SUPREME NERD GOD!!!
Nyah Nyah....
Overall, you scored as follows:
5% scored higher (more nerdy),
and
95% scored lower (less nerdy).
What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:
All hail the monstrous nerd. You are by far the SUPREME NERD GOD!!!
</span>
I made the front page of the UT!
Well, I didn't, but an article I was quoted in did:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20061022/news_1n22second.html
It was on the front page of the Sunday Union Tribune. Pretty damn cool. How I ended up getting quoted about Second Life is pretty funny. A co-worker sent out a mail to staff on a Friday afternoon that asked "anybody know what Second Life is?" I responded, thinking I'd just give her the quick scoop on the thing..I mean, I've logged into it 3 times and watched that Google Tech talk on it. So, I know what it is and what makes it tick. But instead, in response, I got a confirmation with the UT for an interview 10AM that Monday. They even asked if they could take my picture. So of course, I had to spend the weekend getting brushed up on SL. And then they didn't quote me on any of the stuff I studied up on:
Nathan Hubbard, networking manager at San Diego video-sharing service vMix, said he is personally and professionally interested in Second Life. He and others at vMix are looking for a way to provide an in-world video service.
"I went into a club (in Second Life) to check it out,” he said. “I was just wearing jeans and a T-shirt. Everybody else was dressed up. I felt out of place. Of course, I've had that experience in real life. I'm a big geek.”
His avatar shares the first name of Nathan. He asked that the avatar's last name not be published because he doesn't go to Second Life to socialize.
“I don't really go there to play,” Hubbard said. “I'm more interested in the entrepreneurial opportunities.”
Well, there you have it. My .15 microseconds of fame for this week. Heh. I still don't 'play' SL much, but if you have an interest in meeting up 'in world', let me know. Or you can SLurl your way to my humble abode.
And for the record, I didn't call myself a geek. I called myself a nerd and suggested that the journalist should put that down as my title. ;)
Update: I guess that article has been sourced/quoted by other papers:
Monterey Historics 2006
Went up to Monterey Bay, CA for the Historics again. It was pretty fun this year. John, Mark, Karl and I went up for the 4 day trip. We took John's Ford Escape, Karl's 2002 and Mark's MR2 Spyder.
Highlights:
Using the MR2 Spyder Frunk
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222457809
Karl pissing off the side of a mountain
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222459017
Mark doing a dusty burnout and subsequently John and I nearly getting
killed in a head-on collision
http://www.vmix.com/viewVideo.php?ID=1243215
The current model Toyota F1 race car setting the Laguna Seca all time
lap record of 106.309. He (I think it was Ricardo Zonta) beat it 3 times
that weekend, besting the 2001 record (Honda Champ car) by more than a
second. And more than 4 seconds faster than the Ferrari in 2003.
http://www.vmix.com/viewVideo.php?ID=1243220
A million Coopers on the track
http://www.vmix.com/viewVideo.php?ID=1243222
A million Mini's:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222444643/in/set-72157594247743094/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222444004/in/set-72157594247743094/
(hehe)
Flaming Drinks:
http://www.vmix.com/viewVideo.php?ID=1243242
Seeing a Mazda RX-792P Start, warm up and rev.
http://www.vmix.com/viewVideo.php?ID=1243246
Watching a Lister pretty much destroy everyone on the track:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222450249
Seeing Old Yeller again:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222450149
Hearing a Lexus pace car tear up the track with it's super loud
squealing tires:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222449804
Actually seeing under the hood of a Toyota 2000GT...they started them
and drove them around the track. Holy shit!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222446206/in/set-72157594247743094/
Couple of funny plates and stickers:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222429701/in/set-72157594247723487/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222430639/in/set-72157594247723487/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222429724/in/set-72157594247723487/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222432875/in/set-72157594247723487/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222433231/in/set-72157594247723487/
Seeing the 2 under-hood urinals in the new Mustang GT500. LAME ENGINE
BAY.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222430483
And some awesome driving:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222457169/in/set-72157594247761996/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222459331/in/set-72157594247761996/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222458611/in/set-72157594247761996/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222456759/in/set-72157594247761996/
The rest of my pics here:
Monterey Historics 2006: The Drive
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/sets/72157594247761996/
Concorso Italiano 2006
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/sets/72157594247723487/
Monterey Historics 2006: Paddock
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/sets/72157594247743094/
Monterey Historics 2006: Races
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/sets/72157594247749628/
Monterey Historics 2006: Misc
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/sets/72157594247765359/
Been a while.
...since last I posted in my blog. I've been so damn busy with work. But I'm slowly getting things under control and hopefully having more free time to do these sorts of things.
What have I been up to lately? Hrmm. Check out some of these vids:
- Me, Eddy and Clint building out our new datacenter for work.
- Damian and I riding the "Snakes on a Plane" ride at Comic Con
- At X-Sanguin 1 & 2
Looking at the moon And these pic sets:
- Comic Con 2006
- Joseph's Graduation
- Tracy ran the Rock n Roll Marathon
- An amazing treehouse in TN
- A couple of astronomy photos
Now for something that entertained me quite a bit this morning:
From somethingawful:
Whew. And for any 14-year-old girls who love Avenged Sevenfold who might be reading this: it’s not too late. You have until the age of seventeen to start liking real music, but after that you’re pretty much doomed to liking awful shit for the rest of your life, so straighten up now or you’ll eventually become a pregnant stripper, and you’d better hope against hope that Myspace is still around then so you can find a dad for your little sack of crap.
