One of my favorite directors turns 70 today! Happy birthday to the director of 12 Monkeys, Time Bandits (which I just introduced to my wife this weekend), and my all-time favorite movie Brazil. Tideland creeped me out though.
Welcome back to one of my favorite bands of the 90s! My wife can have her “Pumpkins” (as can you, future father of twins, Frank Kerous); give me the complex chord progressions of Chris Cornell any day of the week. … Continue reading
Recently I got a Dropbox account. It’s a great little service; you install a small client to your computer and it then automatically synchronizes a folder with its storage system. Oftentimes I use email to send myself projects at work. … Continue reading
On the way home from work today I was listening to WGLT and a great cover of The Cure came on. A gal named Kat Edmonson sings “Just Like Heaven” on her debut album “Take To The Sky”. It’s a … Continue reading
While listening to this week’s Mac Break Weekly, a panel member picked Pulse Smartpen from Livescribe as his pick of the week. Amazon’s got some nice videos explaining the pen but I’ll summarize. This pen can record what you write … Continue reading
I’ve been listening to a fascinating book (recommended by TWiT and purchased from Audible.com) written by Jeff Hawkins called “On Intelligence.” In it, Hawkins presents his theory of what intelligence is by specifically describing how he believes the neo-cortex of … Continue reading
Download “Elevator Operator” by Jim Bianco, performed on December 13th, 2008 at the Double Door in Chicago, Illinois. My wife and I (along with a few friends) saw this guy when he opened for Over the Rhine for their semi-annual … Continue reading
The Eyeballing Game is a neat test of one’s ability to manipulate geometric shapes. It’s a fun little brain game. Go play it now! Seriously, I’m not going to write anything else here, just check it out.
Okay, I’ve got to stop looking at these Photoshop CS4 demonstration videos … each one makes me drool. This video shows one how Photoshop CS4 (is that regular or “Extended” Photoshop) can turn a panorama shot into a 3-D image … Continue reading
Photoshop CS4 has been announced and they implement something that I saw as a SIGGGRAPH demo just last year, content-aware scaling. This means that you can resize an image without losing the important bits, such as people. Here’s the video … Continue reading