Matthew C Good » Probably the Best Thing Ever http://www.matthewcgood.com/blog Musician, Web Developer, Hobbyist. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:56:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Introducing the “I Heart Heart Cat Cat Map Map App App” http://www.matthewcgood.com/blog/2009/03/28/introducing-the-i-heart-heart-cat-cat-map-map-app-app/ http://www.matthewcgood.com/blog/2009/03/28/introducing-the-i-heart-heart-cat-cat-map-map-app-app/#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:33:18 +0000 matt http://www.pedalboy.net/blog/?p=233 Hello everyone! I’m rolling out a stupid little app for my greenville friends today. If you’re not in my Greenville circle of friends, you may need a little background here…
Actually, this origin story has become the stuff of legend over time, so the following may be totally inaccurate.
A while back, two of my friends Kate and Katie found this horrendous sweater-shirt thing at the Greenville thrift store. It’s clearly a sweater material, but it has short sleeves? What the heck is that all about? It has the letter “I” on it, two hearts, and two cats. The inexplicable monstrosity has been ever since referred to as the “I Heart Heart Cat Cat” shirt. We’ve all taken pictures wearing it – this has sortof become a hazing ceremony for joining our group of friends. It’s a right of passage thing.
Now that a lot of our friends are traveling the world and doing cool things, we decided to take some advice from the whole “traveling garden gnome” thing, and take pictures of us wearing the shirt in cool places, in front of historic and famous monuments, and the like. Of course, we need a Google maps mashup to keep track of all this, right? RIGHT??
Well, either way, I made one. I’m calling it the I Heart Heart Cat Cat Map Map App App.

Kristin looks awesome in that one.
From a technical standpoint, not too much interesting going on here. I did use MySQL’s spatial datatypes (only POINT, really) for storing the coordinates. This isn’t technically correct since MySQL only deals with planar points and lat/long are curvilinear, but I’ve been sorta geeking out over GIS technology lately, and I really just wanted to get used to the OpenGIS stuff. Any distance calculations I’ll have to do out of the db, but I don’t really think I’ll be doing much of those anyway.
The other kinda cool thing I did was set up an approval system. Instead of having users and junk to deal with (so not just ANYONE can post an image), The system accepts all images, thumbnails them and such, and sends an email with an approval code link. I check out the thumbnail in the email, decide if it’s cool, and click a link to either approve or reject it. Neato.
So there you have it. Check it out now and then, as we should have some new additions happening soon, coming from Turkey and London (hint hint kittermans).

]]> http://www.matthewcgood.com/blog/2009/03/28/introducing-the-i-heart-heart-cat-cat-map-map-app-app/feed/ 0 The Two Best Things on the Internet http://www.matthewcgood.com/blog/2007/07/11/the-two-best-things-on-the-internet/ http://www.matthewcgood.com/blog/2007/07/11/the-two-best-things-on-the-internet/#comments Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:39:30 +0000 matt http://www.pedalboy.net/blog/?p=172 First of all:
OKX – Tenth anniversary of my favorite rock album of all time, OK COMPUTER.
Stereogum had some folks cover each track, and while I haven’t gotten to listen to it yet, it won’t even matter if it’s no good. It’s radiohead-related, ergo, I must hoard it. Note: of particular interest is the fact that David Bazan (of Pedro the Lion fame) did the cover of let down. I can not wait.
Word is it might be gone soon? Get it while you can!
Secondly:
WILL IT BLEND?
Throw random crap into a blender and watch it disintegrate. AMAZING IDEA. Almost as good as Red Bull’s Flugtag! Anyway, two of interest are blending your IT Infrastructure and your shiny new Apple iPhone. Watch them all though…

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http://ww2.usca.edu/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=Pictures-Robert-Pirsigs-original-1968-trip&page=1

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Download the thyng hyre.
Now, on to other business. The End of The World. To quote my source, “Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.” And he’s right. Oh sure there are thousands, perhaps millions of feasible ways to end all life on the planet, or to make the planet unihabitable for a very long time, but what if you are hell-bent on actually making this chunk of molten iron cease to exist?? You have a significantly more challenging project.
This site will help you on your quest to eradicate the universe from terra’s offending presence. A number of more-interesting-than-they-should-be “solutions” are presented, their feasability evaluated, and the earliest possible timeframe until their completion is also given. Seriously, this is good stuff and you need to check it out. They even mention breifly the possibility of a vogon constructor fleet coming to vaporize the planet. Good reading, along with the guide on how to move the earth. A good afternoon’s enjoyment.

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