i calculated theoretical utilization over total number of hours in the week, and unfortunately, i’m about 10% over (the physical amount of time available). the good thing is that his number is pretty comprehensive, including sleep, transit, food time allotted, etc. the bad thing is i’m already over without figuring in a social life. doh! the doubly bad thing is that even without that figured in, it’s still over. on the bright side, i’m not playing counterstrike anymore.
wow, 16.8mp cmos sensor anounced. this, is by a startup founded by carver mead, apparently, an ee god who had done tons of work on silicon retinas.
hmm, combined with a 1gb microdrive (for each 48MB photo), a nice multi-layer diffractive optical element lens… expensive.
greg knauss rings in on his take of what’s going on in the courts these days in a recent suck column. i like this one much better than his uninformed mozilla attack, and he makes some good points. while i wouldn’t say that lawyers rule the world, i do agree with the sentiment; they are one of the more dangerous heads of the “existing power structure” hydra.
ahh, excellent idea. if they wanna play w/ the dmca, turn the ill conceived law back onto them…
ACS 4.0 Project Central – i wonder when how long it will take for the openacs port to happen after 4.0 is donw?
i haven’t been posting anything up recently. i guess it mostly has to do with not having much free time between a full full school courseload, lots of startup work, and discovering counterstrike. so, i haven’t been on the web much recently, way behind on any semblance of a read schedule, blah blah blah. tomorrow morning will be email/todo catch up, then painting for the rest of the day. i can already tell that this semester is gonna suck.
interesting /. thread on voting and politics in the us. an interesting point touched upons is the social engineering going on encouraging us citizens not to vote.
so my latest two dvd’s arrived, and they both look spiffy, so i decided to mount them on these 95 cent ikea “raket” desk easel’s that i just got (first time actually stepping inside an ikea building this weekend). took a few mini-tripod shots, and did a bit of color correction to almost simulate the indirect halogen light (i got a long swing arm “antifone” lamp also, which has a 50w bulb, so that it’s bright enough for me when i point it straight up – i’d link to the lamp on the ikea site, but their site went from bad (you can almost find the stuff in their catalog and they’ll give you the price but you can’t buy anthing) to worse (everything’s broken, you can’t get to individual products either) – i have an interesting photo of the lamp/bulb too, but i’m too lazy to go through the whole editing process on that). anyway, the whole thing is stylish, although i guess it’s all gonna get cleared when my roommate doesn’t need my second monitor anymore and i get that back. hmm, too lazy to link in text. here’s the photo.
if you look closely in the photo, you’ll see i got the “dokument” organizer set, my car in the background, and also the hot pixels (still need to send my camera in) in the bottom left.
The Making of Terminator 2, The Ultimate DVD – in the mail right now…