That's right, if you can supply me with a chicken bone to obstruct my breathing let me know, i'll even pay extra for the shipping. Joking of course, that's right mid terms have concluded bloody finally however now it is time for final projects. That final push. That final half of a semester, oh whoops I mean 3-4 weeks? Seriously I don't get that, midterms ended so late it should be called Three Quarter Terms or something. I'm a lil bit edgy about final projects, I have a lot of work ahead of me and I know I'm going to be exhausted by the end. I hope it all ends up working out. So, what am I actually going to be doing for the next few weeks that will probably hamper me from updating this very often? Should we tell them Johnny? All right kids, these are for you and you, and hey wait not you, you go home, who let you back in here, security. First up, Intro to Computational Media, I will continue working with I.E.D. statistics and visualizing them. The visuals from this actually will tie into my Physical Computing final project which will be an IED field. (NOTE I'M NOT GOING TO BLOW ANY OF MY FELLOW CLASSMATES UP OR ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC. THERE IS NO REAL EXPLOSIVES BEING USED. I STILL WANT TO BE ABLE TO BOARD PLANES TO FLY HOME. THANK YOU.) It will consist of de-centralized proximity sensors within the classroom that will communicate hopefully (fingers crossed) wirelessly to my computer to drive the visuals of explosions happening from a top down map view. It will have audio com chatter and the explosions on screen will be based off of the positions of the triggered proximity sensors (I.E.D.s) within the classroom. They will be hidden and embedded as to stay in accord with the idea of an actual I.E.D.. Thirdly, Pixel by Pixel, I think I will be re-visiting my RGB to CMYK live image processing idea. The idea really stimulates me on an intellectual level about the whole idea of color space and the implications in commerce, business, and society. So, I have a lot of work? Yes.
Actually today I was thinking about why they call I.E.D.s, I.E.D.s. I thought about the fact it feels almost like a new term to describe something that has been around for a rather long time. It's odd how it has been rebranded and brought to the forefront and in turn the fixation that the media seems to have on it. Yes, my thought of the afternoon.
The weather has been better oddly lately, not as cold. I wanna go see the new James Bond, even though Daniel Craig looks like your typical "Baddie" instead of a good guy. The action should be really good since the stunt coordinator for Ong Bak I heard was doing them. Also the guy who started parkour aka free running is apparently a bad guy in the movie and they do a parkour-esque chase scene. Man I've seen videos of that stuff crazy, looks like a lot of fun, I'd love to learn how to do it. Hopefully I'll get to go see the new movie soon, I'm such a Bond junkie.
Ran into a friend from CalArts today randomly on the way home from class today. My friend Chi Chi, so bizzare, apparently she's out here in New York working. Small world hey. Oh speaking of class today, I had class today, yes on friday when I don't have class. Why? Makeup class because we had holidays and fell behind due to them. My teacher had an awesome t-shirt on, I had to give him props. It was like an aircraft carrier but made out of office supplies. The best part was the fact that it had paper airplanes for jets.
Anyways, I'm going to be get back to work. Four more weeks and I'll be done with a quarter of my graduate degree kinda skary. I'll also be back home in California. Hopefully if I get back in time, I'll be able to go to D1 GRAND PRIX! DRIFTING! Ohhhh Yeah! Laters.
Saturday, November 18, 2006
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Doesn't that one Sumo on the top left of the front most cup look like one of the members of KISS? They call me Dr. Sumo.
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Sushi with Audrey. Such nice presentation. They even put some caviar on top of some of them. It was really good.
Friday, November 17, 2006
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Today in Physical Computing we etched our own circuit boards. It was oddly satisfying. Not so much that this is a funcional thing that I've made but rather the aesthetic aspects around this functional object that has been created. It feels like it could potentially more about the design then about the circuit at all possibly. Yes much to ponder on that note. Anyways, so this is the circuit with the template after being heated onto the copper clad. People seemed to like the whole Skull thing. He's growing on me.
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After a rather painful journey home from JFK aka the L train deciding to be stopped and having to take a rather round about route home while being hungry and missing Audrey, I went to Veselka's. I had myself some pancakes with raspberry syrup, bacon, orange juice, and some tea. So, good. Audrey and I had gone there also for dinner one night and had peroiges. Rather good and very filling. We also went to this sushi place near my school, oh my gosh that was good. I don't have the pics yet off my phone I'll post them soon if they came out. But yeah, good foods and good times were had by us.
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I had never been to see J.F.K. International Airport. I still haven't but got to see it from affair from the Air Train terminal.
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Me & Audrey before leaving to take her to JFK so she could flly home. She's wearing her cat hat.
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So Audrey decided to add some items that I should pick up at the market on the white board. Yes, love the whole O.J. Simpson Orange Juice Carton, classic.
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So, Audrey was able to come and visit me this past weekend. So nice to see her. The night she came in we went to my friend Rona's b-day party. She had it her friend's place out near Time Square, my gosh was totally swanky. Even had a view. Really sweet place. It was a nice time. The next day me and Audrey went to go see Borat, my gosh that was hillarious. Yet there were some parts that were like gosh, did it have to be that graphic especially with the fight between him and his producer, yeah, "...that's going be scorched onto my retina."
Lotus Exige on Bio Ethanol, Hells Yeah
I want bio-ethanol but mostly I want a lotus. I'm not picky i'd be fine with either a Elise or an Exige. Love that car, for me it's like today's MR2. Toyota needs to bring that back after the Supra. Please bring them back.
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