Archive for October, 2007
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31 Oct 2007
"Coincidentally, a guy dressed as Skeletor liked my costume."
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31 Oct 2007
"Coincidentally, a guy dressed as Skeletor liked my costume."
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31 Oct 2007
Why I love Trent: 1) He had an oink account, 2) Now that he's out of a contract, he's probably going to do his next album the way Radiohead did In Rainbows, 3) He paid $5,000 for In Rainbows -
31 Oct 2007
This is so freaking awesome. I've been following that bug for probably four years.
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31 Oct 2007
"Every day I like jQuery a little more. I wrote a complex dynamic page with AJAX in 12 lines. It would have taken me 100+ without it."
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31 Oct 2007
"Every day I like jQuery a little more. I wrote a complex dynamic page with AJAX in 12 lines. It would have taken me 100+ without it."
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31 Oct 2007New prescription
I went to the optometrist for the first time in at least two years. I'd been wearing my contacts for way longer than intended. And my glasses are an even older prescription, so I decided it was probably about time to go.
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31 Oct 2007
This SD card has wifi. It can upload directly from your camera to Flickr.
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30 Oct 2007
A usable contacts pane alone would be priceless.
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30 Oct 2007
Taco Bell is giving everyone in America a free taco from 2-5pm. Since the time is bad and the prize is tiny, petition Taco Bell to donate yours to the Red Cross relief effort in California.
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29 Oct 2007
Recently listened to: Muse – Origin of Symmetry, Daft Punk – Human After All, Portishead – Portishead
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29 Oct 2007
"2007 feels a lot like 2004. The World Series was just a formality after the exciting ALCS."
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29 Oct 2007
"2007 feels a lot like 2004. The World Series was just a formality after the exciting ALCS."
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28 Oct 2007Brian as his own Mii
He had to leave early to go to a different, presumably far less photocasted party. He dressed as himself.
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28 Oct 2007Emo Spidey and Mary-Jane
Absolutely the best pair of costumes there.
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28 Oct 2007
Sometime during the planning of our two parallel Halloween parties, Chris and I realized we needed some way to allow the two groups to communicate. Videocasting was our first thought, but we didn’t have the equipment or the knowledge. But when it came to taking photos and putting them on websites, we had all kinds of both. Using something Chris had written a while ago as a guide, I wrote a quick script to pull the photos off the camera, resize them to a reasonable resolution, and upload them to our web server. I then wrote a CGI that would pick a random photo from each location and place them side-by-side. Chris asked me to make the algorithm weight towards newer photos, which was far easier than it would have been if we had been uploading to a service like Flickr or something.
After a rough (and late) start in Boston, things went well. Philly took some naughty shots early, which got people riled up here and for a period of time, things were pretty lewd. Eventually it became family-safe fun time party photos and some gentle photo-jabs were traded between the sister parties. Sometime around midnight, Chris texted me “this is the best thing we’ve ever done.” I agree. That said, we learned things. The script had all kinds of bugs (mostly because I wrote it without having the camera we were going to use or the software). The CGI was too weighted towards new photos. And whereas Chris had done this before and had a neat photobooth setup (a side room, tripod, IR trigger), Boston had a camera that had to be hand-shot and plugged back into the laptop every few minutes.
Will we ever be able to learn from the mistakes we made, and try out a new iteration of the script? I certainly hope so. Maybe we can hook in a third city. California friends, I’m gesturing in your direction.
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28 Oct 2007
"I hope $20 is enough for the taxi."
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28 Oct 2007
"I hope $20 is enough for the taxi."
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28 Oct 2007
"Chris says the best thing we ever did was live blog Halloween at http://plutor.org/ha07/"
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28 Oct 2007
"Chris says the best thing we ever did was live blog Halloween at http://plutor.org/ha07/"
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27 Oct 2007
I love the design of this blog. I don't know how I just found it now, it seems pretty well known.
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27 Oct 2007The Titular Powderhouse
Of Powderhouse Square.
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27 Oct 2007
"My costume is finished."
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27 Oct 2007
"My costume is finished."
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26 Oct 2007