A 14 yr old's response:
...HEY IM A FUCKING 14 YEAR OLD AND UMM IM NOT GUNNA END UP A PREGNANT STRIPPER BECAUSE OF A BAND!!!! ...
And his response to that:
It may be true, Chitchatgirl, that you will not end up a pregnant stripper because of a band. You will end up a pregnant stripper for any number of diverse and inevitable reasons, which may include your love of Avenged Sevenfold, but may be entirely peripheral to it. You may become a pregnant stripper because of your crystal meth habit, or because you were abused as a child, or simply because I am going to devote about 3% of my mental energy, from this day forth, to willing you to fail. Hey, it probably won't make any difference, but when you do fail, it'll make me feel psychic.
Truly great. The rest of the thread is here: http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=3990
Bender Background
It's been about 10 years since I made my own custom background for a computer. But after some inspiration from a screen shot I saw of someone else's PC, I made a background with my favorite cartoon character, Bender. I used the Gimp on my Mac to make it, thought I'd share it with all my many, many readers. All 3 of you. But I still made one for both right-hand and left-hand users. It's formatted 1440 x 900 and pretty subtle. Click to see full rez version
and
BTW, I can recommend using the Gimp for your image editing on the Mac. It worked out well and didn't cost a dime. There are a few different options, one of which is Gimp-Mac, a pay version that is packaged in an Aqua wrapper so you get a good UI. The other options all require X11 on your mac. You can have Fink install it or you can do what I did and download Gimp.app. It doesn't have a Mac UI but it worked fine and could crank out this image pretty easily.
This weekend I changed the air filter, oil and oil filter in my Tacoma. Made a quick timelapse movie of the oil filter change and a quick wash.
Also saw a really huge lizard today. He was a monster!
Super blown shocks
I
got out Sunday and mowed the
yard. A nice day, pretty out.
And made a timelapse of it. The movie is too quick, but my yard is so
small i should have just recorded it as a normal movie instead of a
timelapse..then i could just speed up the framerate and be done.
Then I proceeded to replace the shocks in the truck. I bought a little 98 Tacoma recently, as a daily beater, home depot hauler and to keep the miles off the RX-8. And maybe a little 4x4 action from time to time. I noticed that when driving 60+ MPH on the highway, if you hit even the slightest bump it dances around for a while....not very reassuring of your vehicle and probably not safe either. Further investigation showed that my shocks are shot. And one is blown so bad there is a hole in the side. Yike! So at the recommendation of Eddy, I bought some Bilstein's as a performance upgrade. They were about $300 total for all 4. The rears were the worst so I installed them first. And I made a neat little movie that is a 10 second how-to. Hope you can follow. The difference is amazing, no more wobbling on the higway and I only did the back shocks! Bumps are soo nice now! Highly recommended to you older Toyota owners.
6 hours of Friday
Well, 636 minutes of a Friday. The camera (a Canon S80) did well, I am suprized that it captured that much. Course, I had to restart it every 100 minutes or so (a limitation of the camera). I just restarted it whenever I thought of it. Overall, easy to do. Notice the x4100 on the floor. Thanks Burt! But the best part...check out the boxes moving, the darts dancing....Ian had a little fun with the cam while I was at lunch...hilarious!
It's been a good week. I've finalized 3 big deals for work that I've been working on for months. I almost didn't know what to do when I was done. So I took some time, did something fun and setup an internal gallery for everyone at work to use. I uploaded a few hundred pics I've taken into it. I used 'Gallery 2.1.1' as the package. It's gotten a lot better since the 2.0.0 days, I would recommend it to anyone that needs a nice picture gallery. I will probably migrate away from IDS that I've been using (and which hasn't been really updated) over the last 6 years.
Another video this week. I'm on a rampage! From a meeting of the San Diego Software Industry Council on Thursday:
John Don't Speak
Description: At a panel discussion where John and I will NOT be
speaking.
Supposed to rain this weekend. Hopefully there is a little sunshine so I can mow the yard and have time to get inspired to work on the truck and the Fiat.
More Timelapses
This clip of my monday workday is 100 minutes compressed into 10 seconds. Check out how the twizzlers move around. :)
Blogercize my Time Lapse
It's been a while since I have written anything in my little blog. I left Qualcomm and now work for an online video startup in San Diego called 'vMix'. Anyway, I've been working hard for a few months and haven't had much of a chance to get to blog-ercize. Or whatever.
But I did order some toys recently, one of which is a digital camera (Canon S80) that takes some great video and will do time-lapse sessions automatically. I've been fask-inated with time-lapse for years and have always been making movies of the sky moving or ice melting or activites of my neighborhood out my window. I was playing around with the new cam this weekend and made 2 quick time-lapse videos. One is of my boring activities on a Saturday Night:
The other is me installing CentOS 4.3 on an old dev server.
Zen Sand Garden
This is probably the coolest app I've played with in ages. How much fun.