Photo of the Day: Shuttlecraft Tydirium

Ok, so it’s not really the Shuttle Tydirium, but it reminded me of it.  Just leaving the SW Marine Drive Canadaline station heading towards Richmond’s Bridgeport station.

Even though I gripe about @Translink from time to time, I am appreciative of the fact that to get to and from work I only have to take 1 bus and 1 train. In a couple more months, I will be going back to school where my commute will consist of 2 busses and 1 train and a bit of a longer commute.

Though, I might have found an alternative route, one that I believe Translink doesn’t display when you use their Trip Planner tool. I am thinking if I take the #351 to Bridgeport, I can then hop on the #430 straight to Metrotown and then either take the bus down to BCIT or walk (as I do sometimes) down Willington Avenue. If my little calculations are correct, the commute from my newly found route will be about 1 hour and 10 minutes (depends on the link between the buses at Bridgeport and their frequency), whereas the Translink suggested route is 1 hour and 40 minutes.  Let’s hope I have discovered a quicker route to school!

On a side note

I do love the side notes, my blog posts lately seem to be more rambling than anything. Though I do have some regular posts planned, just have to find time for them.

Lately, in my spare time (of what little I have of it),  I have been working on a website for my buddy, @PacificEagle, and been tinkering with PayPal’s API, specifically their ExpressCheckout API. After creating my own PHP classes for both PayPal integration and a separate shopping cart, I find that I am having more fun with web development these days. I reall need to look into a way of doing it all the time I think.

The great thing about making my own classes is that I can reuse the code on other projects! yay for code-reuse! Not to mention I do find it fun to do object calls, makes the code look cleaner too.