I believe F2 did some research into it and discovered than somewhere around 107% of people create panoramas. I might lay off them a bit in future… they take bloody ages to stitch together. And I really should be doing it in Photoshop or somesuch, so I can get better edges, but experience tells me… Read more
My tax return cheque arrived the other day… that’s only, what, 8, 9 months since I filed? Go IRS.
The basic photos are up from my last two weeks or so of travels, including Alcatraz, Monterey Bay Aquarium, the view from Twin Peaks, Heavenly, Half Moon Bay, San Francisco Zoo, Carmel and yes, even Stanford University. The panoramas are yet to be stitched, but they’ll magically appear over time as I get around to… Read more
While wandering Haight Street yesterday with my parents I nipped into a music store there and, finally, grabbed some new strings for my guitar. After what seemed like hours fighting with the damn thing, I got them on. More or less. I’m pretty sure my technique is whacked, but it appears to work. More or… Read more
Last Friday my parents arrived. It seems like only a short while since I’d seen them last, because it was. Which is an unusual feeling to have, living as I am a third of a world away, though I was reminded by my recent trip back that I am only sixteen or so hours away,… Read more
I went to see Lawrence Lessig give a talk this evening, at the Computer History Museum, on the topic of copyright. It’s an issue which concerns me, as should it to anyone of my generation, given the ridiculous state of it today. I’ve never heard Lessig speak before, nor read any of his books, but… Read more
Driving home tonight someone was trying to high beam me, since I was only doing the speed limit, but they were tail-gating so close that I couldn’t see their lights at all – I only just barely noticed the change in intensity from the ambient glow.