The Twilight Report

dogs and cats, living together, mass hysteria

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:41:00 GMT

Re-watched Fight Club. I honestly don’t understand what I saw in that movie. It’s clever, and somewhat anarchic, but like Che it has more traction as a T-shirt than it does for its ideas. Ironically appropriate given the proclivities of Tyler Durden. The film reminds me of just about every frat boy I met at uni.

Re-watching Ghostbusters. The effects are cheesy, but ahh... makes me all nostalgic for New York. Good times. This remains one of my favourite films.

New TV is a good excuse to revisit my DVD library.

Also watched my second demo (e) for the first time on my new TV, and also for the first time with my new amp. Looks and sounds really good :) I decided to skip watching my first demo Final Intensity on account of it being tainted by Kari’s contribution to the project.

Playing through Super Mario Galaxy. I am less than 15 stars short of the final showdown, assuming there isn’t an encore, which there probably is. Running both the Wii and the Mac Mini through the TV has got me to thinking that if the Wiimote worked as a pointing device for the Mac Mini it would be really cool. I still think about interface design issues, even though I am destined to work on server side stuff it seems. It’s a pity that nothing works with anything else. Yay for capitalism and free markets.

Things that I don't understand

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:06:00 GMT

I asked my mum tonight how what she does is different from what my dad used to do. My mum uses a technique called small angle neutron scattering to determine the nature of the universe. My dad used to be a crystallographer and determined the structure of crystals^[1], before he got bored with it and started playing with DNA.

I am not sure if I am describing it wrong, but when ever I attempt to describe what my mum does people say "oh so it's like crystallography." Which confuses me because mum has always talked about what she does such that it makes me think that it is completely different.

Walking home tonight I talked to mum about it and I think I am now equipped to explain how what she does is different. I still don't understand it completely.

Then mother had Don explain to me how the guy who manages their money makes a living without charging them for his service. I understand money about as much as I understand crystallography or small angle neutron scattering.

[1] When I showed Dad Final Intensity, his comment was not "wow what a neat demo", it was "crystals don't have five fold symmetry" ... uh thanks

The Dumb Shit You Discover When You Are Board

Tue, 09 Nov 2004 01:25:00 GMT

I have to say... things are going really well for me at the moment. I can't exactly say why... but they are very good.

Final Intensity

Since my demo (Final Intensity) runs accelerated on the fast graphics card in my dual dual PIII (dual processor, dual head... click here for pictures), I was wondering what would happen if I moved the window to the monitor being driven by the slower (but still 3d accelerated) graphics card. When the window is half on one side and half on the other, the half on the slower card freezes and the half on the fast side keeps going. So if you slowly edge the window over to the slow side, you get this weird graphic of my demo as a function of time as you go from left to right. I snapped a screen shot using The Gimp.