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On this
Sorry about the delay folks, I’m going to start writing more here, if only because I can spur myself to start finishing more projects.
On Blackboxes (a primer)
Just some links for now, but think of this as an appetizer for later. Alex Payne –The iPad as a blackbox Mark Pilgrim – The Tinkerer’s Sunset
Anxiety
It’s one of those weeks. The career, the girl, the academics and the car all sort of form one giant miasma of stress that hangs over my head. Did you know that my eyebrow kind of twitches involuntarily when I get really stressed? I mean, it’s not the sort of thing that’s visible, but I [...]
Architectural Abstraction
Though I still consider most of the University of California at San Diego’s architecture as woefully unwelcoming for the new student, I now appreciate the purity of the harsh, angular concrete that constitutes the majority of UCSD’s buildings. Far from the welcoming brick and grassy knolls of people’s imaginations, it still holds a certain, futuristic [...]
Live-Coding, or why I wish I was Daft Punk’s younger brother
I just came across this idea of ‘live-coding’, or developing on-the-fly generative code for a live audience. While the audience need not understand what is going on before them, the programmer is responsible for transparency between program and audience. Within the ‘livecoding’ philosophy, obfuscation is frowned upon, with screens of raw code usually presented to [...]
Test Image Insertion
Just an image from when I traveled to Agallpampa, Peru in early 2008 as a volunteer with FIMRC@UCSD. Shot from the side of a moving van using a 50mm f/1.8, I’m surprised it came out as well as it did. A little murky, but still a wonderful capture. (also, I think my margins are a [...]
Mythical Beings
I just received my MCAT Test scores back this afternoon. I did extremely well, taking into consideration how much stress and agony the last few weeks of preparation was. For a very long time, I was dearly, dearly petrified of the MCAT. Many times I would look at and open my prep books, only to [...]
RZA as Bobby Digital – You Can’t Stop Me Now
Some good stuff I haven’t touched in a long time. Very accessible, as opposed to his earlier albums, with a nice funky beat. I’m trying to just showcase some great shadowboxing music; jus’ groove to the beat and let your blows flow.
Onra – The Anthem
Putting this on while doing some shadow-boxing on a hot summer’s afternoon really is the bees knees. I suggest you try it sometime.
Just gimme them Benjamins
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.