What a waste.

On my way to school this morning, about 7:45AM I remember I have a field trip. I forgot where she (my AP government teacher) told us to meet, and what time.  I could tell it was gonna be a good day. Well at about 8:30 I find a sheet containing information about said field trip (it doesn’t contain any information about what the hell the field trip is). Turns out the feild trip that wastes half my date is for something like “rock the vote”. We have to pick up kids from Reagan H.S. (not the scary kids from Reagan, the cool and calm ones). We sit through this boring video, and have a yelling contest, and the the winner was decided on votes from the “judges”. McCallum wins the with 5 out of the 5 judges voting for us (thanks to Wade) but yet we still lost and crocket who recieved only 2 out of 5. The thing was totally rigged and we were robbed of t-shirts. As another student in my class said about the biased results “ma’am, this isn’t Flordia”. After this yelling “contest” we are given a tour of the capitol (like no one had ever had one). We get pizza after this which is good, unfortuantly the guest speaker we wait an hour for, decides not to show up…..I ragged hard. This day sucked……..

RRRRAAAGGGEEEEE!!!!!!!

So now that I have my nokia, I tend to rage alot more. The RSSreader on my beloved nokia keeps me up to date with the current poltical news (something I use to only do at home and therfore rage at home). So thanks to my nokia’s RSSreader I can rage anywhere, at school, church, even on the toilet taking a crap.

P.S. Fuck that slut sarah……

“The God Machine”

Wednesday night a package arrives on my doorstep. It’s my nokia n810, a god like device I haven’t been able to use much, as I wanted to, being I dropped it the second day I had it. Although the thing isn’t perfect (no 3g/wimax), but as an open source platform using the memo OS (linux kernel 4.1) the thing comes pretty close. The hardware Is great (qwerty keyboard, camera, GPS, wifi, touchsreen, “kick”stand etc…) but, what truly makes the n810 “the god machine” is not the hardware but the software. Because the n810 is open-source, this allows users to fill gaps, in the n810′s functionality (screen rotation, games, remote monitoring etc…). Due to said openness useres have created 100′s of programs for the n800/n810/n770; of course the user created software is supported by said users (delivering patches extremely fast). Don’t like the Maemo OS and or think it’s ugly? Fine, run Deblet (Debian for the n810/n800) or Google’s android, or KDE. I’m too tired from playing with my n810, to go on writing anymore about the “god machine” (more will come in later days however). Click the link to find out more about the n810.

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The devil’s video enhancment software

“Before Gizmodo, I worked in the bowels of the broadcast industry for a number of years. I was either shooting video or cutting video every day, all day. And while Final Cut Pro and Adobe After Effects were both tools I used with some proficiency on a daily basis, I’ve never seen a post production demo as incredible as this clip from the University of Washington.

Essentially, you shoot some crappy, low-rez video of a still scene. You then reshoot the same scene with a digital camera (with higher resolution). Software can automagically combine these images to upconvert the video AND fix problems in the image— all while compensating for 3D space. Make sense? The remarkable demo will clarify things a bit:

What’s especially notable is that the software can fill in the nasty bits of the scene despite the videographer/photographer rotating their view (you see this as they shoot around the tree) and despite any lens differences (the software can compensate for different lens sizes/distortions).

Also, note that many details from the source video are retained (the glass reflections in the statue shot may be the best example), which means that the photograph’s information isn’t the only information we see in the composite image.

I’m not quite convinced that the entire process is quite as automatic as the students would make it, but the technology is extremely promising all the same. And at this point, it should only be a matter of time before we see the idea work its way into our favorite post production products.”

As Mark Wilson points out at Gizmodo points out, There are some questions that still need to be answered. However the software still looks very promising.

[via Project page via bbGadgets via Gizmodo]

A+ Certfication

I will begin, my journey to A+ certification, and if it doesn’t become too boring I shall aim to complete it by the end of the semester.