LolCatFud of the Day
links for 2008-01-30 http://tinyurl.com/2lnl8w [4:02 am]
LoLCat of the Day
oh yeah, my hyper card has shipped... will have an unlocked 1.1.2 OTB iPhone soon! [3:29 pm]
links for 2008-01-29 http://tinyurl.com/294h38 [4:06 am]
links for 2008-01-29
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I wish my cats were not totally terrified of my robots. Time to get a robotic mouse!
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That seem to be locking people out of their cars. Sounds like the FCC needs to go down there with a spectrum analyzer and force whomever is transmitting the off-band signals to fix their issues.
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Pavlov's cats. =]
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I really hope they get it. Said bridges are beautiful works of art and should be preserved. Especially the 6th street bridge. It's my favorite.
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This is an interesting idea, create a wiki to group twitter folks. I added myself in pertinent sections.
iChat Supports /me http://tinyurl.com/yqstyu [7:08 pm]
installing jailbreak 1.1.3 on my iphone [6:31 pm]
iChat Supports /me
When you're using IRC and you want to say that you're doing an action you use the /me command:
/me is posting on my blog
Well iChat now supports this:
That's pretty cool!
Twitter Packs
LoLCat of the Day
Puppy vs. Robot, FTW
links for 2008-01-28 http://tinyurl.com/32njjh [3:30 am]
December 31st, 1969
Noé was pretty good, not excellent, though. [11:00 pm]
heading out for a dinner at Noé .... should be good stuff [7:55 pm]
loving the rain [12:43 pm]
links for 2008-01-26 http://tinyurl.com/2gf5gt [4:02 am]
WIRED News Gallery : Groundwater Replenishment System http://tinyurl.com/2teq57 [7:06 pm]
WIRED News Gallery : Groundwater Replenishment System
I shot this cool plant earlier this week. The gallery just went live over on WIRED News:
LoLCat of the Day
links for 2008-01-25 http://tinyurl.com/2ztpfq [3:31 am]
links for 2008-01-25
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nice...
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As it turns out, what the EPA brass has been saying didn't match up to what the actual researchers at the EPA were saying. Big surprise.
hacking my new iPhone [5:36 pm]
Some Changes to this Site: Side Bar, Comments, Link Posts, Images, Blogs, Share This, Error http://tinyurl.com/23rj6q [1:31 pm]
Some Changes to this Site: Side Bar, Comments, Link Posts, Images, Blogs, Share This, Error
Hello Readers! Thanks for following my blog. I hope you've been enjoying my writing and photos over the years. Don't worry, I'm going to keep blogging and shooting! I made some changes to the site last week and last night. Here is a quick rundown of what has changed:
- Error Page: I have updated my error page to actually be helpful, before it was worthless, but now when you land on it, you'll find it much more helpful.
- Side Bar: Added blog categories list, added full archives listing, removed login
- Comments: I have totally removed the comments section from this site. They were hard to use (almost impossible) and spambots spent all day trying to spam them, although they did actually fail, but still. I will be reintroducing comments when I release the next version of this site. If you want to comment on a post, email me and I'll update the post with your comment and a link back to you (link the old boingboing style)
- del.ico.us Links: As I'm sure you've noticed I've been automatically posting my links from del.ico.us every day. I hope you're enjoying this. Let me know through email either way.
- Image Layout: I've changed the layout of the image pages by simplifying the interface and moving the album information to below the image. I've also added a share this button.
- Blogs: I've added a date posted field as well as a share this button.
- ShareThis: I saw this post on laughing squid and decided to add that functionality to my site. You will find a ShareThis badge on every page now.
Let me know what you think!
heading over to one wilshire for WIRED [9:33 am]
LoLCat of the Day
links for 2008-01-24 http://tinyurl.com/2f9mmd [4:01 am]
NAMM 2008 on WIRED News http://tinyurl.com/2qhcqx [11:01 pm]
importing and sorting photos for WIRED from SPAWAR Robotics Division and OCWD Sewage -> Tap treatment plant [10:48 pm]
NAMM 2008 on WIRED News
Last weekend, despite having a freshly sliced up foot, I shot photos of the NAMM show for WIRED News. The gallery just went live on the front door of WIRED. You can check out the gallery by clicking on the screengrab below:
LoLCat of the Day
links for 2008-01-23 http://tinyurl.com/2reydq [4:02 am]
links for 2008-01-23
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haha
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Gadget Labs Review ideas area swimming through me head.
