Sunday, November 25, 2018

Uber by Proxy

Emily and Renee left this morning to fly back to Morocco. They flew out of Sevilla to Lisbon, then on to Casablanca. I called an Uber for them using my account. I'd never had someone take an Uber that I called, but it seemed to be no problem. They got to the airport in plenty of time, Emily venmo'd me the fare and I gave the driver 5 stars after texting with Emily about how the driver was... modern technology.

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We did a pretty good job on leftovers today. I think we waste a lot less food here than in the US. I'm guessing it's because we have to work harder to get the food into the house (not having a car).

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I played around with a bit of P5JS. These past few weeks I've been working with smartphone sensors in my research and just for fun. As a proof of concept, I wrote a little web app that uses the rotation sensor in the phone to draw on the screen. You can play with it here. Tilt the phone to draw, tap the screen to change color, take a screenshot of your masterpiece. It's pretty basic, but I'm hoping to do something more interesting in the coming days.

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Just to do some people watching, we walked over to the cathedral area this afternoon. We've been over that way many times, but this was the first time I'd noticed a tiny sundial on the back side of the building:


It's the tiny black triangle on the barest part of the wall in the upper-right corner of the above photo. Trying to be artistic, I took this photo of the Archivo De Indias through and open archway:


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I talked to Rachel for awhile. She's back from a week in Santa Barbara and yesterday's Miami football game and heading back into the grind on Monday. It's weird to think that she'll be here in Spain in a little over two weeks.