JDM HQ

This is 70 images on my D90 stitched together. I tried to edit the control points to optimize it, but I still have a couple things to focus on in the future:
1) The bright orange shelf over my desk is difficult to warp properly, some orange 'fuzz' surrounds it.
2) The closet door is considerably out of proportion more than the windows.
3) The light coming through makes a reflection pattern ( you can see it as those green waves across the book shelf)
4) Too much vignetting, avoid the cir. pol filter.

Happy Easter

I waited until today to buy work pants/shoes/belt and forgot about this obsolete holiday.
Ooops, apologies to Randy Marsh.

Sanctum Piter oteum, Deus ore uneum
Hippitus hoppitus reus homine
In suspiratoreum, lepus in re sanctum
Hippitus hoppitus Deus Domine

Kanye didn't get it.

Ok, so last night's South Park was a great deal more welcome than last weeks Queef sisters. It was focusing yet even more on the demented thinking process of Eric Cartman, and how he augments his reality to satisfy his desires.



It was pretty good, but the best part of it was the dis towards Kanye West from Matt and Trey. They obviously dislike the man for some good reasons, and this episode with the fish dicks joke really summed it up.

Carlos Mencia: You're a gay fish... man. C'mon man.
Really terrific stuff last night.

Hey, this is neat.

Segway and GM for the win on this electrical car.
Zero turning radius reminds me of Speed Racer T180 design.

Seth Rogen

Seth Rogen hosted SNL this past weekend. I've just got around to watching it. All this episode did for me was made me love Bill Hader more.


Earlier this season John Malkovich was on the show and Bill was in the Skit "La Revista Della Televisione", in which Bill always does very breif impersonation of the guest. His J.Malkovich is really hilarious, and he got to do it again a week ago pretending to be talking to Seth Meyers about Bernie Madoff in the Malko-guise.

Anyway, he burned Seth Rogen this week in the same way, really capitalizing on Rogen's AM announcer voice. These two are really good on screen together.
That image is a retitled movie poster from Superbad used in the skit. Seth is bearman.

Panorama Art

I took these earlier today and using a trial piece of software called PTGui, created this:

Enjoy.

Eeny Teeny Maya Moe

This season is shipping up to include some of the best episodes ever. I'm saying that as a Simpsons-Child (circa. 1988) and having experienced a lifetime of Simpsons episodes these recent episodes starting with Gone Maggie Gone from about 5 weeks ago.

The new 720p standard has actually raised the bar in other respects we are seeing.
This week's episode stars an A-plot with Moe. This is his best performance in drama. He loses faith at the end, but things are turned around with just truly original conception. Moe's fragility is a recurring theme. But he is rewarded at the end with some good advice.
This one is Emmy-worthy. The most emotional episode yet.

Accepted

This is the model I made for a portfolio and my letter from Ryerson University.

POWER

Ok, so I was discussing this the other day with a compadre. What automobile has more appeal: electric or petrol? Especially in terms of power.
Consider the oil industry's opinion of GM's EV1? They destroyed that.
It makes me consider the episode of The Simpsons where they go to Epcot and enjoy a ride called 'The Electric Car'. The ride was sponsored by the oil companies. Between the current geek-favorite: Tesla and the newer Shelby Ultimate Aero EV old stereotypes of electric motor drive trains are disappearing.

The later mentioned EV includes "twin 500 horsepower electric power plant producing 1,000 horsepower in a 2 or 4 wheel drive configuration" - this is the new power plant that electricity promises. Although I suppose it's not as obvious as when you look under the hood and see an equally impressive V12. But that's part of the paradigm shift that we're in the middle of. People that grow up and experience electric cars dominating in motorsports will have a much different understanding of transportation.
There is a good chance that our generations experience which was initially shaped by Petrol performance will be one of the more enlightened as electric systems continue to take over.
The most recent development I want to bring up is the Hydrogen Cell concept from my favorite company of all: Mercedes Benz.
The F Cell concept looks more like a stage coach than a normal auto. I'm surprised that it's not toting iCoach for Mercedes as an autopilot system.


It's time for a paradigm passage in progressing power.
But the question is, what's more powerful? The old or the new. I think you know my stance.

The news I love to blog about!

Incredibly exciting news. News that reaches me on a very personal level. This news - news of an intelligent, problem solving robot at Aberystwyth in the UK has reached my ears.



I know very little about the project, I do know that it has worked and isolating gene's and their functions in brewers yeast. The advantage to the automation is that it could carry out 1000 individual gene experiments a day, deriving information from a massive encyclopedia of varied samples gene mutations in the yeast.

The noted discovery in the article from New Scientist explains that the robot dubbed ADAM had identified several genes and hypothesized which 3 encode an enzyme important in producing the amino acid lysine - it was tested by humans and was accurate.

Although this is on a small scale, and the experiments were part of a series, the robot was still able to guide the direction of new experiments it performed from what it new in the previous set of experiments. A learning system. The incredible efficiency of this new intelligence is increasing so rapidly. The tools that will be available to us in 5 years, 10? It's unimaginable.

The Prof. at Cambridge who's quoted in the article imagines "robots may even be capable of conducting truly independent research".

I postulate that the December 12, 2012 doomsday prediction will be the advent of machine intelligence. When I search for 'Artificial' on 2012predictions.net I find nothing. When I Google predictions that early very few items can be found.

At any rate we are on track to have it sooner than we realize.


The other thing from today's news I wanted to talk about is the unanimous approval and submission of an immediate press release from a company called VisionCare discusses a new form of micro technology lens design. This company, according to their website, have tested this in 200 clinical trials.

More and more proof everyday that we are the ultimate, evolving species.