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Looks like the new firmware has made some helpful and good changes to the way the iPhone works. I'm thinking about getting an iPhone, as my Pearl didn't make it through the wash.
High Speed Camera
LoLCat of the Day
links for 2008-01-22
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In case you haven't been paying attention, the LA Times just fired its 3rd editor in 24 months. All were fired for the same reason, refusing to cut the newsroom budget. Roderick has some additional background on the story.
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oh noez!
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A student's reaction to the President on MLK day.
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Nobody saw that coming
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A guy who repairs broken electronics is upset that he can't open the current generation iPods without breaking them
Classic Reaction
Leopard Mail.app Bug : BCC w/ Subject
Today I sent out a little update to my friends and contacts about the recent galleries of mine on WIRED News. Unfortunately these emails went out with no Subject. This is due to a bug with Leopard's Mail.app. Basically if you have more than a few hundred addresses in the BCC field, the Subject line gets lost somewhere along the line. Here is a thread on the Apple support forums discussing it. Sorry to all the folks who ended up getting that email twice with no subject! Emails without a subject are a huge pet peeve of mine.
UPDATE 10.5.2 fixes this issue, thanks Apple!
LoLCat of the Day
links for 2008-01-20
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A very cool set of an abandoned book depository. Won't somebody think of the books? [Via BoingBoing]
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snugglz
LOLCat of the Day
links for 2008-01-19
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Attention!
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I can has bipedal cat?
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This is very cool.
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A great little collection of productivity enhancing ideas that folks who spend a lot of time in the Terminal will appreciate. [Via Celsius 1414]
Glass Shard vs. Dave : Glass Shard Wins
The day before yesterday I dropped a glass bottle on the floor, which I then picked up and vacuumed off the floor. I warned my wife to not walk around barefoot just in case. I should have heeded my own advice. Yesterday I was walking barefoot in my loft and I stepped on a shard of glass which lodged itself deep in the arch of my left foot. I tried to get it out with a pair of fine tweezers I sterilized.
The self-help tweezing didn't work so I called Penelope who came home and she also tried to get it out. With the glass still stuck in my foot we decided to call our doctor. He saw me right away, but said that he wouldn't be able to get it out and to go to the Emergency Room.
The doctor injected the wound with lidocaine and went to work. After about 15 minutes of probing my foot with a pair of sharp tweezers and enlarging the entry hole to about triple its original size she pulled out the shard of glass. It was about 10mm x 9mm x 1mm and quite sharp. I was amazed that piece fit in through the tiny entry hole which was only about 3mm wide. I guess skin is quite stretchy!
The procedure didn't hurt at all thanks to the lidocaine, and I went home without any pain. In the middle of the night the lidocaine wore off and I was awoken by the extreme pain in my foot. I am basically unable to walk, I can sort of hobble and hop, but my foot is extremely sensitive even when I'm laying down. The doctor prescribed me some pain meds, which Penelope is picking up right now.
This weekend I am shooting NAMM for WIRED News, so I have rented a wheel chair. That should be interesting.
UPDATE I've been working from Downtown LA (read: home) today and my foot is feeling much better. Penelope picked up my 'script of Tramadol, but I haven't taken any yet. I think I'll probably pass for now. The pain isn't so bad when I'm just sitting around. She also went out of her way and picked up a wheelchair for me (which WIRED News is footing the bill for) that I'll use to make my way around NAMM tomorrow and Sunday. Hopefully that will work out.
LoLCat of the Day
links for 2008-01-18
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If you need to shoot something between 18 ad 23 miles away this is the lens for you. Thanks flea.
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Yes!
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=[ don't be scurred!
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Oh, Hai Irony...
LoLCat of the Day
WIRED Gallery : Homeland Security Convention
I just shot the Homeland Security Convention yesterday at the LA Convention Center. The gallery is up on WIRED now:
Photo hosted by flickr.
Windows 2003 Super Helpful Security Feature
"To continue you must first add this this website to your trusted sites in Internet Explorer" ... I was running Windows Update. Nice!
Canon 5200mm Lens
links for 2008-01-17
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This is a great story, although its veracity is questionable. [It's a fake]
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Very cool doormats that look like manhole covers from various cities. I want the Los Angeles one.
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It's clearly time for our government to start subsidizing solar power like we subsidize the oil industry.
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Or let your friends borrow it either!
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This is an interesting article about building a database for use in writing a research paper. Although I don't write research papers, I can see how this would be useful for other tasks like writing a detail article or a book.
