Here I am diligently coding on the midterm. Something soo simple was so hard.
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Halloween in Ice Forge 7
ROCKTOBER! Oh yeah! Yeah rocking out next to the happy Jack-o full of things to rot my characters already rotten teeth.
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I bobbed for apples. Pulled out 5 in one dunk. Talk about talent see you try that in the real world, haha.
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"Trick or Treat. Smell my feet. Give me something good to eat." That's gotta be one of the biggest jack-o-lanterns for candy ever. Gosh if I had that when I was a kid I would have false teeth like George Washington.
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That's me in front of a gigantor Jack-O-Lantern. That bloody thing is huge.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
The Ticker Holds The Middle Ground & Passes Through Some Purple Haze
Well this one is going to be short cause I'm bloody tired. So, that group presentation happened. It was a success which was cool and people thought it was a good presentation. However, the Q & A is where it got really interesting. All of that mal content and all those issues that our group went through all came pouring out on stage, Jerry Springer style. Basically the group member who attempted to assume control at the very beginning before we even met each other tried to get sympathy for his cause and his own issues with how the group operated. That did not happen, instead he got a barrage of questions and responses counter to his issues. It was funny it was like a melt down, I was still attempting to hold the middle but yeah, funny stuff. We are definitely the most dysfunctional group thus far. The teacher for this class who is also the chair of our department did say specifically to me that she loved the ticker and once again complimented my sunburst Asics, she likes the bright shoes. Other than that we finally got the code working for my other group project I'm on, thankfully gosh. I created some purple-haze-o-vision, processing a live video stream with C, that was a funny moment because of course I had to toss on good ole Jimi for the occasion. "Purple haze, all in my brain. Lately things just don't seem the same. Actin' funny but I don't know why. Scuse me while I kiss the sky." With that I will kiss the sky and go to sleep.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Return of the Ticker
Yes it's back, you heard me right. Ticker is King! Well that group that hit a complete impasse well we ended up changing the idea. Therefore we had new means of communication of information and news material. When this even came to pass I was like I'd like to be ticker. They were like ticker? I'm like ticker tape you know crawl? They're like oh. So, then I became ticker. However, of course with much ticker comes much responsibility or power or somethin' like that. Anyhow, I actually overran the amount of text After Effects 6.5 can handle. I was like what? How can this be, it can't handle anymore text? So I had to break it up. Oh I forgot to mention the duration, yeah it's like 12 minutes long so yeah. Tomorrow or rather later on today in about 13 hours I present, whoop dee freakin doo. The million dollar question will be so how did your group get along and I will laugh and say we didn't but we survived or something to that effect. Of course after this project ends I have another project due Thursday and I need to work on a current project a lot tomorrow, so AGH! Enough about me though, my good friend Matt, he made it out to Formula D this weekend out in Irwindale. For those who don't know what that is, it's drift racing, basically getting the car sideways at high speeds and in tandem. Crazy fun stuff, look it up if you don't know what I'm talking 'bout. Anyways, hey ended up taking a picture and I just had to post it cause it's pretty funny. Maybe I'll post his video later. Anyways, I need to check the G5 and it's progress so laters.
Friday, October 13, 2006
"When you cut off the head, two will rise in it's place."
Well that has indeed occoured. One group ends and two begin. A prototype for one class with that group is due this week. I have a presentation on tuesday for the other in response to our rather good/interesting speaker Ethan Zuckerman. The latter group has had group politik from the get go and the climate has cooled after I did damage control and spin. I have become that aisle that people supposedly reach across, haha. Anyways, things have thawed a bit and have begun to move forward but a deadlock was hit. So we shall see where things go from there. In other news, as you may have heard a plane ran crashed into a building out here in Manhatten. When I found out it was via text message simply saying a plane ran into a building in NY. My first response was agh, not again. I was at school at this time I quickly got onto the internet scouring for news of it and details. The BBC oddly was the first with a story up, then NY Times then CNN. Until finding out it was a owned by a Yankee pitcher I was a bit tense I must admit, even thought it was a small plane. It's just one of those things. It's sad that my first human response about that news was like oh whew it wasn't terrorism and just a regular plane crash. On another note I finally got you some pics from that last project up. Basically it's an interactive store display with things that pop out and move at specific distances. In this mockup we have a halloween themed store front. It ended up working quite well and looking quite nice, especially with the background done in Flash. The weather it is a changing. It was pouring two days ago and today was coldish. I'm glad I recieved my heavier jackets from home (Danke Mom). Anyways, I think that's about it for now. Time to do some more homework and research.
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Well this was from yesterday night at the quote unquote Best Thursday Night Out of the Semester unquote. It was rather eh. However, this odd picture came from it. I have no clue I could smile like that, maybe it's the angle. Totally weirded me out to see that. I look like I should throw my head back and begin laughly then stop then do it again and say something like, "Yes, Haha, yes indeed, hmm, Haha, yes." Also my teeth look oddly sharp well least to me, not sure what you all think. An oddity for surity
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Here is the whole group. Left to Right, Klara, Ji Sun, Robert, Emery, and Jack. The core group was Ji Sun, Rob, and myself.
