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so, i got my epson photo stylus 700 in the mail today. yay, i think. open it all up, see the color ink in there. screw it i say, i have my mis inks, i’ve read the quadtone separations article, i can do this. unfortunately, several hours and many prints later, i have still yet to achieve the dotless printing i was looking for. oh, it looks reasonable, but i can still see the microweave (it’s banding dammit!) and i can’t seem to properly do the color separations (i’m getting dots). sigh.

i’ve been working out my schedule of classes today. i should really finish up my portfolio tonight (non fa majors don’t get approvals for class until the 26th). anyway, my friend pointed me to a class scheduler java program his friend wrote. sounds like a good idea, but i couldn’t get it working, it kept giving me nulls.

i also didn’t notice until today that taylor has been blogging for the past few weeks.

also, on whim i stopped by jack’s site and have discovered that i’ve underestimated the advantages of being a hanson…

randomly: i feel bad when i get moderation points on /. but dont’ have time to use em. such a waste. there should be a way to easily return the moderation points back into the pool…

kottke.org – home of crappy metaphors ^(tm)

i think i’ve figured out the reason that i haven’t been able to get anywork done. it’s because i have too much stuff on my mind. i’ve been feeling really scatter brained and as a result i haven’t been able to concentrate on anything. lots of stuff weighing in. that’s my theory. i think i’m going to close all my windows and take a nap … and then try to get to work.

man, this bigtime consulting comic strip is great. for more rippage of everyone’s favorite e-everything e-consulting e-firm, check out the vault’s message boards.

doh. something interesting pops it up on tv and i end up not even hearing about it until after it’s aired.

man, this is frickin hilarious (alternatively sad, pathetic, or scary).

whoa, talk of scientologist subliminal messages in battlefield earth is giving me the heebee jeebees.

Wilson Bryan Key, Ph.D., author of the Age of Manipulation (Henry Holt, 1989), was asked about the feasibility of using an undetectable new technology in subliminals. He provided the following insight: “It is very difficult, if not impossible, to protect yourself from subliminal manipulation. If any movie is produced with a hidden ideological agenda, the effects could be devastating.”

of course, advertising plays with all kinds of stuff regularly. i should probably look more into the pyschology theory of it. it most likely has a lot to do with some of the stuff i’m currently reading in class.

i’ve spent the past hour reading about star trek stuff because of a recent /. article on the rumored new stories. i was a huge tng fan, and a watched lot of the ds9 episodes, but haven’t been into it recently (voyager was (is?) really horrible, i wasn’t very happy w/ the 7th or 8th movies, and haven’t even seen anything else that has been going on in the past 2 years pretty much). i happened on a ronald moore interview that was pretty cool, as well as one of majel roddenberry’s new shows called andromeda which would be way better than the current trek series idea. i’m definitely not excited with what berman and crew has done w/ the franchise, but then again, while there was a time that i might have cared, i guess i don’t anymore.

part of it is just not having the time to really waste on that (on any tv shows, really), and part of it i think might be attributed to … cynicism? i dunno. i’ll probably have to write something about this sometime.

the quicktime lotr preview is now up. kicks ass is an understatement. too bad one has to go through shenanigans to save the full screen file properly. especially impressive in comparison to the x-men new trailer (which wasn’t bad, but had a weird combination of videogamey cheese and genuine coolness).

oh yeah, the original reason for my post: weta digital just bought the most powerful discreet inferno* system in the southern hemisphere. can’t wait for christmas 2001.

joel writes an article on code reuse, which has some good points. however, while he may be right in saying that not releasing a netscape 5.0 was a strategic mistake, there really was a huge problem technical problem in releasing a version 5 (at least one that could have competed with ie5). unfortunately, netscape was badly designed, with a huge monolothic code base, with the 4.x versions running on basically a kludge upon kludge version of the mosaic engine. because of the poor initial design, and a several year coasting period (ie was designed modularly and with the trident engine it leapt past what netscape had), it wasn’t feasible to simply overhaul the browser… so you have mozilla. which being picky, only took 2 years, not 3. it’s definitely an impressive feat, with the tools developed, bugzilla, bonsai, and tinderbox, being worthwhile project on their own. most important, however is that mozilla was redesigned properly. the emphasis on cross platform modularity, with XPCOM and XPFE will most likely obviate the need for a total overhaul for some time to come. lastly, and perhaps most important to note, is that the mozilla project is far more than netscape 6. others have waxed poetic about some of the possibilities, but really i must say, that from both a programmer’s perspective and speaking as a web developer, mozilla tickes me pink.

inaccuracies, musings, commentary welcome.