Gever Tulley has a great video about the sort of dangerous things kids need to do when growing up. It is nice to see this kind of thing. Its a breath of fresh air from the fear society we live in. On a related note, kids don’t get the freedom to go out walking and exploring much anymore.
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Using libsane and tesseract, you can scan from an ADF (or non ADF) scanner in Ubuntu 7.10 to a PDF and OCR’ed text document with a few easy steps.
First we need to make sure we have the necessary packages installed.
apt-get install tesseract-ocr sane-utils
Continue reading ‘Scanning with sane’s scanimage from an ADF scanner to PDF and OCRed Text’
Some neat things found on the web recently:
So, I receive this letter in the mail about once per week for the last 3 months telling me I have a balance in my United Mileage Plus account. It says I have 6,904 miles, that plus the 21,500 I’ll get from United will let me get enough for a free ticket which runs 25,000 miles, oh boy! Never mind the $60 annual fee, the 18.24% APY, I can get a free ticket baby…I can go places…see the world.
Wait, what is that…there is an asterisk there…what does it say about that. “Based on mileage plus account balance as of 6/1/07. United Mileage Plus is not liable for mileage balance misprints.” Hmmm…alright.
Ok, well lets go check united.com:
What’s this..my miles expired on 06/30/2007, leaving me with a balance of 0.
So the notice I have been receiving every week for 3 months straight has been grossly misleading and too good to be true. I know the airlines are hurting….but c’mon guys lay off the deceptive marketing practices.
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Looks like an interesting/useful module that could be useful in the acoustic project.
The blog is getting mighty impersonal with all those del.icio.us posts. Maybe that can serve as a reminder for me to post more.
I have been hacking on a bunch of convenience code in python for the LTM (Land Transformation Model) which serves as the land use projection portion of my research. Basically just wrapping a bunch of ArcGIS functions that do what I need done and then some file manipulation and config file writing before I launch code written by our postdoc. Going to try and do some time projections for all of the state of Indiana and then go back to my Muskegon study area with the new tools to re-run the model up there. It should make things run much more smoothly.
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