Schedulewank

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I had an awesome day. Spending time with someone you really care about is always nice, especially if you only get a few hours a week together.
Yarrr.

As for classes next semester… I rather like this schedule.
15-437: Web Application Development
15-441: Computer Networks
21-484: Graph Theory
62-245: Portrait Photography
62-360: Photographers and Photography Since World War II
It’s only 51 units, but between Networks and Mackey’s Graph Theory, I expect to be very busy. Mark’s teaching Portrait Photography, which should be awesome because Mark is awesome, and Linda is teaching the photo history course, which should also work well.
We’ll see what (more different) Mark thinks about it on Friday.
After this, assuming I get and pass all these classes, I’ll basically have one more requirement left to graduate (with a double minor in photography and math), that being a single CS elective (which will almost definetly be Computational Photography in the fall).
Thoughts or suggestions on schedule foo?

I like this picture.

I spent about 2 hours in the darkroom today making gum bichromate prints. A lot of them are turning out rather nicely… I should scan some of them or something and post them.

Life is awesome.

Foo

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Last night I watched Saw. That movie is quite possibly the most horrible thing ever, not in the sense that it was gory or anything… but because it plays with your mind in horrible ways and makes you question your own life. Meh. Amazing film. I want to watch it again sometime… but this time with someone else :-P

Microsoft rejected me… again. Oh well. I should apply to Apple, Adobe, and Fog Creek… if I can find the time -_-

The best stuff from Thursday’s photo shoot is now posted in art. You should go see it.

Guess who’s an idiot?
You know how the flash sync speed on my Nikon is 1/125 because it’s a newer camera? I metered the shoot at 1/125, and then shot both the film and the digitals at 1/125.
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Know how the sync speed on older cameras (read: my old Canon AE-1) is 1/60?
Yeeeeah.
I can salvage most of the film that I shot, fortunately, but I still feel like a dumbass. Heh. At least now I’ll never forget again. And, of course, I have all the beautiful digitals I shot, many of which will probably end up batched in photos (depending on how much homework I manage to get done this morning).

Happy birthday to Mark Stehlik (today)! Yesterday there was yummy Mark-shaped cake.

Grant also got these adorable chocolate kisses decorated as a ghost and a pumpkin.

I’m rather fond of these photos of Jordan…

I also like how this one is out of focus… it softens the image up a lot, which I think works with the shot, I dunno.

I’m feeling especially happy this morning, and I’m not quite sure why.
I think I just feel both accomplished and cared for… and I don’t think there’s much else in life better than the combination of the two.
Plus tonight I might get a certain someone… and that would be completely awesome :)

Piccaring

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Last night was a massive studio shooting session (went until almost 1 AM) that resulted in a bunch of interesting shots. Apparently, when you get eight half-naked people into the same room, strange things start happening….
I kinda like how you can see each person’s personality even in just this single shot. Wheee.

Rest assured that the best of the portraiture as well as the diptychs I shot (which came out amazingly, thanks to Jordan’s idea) will be posted in art before the day is through. I’m just tired and full of foo right now.

I just realized I didn’t eat anything yesterday besides a Starbucks iced tea and cookie, and a couple pumpkin cookies. Maybe I should fix this.
*wanders off to find sustinance*

Lifeing

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Yeah, I should probably update.

I went to the Carnegie art and natural history museums with Ben and Ev on Sunday. It was awesome. I need to go back and look at more of the abstract/modern art… a lot of it is quite impressive. The Tiffany exhibit was also awesome. The Amazon exhibit notsomuch. It was a nice break from work though.

I am eating apple pie ice cream… not apple pie with ice cream, but actually apple pie flavored ice cream. It is yummy. I made a chocolate pudding pie yesterday that was also yummy.

Today was my interview with Endeca. I feel like I got their question fairly well, except I failed at analyzing the runtime of my algorithm. Meh. I guess that’s not the most important part though. Whee. I think this might be the first local interview in which I’m satisfied with my performance (the only other one being with Fog Creek in New York). Whee.

Our huge shipment of .hack cards came in. I have modified my lizard/snake deck into a pure lizard deck of awesome, changed my ghost/undead deck into a(n almost entirely) undead deck, and built a new alien deck. Wheee. People should play with me. Cheap card games FTW.

Midterm grades came out. Can’t complain about any of them… won’t make dean’s list this semester, but I don’t care. I’m doing the best I can, and that’s all that really matters.

Why is life so amazingly happy right now? I’m (mostly) enjoying my classes… I’m not too stressed out… I have someone to look forward to on weekends (who makes me happy during the week as well)… I’m doing a lot of photography… I have amazing friends to spend time with…
I honestly can’t think of anything that’s wrong right now in my life (with the exception of things with my dad, but meh, that’s not something anyone can do anything about :-\)
That’s a nice feeling. I should enjoy it while I can and before adult responsibilities kill all my joy :-P

Ahhh it’s an Al-Tim!

Life is an (awesome) adventure. You should come exploring with me.

Picturepost

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In the world of ITG…
I think I could star this. The two misses were stupid.

Doubles, no bar… starred it.

Been trying to star this one for months, and finally got it.

I’m definetly getting better. That makes me happy.

Um, yeah.

Last night we played hide and seek. I haven’t played that game in forever, and it was nice to be a kid again, even if only for an hour or so. I’m still amazed that I was able to fit in the cabinet under the sink and under Dan’s bed. Whee.
Ian was the best at hiding. I had *no* idea where he was! I mean, who would’ve thought he would be mimicing a lamp on the table? I certainly wouldn’t have. And I certainly wasn’t able to find him.
…
XD

Last night I also shot Ben in the shooting studio. The pictures didn’t come out as good as I would have liked, mainly because I couldn’t use the strobes (there was no hotshoe sync cable) with my digital camera, and instead had to use studio lights, and hence got quite a bit of blur in the photos. Oh well.
Some of the best ones can be found at http://art.alanv.org/011.html or below:


Margaret wants me to post more pictures of Ev. Um… okay.

Yeah… apologies to people on dialup :-P Meh. I think I enjoy taking photos a little *too* much.
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And I’m in the mood to shoot people again. Meh. But no… today is homework and more homework. Whee.