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mikepk

mikepk

Enginerdery : love of all things science, engineering, creative, design, and nerd um... ery.
I'm the big "three five" today.
Happy birthday! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Thanks Tina! Looks like I share ff bdays w several people. - mikepk from iPhone
Me too: I've got two birthday buddies on FF =D - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Fweeeeee! <those party favors that uncurl when you blow into them/> - mikepk from iPhone
Happy Birthday! - josh neff, Fun Dip of FF
Happy b-day, Mike!! - Derrick
Happy birthday mikepk! - Maxamad (Amazigh)
Happy Birthday !!! But be careful almost its middle of the life :) - matmazelange
Happy Birthday :) - WorldofHiglet
Happy Birthday, mikepk! - Josh Haley
Happy Birthday! - Shevonne
Happy birthday, Mike! :D Lemme know how it feels. I'm just six months behind you. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Thanks everyone. On a roadtrip to Eastern Shore of MD, my new nephew is being baptised and I'm the godfather. Pretty hip. :) - mikepk from iPhone
Tinypants, according to Juliette I'm perpetually 8 years old. Mentally at least. :) - mikepk from iPhone
Have a totally happy birthday, Mike! :) - Micah Wittman
Happy birthday, Mike! - Anika
Happy Birthday! I hope you're having a good day. - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle
Bon anniversaire! A great year! - rowlikeagirl, hecho en eu
Happy Birthday. - Kenton
Happy Birthday, dude! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Happy birthday! - Alex Scoble
Hyvää syntymäpäivää! (Finnish) = happy birthday! - Mekkar
Buon Compleanno! - Keiko Yamada
Thanks everyone, had a good day, thanks for the positive vibes! - mikepk
Home in Boston after an 8 hour drive. Totally beat.
Whenever I have an 8 hour drive the next day, it's almost guaranteed I will be allowed only 2 hrs of sleep. #needcoffee
.@GuyKawasaki Guy, thanks for the Woz video. I needed that.
@tommorris The door knock thing?
cool nerdery RT @GuyKawasaki: How to make a secret-knock door lock (geeks only) http://om.ly/auzT
Ok need to head to the gym. Not getting much work done at the moment, getting in some exercise will prob. help. #startupbalance
When I leave my 'idea notebook' in the wrong place, I start scribbling stuff on random pieces of paper. Pretty disjointed stuff. :)
Any email infrastructure wizards out there? I'd like tips on preventing my legit. email messages from getting flagged as Spam.
Realized why my VM was crashing. Connecting my iphone is causing firewire drives to unmount briefly (where the VM was running from). WTH?
It's nice to see @davewiner doing some OPML + twitter list integration. a natural fit. I'm gun-shy on doing any more OPML dev.
NASA: 2 companies win $1.65M moon lander prize | NetworkWorld.com Community - http://www.networkworld.com/communi...
NASA: 2 companies win $1.65M moon lander prize | NetworkWorld.com Community
"NASA said it will this week award $1.65 million in prize money to a pair of aerospace companies that successfully simulated landing a spacecraft on the moon and lifting off again. " - mikepk from Bookmarklet
DirectPython – Use DirectX with Python - http://directpython.sourceforge.net/
VideoCapture - A Win32 Python Extension for Accessing Video Devices (e.g. a USB WebCam, a TV-Card, ...) - http://videocapture.sourceforge.net/
ocropus - Project Hosting on Google Code - http://code.google.com/p...
@techchix Thanks for the heads up. I just restarted a server that caused a hiccup. You should get the contact now.
@techchix Looking for any feedback at all. Idea is to test the 'core' of a product to see if it's useful. Even 'meh' is useful feedbk.
@techchix Thanks! It's not an iphone specific app. more like a web app, accessible by different mobiles. http://snapmyinfo.com
Recommendations for a cheap, high CPU win 7 machine? Good vendors? Been out of the win buyIng market for a long time.
