| Sunday, July 19th, 2009 |
| 1:22 am |
Seattle's first light rail system, day 1.
Seattle's first light rail system, day 1.
I rode the Link light rail today. It's like something you'd find in a big city! I don't really have any reason to hang out in Tukwila, but I get the feeling something of a destination will appear around that station, if today's crowds are any indication of the general enthusiasm about rail transit.
Really, it made me happy to see people excited about a public project coming to fruition. Even this big pink-shirted and -visored lady who wouldn't stop talking about real estate the whole time. |
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| Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 |
| 12:35 pm |
Now with 80% fewer braces!
I got most of my braces off just a couple hours ago. I have a couple of brackets left, right next to the big holes in my bite where the implants will go. Sure is nice, not having big poky things under my lips 24/7. My coworkers are also enjoying the lack of flying spittle when I talk. Tomorrow: FACE SURGERY! I'm anxious about it. That's why I get as much sedation as I can afford. I go back into the orthodontist afterwards to get little wires put across the surviving brackets. We don't want the teeth surrounding the implant sites to try anything funny before the teef(tm) go on top of the sub-gum implants. Without the continuous line of brackets holding my lips up, the last two brackets stick WAY out. My mouth is Sputnik. |
| Monday, January 19th, 2009 |
| 11:47 pm |
Windows program that does nothing: ~10k packed add openGL initialization: ~12k packed add some geometry generation and data structures: ~15k packed add tracker playback and small mod: ~20k packed add texture code and unicode support: ~30k packed ... remove specific runtime lib, use default runtime libraries: 8k packed?!?! the mysteries of the packer are beyond my understanding. Good thing - I was running out of space doing jack shit. Current Mood:  surprisedCurrent Music: Dead Disco - The Treatment |
| Sunday, January 18th, 2009 |
| 12:20 am |
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| Saturday, January 17th, 2009 |
| 10:07 pm |
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| Sunday, January 11th, 2009 |
| 4:58 am |
In other demo-related topics, I am about to buy plane tickets to Germany for April, flying over there for Breakpoint. I would like some advice from American sceners, especially those that have made this trip, on what I should know about Bingen am Rhein, where to stay, what's difficult, that kind of thing. Really, any sceners advice is welcome, but I think Americans would understand my screwed up point of view the best. |
| 1:23 am |
Today I saw how base85 encoding and LZW compression work (in javascript). VERY FUNNY WURST |
| Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 |
| 1:22 am |
When people say, "I learned a lot during this project," they mean, "I spent an incredible amount of time making mistakes." Current Mood: learning a lotCurrent Music: dane - round_and_round.sid |
| Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 |
| 8:59 pm |
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| Thursday, January 1st, 2009 |
| 2:30 am |
Tost NYE 2008
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New Years Eve 2008, at Tost with KDarr and EdC and Lily the veterinarian.
This is "Marmalade". They are playing "Foxy Lady," which prompted the lady on the left side of the frame to stand up on a table and start doing the foxy lady dance. |
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| Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 |
| 5:05 pm |
Ok, I thought I was doing it wrong, but maybe motion blur on perpendicular-moving single pixel lines just looks dumb. Like dim rectangles. Actually there's still a pretty good chance I'm doing it wrong. |
| Monday, December 22nd, 2008 |
| 10:17 am |
Halp
 I was gonna go out on the balcony and hang out on my chair, but it looks like something is already sitting there. Actually, it's a little easier to get around now that the ground is covered in snow instead of a sheet of ice. Now I know why people from really snowy places think they're such badasses in the snow. Incidentally, the current easiest way to find out where someone is from is to complain about the snow as if it were a hardship. Then they'll come out with "I'm from ________, this is nothing!" I'm from Hawaii, guys. I don't even have a word for this material. Current Music: gloom - stargazer |
| Sunday, December 21st, 2008 |
| 3:50 pm |
From now on this is a chair-pics only LJ
 My balcony is my very own private snow garden, which will soon be a big dome of snow with chairs and (dead)plants embedded in it. In other news, cleaning the old grounds out of your burr grinder with compressed air is a good way to flock your kitchen with coffee grounds. |
| Saturday, December 20th, 2008 |
| 10:04 pm |
 It sure is snowing here. Walking around on the hill is like walking up and down a really long beach, except the sand is a little more scrunchy. Also, I can't feel my hands. |
| Thursday, December 18th, 2008 |
| 3:04 pm |
 Somebody put shave ice all over my house. |
| Monday, December 8th, 2008 |
| 8:02 pm |
Why is the MacOSX Sidplay so ficking incredible? I mean, there's the DOS sidplay, there's the various linux ports, and then there's the MacOSX one waaay out there by itself. Last update to SIDPLAY/Windows was in 2002! Last update to SIDPLAY2 itself was 2004. They're fine. I mean, they got me through years of having no functioning C64 (actually having one with no video, and one with no sound), but they're just functional. The MacOSX one looks like something you'd buy. It automatically syncs with HVSC, and updates itself periodically. It has a filter distortion DSP built in. Searching the HVSC is fast, you can export to MP3/AAC/whatever with a single menu command. Does not crash. It just kicks all sorts of ass. HOW COME! Well, okay, credit is due to Andreas 'MrSID' Varga. I don't know exactly how much credit, but most likely all of it. The only problem is that it makes me wish that it were as integrated with the iPhone as it is with MacOSX. You can fit the entire HVSC in about 60 MB last time I checked, about 270 MB uncompressed into 36k files or so. That can be crammed into the smallest ipod shuffle with ease. But no. This hasn't been implemented, though a couple of people claimed to be starting this project. There is hope, though. Mr. SID himself commented on one of those projects asking to be kept updated so he knew work wasn't being duplicated. Hmmm...duplicated? So he might be working on such an app! |
| Sunday, December 7th, 2008 |
| 12:57 am |
You can't just go to Storables and buy a bunch of crates during this time of year. It's a special commerce-holiday, and commerce really likes celebrating itself! In your face! The soundtrack for this is traditional religious music, either Christian or Pagan-derived, remixed by a plethora of contemporary artists. Now, I like a hymn as much as the next guy - but when you remove it from its original context of gravitas and rearrange it to be perkier and toe-tappingly catchy, you now have the musical equivalent of cheez-wiz. Cheez wiz, in storables, while you're trying to find something that can neatly contain 12 years of instruction manuals. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) frippy has described in detail the sins of the Christmerce album. The reinterpretation of lyrical meters is the worst. Christmas music is so orthogonal and plodding that everyone feels obligated to jazz it up a little - syncopate or swing (or both), hold onto pauses until you have enough syllables saved up to spit out a passionate riff or two. This does not translate well to "little drummer boy," all right? What? No, I'm not a "scrooge". Complaining about christmas albums is a sacred tradition. I haven't heard any remixed Hanukah music, but I bet you could make something really irritating with Britney and that dreidel song. Current Mood: merryCurrent Music: Jingle Cats - Meowy Christmas |
| Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 |
| 6:58 pm |
Wearing my "I voted" sticker out to the local nail biting/result watching party with all the sexually deviant intellectual elites that live in my neighborhood. |
| Monday, October 6th, 2008 |
| 8:10 pm |
Man... when did cheese start tasting so good? Is it a sign that I'm elderly? |
| Thursday, September 18th, 2008 |
| 12:18 pm |
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