October 2010
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"Wings of Icarus" →
I really like this photo by photographer 김주원 (Kim Joowon)
September 2010
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http://stuffedman.blog.me/10093205061 →
The force of presence in these shots of Milford Sound. You can’t see these and not imagine some powerful ancient spirits.
April 2010
13 posts
A bit belated, but I’ll say one and only one thing regarding Mr. Ebert’s statement on video games: Holy *&@ suntimes.com, why would you load 3300+ comments, some quite lengthy, on the same page!?
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Another site.design, again
(Thanks to @photojojo.) Another horizontally awesome photo project/page:
We’re All Gonna Die – 100 meters of existence — a project by Simon Hoegsberg.
re: Google Chrome search engine detection
Not quite perfect. It just added the W3C validator to the list. Or, is it just trying to be clever?
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Like most browsers today, Google Chrome has an interactive address bar that can, among other things, let you quickly execute search queries with a simple keyword specifying which search engine you’d like to use. Turns out, Chrome is smarter (and a little more alive) than most.
I was recently surprised to find that Google Chrome seemed to not only recognize the usual search...
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Another site.design
This site just struck me as a good use of the old, but tried-and-true, default browser scrollbar as a good-design interface.
The photo and page height is well within single window/monitor range,
makes better use of widescreen monitors,
cursor travel as well as needed-accuracy to reach the scrollbar is minimized,
no chance of temperamental or gawdy custom coded- scrollbar element,
lets the...
Trying Very Hard To Shrink My MP3 Collection
joshkim:
As with so many things in my life, gotta simplify.
Take out your digital trash. Your hard drive and your multiple backups will thank you.
You do have multiple backups, right?
You do have offsite backups, right?
Josh Kim: Adobe Lightroom 2: List Of Stuff →
It doesn’t to png. “No photos were found to import.” I need to store my screenshots. There goes that.
You can’t drag and drop jpgs anywhere else but the Library “tab”. Makes sense if you think about it, but instinctively, why can’t I just bunch images and throw it at the app? I guess you can…
No PNG might seem annoying, but that’s because Lightroom is designed for photography. PNG...
The Benefits Of A Separate Home Directory
joshkim:
Well, not really a true home directory, since it’s still manually managed.
My ~/ is still on the SSD, but most of my media/content is on my separate old school HD.
Ah, the lack of data I have to copy over is enough.
You’re welcome. :P lol
Josh Kim: It's Offical: I hate Apple's Apps on the... →
iBooks is just eye candy. There are some neat features, but I can’t see myself forcing my methods to fit this.
“iPod” is also the same deal. It doesn’t help that I don’t like iTunes, but this is iTunes lite, with so many assumptions that it’s not even funny.
Maybe things will be better for those…
You like Amazon MP3 better even with my introducing you to good audio gear!? /sarcasm
GoodReader: AMAZING
joshkim:
Okay, not only can you download text and PDF files from a lot of places like Google Docs, box.net, or Dropbox… it can get MP3’s from these places?
Holy geez. This app can get awesome real fast if the dev is thinking ahead…
Totally bypass iTunes for all my media. Yes, please.
joshkim being unclear as usual, but GoodReader looks like a very nice app to get data on iPhone OS devices by...
January 2010
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re: Finder modes (@joshkim)
joshkim:
I would have liked to have gone with the Toolbar Hidden (go to View, or cmd + opt + T), but the problem is that I can’t have it all open in the same folder. I just can’t find out how to do this.
I know I’ve come across information on this before. Since tumblr just ate what I previous wrote, I’ll just say this.
Tidbit: The window-per-folder mode is from the old Mac OS...
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Digitally Distributed Game Rentals
It’s something I’ve been waiting and waiting to hear about. The technology is all there and has been forever. Even more, the technology is all out there being used in the marketplace.
When the Xbox 360 got the ability to install games to its hard drive I wondered when it might happen…
When streaming services like Netflix and Hulu (and, later, Youtube with HD videos), I wondered...
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Avatar. Six vague, spoiler-free (labyrinthine)...
Critics: Yes, the plot is simple and predictable, and it has been done over and over —- there is a reason for that. I, for one, was ever so thankful that it stays focused, and that it doesn’t try to give me a Hollywood-science/-history lesson.
There are details to the world and the backstory that isn’t explored with as much depth in this movie, but could conceivably yield a...
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So, it's been a week.
I’ve spent about a week’s worth of time in the new year. (Funny math you say? Well, I gained about 20 hours because of my flight east across the date line on New Years. [details])
So, here’s a summary of “new things I’ve started to spend my free time doing”
1박2일 (1 Night 2 Days, a.k.a. 1N2D). A Korean “reality”/variety show featuring a fixed...
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The Food We Crave
An interesting observation…
As anyone who has visited my apartment (a select few) can attest, I tend to like cooking but stick to strictly “Western” (i.e., French, American, Italian, etc.) affair. I have a few Korean recipes up my sleeve, but I have not taken them out in recent months. This diet isn’t restricted to my cooking, but none of my eating out in recent months has...
