Burlington, VT

Experimenting with the Canon's handy panoramic mode, and just sqeaking in under blogger's 8MB upload limit.

Net art

I live about two years behind the rest of the internet class, so it was about time that I discovered a web-based comic entitled Questionable Content. It's a soap opera featuring 20-somethings, indie music, a majority female cast, coffee and some robots. Verily.

I found the author's description of how he constructs the artwork particularly interesting. The comic looks hand-drawn but synthetically colored; in fact, it's drawn directly into Photoshop using a pen-on-tablet type interface, then shaded in using some semi-automated image processing. That's right, my image processing aspires to find its way into papers in low-impact engineering journals; this guy retires on it.

A few people I know use similar tablets for note-taking during class or meetings. There are some like this one that are less clumsy than carrying around a tablet PC but hold memory for several 'pages' of notes before plugging them in and dumping them to a workstation for storage. I tend to take notes in graphs, figures and concept maps rather than text, so a keyboard doesn't do me much good (although a guitar-synth might), but one of those would be a quicker interface into basketnotes than my current method of running ink-on-vellum through the office scanner.

250 km with a thing on my shoe

That's right, Nike+ says I've logged 250 km with their nifty accelerometer. I'm sure they'd be happy to know that it was evenly split between my Adidas and Brooks runners.

Here's the braggart's page.