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On a whim, I decided I needed a new DVD player. It’s not like I don’t have DVD players, but the one I had in my living room had one disadvantage: it was old enough that it wouldn’t play any DVDs that I burned. It’s simply old enough that it wasn’t an issue. Eric Haines […]

Upon returning from my SIGGRAPH sketch jury duty, I decided that Carmen deserved a lunch out and a movie. We chose The Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy, and trundled off. I’m a huge fan of Douglas Adams and this work in particular. Often when you really love a book, it is difficult to take derivative […]

Know how to get grumpy? Spend consecutive weekends in Reno and San Franscisco in the company of lots of people and food, and then go to your Sunday Weight Watchers and discover that you’ve put on nine f*cking pounds. Nine pounds. I f*cking hate this crappy pudgy body. You work and work and work and […]

Where your host waxes philosophical about crab as he visits the Bay Fung Tong Restaurant on the occasion of Sam’s birthday. Also, my upcoming weekend as a SIGGRAPH sketch juror.

Where your host finally gets around to recording another podcast detailing his brief weekend trip to Reno. Find out what sports book kind of blows, which ones are okay, and what hotel had rooms overlooking the scenic air conditioner on the roof. You can also find out what I’m doing this weekend and what I […]

I’m freshly back from a whirlwind trip to Reno to scout locations for my father-in-law’s 80th birthday party, and I’m going to be tied up with SIGGRAPH sketch jury duty through next weekend, and the following weekend I’ll be trying to paint my garage door and run (or more realistically, walk) the Bay To Breakers. […]

The Make blog this morning also mentioned WINKsite, a service which allows the simple creation of mobile websites. It’s pretty nifty, check out brainwagon mobile, which is also running in the emulator below live. I don’t know if I will keep this up, but if you have need of such a service check it out.

This just off the pokerwire.com WPT ticker… Annie Duke eliminates Wil Wheaton; John Kabbaj out Ten minutes after being crippled when an opponent hit trip queens against his pocket kings, Wheaton pushed his last 15k in with pocket kings (again!). Duke called with AK and spiked the ace. Sorry Wil. Hold’em be a harsh mistress. […]

I’m bored, so I decided to amuse myself with a self-referential puzzle. This post on brainwagon.org (including the title “a self-referential puzzle” but not any footers) contains thirteen As, four Bs, four Cs, seven Ds, fifty five Es, nineteen Fs, five Gs, ten Hs, twenty nine Is, fourteen Ls, four Ms, thirty three Ns, seventeen […]

I thought I got a good deal on my wireless notebook, but I just found out that she managed to get a wireless notebook for only $1.69. Yeah, $1.69! Isn’t that freakin’ amazing? Check it out, I’m not sure if it is 802.11b compliant, I haven’t gotten it to work with my wireless router yet, […]

Jeff reminds me that Doctor Who is back on the air. Jeff was the guy who got me hooked on Doctor Who while were shared a house in grad school, and I must admit that I miss the late night episodes aired on NJN in Princeton NJ. Sadly, PBS stations locally have not found Dr. […]

Just some random links: The Statue of Liberty Former site of the Twin Towers, which are still visible in Terraserver data Bombers at Travis AFB The Chabot Space and Science Center, where I teach telescope making from time to time. The waypoint set by Google isn’t actually the location of the Science Center, it’s down […]

Well, the game was not the epic stuff that dreams are made of. The Blue Jays roughed up the A’s pretty good, they lead 10-0 at one point, and the A’s did little to quell the fears that they could be a below .500 team this season. The Blue Jay hitters peppered the field with […]

With any luck, I’ll be podcasting, blogging, and posting photos from the A’s home opener later tonight. Update: It’s looking good. I have three separate devices charging their lithium ion batteries as I write this.

In the prehistory of Pixar, before Toy Story, we did lots of things to make ends meet. One of the things I worked on (indeed, I think the very first thing that earned me a credit in a movie) was work on the Imax film Cosmic Voyage. This was a remake of the “Powers of […]