Brian Kerr

Thanks to the new and improved Walker Tracker API: an adorable micro graph of my walking activity for the past few months. Find it at the top of every page. Each day is red if I exceeded my step goal, gray if not.

This bitter gray motivates me to get outside even on a hot day like today — which is good, since I’ve hit a rough patch lately on the pedestrianism front. “Increase the red” is the new increase the n.

It’s the simplest possible lashing together of Walker Tracker and Joe Gregorio’s sparkline Python CGI, with Scott Hurring’s PHP Serialize module for wire ties.

(tags: metacrap urbanranger visual walkertracker)

A WalkerTracker wager with acts of poetry on the line: Sue’s and Liana’s combined step count versus mine, from a few days ago through the end of January.

Update 2007 01 13: I should have done this in the first place —

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(tags: urbanranger walkertracker)

Event tomorrow:

Interested in bringing quality rapid transit to southeast Michigan? Want to help push for commuter trains from Ann Arbor and Ypsi to Detroit, metro Airport, Chelsea, and Livingston County? Curious about the latest findings from the Southeastern Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG) on transit in our area? Come to a meet-up with Transportation Riders United (TRU), a non-profit group working to improve public transit in southeast Michigan.

I have a standing class meeting during this time (Dan Klyn’s information architecture preachment), so I’ll hope for a write-up in an arborblog or on arborwiki.

(tags: annarbor public-transportation urbanranger)

A quick plug for thedaniel’s excellent Dashers unite — in which the ubiquitous video game quick-dash becomes a lifestyle choice.

(tags: games urbanranger)

Finally signed up for WalkerTracker. The bkerr step blog records my short pedestrian lurches around town, possibly annotated with my pithy urban ranger observations.

Over the summer I picked up a pedometer as a feelie for some contract work. I’d been recording steps:

• as a crazy pixel graph made with Pixen,
• as a Python dictionary, and finally
• on paper.

This was fun, but unmutual. More recently, I was planning out a shell-to-feed script for keeping track of steps, Animal Crossing stalk market prices, etc. — but using the existing tool and maybe plugging into it later seemed prudent.

WalkerTracker is a [blog | forum | map | pedestrian-brinkmanship] site wrapped around a form where everybody types in the number of steps they took that day. It’s maintained by Ben in Portland, OR, who has several very cool projects at ideacog.net.

(tags: maps urbanranger walkertracker web weblogs)