under the influence

VTA Sketches

2006-02-03T16:59:00.000-08:00

0.5mm HB Mechanical Pencil, 5-10 minutes each.

Haircut SOON

2006-01-07T11:30:00.000-08:00

OSX86

2005-10-08T14:20:00.000-07:00

I'm actually posting this from a Tiger Dashboard widget (sorry Konfabulator)! OMGBBQ

OSX86 is neat, but it's pretty handicapped with my graphics card (stuck at 1024x768 on one monitor, quite a step down from my usual 1600x1200 + 768x1024 setup in XP). Can't wait till this gets more stable! Firefox, Camino, Adium... all have x86 ports already. PPC apps work pretty much fine (iTunes, Konfabulator) if a little slow.

EDIT: Got 1600x1200 working now. iTunes doesn't last long before it just kind of quits; I've switched to using a Tiger x86 port of XMMS, seems to work so far. USB, Firewire, sound, all work great. OSX even knew what to do with the volume and mute keys on my keyboard!

Google Earth = teh WIN!!1!!one!

2005-10-01T17:58:00.000-07:00

This story is all about how Google Earth is helping people index things like ants geographically. Google Earth is, quite simply, the bomb. Researchers using it to keep track of ant species like it so much they named a new ant after Google!

Soulwax

2005-09-30T19:12:00.000-07:00

Soulwax: Nite Versions

Techno is back, baby! Who would have guessed?

Standards Compliant

2005-09-29T09:47:00.000-07:00

I'm figuring out this whole CSS thing.

The Pusher v.80 Beta

2005-09-28T04:18:00.000-07:00

I released my widget unto the world. It's called The Pusher, and it's the most amazing button ever.
Check it out. Download it from http://www.deviantart.com. Discuss it at the Konfabulator forums. Yeah, baby.

Lemur IIb: This Time It's Personal

2005-09-26T05:30:00.000-07:00

This crazy-ass NASA robot can rock climb by holding with three legs while looking for its next hold with the fourth. That disc is a foot across. The next edition may sport power drills in the tips (seriously!).

Geekery, Continued

2005-09-26T00:48:00.000-07:00

Why do programmers always get Christmas and Halloween mixed up?

Because DEC 25 = OCT 31

General Geekery

2005-09-24T21:26:00.000-07:00

So I rigged up a Konfabulator widget that triggers my x10 light system... Yeah. I'm a nerd. The widget also listens for a keystroke, and I have a new RF remote that controls Winamp ... and the lights. Awesome.

Sunset

2005-09-22T19:35:00.000-07:00

Saw this outside my window tonight and hopped out on the roof for a picture :)

pitch black 2

2005-09-19T18:14:00.000-07:00

new mountain dew flavor! it's sour.

Media Center

2005-09-13T00:20:00.000-07:00

After much futzing and tweaking of our crappy install discs, I now have a fully functional Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 computer running! MCE2005 is pretty darn slick. Designing for what they call the "ten-foot" experience is a much different beast than designing for regular desktop computers. The Media Center application can be extended a bit via some basic web technologies as well, but the developer base is pretty poor. I think I'm going to have some trouble deciding whether I want to pour my computing energy into Konfabulator or Media Center!

We've known for years...

2005-09-10T13:48:00.000-07:00

I'm just sayin, we knew for a long time. Circa October 2001. Unfortunately, there's no money to be made in prevention. There are so many deeply alarming things involved with the Katrina disaster, I'm not sure whether I should be ashamed of our government, our country or our species.

Errrrrrrr

2005-08-24T16:09:00.000-07:00

This is a "grand opening" of sorts for my blog. After poking around with some of the other hosts, I think this is going to be the way to go (since I already use most of Google's other services already). The cell phone integration ease is going to be a big plus for me to be arsed to contribute posts.

Welcome!

OMG Google

2005-08-24T16:04:00.000-07:00

so those last two posts were sent straight from my phone to this blog. spectacular!

Pepper

2005-08-24T16:02:00.000-07:00

Picture6

2005-08-24T15:56:00.000-07:00

2005-01-02T19:31:00.000-08:00

Taken on the rest day in Lithia Park, Ashland

2004-09-26T23:44:00.000-07:00

blah

2004-09-20T09:59:00.000-07:00

Ducks in Lithia Park

Testing

2004-09-20T09:53:00.000-07:00

This is of course just a generic post to test out the service. Huzzah.

Picture32

1999-02-09T19:45:00.000-08:00