My proceeding Fall 2007 semester entailed a photography course. In light of all the photos I took, I’ve here made several of my favourite photos available for your viewing pleasure right here on my website. They’re all available in the gallery section, as well as this post. These are all from the first project, I intend to post more photos in the future. Happy 2008.
I would very much appreciate some comments; critical ones equally as much as praise.
So, perhaps you were confused by the last post. If so, I apologize. Finals are a busy time, so there wasn’t much time to explain–this is also why there’s been a break in posting. The link was a blog that was setup during the very intensive finals studying. We commandeered a conference room for a week straight. We even did some original research while in there.
After finals is when the fun really began though.
Coffee on a snowy night with Erik
An icy wall and adorable snowmen outside the Siebel Center
The snowy and icy days were a fun cap to the end of the semester and signaled a start to winter.
Then iPhone came and changed my life
But getting my iPhone was simply fantastic. I can’t wait to start writing apps.
And my web browser of choice is Safari 3.0 for Leopard. Unfortunately this makes viewing TIFF images of the Patent Office’s website an absolutely abysmal experience.
So today in CS421 I found GreaseKit, a Safari Plugin that allows one to run Greasemonkey-like scripts on web pages in Safari. So I wrote a userscript: usptofix.user.js to change the <embed> tag to the <img> tag, resulting in success.
(original left, modified right)
I simply scale the TIFF to the page width, and everything is okay.
Unfortunately, it crashes Safari half of the time I load this page; I’ve reported a bug against GreaseKit.
It is probably better to just use Google Patents, but at least I learned something.
After a bit of work over Thanksgiving break, I was able to get the laser projecting Asteroids well enough to play. I apologize for the quality of the photos, but we were really interested in doing it BIG, so the beam was dim and my camera didn’t capture it especially well.
I was happy to see a number of ACM folk braved the extreme cold weather to play Asteroids on exterior walls at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, an excellent venue which I intend on visiting again next Friday, when my good friend Erik will be playing Cello in the last orchestra concert of the semester.
This whole event turned out to be a quite a success with a Hot Cocoa + Helvetica reception afterwards, despite the fact that the software is still mostly a quick hack. I look forward to further development of additional laserware on the Mac.
Now just to write the real optimization code to make it work well… : )
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