Automate, Delegate, Ruminate

Laughing Squid Party

nathan — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:28:30 +0000

That was fun.

Preen, preen.

nathan — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:36:49 +0000

Alright for a 20D - it really doesn’t like pushing the ISO past 200 and even then the focus precision leaves something to be desired.

Surprise failure!

nathan — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:45:01 +0000

Thupa-thupa-thupa-thupa = Bad commute.

Tire Rack is awesome, 3 hours from order to tracking number, and $OMG cheaper for a set than Wheel Works.

What’s the highest sysload you’ve ever seen?

nathan — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:34:13 +0000

Damn. Seriously.

[xxxxx]$ uptime
 16:18:35 up 50 min,  4 users,  load average: 190.77, 111.68, 61.55
[xxxxx]$ uptime
 16:21:00 up 52 min,  4 users,  load average: 333.09, 181.71, 93.86
[xxxxx]$ uptime
 16:25:54 up 57 min,  4 users,  load average: 595.46, 945.98, 426.89

JavaScript experiment — choreography

nathan — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:09:02 +0000

[jittery images elsewhere on the page are from this post]

It would be nice to have a well-formed archive of non-random, semi-harmonic motions. Basically you can follow the cursor, run a parametric like 1/r^2, change velocity on a gaussian distribution, or follow a vector list. Anybody know where to get that vector list? One approach is white glove tracking but that’s a little too specialized (and creepy) for this application. Images yoinked from cute planet.

How I know I’ve been living in San Francisco too long

nathan — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:50:59 +0000

“Oh, a guy in a security guard costume.”

“Wait, that’s a security guard… wearing a uniform.”

Back from /dev/null

admin — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:23:28 +0000

Blogging is for chumps, and I guess I’m back in that crowd again.