Let me know what you think!
  22. Jax
    I work in the med center and I eat at "Go Fish" on the corner of Main and Dryden a lot of days for lunch (decent Bahn Mi and Vietnamese food and mediocre sushi). It's not the best but its okay. There's also a mediocre barbecue place around the corner from there, a mediocre sushi place, a Chipotle, and a Subway. In my opinion the Methodist cafeteria is nothing special, although one day I ate gator there which was kind of cool.
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    Dylan too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IApGjIn4dhQ And Tom Waits.
  24. Jax
    What is HCAD?
  25. Jax
    Cool. The rendering didn't really show it but I'm glad they are planning for retail. That section of Midtown is pretty cool and a lot of the street retail / restaurants / bars / cafes / etc seem to be very successful so it makes sense that they would build more.
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