i really hate trying to track down patent licensing terms. by comparison, i've come to realize that i merely dislike software licensing.

once upon a time, i was a software engineer / researcher type. i miss those days.

in the spirit of the upcoming presidential swearing-in, i bring you this not-so-small, and definitely nsfw offering.

if you would like a card, plz 2 comment (screened) with address info. next batch will go out shortly.

with ohio called, all i can say is: congratulations, president obama.

what is left to see is to what degree obama has a mandate / landslide, and whether the culture wars are now, finally, over.

long time no see, i know. that should make this posting all the more special.

i voted in my first election. if you are registered, go out and vote. i don't want to hear any bitching and moaning about it.

it's been a while.

in no particular order:

• aunt's 60th birthday was last week, so i flew out to detroit. ended up playing bartender since the actual bartender showed up smashed. gift of a digital picture frame went over really well. i really love my garmin --- it made getting around michigan (which, i'm beginning to realize, is as impossible to ( Read more... )

i just bought $crazy/2 worth of new parts from newegg today. there's a rational part of me that knows that a machine made with parts that are 5-8 years old on average simply can't handle capturing hdtv signals, but a little part of me weeps for its passing. that machine was my first "real" beast -- 2 x 2.4ghz p4 xeon with a whopping 1.5gb ram. it ( Read more... )

i am such a sentimental dork it hurts. seriously, the fact that i was swooning after watching (an admittedly incredibly romantic) scene where the lead arranged a special two minute date with his dermatologist.

in no particular order:

• it's taken me several days to figure out how boost's statechart stuff works. there's a part of me that's impressed with how it works, and there's a part of me that's kinda disappointed. three days of digesting documentation later, i have an approximate idea of how to make it do what i want.
  
  the problem boils down to this: ( Read more... )

more python adventures: it turns out that a sane editor makes the white space nazism less problematic. if it weren't for the silly amounts of time i've spent reading api docs (btw, scipy: your documentation sucks), i'd actually seriously consider python for more actual work projects.

as it is, i'm working on embedding a python interpreter into a ( Read more... )