January 21st, 2009 ydant
When I explained that I was wiring the Vi’s house with network cable in preparation for my move, my friends expressed curiosity as to why I wouldn’t just use wireless. There are some obvious reasons like not wanting to have to buy adapter cards for desktop computers. The most important reason, however, is that this area is wifi-hostile. Nothing stays connected consistently, even in the same room as the access port. It’s not an access point problem (we’ve replaced the one already). Just look at the insanity:
This is the view just from my new (home) office.
(While I was typing this, 3 more APs popped up!)
We’re exacerbating the issue by having two access points in the house (third floor and second floor). There’s a chance one will even go on the first floor, although that’s yet to be decided. The two APs (Miss Piggy, which is really WPA2 / AES, not WEP) are backbone-linked with cat-5e (should be 6, but I forgot to pre-order from Monoprice.). They both are WRT-54GL routers running Tomat. Because they share the same SSID and security information my devices roam seamlessly between the two. It’s pretty damn cool.
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August 22nd, 2008 ydant
They are also perfect for throwing at people.
As seen at my local Giant Foods.
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June 9th, 2008 ydant
I was recently going through some backups I created back in early 2000, when I discovered some pictures I’d taken with my first digital camera. I have no idea what the model of the camera was, but it was very much first generation. My grandfather loved technology, and I would often get hand-me-downs from him, one of which was this camera. It’s shocking how far the technology has come since that time. The pictures below are not spectacular, and were at full resolution only 420×240 (.1008MP) pixels, 24bit color, and only about 30kB in size. In comparison, my current phone takes pictures many times larger than that (5MP), with better color depth, and with a bigger lens.
The pictures are all from, I think, Cypresss Gardens (SWAMP), a place my mom and I visited on one of our many trips to Folly Beach, SC. I have many fond memories of going to the beach with her, and it’s a shame these are the only pictures that I know of. Neither of us is actually pictured, as I think we both felt about the same way about cameras.
I’m pretty sure the location where these were all taken is somewhere around here: Cypress Gardens Information
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I’ve included all of the pictures at full original resolution purely as an illustration of how far technology has come.
Obviously slow shutter speeds and sensors - my foot is a ghost despite the bright lights.
Look, a lizard! I don’t think the camera had any sort of zoom, either.
I think that might actually be a snake going across the path.
Turtles?
There was an old cemetery on the grounds.
I think we hoped to actually read this again. Information about the graveyard.
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January 1st, 2005 ydant
My Colorblindness
I am color blind to a degree. I am not sure of the exact nature of my deficiency (it has been a long time since I was tested), but from tests I have taken online it appears that I have Anomalous
Trichromasy (anomalous vision, all three color cones presnet) most likely Protanomaly (anomalous green cones). While I do have red/green cones, some are either missing or are not functioning properly.
The image below was generated with the help of the Colorfilter link below.
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Normal Google Logo |
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Protanomaly (anomalous red cones) |
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Deutanomaly (anomalous green cones) |
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Tritanomaly (anomalous blue cones) |
The images for the normal logo and the protan logo are almost 100% identical to me. The deutan image is close to the normal logo, however the Gs are darker in the deutan link (slightly more purple). The tritan image looks nothing like the normal image - it is washed out (except the o and e) and entirely in shades of red.
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