A for the F In DAY
Yea !!!!
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Roth Regatta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkbQyuN2BZQ
Definitely a fun time during the Regatta. There was live bands, popcorn and, and random fun. I enjoyed the Regatta for the past 4 years and wish I could see more and be around with friends forever. Like they say though all good things must come to and end.
Definitely a fun time during the Regatta. There was live bands, popcorn and, and random fun. I enjoyed the Regatta for the past 4 years and wish I could see more and be around with friends forever. Like they say though all good things must come to and end.
NO MORE FUJI!
i've been working at this sushi restaurant for about 2 yrs now however the restaurant is being bought out and taken over by new management and staff. I wasn't too happy to hear about this but I figured eventually the time would come. The store had been up for sale for about the 2 years I had been working and finally now someone bought out the store. I will miss everyone there like my manager the head sushi chef and the sou chef and my fellow servers. It was definitely a long run for the business that had been set up about 8 yrs ago. It was time when all of us were just becoming like family then we had to move apart due to reasons we could not control. I will truly miss everyone and everything the work life was truly a blessing.
No more exams!
I finished my exams last week and I'm very very sad in an odd way. College life is really drawing near. What will I do for summer? I feel as though I'm basically done with everything almost just an extra semester and i'm out of here. It's sad to know that half of my friends in college are gone already and the other half is what I'll be leaving behind. Whoever thought that college would be trly a second home and a place where I could relax and sulk around like a bum. I think it was truly too relaxing that I ended up on the wrong path. I feel as though I didn't live up to my potential of college as a student but more so a well-rounded thinking individual.
Recent news...
In recent events in my life.. I can't conclude what is wrong with my ex-girlfriend. I understood the fact that she wanted to start a new relationship and move on with life but however it seems she always calls and or texts me. It's nothing too particular in her texts just seeing how I am and probably how annoyed she is that I don't respond. I never agreed to staying friends with her so why should I try? If you look at it she ignored me for a while, left me and now she wants attention from me and not the new guy? I think that's just a little selfish and really confusing. I think she should just move on and be happy as possible because I don't think it's right for her to try and manipulate her ways back into my life.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Addicted to Picnik
creepy story about this truck..so my friends and i would always see this massive red truck outside our quad, one of my friends who is from the south had a weird thing for trucks so we wrote notes, and took pictures (like the one above) with this truck just as a ha-ha kinda thing. Well it turned out if was one of the boys we knew on the football team. We tagged him in a few of the pictures on facebook which he immediately detagged because his girlfriend was not a fan of 8 unknown girls hanging about her territory. To this day he thinks we're creeps for doing such things but i'll always look back laugh at the ridiculous things we did in college. :)
Friday, May 14, 2010
100th blog
It crazy to be done!!!! I took this class because I was interested in the differences between 1, 2 and 3d images. I enjoyed the expirence and feel like i learned a vast amount about photo manipulation and sketch-up. Along with computer skills, I learned a lot about file formats and movie editing. I love the class atmosphere and the structure of the class. Very happy I had the opportunity to take it!
da chen
Its crazy to think but this was october when i was a finalist in the freshman orientation project. it was exciting to meet the author Da Chen. My project was a pretty cool multimedia project
sink
it was really gross... our suite sink overflowed during the semester. it overflowed sewage. So gross. we battled with it for three days. I was very dissatisfied that the college let us live like that for so longflash rave after effects
APPARENTLY after the flash rave.... the cops broke up the rave outside staller....and everyone ran to a second positioned dj in the library. It was reading day and everyone was staking out the library. I enjoyed seeing everyone's reactions. Although buried in their books, the snap out of studies reawakened their lives. Seeing the joy captivate my peers helped me reevaluate my life. Finals week takes over your soul, but its about minor moments of time where you recapture your brain fro recreational use
Flash Rave
On Monday night, there was a flash rave. It was pretty impressive how the spread of the word attracted so many people. They set up a dj, passed out 2,000 glow sticks and it was party time. It lasted 15 minutes before the cops came.
iPAD!
So my friends from Taiwan came to NYC to visit. Since Apple has not released iPad in Taiwan, my friend decided to add iPad on her new york shopping list. I took her to the apple store on Fifth Avenue. We stayed on a really long line, and she bought the last one! How lucky!
Trees
I was looking at my old pictures, and I realized that I like to take pictures of trees and flowers, well just nature basically. I don't know why, but they just fascinate me.
News: How the Apple iPad was Dreamed Up
How the Apple iPad Was Dreamed Up — in 1988
A bunch of college students figured out what an Apple tablet should be, 22 years before it existed.
Harry McCracken, Technologizer
May 14, 2010 6:02 pm
- In the late 1980s, Apple Computer was better known for fantasizing about breakthrough products than making them. Most famously, CEO John Sculley envisioned a futuristic gizmo called the Knowledge Navigator–featuring a bowtied digital assistant–in his 1987 bookOdyssey. It made for a mighty impressive futuristic video.
In September of the same year, Apple announced a competition it called “Project 2000.” Teams from a dozen universities were invited to submit papers about Knowledge Navigator-like concepts representing the PC of far-off 2000. An impressive panel of judges–Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, personal-computing visionary Alan Kay, futurist Alvin Toffler, science fiction legend Ray Bradbury, and Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Diane Ravitch–judged the entries in early 1988.