Win 7 alone is like $200. At that point might as well investigate a full machine. - mikepk from iPhone
I don't really have the patience to build my own anymore. I remember Dell's getting shodddy. - mikepk
Looking at this: http://www.newegg.com/Product... . Wish I had a better handle on the PC market. Core i7 Quad with 9GB of RAM seems pretty good tho. - mikepk
I'm running into CPU bottlenecks with my project, and I need to run windows to access windows webcam drivers. This could be overkill, but I don't want to plunk down cash and still end up without enough horsepower. - mikepk
Dude that's crazy good...I don't know if it's exactly appropriate for what you want to do, but that looks like a high-end gaming pc. Only 1K from newegg too. I'm drooling right now...wow. - Maxamad (Amazigh)
Thanks Mehmet, good to know. Right now I just need CPU horsepower but I may dabble with some openGL stuff soon. I'm guessing this is overkill and probably more than I should spend. :) - mikepk
I think I'm just going to bite the bullet and buy win7. I can test it on some existing HW I have lying around. - mikepk
I can test if a modest increase in CPU hp gives me anything (before plunking down 1K on a new machine) - mikepk
Ok, painful to shell out $200 for Win 7 but the perf on a dual core athlon is noticeably better. Probably best I didn't go for the full $1k, was tempted tho. - mikepk
I have got some *good* hair this AM.
RT @davemcclure: "Startup Metrics 4 Pirates" slides 4 my talk here at Startonomics Hawaii http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500h... #rethink #metrics
Writing about yourself in the third person always feels weird to me. http://mikepk.com/about/
Higlet agrees. - WorldofHiglet
I feel like writing "Michael is a pretentious ass for writing about himself with this voice". :) - mikepk
Writing that way is not as bad as *speaking* that way... #rickyhenderson - Bren, Photophobe from iPhone
True, speaking that way I feel is essentially the same as asking to be smacked. :) - mikepk
Sparky would feel weird about writing about himself in the 3rd person as well. - Sparky Crocker
Can tweaking you blog be considered 'work'. I find I end up doing it when I'm avoiding something else.
Kind of unmotivated today. That's unlike me.
Watched "Let The Right One In" last night. Really liked it but it wasn't what I was expecting.
What were you expecting? - Shevonne
I need to see that. - Derrick
That is a fantastic movie. D, definitely see it, but you have to be in the mood for a slower paced film. - Mary Carmen
For some reason I didn't know it was foreign language. Also thought it was more mainstream Hollywood. Was pleasantly surprised it wasn't. More creepy and moody than jumpy / scary. - mikepk
Moody is definitely the right word to describe it. - Mary Carmen
They are actually creating a Hollywood remake, or so I've heard *cringes - Shevonne
ugh...Hollywood is SO fired. - Mary Carmen
That's unfortunate. I can't imagine hollywood adding anything good to this movie. - mikepk
I haven't seen it yet, which sucks, because I love seeing Swedish films to exercise my Swedish comprehension skills. - Spidra Webster
Also watched "Coraline" last night. Really liked that, and it was pretty much exactly what I expected. :)
Saw it in 'plain' 2D and didn't think much of it. Was reading about the movie afterward and read a fascinating bit of filmmaking technique. They used the 3D to affect the story. The real world was filmed with a more compressed / claustrophobic 3D whereas the 'other' world had the 3D perspective widened to make it more surreal and expansive. Kind of wish I'd seen it in 3D now. - mikepk
I love the fact they used the medium to advance the story. The hype around 3D lately just makes me feel like people want meatballs flying at their face. - mikepk
Kind of want to see it in 3D now. - mikepk
I think I should just go to bed. Leave this Vista machine to unwind itself.
For the love of pete. I just want to run a couple of tests on this old Vista machine. Reboot ad nauseam. Stuck "Installing Update 1 of 45"
RT @MassInno: eDougBanks RT @eDougBanks Last week, asked Steve O'Leary & BBN co-founder Leo Beranek to talk innov. Vid: http://www.masshightech.com/blog...
MIT researchers develop Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - http://web.mit.edu/press...
MIT researchers develop Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA)
I still think we're a ways off from being able to really interact with machines in this social way. - mikepk from Bookmarklet
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