I saw this on Boing Boing today

I thought this was particularly interesting and well done. Plus it’s based on one of my favorite movies. This is the kind of thing that would be good as research for future moviefest projects.

====Things I’ve Learned==== * Python has no conditional expressions (but does in 2.5) * svn rocks my socks * Eclipse doesn’t suck as much as I thought * [[http://www.nowpublic.com|NowPublic.com]] exists and they wanted to use my iPhone photos * I let them * I feel like a photojournalist * I’m not quitting my day job * I can really teach myself, even in one weekend of cramming * Writing dreams down can be awesome and motivational

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I could be sleeping. I could be reading a book. I could be writing you all this nice post I’ve been wanting to about the nature of Lindy on Sproul. But no. What am I doing? Playing with Matlab. Fucking around with image processing, not even for my class, in Matlab.

I get a pretty cool effect. I looked up a halfway decent edge-detection matrix in my book, convolved it against the original image, squared it to separate the lines more considerably, and then brought it all back into Photoshop, over the original image. And what you get is a kinda cool effect — like a sketch of the original photo.

Anyway, finally off to sleep with me. But yeah, kinda neat.

Been trying to learn a little ruby and the ruby way. And been playing with Jyte. This is the result

The first write was slow. This rewrite is shorter and much faster. Sure, it basically scrapes the page, but hey, it’s kinda cool.

Cheap hacks FTW.

Check out the source here

Best Valentine’s Day in a long while. Yes, I spent most of it coding. No, I didn’t have a date. I felt the most loved around noon though, when I got this:

Barak
P.P.'s book is in Priority Mail today...

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Happy V'day
Dad

Dad and I had been talking about what I should do for my EE225B project and he recommended I look at this book for what I was thinking about doing. Except it’s such a good book, it’s checked out at all the UCs fairly indefinitely (at one UC, it’s even checked out until Jan ‘08). So he sent his copy to me; I didn’t even ask. Sure enough, today at noon it was waiting at my door. Yeah. My family kinda rocks.

So now I’ve made a new blog. Heck, it’s all part of my multi-faceted plan to have a real place on the web.

I’ve worked all day and all night to put my new page together. And I’m still in a hack-mode, sort of, so expect that things might change — but I have the basics in place.

The best part: it’s less filling, yet tastes great.

On my LJ friends list? All my posts are crossposted to my LJ so it’s as if I never left.

On Facebook? I’ll now be sharing some of my posts as notes with y’all.

If you use an RSS reader, I’ll ask that you update my feed to http://photonzero.com/blog/feed/ — but that’s because you’re already cool enough, and you’ll get more out of it.

Also on my new page are photos and the like — all sorts of stuff about me, in my little corner of the web so come check it out

http://photonzero.com

A more technical look at hack-mode will be hitting P0/LJ soon enough.