A group from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign won, for a paper titled TABLET: The Personal Computer of the Year 2000. “We seek something which fits comfortably into people’s lives while dramatically changing them,” the entry explained. And then it went on to describe a machine that was as different from the typical portable computer of the eraas you could imagine.
The device was about the size of a paper notebook, and it packed a high-resolution color touchscreen with a virtual keyboard, gigabytes of solid-state storage, cellular connectivity, GPS, and a built-in microphone and speaker. Sophisticated software based on UNIX let you tap icons on a desktop and use pop-down menus to use it for note-taking, connecting to online services, driving directions, e-mail (complete with junk-mail filtering), social networking, 3D games, and both network TV shows and wacky user-generated video. Accessories included a wireless keyboard for those who preferred to touch type, and if you lost your tablet, a clever service even let you use the GPS to track it down.
Pretty heady stuff–we’re talking about the second Reagan administration here–but Apple incorporated all these ideas into a slim tablet that went on to be a groundbreaking success.
Oh, okay, Apple didn’t release the tablet in 1988, or even 2000. It waited until 2010, when it unveiled something called the iPad. (You may have heard about it). And I have no reason to think that Apple’s gizmo draws any inspiration whatsoever from the University of Illinois’s concept; in fact, it’s entirely possible that nobody involved with its design, including Steve Jobs, is even aware of Project 2000. (The contest was held when he was off running NeXT–although he returned to Apple in time to have a hand in its real computers of the year 2000.)
But I’m still struck by how close the Project 2000 tablet came to predicting the one Apple would build more than twenty years later. Tech predictions are so tough to get right that even very smart people get them embarrassingly wrong. But the University of Illinois team pretty much nailed every major feature of the device Apple eventually created–right down to “Find My iPad.”
Which is not to say that the 1988 tablet was utterly iPadlike. Some notable ways it differed:
- It could be controlled via your fingertips, but it also sported a stylus and handwriting recognition.
- The gigabytes of storage were provided not in fixed form, as in the iPad, but in interchangable memory cards. They sound a lot like SD cards, but were about the size of credit cards and based on optical RAM technology.
- While the paper does talk about online services hosted by powerful remote computers, it didn’t quite predict the rise of the Web. (It would have been neat if it had–and fitting, given that the graphical Web browser was invented at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign just a few years later.) Instead, the team expected that a lot of databases would be distributed on memory cards and that users would “trade them like baseball cards.”
- There was a built-in camera–incredible, huh?–for videoconferencing.
- The tablet connected wirelessly with peripherals not through something like Bluetooth or Wi-Fi but via an infrared connection.
- It was thick. Really thick. (In the 1980s, the concept of superthin computing devices didn’t exist–Digital’s 1994 HiNote may have introduced it–and the winning Project 2000 team failed to predict it.)
- Oh yeah–it could multitask apps and run them in windows. (That appears to be Father Guido Sarducci in one of the tiny video windows.)
Those are all minor nits to pick–and in fact, the iPad could include some of these features today if Apple decreed so, and might be a better machine if it did. Absolutely nothing that the paper predicts was wildly unrealistic or worthy of mockery.
Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/196367/how_the_apple_ipad_was_dreamed_up_in_1988.html
Lost count
I keep creating blog posts. I know that we need to have 50 but I've lost count already! I've decided to keep posting whatever I think is interesting. Even thought the class ended already, I'm thinking about creating my own blog and keep doing what we're doing right now.
Hatred
I have been really tired and stressed because of finals. I just found out my grades on chem and bio, and the numbers are pretty ugly. I really hate this week and I'm glad that it's almost over. I still have two more finals to go, but they're not as hard. I can't wait for summer to come!!
Soo close to done uploading
Except after it is done I have to wait like 4 hours for the 40 minutes of footage to be processed and uploaded. Soo that is really annoying. Its insane how fast technology has gotten. The footage is going to be like uploaded in 10 seconds when new technology comes out and then that is going to feel like forever just because everything is going to happen so fast. Like I have a new mac and this to me is soo much faster then any other computer but what is the new new new comps going to look like in 20 years. I feel like this is so new but technology just gets crazy and crazy as life goes on.
my feet video blog
Soo I just finished watching the upload of my feet video of me taping my feet video. Soo that just sounds weird, basically I was watching it and I realized I messed up some of the slides, oh and I even have my video resume I made but I put it on Alex's computer and forgot to give it to the prof, soo crap, maybe I will post little parts of it. Soo yea, I need to figure out how to get that to the prof 2.
Racing
I am watching busted and this guy just got arrested for street racing and wow that is mad scary. Imagine you just started racing and then all of the sudden now you are in jail and your car is getting impounded for thirty days. Wow he is soo messed up now. He has no car. Soo basically street racing is really not cool.
While its uploading
Soo I can get my hundred posts I will just talk about the show while I am uploading all of these video's. Soo the tank was mad fun, I had a blast. I loved the inexpensive drinks however the was no pabst so I was a little disappointed but I got over it. Everyone's work was great and those people who put on the show I have alot of footage of them. Soo as soon as its done uploading I will post I really hope the professor doesn't finish the blogs.
AHHH no don't wrap up yet
I am uploading footage still from the show, I will try to post all of them by sunday but I have alot alot alot alot of footage to upload. I need a little bit more time, I am uploading all of it write now, Ill post a bunch of video's
Thursday, May 13, 2010
portfolio 3
and here is a bunch of sketchup work that were originally in videos. i took screenshots of each:
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