What are you today? Where are you now? Wat are you doing with your life.

I am msuic star hitting big time with hits such as "digital communication would make our love life so much easier" "I invented DSL" and "Sometimes i wish i could just settle down and grow some wheat"

i am guessing i would still be terrible

i;d probably be dead for a variety of reasons

we'd all wind up working in a gas station

I'd be dumb and not know anything about the world because I get 90% of my news online.

I really don't know, the internet has REALLY influence my life. I'd probably still be in the closet in reguards to the trans thing as I wouldn't know it was a real thing, crap taste in music most probably... no knowlage in programming/3d moddeling and art.

probably would've hung out with my friends more throughout school
or had no friends, toss-up, was kind of awfully strange until straightforward people on the internet/personal shame helped me out
also probably would have read a whole lot more
academic interests would've remained the same, except for the GIS thing maybe

i guess academic & environmental groups would have followed the government's lead and produced CDs with all their spatial data for libraries to buy? eesh there'd be huge depositories or something with CD archivists

i'm wondering what direction games would have gone in if online multiplayer weren't around - first person shooters probably wouldn't have taken off, but what would have taken their place? more fighters? without mmos, would more RPG series have become open-world? would puzzle games have stayed huge? would games have been designed for LAN play? would the computer have remained a marginal platform? so many possibilities............... so little time to list them all.........

I agree more fighters, and arcades would be bigger. maybe everything would have been better bc the internet enables, or maybe I'd be worse off without any kind of outlet

people would still write letters to each other. I really don't like talking to people I know on facebook or in text messages, letters are so much better

academic interests would've remained the same, except for the GIS thing maybe

essian does GIS?? im a GIS nerd. it's like finding out we both post on GW all over again. do you know jim querry.

i am guessing i would still be terrible

ya me too

essian does GIS?? im a GIS nerd. it's like finding out we both post on GW all over again. do you know jim querry.

how is that someone's real name?? i haven't ever been in philly for any significant length of time, & i've really only looked at museum/archaeology/general philaculture stuff there, so nope, never heard of him. i am a little out of practice, but my projects were like a simpler, large-scale version of this and basic 3d modelling, and then the class was mostly environmental science scenarios. do you mostly do urban planning/analysis stuff, or ?

i like it because it is the limit of my design ability

also do you know any good RSS feeds for it?

maybe in jail

how is that someone's real name?? i haven't ever been in philly for any significant length of time, & i've really only looked at museum/archaeology/general philaculture stuff there, so nope, never heard of him. i am a little out of practice, but my projects were like a simpler, large-scale version of this and basic 3d modelling, and then the class was mostly environmental science scenarios. do you mostly do urban planning/analysis stuff, or ?

i like it because it is the limit of my design ability

also do you know any good RSS feeds for it?

yeah I mostly use it for analysis, exporting shapefiles like topo or building polys to CAD/illustrator and getting accurately-scaled basemaps to draw my designs on

this past summer I worked with a police oversight commission as the GIS guy. I used it to map out complaints against the police & fatal shootings by police officers, which apparently had never been done before despite its importance in targeting misconduct. I also started to map out the correlation between race & complaints filed against the police

thought maybe you had a lecture or something by him at some point. he's also a friend of the Biddle family and watched jesse biddle grow up. he was my gis professor

oh, ok, normal architecture applications

those sound pretty interesting! by started you mean you grabbed the census race datasets and the csv? address database? of complaints & messed around with how to display it before leaving it all in clearly labeled folders? i guess mapping the complaints was not that easy

no, we weren't really connected to philly at all. our guest lecturers were mostly esri guys, organic farmers, overworked state employees, and park service folks, and the topics were skewed toward environmental science & studies, since that's the department that GIS was under. i guess i'm familiar with his work, though, since i've spent a ton of time on PASDA. that is really cool! i'm a little amazed he has time.

just fell into a pit looking at all the main massachusetts GIS resources so here's some ramble/links. http://arrowsmith.mit.edu/mitogp/, http://calvert.hul.harvard.edu: these are basically the same thing - same sources, engine, base layers - but the harvard one seems to work a little better, for whatever reason. can't get scanned maps to show up, but i can't really load much on this computer, so it may just be that. opendataphilly is really good, though, and the only similar (interface-wise) local resource i've seen so far is http://www.metrobostondatacommon.org/, which is just a map-creating & sharing platform w/ external data sources. http://hubmaps.cityofboston.gov/MyNeighborhood/ has a really good interface for casually looking at basic census data

http://maps.bpl.org/explore/subject/birds-eye-views-4 - these are my favorite maps - bing's actually doing some pretty great ones, although they're also pretty yellowed but then overlayed with trendy labels

i like map extent searches because then you see that someone's been looking at brown bat migration patterns in all of pennsylvania, really? (apparently super common project for wildlife departments throughout the NE) but generally i prefer not to use a map interface if i'm just browsing datasets for fun & ideas

i still have a student disc for arcdesktop but have you tried grass or any other free suites?