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One more thing on my favorite place to wait for a...
I’ve already talked about how much I like the Incheon International Airport that services Seoul in many tweets and my diatribe about my “Lucky Break.”
One thing I didn’t mention was the existence of many little niche cultural centers where anyone from kids to adults could get a taste of traditional Korean culture. These ranged from small arts and crafts activities, to art...
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"You know" (verbal whitespace)
When I started doing debate in high school, I had the same problem most people have when speaking under more stressed conditions. Most recognizable as the dreaded “um”s or “uh”s peppered throughout a prepared speech, or even the “like”s that some people seem to utter like every other…like word.
For me, it surfaced most in less formal events where I had to...
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Lucky Break
I’ve been complaining for a couple weeks about my horrid travel plans to and from Korea. The original plan had been to take a direct Asiana Airlines flight both to and back. If you haven’t flown Asiana or Korean Air, and have only flown international on the likes of United or Northwest, you are definitely missing out and probably won’t understand why just this very fact is...
November 2009
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Umami-box
AB. Alton Brown. You gotta love the man. Even though Food Network is deep in the pockets if the umami marketing machine (there hands are grabbing away at least), Mr. Brown will have none of that. So, after hosting an episode of The Next Iron Chef that was practically a Kikkoman ad, he’ll get right up on a soapbox in his show, Good Eats, and denounce all the marketing fluff that surrounds...
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Library déjà vu
I am having such a bizarre moment of déjà vu that I had to stop and sit down to write this down.
I’m sitting at a desk in the Gardner Main Stacks of the UCB library. I can say with absolute certainty that I have never been down here before. But, I did once have a very vivid dream that I remembered quite clearly in the morning, in which I had been running through what was a library at...
October 2009
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Microsoft Store? More like Scientology recruiting... →
Does this feel really eerie? I’ve heard that the MS Store was going to be similar to the Apple Store, but wow. The huge glass façade, floors, tables, the employees with their bright-colored shirts…
Eerie, yes. But I just couldn’t get past the crazy screaming hordes of Microsoft gurus. It felt like some sort of cult (or, self-help seminar) recruiting session—the opening salvo of...
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Reading this post on The Brainy Gamer made me realize that I’ve been doing the same thing: leaving new games unplayed.
I’m not entirely sure, but I think Batman: Arkham Asylum is still sitting in my 360 with less than an hour of playtime on it. My pre-ordered copy of Brutal Legend is still in the Amazon.com box that it came in, and of course I’ve held on to this copy of...
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“It’s not just that the iPhone has fancy woo-woo transitions and purty graphics;...”
– But, this is something I struggle with all the time, leading to delays in action or accidental double-taps.
source: stevenf.com - A couple people have asked me to post an update…
Hacks, Pruning, and The Point of This Blog :... →
… Korea, which shares with Canada a long history of being peripheral …
Some interesting observations..
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IMDb Turns 19. →
IMDb was also one of my earliest contacts with the internet. When I was in the first(?) grade, my mom had printed out and brought home for me an IMDb page of Star Wars facts and trivia. I think I still have that with me to this day…
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A Troll Squats On WWWBING.com — Literally →
Unrelated to the story: I didn’t even realize Lycos and Excite were still around… how is it that excite.com doesn’t look like it’s changed more than barely since the mid 90’s??
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Cross-eyes
I’ve been watching the new series FlashForward. The premise and opening half hour was was pretty compelling if just for the scale of it. Most of the events following haven’t been nearly as exciting and the questions it tries to pose are fairly cliché. I’ll give it a few more episodes, but into the fourth I’m leaning towards dropping it.
There is a scene in the third...
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If Korean dramas were right...
… and Korean men were actually like this, they’d all be tall, handsome and built. And, they’d all stop the car to get a kitten out of a tree, all the while forgetting that their wife is going into labor in the back seat.
The amnesia that all romantically involved characters have towards one another in the typical Korean drama is not just unbelievable, but plain frustrating. The...
September 2009
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Google Voice: Voicemail transcription
I’ve been using Google Voice for a few weeks now, and while I haven’t been leveraging its full potential, it is still a very useful tool in my communications arsenal. (muahaha?)
One of the most useful features for me has been the transcribed voicemails. I’ll talk more on this some other time. For now, some laughs on the different ways in which it has thus far transcribed my...
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Deprecating My Time
To be clear, I am not a programmer.
I’ve taken my share of CS classes, spent my early elementary school years enamored with computers and playing around with QBASIC. Things I’ve learned in classes range from HTML to Java and C++. While working at Motorola I spent most of my time using C and .NET/Visual Studio. Then there are the Mathematicas and Matlabs and others of the world...
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Bethesda v. Interplay, Re: Fallout
note: It’s a sad sign that my first post is being written at home on a Friday night.
The facts as I understand them
I just read the news at Kotaku that Bethesda—developer of last year’s Fallout 3—has filed a suit against Interplay for citing trademark infringement. The general issue boils down to the fact that Bethesda purchased all rights to the Fallout IP from Interplay back in 2007...
Obligatory first post.
Hello, world.