| Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 |
kittrel
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12:22a |
I don't feel good.... not sure why either. I guess it's holiday stuff and anxiety and lots of things combined to make me feel angsty. I think I'm gonna go to bed. It's late anyway. I'll probably feel better tomorrow as long as I don't have more freakish nightmares, heheh. Current Mood:  discontent |
| Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 |
jarodrussell
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10:52p |
Ganked from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rap541...
Remember, you can't spell Veridian Dynamics without HP.I'm not going to dig through 3000+ YouTube replies, but my guess based on 1. It doesn't follow his face, but 2. It stops following hers when he enters the frame ...is that the camera has two modes: Auto Focus and Face Tracking. Auto Focus kicks in as he nears the camera and the brightness adjusts to make him more visible, it looks for moving shapes and large blocks of color. Face Tracking looks for edges, such as the shadows along your nose and where your eyes dip down in the sockets. His darker skin is too solid for the computer to find any color contrasting contours, hers is not. It follows her face alone, but when it registers another object (his head) it resets to Auto Focus to focus on both. That said, I would be interested to know if it would track the back of people's heads. If it did, that would blow my contour theory out of the water; if it didn't, that would strengthen it greatly. Mostly, I'm just freaked out how prescient Better Off Ted is. |
jarodrussell
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4:02p |
Re: comics
Just asked my LCS Guy to take Anna Mercury off my list, and I'm on the fence about pulling Absolution off as well. I'm not sure why I put Absolution on my list...no, I do. It was because there was a quote from a friend of Christos Gage's, an ex-cop, who said he had to quit because he knew one day he'd snap and kill someone who was technically not a criminal but deserved to die. That quote stuck with me, made think it'd be an interesting read, but I've had the latest issue for a week now, without the slightest urge to read it. That said, two books I am definitely leaving on my list: Deathlok and Imperial Guard. Any book with a scarred blond CEO, lab coat and dark glasses wearing mad scientist, set in a world of corporations gone mad is a good book to me. IG...well, I like the IG because they're a knock-off LSH, and I love knock-offs. (Plus, I'm not sure DnA are capable of doing anything that doesn't appeal to me in Marvel's cosmic books; they killed Gamora, Cosmo, and Phyla-Vell in one issue, and all I did was shrug.) Both of these surprised me how much I enjoyed reading them. I think the last issue of War Machine is also sitting on my To Read pile, and all I can say is that I'm glad that series is finished. Not enough Cybermancer in the book and too much "mango lock tech sucks" on the forums; that's a series I regret picking up on the philosophical grounds that Western Comics should never be allowed to have mecha. If you can't respect your toys, you shouldn't be allowed to wreck them for those of us who can. |
jarodrussell
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1:56p |
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jarodrussell
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1:16p |
Hnn
I am this >< close to writing my own GUI (in Visual Basic! 1) to search through my LJ backup. Text editors + 12MB of XML = Sloooow. Pushing this into an SQLite database would probably be faster. I just...don't want to. --- 1. I have got to stop hanging out on Reddit so much. |
kittrel
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12:09p |
Cuteness Alert
 Cookie made a new friend! ;3 I found this puppy plushie at the goodwill store. See, it's PURELY FUNCTIONAL. I need to sleep with my arm up on a pillow because of my bad shoulder and Casey hogs the pillows. This stuffed animal was lots cheaper than a pillow. Of course I bought it JUST for that reason and NOT AT ALL because it's freaking adorable and I love dogs... Cookie curled herself around it, and seemed quite embarrassed when she realized I caught her and was taking a photo, heehee. Current Mood:  awwwww |
tugrik
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12:22a |
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kittrel
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12:40a |
Casey got a job through one of the temp agencies. It's min wage, but it's SOMETHING!!! Thank god. Hopefully it lasts long enough for him to find something better and permenant. Maybe 2010 will be better than 2009? Please? Current Mood:  sleepy |
| Monday, December 21st, 2009 |
jarodrussell
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8:40p |
F--- you!
This thread makes me want to choke someone. Remember when Spoiler being dead was a bad thing and people got pissed? Well, that's so 2006. Now she's alive, and she's Batgirl, and really, why do you still want Oracle out of the wheelchair? I mean, no one else does. Congratulations, Girl-Wonder, you have ascended to a place among THE MAJORITY. As a part of THE MAJORITY, it's now your job to remind everyone else that things aren't that bad, because after all, your problem was fixed. And may I say... ( GOOD JOB! :D ) |
jarodrussell
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8:05p |
Six Words
Much like the Doctor, I too can stop enemies with a mere six words. The six words I would use to defeat Sentry and his new reality-warping powers? Tony Stark has the Reality Gem. |
jarodrussell
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4:12p |
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tugrik
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1:01p |
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jarodrussell
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12:16p |
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tugrik
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5:08a |
My insomnia is your gain
I can't sleep, so I might as well post something being worked on. I've figured out how to utterly abuse a bif of image processing software to fill an idea I had a few years ago. The original is about 3.57GB in size; I'd have to use one of those giga-pixel viewers to get it to all fit on-screen. It'll print out at full resolution on a 4'x6' poster... ...and that's just what I plan to do. They'll be for sale at FC this year in both 2008 and 2009 editions. 
