super-cooper » general http://www.super-cooper.com Python, GIS, and a sprinkling of mindless drivel from Chad Cooper Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:22:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Trip to the Gentry Safari http://www.super-cooper.com/archive/2004/06/12/trip-to-the-gentry-safari/ http://www.super-cooper.com/archive/2004/06/12/trip-to-the-gentry-safari/#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2004 02:46:43 +0000 Chad http://super-cooper.com/?p=17 Gimme some damn popcorn. NOW!
Today we went to the Gentry Safari, in Gentry, AR. A very interesting and very fun place indeed. Here you can drive through the “safari” in your own vehicle at your own pace, while the animals come right up to your car, of course wanting food. First we were accosted by a herd of emus (see pic). Man, they can be rather aggresive when it comes to bread. My favorite part was the monkeys. They have some that aren’t in cages, and if you stop long enough and at least appear to have something resembling food, they will come and sit on your mirrors and eat from your hands. I’ve been told not to piss them off, though, you could regret it by losing your attenna to them. The petting zoo was fun too, until a few goats escaped on us. The grand finale was when we had a bag of cheese popcorn and decided to let a monkey stick his hand in the bag and help himself….boy did he ever help himself, he grabbed the whole damn bag, spilled all of the popcorn, them got pissed because the bag was empty. He then sampled the bag and decided it didn’t taste good. By the time he figured out the popcorn was all he was getting, five emus had showed up and were chowing down…imagine that.

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I was planting trees in my yard yesterday and found these arrowheads. Pretty cool, I thought. I’ve never found any arrowheads before, and the guys that built our house told me they had found some here. Now digging a hole takes 5 times as long, because I’m constantly looking for arrowheads.

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So ArcMap just crashed on me for like the 4,000th time while I was editing this VERY small, VERY simple vector dataset…..same as always for the last three builds of Arc8x….try to save edits, and it crashes! All I can do now is laugh, that’s all it’s worth….at least they apologize…here’s the error message they provide…

Chad has encountered an error

…and here’s my version of their error message/apology. I think it sums up how I feel when a crash happens. I made this in Illustrator one day during a time when I was using ArcMap alot for vector editing, and it crashing on me was a daily occurrence. Man I love Illustrator.

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