Installing Big Brother
Posted on | June 17, 2008 at 7:30 pm | 1 Comment
They’ve started putting up the red light cameras in Denver (which I last blogged about here). The ones at 6th & Kalamath are already up. I drive by them every work day but I don’t think they’re operational quite yet. The pic here is of workers installing one of them at 6th & Lincoln, which I also drive past on the way to work. (There are a couple more photos of the process in the Flickr photo set here.) I haven’t checked 8th & Speer lately, so I don’t know if they’ve started on that one yet. That’s one I would hit on the way home from work instead of on the way to work. Although I usually take a route that bypasses 8th if I go home during rush hour, since it’s always so packed then.
Oh boy, this will be fun! I wonder if they will put up signs?
Update: According to this article, the first of the lights, at 36th & Quebec, just went online. I don’t drive by that one. The others are going live “soon”.
Latre.
Jogged Today: Yes (@ 55°F). Finally started running again after vacation and the back injury. Although it was a short one since I have to work up to the full route.
Songs That Came Up On The iPod While Jogging:
- “The Sea and the Sand” (Lloyd Cole)
- “I Wish I Had An Evil Twin” (Magnetic Fields)
- “Stray Talk” (Maxïmo Park)
- “King Of No One” (The Most Serene Republic)
- “Just Like The USA” (Aztec Camera)
Even though all these songs are on the “Fast Tempo” playlist, they’re all actually pretty slow or sparse or mid-tempo. The BPM detector didn’t do too well there. But that worked out okay, since I wasn’t able to run real fast yet anyway.
Pet Peeve of the Day: You apparently can’t check the date/time of a photo taken with the iPhone while it’s in the iPhone. Or if you can, I haven’t figured out how. You have to copy it to the computer and look at the photo data there. And it doesn’t seem to keep the photo data if you e-mail it directly from the iPhone to Flickr.
Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “old nuts”.
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June 18th, 2008 @ 3:26 am
My new GPS tells me where the “safety cameras” are, an unexpected bonus. But then, easily 90%+ of my driving is to and from work – a route free of cameras – so I’m not sure how much my daily life will change…