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The Ego-less Desktop vs The Commercial Desktop
In the most recent LugRadio episode was a feature about how the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) states that applications should be named in the applications menu not as the program name, but as what the program does. This is something I’d like to explore a little more in another post. But during the discussions,…
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My latest Procedural Art Experiment
I think that nearly everyone who has ever learned about the Fibonacci Sequence is fascinated by how quickly it grows. I wanted to illustrate that, so I created this collage with some modifications to Jim’s makeCollage.pl script. The rules were that each picture takes the place of a number on the Fibonacci Sequence and is…
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What I’m Up To – Animation-Wise
Well, I’m filling up my space time with programming and animation. Here’s what I’m currently up to with animation. First of all, there’s “Sugar“. I have the script and most of the props complete for the animation. I got a little frustrated when I was working on Nick’s armature and started working on programming and…
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Hello Kitty Hell!
Recently, a coworker of mine showed me the website Hello Kitty Hell. This is a website created by someone who’s wife sells Hello Kitty items. If there is a young girl or, occasionally, woman in your life who is into the Hello Kitty Phenomenon, you doubtless know how much crap there is that can be…
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Joining the Digital Television Revoultion (but not through Cable)
As you’ve no doubt heard, the US will be discontinuing Analog TV transmission in February 2009. They’ve actually already auctioned off the analog spectrum (and I’m not too happy about who ended up buying it, but that’s for another post). So, if you have cable TV you don’t need to worry about this and if…
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Philosophizing on the Move can lead to trouble
The plot twist at the end is awesome, but so is the programmer’s debate going on, especially since we were talking about this at work this week. Another great xkcd from Randall Monroe:
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This’ll work for now…
I found a WordPress theme that I mostly like called Hal 5.0. I think the top image is a little over the top, but the overall theme is ok. I edited the font size up from the default – the font designer must have amazing eyesight. I also added in tag listings into the blog…
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Changing themes again
This theme is really annoying me, mostly because it’s a fixed width theme. That means that the theme doesn’t expand if you expand your Window or have a wide screen monitor. Mostly, it means annoying things like this blog post title. As you can see, it cuts into the metadata such as the date/time. Also…
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Quotes
Time to empty out my quotes from my AIM profile again, here are the latest: “My vagina is always better than a white girl’s” – Mai ———————————————————————– Guest on Colbert Report: “Yes, you learned very well in Sunday School.” Colbert: “I teach Sunday School Mother F-cker!” ———————————————————————– “[Operating System] Open Solaris is good for diversity”…
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Dan’s got a brand new blog
And it is hilarious! So Dan finally got around to updating the blog I created for him on my server. He gave it a pretty witty name “I Bring Nothing To The Table” which is a great pun on our last name. (Although I recently found out he saw it on a T-shirt, so, while…
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FarmerJoe – An easier render solution.
I’ve been very happy until now with drqueue. Developed by Jorge Daza, it’s a very nice render farm management software with a nice GUI. It worked relatively well for me for “Jose’s Dinner” and “Schrodinger’s Cat“. However, there were two big kinks in using drqueue. First of all, Windows support was so sketchy it might…
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The Untold Rebate Check Story
As you know, unless you’ve been living under a rock, the US Government (USG) wants to give us all rebate checks to spur the economy along. All you have to do is file your taxes and you’ll get up to $600 if you’re single or $1200 if you’re married. What hasn’t really been publicized in…
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New Distro Releases Coming up THIS MONTH!
Two major Linux distributions will be making releases this month and since I use both of them, I’m pretty excited! First up will be the Debian-derived Ubuntu. This distro has been the darling of users and Internet media alike for the past few years. It stole the post from Mandriva, the previous Linux distro that…
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Procedural Art
edited to add the tags I used That collage was created by a program. I certainly don’t have the patience to arrange all of those photos one-by-one!I told the program to download all of my pictures tagged with Eric Danny David and Danielle and create this collage. But does that make this any less of…