This video of Madelyn “driving” her truck is pretty funny, but it’s even better as a time lapse.
Here’s a full size time lapse (640×480 QuickTime).
It’s easy to make these lo-fi videos with QuickTime Pro:
Open the movie in question.
Choose “File, Export” and then “Export: Movie to image sequence.”
Choose “File, Open Image Sequence.”
Save your time-lapse movie.
The speed [...]
Since Madelyn reached toddler stage Erin and I have used one desktop computer: our reliable PowerMac 2xG5. Two reasons: first, MED’s toddling was contemporary to our big-ass house renovation project, which involved moving everything to the basement, and we were slow to find the room to set up a second computer. Second, given that Madelyn [...]
Why for most MA students reading, reading, and more reading are better than professionalizing via conferences, committees, etc.
It broke 40° today! It’s windy, but at least I didn’t feel like someone was rubbing ice on my forehead when I walked to school today. Actually, it felt warm. Erin and I laughed about this as we went to the Y: four years ago, 40° would meant running the heat, multiple layers, and shivering. [...]
Madelyn is finally growing again. How can we tell? More napping, more nursing, more clumsiness, and a lot more eating. Holy cow, she’s packing in the food. Today she ate oatmeal, sweet potatoes, grapes, kiwi, and whole wheat pasta with cheese. She’s looking for more variety in her diet as well, so we’re in need [...]
Earlier this week, Bill Thompson and I finished (we think) “Ubiquitous cataloging,” which will appear in the McFarland volume Radical Cataloging: Challenges and Possibilities edited by K. R. Roberto. Quick summary: Web 2.0 is doing damn interesting stuff which for all purposes is cataloging, and library catalogs need to both emulate that functionality and allow [...]
Idiot is pancakes. No, really. Scroll down a bit. Believe.
via W. Blue
The Google is about to offer Gmail to anyone who wants it (or at least anyone who can get text messages). Also, they are about to upgrade storage to 3 gigabytes per user. That’s a lot of disk space. Math time!
1.2 billion net users * 3 gb per person =
3,600,000,000 gb / 500 gb per [...]