Lugging a laptop down to the conference room
I thought I had solved our safety officer's problem a couple years ago. He had a bunch of videos he needed to show during his training classes but it was a pain to lug a machine in and set it up before each class. I set all his videos up as private vid...
Cheap digital video production and free (or very cheap) internet-based venues for them has resulted in a wave of niche-interest low budget web video series. Fan-made productions are certainly not new and someday I might catalog all of those fan films based in the Star Trek universe which I loved, b...
TIL Pixar makes movies in Linux (RedHat and CentOS) and has open sourced their animation software.
https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/USD
Real-Time Graphics in Pixar Film Production
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9ikzGQW0ys
Folks in the US honor Veterans this weekend. While we're on the topic, lets not forget those Veterans of the Psychic Wars. The first reference of the term appears to be in Jim Morrison's poem Far Arden, 1969 (ref starts at 2 min 50):
A constant theme in Michael Moorcock's Elric novels (1972) w...
I've had a Raspberry Pi2 since earlier this year when it first came out. I had gotten it in a package which included a see-through plastic case, a miniSD card pre-loaded with Noobs on it, a wifi USB dongle, USB power supply, and HDMI cable. Since I already had a wireless keyboard and mouse I...
OK kids, make sure you have python installed so you can fire photons in this python remix of the classic Fortran Super Star Trek classic terminal game from the mid 70s. I played this game (poorly) in High School and had gotten frustrated trying to run the original Fortran version some while ago. T...
I don't pay for TV. Right now I pay for a cable connection to the internet which I really have no reason to complain about. It goes down sometimes, but for the most part Cablevision provides me with a fairly decent (speedy) connection, and they offer pretty good service to boot when things go bell...
Saw a powerful and thought-provoking film today on NetFlix called 180° SOUTH by Jeff Johnson which is a film record of his journey to Patagonia in the footsteps of his heros Yvon Chouinard (founder of Patagonia, Inc. the outdoor clothing company) and Doug Tompkins (founder of The No...