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Well this is a picture of the setup for our Observation Project for Physical Computing. Arduino board, bread board, IR distance sensor, and two servo motors. All to make our interactive store display.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Do you remember Tripod?
The speaker today for class was really quite good and engaging. Ethan Zuckerman. He was one of the founders of Tripod, you remember the sites with all the pop up ads and banner ads. I'll talk more about it later, oh and he apologized for all the pop ups and for possibly inventing them, I say that because I'm not entirely sure if he did invent them, he said he did. I am skeptical as you can see. However fun stuff now. Kind of funny and random but worth the watch. Reminds me of Monty Python in ways but with nothing but album covers. Motiongrapher
Oh yeah, and one more thing
One thing I completely forgot to mention from Friday's ride back from MOMA. I was on the L train riding back and this guy started trying to sell me drugs. He was strung out to all hell. He even dropped the price to try and negotiate a deal, it was pretty funny and sad all at the same time. Today was rather nice, I got to go run which was awesome. The weather was great, I felt good, my form was there and so was my turn over. It was short but it was nice. Finished editing and made a DVD for someone special (looking at you Meow). Well, I'm off to bed. Up to bloody late as you can tell. But before I go a lil odd self portrait.
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Alls Well That Ends Well...
Well that group project I was working on is now over. In the end it came out quite well, overwhelmingly good feedback as well as personal feedback from our teacher. Of course it was a lot of work and pushed me at times but it is over and it is well. However the beginning of a new group project is looming. Come this Tuesday I start another one with different group members. The Politiks have already started though and there is a North and South and we stand divided. Hopefully that can change, but I know it's gonna be ugly. I have begun to move myself to the center and have initiated damage/spin control, oi! We're bloody adults aren't we? That aside went to MOMA yesterday night and saw a cool piece I'd never seen before, The Simpson Verdict. I forget who was the artist I'll have to look it up. I originally was going to go see "AKA Nikki S. Lee" but it was sold out. Saw "The Siege" Last night when I came home. I'd never seen it before and kind of wanted to see it when it came out but never got to. So, I finally got around to it and it's really odd seeing it post 9/11 and current Iraq War along with the current climate in politics, foreign policy and this nation. Went out to Queens today on a class field trip. The NY Hall of Science was were we went. Man that was a long train ride but I thought it was going to take longer but got there earlyish. So, I wandered around Flushing Meadow Park and the World's Fair Fairgrounds. The trip was really cool, our teacher Danny Razin, really bloody good. Couldn't take the same train back (7) though cause apparently a building collapsed don't know what was the cause though. Anyways, that's what I'm up to, playing the spin doctor and wandering about.
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World's Fairgrounds in Queens. It's out in the middle of Nowhere. MIB I, the decent one.
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This was from near school and apparently it confirms it. N.J. is NYC's dump. "Oh yeah and I wanna give a shout out to all my peeps in New Jersey, cause your like that."
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Here's some randomness from earlier in the month. Either this is a really bright dunce cap or someone is straight up being disrespectful. You'd never see that out West. Pitiful.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Monopolization and Gel Ignite
Well, I'm bloody tired. I'm still working on that group project. It's a life sucker and time waster. Meetings go on forever and it's tiring. The first few days not much got done and tons of hours were spent. The past two days have been much better and things are coming together which is good/exciting. I have another group project ramping up soon, midterms as well, argh. My programming class is barely starting to move slower that molasses, still a bit bored. Other stuffs, hmm besides school, hmm. Well how about news like Mr. Mark Foley, congressman of Florida. Yeah he's properly f*cked, oh yeah, the irony of it all. Oh I know my bloody phone, being a pain, I think it's going to need to get replaced argh. Been listening to some more Irish music, good ole I.R.A.. Well with that I shall now go to bed but 'fore I go here be a rather lovely quotation from an equally lovely song done by Spirit of Freedom. "Farewell to your bricks and mortar. Farewell to your dirty lies. Farewell to your gang ways and your gang planks. And to hell with your overtime." -"Botany Bay"
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Co-Dependency
Well got some more pics up. This week is going to be pretty busy, got a group project. Gotta make a prototype mockup. I realized something in one of my classes this week. We had to do this project in which we had to build some sort of 1 to 1 relationship. A lot of people made up groups to work on rather good/ambitious projects. They were fun and nice and provided smiles. My project ended up rather simple. The co-dependent relationship between two LEDs. Now, that's not very cheery is it? Especially when one group project is a love meter of sorts. Some people didn't know what a co-dependent relationship is, so I had to explain for some. My teacher's response was wow that's deep. Yeah, so looking and seeing other peoples projects it has further instilled in me the fact that I am not terribly interested in making happy things or feel good things. Nor am I about the oh look that's so cool. During class I thought about a possible mid-term or final project for that class, a simulated minefield or field of IED's. Ahh yes simulated explosive shrapnel, oh how it will lift the spirits of the room. Keep smiling =).
