Category: Legacy

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KSCR has a new site launched. At Ground Zero right now (Dear Nora pretending to be the Quesadillas) working on finishing my grad school application. As you can see by my posting I haven’t been very successful in concentrating on this application business. I still have about 20 hours before it’s due…

My original idea for a personal statement (for those curious, I’m submitting an application USC CNTV’s Interactive Media program) was to assemble it out of past blog posts, but upon review, I realized that despite about three years of ‘content’, there’s not much to work with here. A lot of it has to do with choices I’ve made w/ the focus of the blog. That and it’s all online anyway. My current personal statement relates this story. How meta, no?

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Carmack rings in on his R300 vs NV30 thoughts. It’s also interesting reading about the new OGL extensions. The floating point pixel shading really has me tempted to drop three or four hundred bucks and getting back into graphics programming to write some real time filters . Still, not sure if I need a dustbuster in my computer (70+ dB for the GFFX!). I’ll probably wait until prices and noise levels come down. Reading Carmack makes one want to be a better nerd.

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Wow, it looks like the Office of the Mayor liked our site so much that they decided to just copy it wholesale for their Free Cash for College. I’m surprised that anyone would like our site enough to rip it (they must like it more than any of us). What’s not surprising (but still amusing) is how badly it’s done. If you go through the source, you can clearly see that it’s our code (down to the vestigial positioned divs), but mangled through the MSHTML parser (this looks like a job for… Front Page!). Of course, you can see at the bottom of the page, that it’s all ©2002 The Office of the Mayor, and created by Netconnx. The K stands for Kwality.

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I read the leaked Matrix Reloaded draft last week (couldn’t resist — looks like while there are similarities, that a lot has changed), which led to me doing some digging to see if a Revolutions draft had also been leaked (as far as I can tell, no). They weren’t kidding when they said it’d be a cliffhanger.

While looking around, I stumbled Philosophy Section of the official site. While some weren’t that great, there were actually a number that were very interesting:

  • Never The Twain Shall Meet: Reflections on the First Matrix – Richard Hanley writes a great analysis on the nature of paradise. I was impressed by its clarity and insight
  • Reality, What Matters, and the Matrix – while it seems to stray and wander a bit, but this piece does mostly address the issues revolving around why the Matrix might not be such a bad thing. My personal feeling is there really isn’t anything wrong with living in ‘the Matrix’, because well, that’s what we live in now (well, ‘a matrix’ anyway).
  • Wake Up! Gnosticism & Buddhism in the Matrix – I’ve seen better writeups on the eastern influence in the Matrix, but the gnosticism stuff was new to me. (I suppose this is technically philosophy, but in general I much prefer the more abstract and braintwisty reasoning revolving around metaphysical issues (epistemology, ontology, identity, blah blah)