![]() ![]() ![]() It’s enough for me to think of the headaches these earthworks will give to Michael Heizer. Let me know if anything looks weird from your end.I guess if God can appear to a backwoods New York farmboy, send an angel to groom him for four years, and then command him to translate a sheaf of golden plates into the Book of Mormon, He can also guide Robert Smithson to build the Spiral Jetty in Utah lure me out to visit it within a couple of months of its reappearance in 1994 and start me a-bloggin’ years ago about Earth Art and Google Maps so that, when it’s on Discovery Channel, there’ll be someone to point out that the Pre-Columbian geometric earthworks in western Amazonia are–duh–Lamanite-era copies of Nephite-style forts.īut since that would require paying even a little attention or credence to the archaeology-based school of Book of Mormon apologists I’ll pass. arts and sciences, and to induct the most. (The title is the filename with “.jpg” stripped out.) The other is the phonecam page, which uses more php to read the entries in last-to-first order, insert month headers for every new month, and put them on the page. presidents, senators, justices, and executives have taken arcane oaths of allegiance like the ones it contains. One on the main page takes the latest jpg file out of the /phonecam directory and puts it in the right sidebar. The next bit of magic is two php scripts. (That’s easy.) Then I drag a photo to an icon on the dock on my computer and the little applescript I wrote pops up a dialogue box to enter a title, and the thing scales the image (the camera takes pictures at 288x352 and I scale them to 180x220 to fit in the sidebar) and uploads the result to the /phonecam directory on. ![]() The camera has a bluetooth connection to the computer, so I can get photos from the camera while the camera is still in my pocket. What makes the thing fun is that the process of uploading them is so easy. Now, instead of sliding off the front page when I upload another one, you can see the old photos on the archive page. My little Sony Ericsson T630 phone has a terribly lo-res camera, but it’s fun to take shots now and then when you wouldn’t normally take photos. A half hour of php hacking has finally produced a working archive page for the photos I’ve been posting from my phonecam. ![]()
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