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Last saturday was Rob's B-day. So, helped him out, made some food had some people over it was good. This though right here is "Team Pizza" as it were. Rona on the left aka Sauce, Rob in the middle aka Bread, and me on the right finishing it off as Cheese. AQTF best watch out.
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West Side v. East Side? Yeah Rob you gotta flip it remember. Guess the East Side ain't got their stuff together. But yeah Rob and Me over at a K.I.T.P. function K stands not for that Special K but for Korean. Good food but no KIMCHI! Fowl. Oh yeah and we all know Tupac was better.
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Off the bus and onto the subway it was going to take forever and a half to take the bus. Ahh yes though the Glass Cube, aka the Mother Ship, aka slow turnaround time and mishandeling of repairs. ARGH! Oh yeah and the store manager called me two weeks ago and I returned his call and he has yet to call me back. Double ARGH! I would just like to say I hope if I am hired there I can bring a strand of efficiency to that monolith of a store, it needs it.
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Ahh yes Harlem, off the bus and back onto the bus. The bus driver was pretty cool. He started showing us pic of his fam as we was getting off.
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GAS STATION! OMFG! Yeah, they're pretty rare a sight out here. Now that's a lesson to all you riding on "E."
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Now ok, crab is a rather expensive thing right? I've never personally had like a whole crab or anything liken to that. Now when I see "We Accept Food Stamps" right above Live Crab, I just don't know what to think other than. If your on food stamps I don't think you should be eating crab.
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I went with my friend Rob Moon to do the bus assignment. We both brought digital cameras (actually the same type of SLR different lens though). We set up on either side of the bus once we could get seats. We rode the whole way. For awhile it was funny cause both of us were pretty much just looking through our lenses trained on the outside like a sniper viewing its quarry. Set up position. Sight. Range. Fire. Relocate.
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This is a picture while waiting for the M5 bus. Every incoming student has this assignment to take the M5 bus from start to finish.
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Moskau
| Well I normally would never subject any sort of reader, viewer, patron? To this sort of thing but this had to be done. Awesome video hillarious. MOSKAU! | |
Monday, September 25, 2006
Been Busy
Well first off I apologize for being so lax haven't posted in awhile. But I warned thee that this shall come to pass at sometime. Anyways, I've had group projects and junk. I got one class, physical computing, the class might as well be worth two classes and a lab with the amount of work that's coming from it. Crazy! But yeah, soon I will have new pictures up so they'll be coming maybe the weekend. One thing though there has been some bad, unsuccessful, poorly carried out presentation projects. Well 2 out of 4 have been thus far maybe tomorrow will change that streak. It always seems to be the 1st group too, hmmm. I wish we had more time to ask questions because I got questions, questions of a rather pointed and harsh nature. But yeah, other that, just been school, oh yeah and my friend Rob's Birthday, that was cool. Got to cook a bit. He didn't believe me that beef would be eaten first. He stands corrected, hehe, but yeah, hope you all are doing good. Talk to you all later.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
The Apartment Then & Now
Well, I now have some furnishings and lights ( coutesy of IKEA) in my room of my own that is. Finally I feel situated. So, of course there are pics of before and after. The weekend was good went out with a friend of mine Rob (fellow ITPer) and some of his buddies from Penn State. Never go to the Beauty Bar. Bad music and bad crowd. Got homework done and got to see Spike Lee's, "When the Levees Broke," his documentary on Hurricane Katrina. Small turnout which was kind of sad, it was practically a private screening. Bad news on the computer front. My powerbook that I was going to pick up didn't get fixed. They replaced the logic board that wasn't the problem. So, it has to get sent out to the repair depot to have the LCD and invertor board replaced. ARGH! That's all I have to say. Anyways I'm gonna head to bed. Laters.
Thursday, September 07, 2006
More Fun then A Bread Board, I Mean Box
Well today I had my physical computing class. Morning classes eh. Anyways looks like it'll be fun but not necessarily easy. I've never really messed heavily with creating electronics from scratch let along programming micro-controllers. Should be fun though. Had to buy this one board and then this kit, still gotta go get the power supply, argh, 100 bucks maybe a lil more total? My Aluminum Powerbook is finally fixed. Gonna go pick it up either tonite or tomorrow morning. More pictures will arrive as a result as well as much improved computing. Took like 9 days for them to fix it. I'll have to try SoHo next time I have a problem, apparently the Borg Cube's (5th Ave.) turn around sucks. So yeah, gonna go eat dinner then it's an I.T.P. Drive By and then TNO! Laters.
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