Merry Christmas interweb!

Today I…

• Worked from home. Hooray!
• Picked up my PowerMates from the postal office.
• Hacked around with the PowerMates…. a USB hub is needed.
• Downloaded Photoshop CS3 Beta!
• Internet radio: SomaFM

Links 1 2 3:

• Ten good UNIX usage habits – IBM article.
• Mac OS X key short cuts.

Wednesday I…

• Felt like crap.
• Worked with Amanda on Art-Science visualization.
• Met with Sheelagh for the first time in a while it seemed.
• Read about Wavelets in my new library book. Hurray for accessible math!!
• Politics….

Today I…

• Went to yoga.
• Worked with Amanda on our Art-Science visualization. Came up with a few solid ideas, so now all I have to do is implement them. Right.
• Read through some docs on Objective-C and Quartz 2D.
• Looked through the only cook book you’ll ever need.
• Through about platform issues for the radio astronomy viz project. Lab says Windows, fast hardware says Mac, people who might actually use it says Linux (and Mac too).
• Cleaned up my bookmarks. Google Browser Sync is rad.
• Stayed up too late.

Links 1 2 3:

• Sharks are cool.
• Music Video of the Day: The Retrosic – Desperate Youth
• SmacBook Pro
• You are here.
• Get tutorial on presentation tips: Conference Presentation Judo!

Today I…

Links I thought were interesting:

• Dominoes
  

Today I…

• Slept in.
• Organized my domestic living accommodation.
• Found my polarized filter.
• Cleaned the crawl space. Now with MORE boxes!!1
• Looked for ants. They’re for the farm. Seriously.
• Tried and failed to get my haircut.
• Tried and failed to make it in to the studio.

Links I thought were interesting:

• MJ’s Thriller! In Lego!
• TMNT‘s latest trailer. Ah, reborn relics of my childhood in the 80′s…
• Simpsons: Moe takes a lie detector test.

Today I:

• Finished CPSC 699. For this semester anyway.
• Ordered a USB switch. No more two keyboards and mice.
• Cleaned my desk.
• Went to the Alberta Ingenuity Scholarship Info Session… Tell me something I don’t ALREADY know.
• Went to ACAD for EVDS supplies.
• Back in EVDS… I made a mold of my hand and forearm out of Alginate. Right now, it looks like a disaster.
• Filled the Alginate mold with plaster of paris, only to discover that the mold was far from water tight and all the plaster spilt out the bottom. So I constructed a mold to hold the mold and filled that will copious amounts of plaster. The mold of a mold is now drying for the night in the EVDS shop, only to be chiseled tomorrow morning. It’s going to be awesome.
• Had a drink from the Gentlemen’s Closet (which is “filled with leather bound books and smells of rich mahogany”).
• Thought of secret santa ideas…

Links I thought were interesting:

• Flow in Games
• GigPosters.com
• EagerEyes.org :: Visualization : Art : Representation : Aesthetics
• Music Video of the day: Gary Jules – Mad World
• Gretag-MacBeth AG :: Monitor colour calibration with Eye-One Display 2

Today I…

• Wrote my first ilab-today message all week.
• Decided not to design and build more phidgets. Instead, an small order for a bunch of PowerMate USB controllers has been placed.
• This past weekend proved that: Collaboration is VERY TIME CONSUMING, with a seemingly awful Time to Productivity ratio.
• Uro uro suru is Japanese for walking aimlessly around. Or so I’m told.
• Started using Xcode.
• Spend the afternoon and part of the evening in the EVDS studio.
• Thought about whether or not ethics approval will be needed….

Links I thought were interesting:

• ByteController, control iTunes from the menu bar. For Mac and Windows.

Today I:

• Forgot my tuque on the train. The suck. But. I got it back.
• Met with Amanda to talk about our EyesWeb assignment. Interesting discussion about performance art and ethics, a full audio recording of the discussion was captured.
• According to threadless, I can usually have the “hobo” style facial hair.
• Went to Jamal Siadat’s seminar on “An Evaluation of Simultaneous Evolvability and Efficiency In Aspect-Oriented”, followed by Lakin Wecker’s talk on “Repairing Terrain: A multiresolution approach”.
• Found a seemingly fantastic paper by Fluke et al. on the “Future directions in astronomy visualization”. Too bad the U of C library doesn’t carry any current publications from the Astronomical Society of Australia, so a interlibrary loan has been requested.
• Tried to get a copy of SONIC.
• Wrote up my seminar summaries. Three left to go!

Today I:

• Tried to sell my crankset and bottom bracket.
• Talked to Amanda about phidget project.
• Went to “Graduate Studies Open Scholarship Information Session.”
• Wrote my 699 seminars for “Immersive and Interactive Visualization of Volume Interiors” and “Computer supported ubiquitous learning in the context of language learning”.
• ln (e^x) = x
• Went biking at the oval for the first time in a LOOOONG time.
• Started planning out my schedule for December.

Link that I thought were interesting:

• Alberta government – Consumer Complaint Form