Branch reminded me that he is a photography buff. I am getting ready to dive into doing panorama shots, but trying to figure out which HW and SW I should use. I just downloaded RealViz’s software (http://www.realviz.com/ ) since a bunch of pro’s seem to like it. I am also looking at Really Right Stuff […]
Month: May 2007
Doubly Special Relativity
Calvin and I have been reading a really interesting book about the politics of physic (yes there is such a thing called) “The Trouble with Physics”:http://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Physics-String-Theory-Science/dp/0618551050/marketingplaybook-20 about the big issues with string theory. Thanks to Peter for sending to me. He describes a really interesting theory called “Doubly Special Relativity (DSR)”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubly-special_relativity that although highly speculative […]
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Best Seattle Restaurants
Someone was asking me for the best restaurants of Seattle. Lots of controversy, here, but The “Seattle Times”:http://edb.seattletimes.nwsource.com/ae/scr/st_res_sr.cfm?a=0&ah=0&o=1&cui=0&winSize=50&chunkSize=10&oo=2&p=0&s=3&d=n&oh=y&alpha=&beer=f&smoking=&ckBox=&keyw= has their best list. Notable new ones as opposed to boring old ones (but they are still great like the Herbfarm or Rover’s) are: * Beato Food and Wine. It’s more of a local place in West […]
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Indoor Sports Lenses 135mm F/2 or 100mm F/2 or 70-200 F2.8
Well with the lenses I know I have, I cover just about every situation well but indoor sports for things like basketball. The 100-400 is just too slow but has great zoom with the 1.6x lense factor, so everything looks blurry. The 24-105 F4/L is also too slow as I need 1/500-1/1000 second to freeze […]
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Blackberry Curve Launches June 7th
“Boy Genius”:http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2007/05/26/blackberry-att-rock-the-curve-launch-event-june-7th-confirmed/ reports that the Curve launches June 7. New Macbook Pros launch June 11 and the iPhone right after. It is going to be a great June! Powered by ScribeFire.
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Disc Golf in Seattle
Here are some great things to do if on a rainy day you want to play frisbee (a.k.a. disc golf). Here are some resources: Places to play. Seattle Parks and Recreation: Mineral Springs Park (formerly North Seattle Park) Mineral Springs Park is home to one of Seattle’s two disc golf courses. (It is really a […]
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PSP Video Encoding
It is very confusing what you can encode on the PSP, it has all kinds of strange restrictions. Like, the file names have to be of in a directory called MP_ROOT/100MNV01 and the file name has to be MV*.MP4. The PSP is really a picky device. Also, when you are encoding, you have to be […]
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PSP Videos
“PSP Video 9”:http://www.pspvideo9.com/ is a free transcoder that takes common formats and converts them into something you can put on a memory stick and watch on your PSP Powered by ScribeFire.
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PSP Firmware
Want to really be a geek then get to know all the firmware that is available on the PSP. Sony is a constant battle trying to close up loopholes, but you can easily download hackware, although you can also brick (e.g., destroy your PSP). Pirates! for instance requires version 2.82, so I upgraded, the only […]
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Hitachi Travelstar 7K100
“Storagereview.com”:http://www.storagereview.com/articles/leaderboard.html says the Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 is the nicest drive around. I need yet another one because my homebrew ASUS M3p seems to eat drives for breakfast. I’ve lost two so far. I think that notebook doesn’t do a good job of handling shocks. In any case for a mere $107 or so I’m back […]
