Sleepy Friday…
(6/12/2009)
I’ve made it to Madrid and I’m going to sack out and try to synch my schedule here. It’s wonderful to be back with the chica.
Short Thursday…
(6/11/2009)
Today I’ll be flying against the sun to see my brown-eyed girl. It’ll be a very short Thursday and I’ll arrive in Madrid tomorrow at 9:30 AM on Friday.
Mary in her Spanish dress
Don’t make him angry…
(6/10/2009)
Tomorrow morning I hop a plane to Spain and I’ll be with my sweetie for about 5 weeks. As a result, I won’t have much time for the blog over the next two weeks, but I saw this SNL skit and thought it was amusing.
Time is a stormblown tempest…
(6/8/2009)
Today is the 37th anniversary of the day I was born. Our plucky little planet has once again successfully circumnavigated the sun and you have to admit there were times during the Bush administration when we were uncertain it would make it.
I recently found a series of YouTube videos called the Everyday videos. These were originally started by a photographer in New York named Noah Kalina in January of 2000. Noah began taking photographs of his face every day and continued for 6 years. He then streamed all of these images into a video that shows the world flashing around him as he ages 6 years in about 5 minutes. This is classic Geek innovation and Noah deserves serious credit for originating the concept.
One of the striking things about the images is that time seems to blast the world around Noah like a wind tunnel while the only the unchanging constant is his gaze and expression.
Noah Kalina Everyday
Ahreelee
Another very striking change is Johnathan Keller’s video. Both Noah and Ahreelee seem to have almost ageless faces but Johnathan starts his video as a young man and changes from a gangly teenager into an adult before your eyes.
Johnathan Keller
To find more like this, search YouTube for “everyday”.
~P.
AJAX for Rabbit Geeks
(06/05/2009)
On Tuesday I hosted another online web seminar dealing with embedded web development. Specifically, I covered AJAX with the Rabbit embedded microcontrollers.
Not for everybody, but pretty geeky:
Rabbit Webinar Link
I also wrote up a beginner’s workbook which I think is pretty nifty. It makes me think I could do the same kind of presentation and workbook for fencers someday.