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mikepk
Enginerdery : love of all things science, engineering, creative, design, and nerd um... ery.
I'm the big "three five" today.
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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
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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
cool nerdery RT @GuyKawasaki: How to make a secret-knock door lock (geeks only) http://om.ly/auzT
NASA: 2 companies win $1.65M moon lander prize | NetworkWorld.com Community - http://www.networkworld.com/communi...
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"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
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DirectPython – Use DirectX with Python - http://directpython.sourceforge.net/
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VideoCapture - A Win32 Python Extension for Accessing Video Devices (e.g. a USB WebCam, a TV-Card, ...) - http://videocapture.sourceforge.net/
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ocropus - Project Hosting on Google Code - http://code.google.com/p...
@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.
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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
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/
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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.
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Watched "Let The Right One In" last night. Really liked it but it wasn't what I was expecting.
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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. :)
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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...
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I still think we're a ways off from being able to really interact with machines in this social way.
- mikepk
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