Posts tagged Projects
Published by Bear
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
View My Newest Creation before reading.
It's the Web 2.0 and by now most of you have seen or heard of Wordclouds (aka Tag Clouds). I created the subject of this post to jump start my recent lack of extracurricular education. Though not technically a Tag Cloud -- it's horizontally aligned as opposed to a cloud-like grouping -- it fills much of the same mental desire.
It's ecstasy distilled to continuously refresh the page and see the array of colors and word formations. It would be doubly good if I could figure out a useful way to properly rotate the words so that they fit into a nice formation.
If you have a block of text you'd like to use as a seed, Wordle makes it so easy a caveman could do it. Take this post for instance.
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Published by Bear
Sunday, March 1st, 2009
Those of you I've talked to know that my Home Theater PC (HTPC) has been done for a while now. Problem is, I've been too lazy to post the pictures I'd taken online until now.
I uploaded them to a flickr set so everyone can head over there and check them out. I keep threatening to do an actual photo gallery system here but haven't found the time. In all honesty I have plenty of time but I use it working and playing World of Warcraft.
Molly and I are canceling our cable this week so in about... a year the computer should pay for itself. I'll take some pictures of my current entertainment system and post them up here soon.
Published by Nick
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Edit2:Big ass yellow dude came by today while I was pinching off dead buds. Pretty rad looking. Here he is getting high off Pentas.
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Edit1:more butterfly pictures. Linking out so Maida doesn't cry.
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Worked a lot more on my mom's garden. Yeah I like flowers.
Most of the Vincas I originally planted in the front row died. I think it was root rot so I planted everything else with a nice padding of perlite under it to drain better. Anyway, we gots in thar (middle out):
Front row - Melapodium, Zinnia, Vinca, Mexican Heather.
2nd Row - Zinnia varieties
3rd Row- Butterfly bush, Pentas
4th Row - Purple cone echinacea, Cleome.
Also, butterflies chill here all freakin day.
Really crappy example, but there's one.
Anyway, the gnome needs a name. He's jolly and sullen. Yeah that's right. Any suggestions?
Published by Nick
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Patrick and I got some serious sculpting done for Muriel's birthday presents.
I made the pipe smoking lizard and Patrick crafted the Hippopotamus with down syndrome.
Her Birthday isn't til tomorrow so don't tell.
Published by Nick
Friday, April 18th, 2008
Finally finished up this sucker. Need to touch up the claw a little and then add some flora, but it turned out decently. I broke about 4 of my feathers today ><
Published by Maida
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Dearest Robots, I've finally begun streaming content from my PC onto the television in the Media Room upstairs. Glorious, glorious, glorious. The Xbox 360 can stream only WMV and MPEG-2 video, which pretty much eliminated my entire collection of videos. Then came Xilisoft! All Hail Xilisoft and their grandiose video conversion software! Next up, .mkv files (which house my HD movie content, like Saving Private Ryan, The Matrix, and No Country For Old Men). Since my Xvid Avi files can be converted quite easily (though it takes some time), I should have all my videos ready to watch in no time. South Park and Family Guy marathons abound!
Oh, and Happy Easter, you fucking atheists!
Published by Maida
Sunday, February 17th, 2008
God, what a miserable title. Almost as miserable as the movie "Jumper," staring emotionally flat (how does he get work? Actually, how the fuck did he land the role of Anakin Skywalker? Oh, wait...) Hayden Christensen and a slowly-decaying-as-a-worthwhile-actor Samuel L. Jackson. Anyways, I digress.
A few things I'd like to talk about today.
Number one, I've purchased a book by Todd Perkins, called Adobe Flash CS3 Professional. I'd like to get proficient, or at least somewhat useful, with Flash and ActionScript in order to provide all you readers out there with some interesting multimedia content. Right now I'd be happy with a working button, but as it stands I have a beautifully shaded (thank you, gradient tool!) circle and nothing else.
Secondly, iTunes 7.6 has been on my proverbial nerves. The latest edition has brought even more bugs into an already-slow application. I've always noticed that the sound-quality on iTunes lagged behind Winamp, at least on my system, and today I switched back over to Winamp. The latest version, build 5.52, runs smoothly, and sound reproduction is superb - far better than iTunes, and I'm not sure why. How come iTunes lacks the beauty and elegant functionality of the iPod and iPhone? Can't say I'll be switching for good; I don't trust 3rd party applications with my iPod.
I feel like a poor man's Andy Rooney right now.
Finally (and the reason behind this post), I stumbled upon a fantastic physics-based game, reminiscent of the "falling sand" and "crayon" games I've played in the past. It's not really a game, per se, since the only goals are those you set for yourself. I wouldn't say it's as addictive as SimCity or Counter-Strike, but it is, well, phun.
You can find it here (it's not browser-based, and won't work on a Mac just yet): www.acc.umu.se/~emilk/downloads.html
Enjoy!