(Click for mid-sized version, 1500pix wide)This one is just a test. The final version will be tweaked to make sure everybody's in it. There were some 500 individual suits photographed and it takes about 1,000 to make this collage, so there'll be two shots of each buried in there somewhere. This test, though, is just a random pull so there's dozens of some and none of others. Opinions? Would any of you 'suiter types buy something like this? And would it be better with the convention logo in the top third/center of the poster, or just left 100% fursuiters like this? :) |
kittrel
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1:10a |
Dog Question
If anyone has dogs or knows about medial stuff... Cookie has been developing spots on her skin under her fur. I noticed more today when I bathed her. They're dark, like black spots, but not raised or anything. Is that normal for older dogs? I guess I'll ask at work too, but they might just suggest me bring her in and I don't get reduced vet care until sometime in January and I can't afford another 'emergency' vet visit that reveals nothing like with my cat. :P Anyway, the spots don't look like a rash, they look permanant, except for two of them that look raw and kinda scabby like a hot-spot. I was afraid it might be melanoma... but when I looked that up it sounded like they are usually more like bumps. I guess this is just a post of me rambling about being worried about my dog. Sigh! Current Mood: worriedCurrent Music: She Roll Me Up - Rusted Root |
| Sunday, December 20th, 2009 |
kittrel
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6:50p |
Did cookies. Hooray. It was a pretty good weekend, except for weird nightmares and this irritating shortness of breath thing going on. I think it might be anxiety. That's the only thing that makes sense. But. It's scary. Unless maybe the cold is bothering my asthma, but there is no wheezing involved and I've been inside for a few hours now and still have it. Blerghhhh. I'll probably end up in bed early tonight. I'm tired. |
| Saturday, December 19th, 2009 |
jarodrussell
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8:04p |
Poker
The greatest game of poker ever played would be between the BAU, Jarod, Nathan Ford, and Danny Ocean. And the reason it would be the greatest game ever isn't because of the players, it's because it was secretly arranged by Batman on a bet with David Xanatos that he could do it because Xanatos needed all those profilers out of the way for one night. |
tugrik
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4:32a |
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kittrel
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5:38a |
Ngngngngngh. I came home from work. Listened to music. Went to bed. Woke up at 2 am. Ate dinner. Drew a commission sketch (I got really behind... ugh). Now it's back to bed (nearly 6 am), only to wake up again soon! Woof. My schedule for the weekend is already fubarred. Current Mood: sleepy |
| Friday, December 18th, 2009 |
kit_ping
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10:09p |
I swear, this is turning into the Parenting Injury Journal. :D last night Timothy and were hopping through a shopping district-- don't look at me like that, you'll do just about anything when you have a two-year-old to entertain before dinner-- and I came down on the side of my foot instead of the bottom of it. Ooops. So now I've got an air cast, crutches, and an official diagnosis of severe sprain. Sigh... My life. I tell ya. |
jarodrussell
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6:25p |
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tugrik
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3:43a |
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| Thursday, December 17th, 2009 |
jarodrussell
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5:03p |
My life goals summed up by 80's pop cultrue
 It's a bit disturbing to realize that most of my goals in life are summed up in a Burger King Kid's Club cartoon: hot rod wheelchair, full head of hair, and a tool set. I never knew it until now, but Wheels was who I wanted to be when I grew up. |
| Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 |
phar
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10:57p |
critter pin
I think I've given up on taking decent pictures. ( 2 pics... )Black is also impossible to photograph, sheesh! Definitely a lux tail on this one. I had tried embroidering a cutesy ':3' face, but ended up tearing it out. Skunk looks mysterious and mood-less. This one had been in a scattered form of unfinished for a while, so having the incentive to finish it was nice. Speaking of black things that are hard to photograph, Arf's going to get his stitches checked and possibly taken out tomorrow! Fingers crossed for positive progress.  |
jarodrussell
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2:45p |
Studies show 100% of me dislikes what studies show
From Geeks drive girls out of computer science, I'd like to quote this part: In another similar job-position experiment, women were more likely to accept an offer with a neutral Web-design company while men had the opposite preference, choosing the stereotypically nerdy company. The more women perceived the stereotypical environment as masculine, the less interested they were in that company. If we extrapolate the finding of your study, it seems the majority of women prefer computer jobs that don't actually involve computers. When I used to read these articles, I'd think what a terrible shame it was that so few women were interested in computer science. Now when I read them my first thought is, "Dudes, how do we keep those numbers going down? I don't want to have to get rid of my Batgirl shrine."I specifically went into computers because of stereotypical nerd appearances: sloppy clothes, messy desk, acceptance of body odor, etc. Current Mood: politically uncorrect |
