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Am I the only one who thinks GPS on a bus isn't really worth it? I mean, can't you just look out the window? And if you don't know what's going on can't you just ask the actual human being driving the bus?

And Alison - I think you need to get back to Edmonton. Apparently without you here they think they can burn off harzardous chemicals just east of the city. (kidding - it was an accident.)

Edmonton is getting into the gps technology... it's just a fair way's off. Like Tony said, first thing's first, let's get ourselves an LRT to Heritage, and then let's talk tracking our bus' every move. The other thing they're working on is bus rapid transit (like LRT only with busses, and using roads already (or soon to be) built. That should be phasing in on the west, north and east ends of town fairly soon too... those are the priorities - getting good service out to those who need it. Once that's done, they'll work on all the fancy bells and whistles.

damn... I saw bears a couple days ago... and today, I'm sick. this fucking sucks (actually yesterday was way worse - and it is just the sickness that fucking sucks, not this job, I'm loving the job). I hope you all are enjoying May thus far. happy Cinqo de Mayo! (sigh, it was cinqo de mayo earlier...) anyway, flying in helicopters tomorrow - woo hoo - have a great month, see you all some time in, um, June (?)

It's better than the Tories' Are you thinking what we're thinking? plain black and white posters, which often got vandalized to

So Tony Blair is still in power. Not quite a minority, but a much reduced majority all the same, losing ground to the Tories, from voters who wanted to keep him in office but punish him for Iraq. But it was also because, many felt, there wasn't a real choice amongst the parties, or out of fear of what a Tory government would mean. (This all seems a little too familiar.) Labour also ran perhaps one of the lamest campaign slogans ever: "If you value it, vote for it." Wasn't that the point of voting in the first place?

Also, Par, I'd seen something like this bus timer you'd described when I was last in Vancouver. There were LED displays in stops along major routes that showed when the next bus would arrive. So who knows, something like that might come here. But as long as we gotta get that LRT to the South End right now...

I have an interesting bus story from today (what? I can take the bus! I'm cheap, poor, and a long way from the UIUC campus!) I suppose I can tell it before I prep for my disastrous presentation tomorrow (prove me wrong, me!)

Anyway, I'm riding the bus, and I finally decide to ask about the LED sign at the front. See, the busses here are the same as Edmonton's low floor busses (I would later find out that they buy their busses from Canada, but that's beside the point.) This LED sign displays the intersection that the bus is currently passing through (up to this point, I was just enjoying the sign every time we passed the corner of Church & State.) So I ask the driver (who happens to have been to Edmonton on a regular basis, hence the later discovery that they buy the busses from Canada.)

It turns out that this tiny college town in the middle of Illinois uses GPS to track its busses. Apparently it's a pilot project. Moreover, they use the GPS at certain stops to display the time until the bus is projected to arrive (which, of course, is different than when it's scheduled to arrive.) Might we see this in Edmonton? Will I finally be able to sleep on the bus without spending five minutes after waking up to figure out where I am?

haha, same here man. Good luck to you as well.

First part of my plan (the fun plan not the one were I have to look for a job)is to complete the Grand Arms Taskforce. That means more Grand Arms unit then you can shake a stick at. It is kind of frightening, I lost count of how many Grand Arms units I have plans for. Well finish Shinobi first and then everything else will follow. As for looking for a job, keep on applying and some one will eventually hire me. Kind of scary no school for me to go back to! Only the bright but uncertain future! Good luck with your plan Tay! Can't wait to see what happens!

A year and a half ain't that bad. You gotta start somewhere and you'll only get better the more you do it. Next flash animation after that'll probably only take you like 8 months and then like 4 months until you can do an entire animation in like a week or two!!! It's exponential, just like MY plan! But you gotta start small. For me, I'm starting with cleaning my room. Can't get the next phases of my plan done with a dirty room, nosiree.

Well at least you have a plan. My only plan right now is get a job... But that cuts into Grand Arms time. A year and a half, sounds about the time I will finish my first Grand Arms flash animation. Yep I'm that slow.