Monthly Archives: June 2006

Whee

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Nothing interesting happening in my life, so this is a photo post.

I think this is my favorite so far of all my photoshopped shots. Besides being a beautiful shot on its own, the colorizing really makes the people stand out… I dunno. This looks *amazing* full-size. I think it would have been a lot less effective if there were fewer ripples in the puddle… dunno.

This one is much more effective full-size. I was trying to emphasize the people… after all, we’re all small compared to other stuff, but it’s people that really make the world what it is. Hopefully that kinda comes across.

I was taking pictures today and Greg commented on how the things that I picked out as “important” in a picture were unusual. For example, in a picture of a parking lot, I picked out the striped gate-thingies that let cars in and out as the thing I would highlight in a picture. I don’t know why they stood out to me, exactly… they just seemed like the right thing to emphasize.
Unfortunately, both shots of it came out blurry, so I guess we’ll never know… but I was reminded of the conversation as I was looking over the second photo. It now occurs to me that it’s rather unusual to choose to highlight the people over everything else in the photo. As I was doing it, however, they were the natural choice.
Hmmm…

I really need to make an “art” section of my site for all these photoshops (so I can post them bigger) and my photos from photo classes. Meh.

The world is full of beauty. I’m learning to take time when I’m out walking to really take in everything and enjoy it… and hopefully capture some of it in a photo.
…have I succeeded?

Work, day 14

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Fwee
Old pic of Munin… but I like the way it turned out. His eyes (at least in the pic) were the same color as his shirt. Kinda crazy.

I guess that’s kinda hard to see at this resolution. Meh. Whatever. It looks really good full-size.
Maybe I should crop it closer… meh.

I kinda like the way the two pictures have totally different feels to them.
I think I’ve found stuff to print to use up my summer printing quota :D Yay for photoshopped pictars.

Vincent made a nice desktop pattern of me. Meh. With all the pictures of myself I’ve been posting lately, maybe I’m becoming narcisstic…
>_<

Work was productive today. Accuracy on some of the classifiers is still severely lacking (I think I got 40%/57% for recall/precision for one of the classifiers). Will play around with them more to improve that tomorrow. I think I just need more training examples.

Um… I’ve been incredibly hungry today. Are a big lunch (and part of Pooja’s). Had a sandwich and some cookies. Had a burger. Then went to Eat n’ Park with dlstern and Jordan and had another meal. And had a dish of sherbert. And I’m still hungry. Meh.
Food++

Plop

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Today was work. Work was incredibly boring. But work was okay.

Today was KGB meeting. No officers came. Meeting was okay.

Today was movie night with SoHo. Went with Tyler. Movie was okay.

Today was Pearl’s birthday. Interns threw a party. Party was okay.

Today was an eventful day. Despite all the interactions with people, I can’t help but feel a little bit lonely. Oh well, that’s okay.

Today I felt confident in myself. Been feeling this way all week… been believing in myself for the first time since I don’t remember when. Things’ll be okay.

Ploot

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Yeah so today was kinda a bad day…
It started out with me waking up from a series of dreams that left me feeling really lonely. Meh.
Hopped onto IM to see who was online… no one.
Went back to sleep.

Woke up again a couple hours later, checked IM. Everyone either was not online, was busy, or already had plans. Meh. Went off to the cluster in hopes of finding people. Sat there for a couple hours and no one showed up. Bored and lonely me.

Headed to the UC to play DDR. Discovered that the ITG machine was back and put some money in it.
…
And it didn’t work. Lost a couple dollars.

Headed back to my room to see if any other interns were up/interested in stuff. No one was, and there was still no one online, so I grabbed my camera and planned to head to squill.
Turned the camera on… hm… that’s odd… it says the memory card is empty.
*checks*
Memory card error… okay, let’s format then.
*format*
Memory card error… um…
*camera locks up*
Well shit.
*tries card on computer*
*computer locks up*
Well shit.

So yeah, my 1 GB memory card for my camera is dead. I need a new one… for now, I’m on the 256 MB one that really sucks (although I’m sure no one will be sad that I can now *only* take 130 pictures on the card instead of my usual 551).
*siiiigh*

So then I went to squill and read books at Barnes and Noble for a while. Got lonely, headed back, ran into Tyler and peoples. Sat in the cluster for a while.

So at this point, I’m incredibly bored and incredibly lonely because everyone’s busy and such. I head off to walk around campus (because the weather at the time wasn’t terrible)… and walk around for about 3 hours and feel even more lonely.

Meh. Eventually I went back to the cluster and arranged to meet Alisa and watch some DVDs with her and Tyler. Did so, and now I’m not lonely anymore. Amazing how spending time with people can immediately make me feel better.
Wheee.

Licence plate of a truck Vincent and I saw yesterday while driving. Wheee.

Life is good, even if I did have kinda a sucky day.