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I also run an open wireless network at my house for many of the same reasons.
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Clearly the insane pricing structures for medications aren't actually related to the high cost of research.
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Translate text to R2D2 speak.
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I've been meaning to print these out and leave them in my car. There's a Hummer that keeps parking in the compact spot right in the worst corner to do it in my parking garage.
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Stat.org calls BS on a number of questionable and downright incorrect stories involving science.
Jerk Parking Tickets
R2D2 Translator
Manhole Doormats
links for 2008-01-16
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If you're going to use an RFID card for any type of monetary transaction you should use encryption.
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Romeo v. Juliet
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My grandmother speaks Yiddish, she used to speak it when she didn't want my mom to know what she was talking about. My mom always knew.
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oh noez!
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LOLz
Hypnic Jerk Segfault
LoLCat of the Day
links for 2008-01-15
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A great post from a recently canned writer. It's clearly time for the studio execs to give the writers their fair share of the internet income and end the strike.
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ebay... lolz
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IAAF says his prosthetic legs give him an unfair advantage.
LoLCat of the Day
links for 2008-01-14
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Oh yeah... Monkey Style < Panda Style
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Plot: Israeli secret agent decides he wants to move to New York to cut hair. Genius.
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fish?
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First Uwe Boll movie that won't suck? Not likely, but it could be funny... maybe. No, not likely.
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This is a timely article I saw on digg about NNW.
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Digg has a really annoying RSS feed, instead of taking the reader directly to the article it takes you to their site. They should really change this functionality. Anyhow, here is a direct RSS feed to dugg articles
Direct Digg RSS Feed
Goodbye Newsfire, Hello Again NetNewsWire
I have been using Newsfire since February of last year. It was the first RSS reader that I've ever paid money for. Newsfire had a good deal of issues that I didn't like. I emailed the Newsfire developer and asked if a bug could be fixed, but he replied that NewsFire wasn't in a development cycle. He wasn't very nice about it either. Anyhow, I had been tempted to go back to NetNewsWire for some time now, but never did because I didn't want to pay for a second RSS reader. Luckily for me NewsGator is now giving away NetNewsWire for free! I have switched back and I am extremely happy so far.
Postal
LoLCat of the Day
Kung Fu Panda FTW
links for 2008-01-12
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Lunch time!
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Octopi need more toys. [via BoingBoing]
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I've been really interested in HAARP when I read about it about 10 years ago on fas.org. Now a secret brochure about the facility has been released. Very cool!
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I think it may be... effects look really good
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This looks pretty good / creepy and ... omg that's Christian Slater? Holy Cow!
He Was a Quiet Man
LOLCat of the Day
links for 2008-01-11
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Attention 23b.org Geeks: Let's build this.
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I'm planning on building a PSK31 encoder that I can hook up to a keyboard and and use to transmit from my IC-7000. It is going to be one of my first arduino projects
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WIRED News didn't like this chart, but I think it's totally awesome. Great infoporn!
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One of the first arduino projects I'm planning on building will be a controller for my canon cameras. I am planning on using some of the code in gPhoto to control some more advanced features at some point. Thanks to Steve at the Internet Archive for sho
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Something similar to what I am planning on doing, but using a PIC instead.
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Here is the actual code for the PSK31 PIC beacon
MedFer Beacon Page
PSK31 Info Page
links for 2008-01-08
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Can't find that vacuum tube for your old ham radio? Blow your own!
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My SAR team is out trudging through the snow looking for a lost hiker. I'm on vacation and conflicted. I wish I was with them in the snow, helping search.
links for 2008-01-07
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drinking cat... reminds me of my deceased kitty, Fractal.
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I need one of these!
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LOL
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I'm going to give this repeater a shot while I'm walking around today. I can't hit it from my hotel room as we face away from it.
LG Watch Phone
links for 2008-01-06
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We're eating here on Wednesday
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We've been here before and it was great. We have reservations on Monday night
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This place was excellent. We ate here last night.
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We ate here today with my uncle Mike and cousin Lauren. Great dim-sum!
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We have a reservation here on Sunday.
Yank Sing
C A N T E E N
links for 2008-01-04
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I'm going to have to give some of these a try. I use TextMate on a daily basis, I may play with some of these or possibly roll my own.
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funny, but the audio is NSFW. [Via Jason Cosper]
Livescribe
Watercone
links for 2008-01-01
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Don Garza and Walter have a new live broadcast show they're doing from Don's SRO in Skid Row.
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guns and cats