I first saw this image (below) about the Reaction Range Model in a psychology book years ago. It really struck me, as I felt it somewhat explained my path of education. Basically, it proposes that a person’s genetic makeup determines the LIMITS on his or her IQ, and that environmental factors determine WHERE within this … Read more
Small screens suck. Even worse, once you get used to a high resolution screen, having to use anything smaller is torture. I find this to be true for desktop moniors, laptop screens, and even phones now (I don’t watch or own a TV, but I’m sure it applies there also). Having wide-screen is certainly nice, but please, … Read more
October 10th 2010 – a very interesting date, and a random day of procrastination from school! Installed Ubuntu 10.10 – so far, so good; it doesn’t seem too different than 10.04 though. I’ll update my fresh install script for 10.10 soon. Update: v0.3 works pretty well with Ubuntu 10.10; more features to be added soon! Took … Read more
In Starbucks the other day, I was sitting with my laptop just trying to get some work done, and enjoying my morning coffee. I soon noticed there was a cute girl sitting alone across from me, on the other side of Starbucks with her laptop. Being fairly busy, I didn’t think much of it at first, … Read more
I just got back from Nvidia’s 2010 GPU Technology Conference in San Jose California. I had an amazing trip, and am thankful that I got to go, as it was my first visit to California as well as my first trade show attendance. [Side Note: The afternoon before the conference, I took Caltrain up to … Read more
I recently stumbled upon the reading “On The Shortness of Life,” a famous letter by Lucius Seneca. A good overview of the reading can be found here. Here are a few pull quotes from the letter that happen to relate with some of my thoughts this past week. Present time is very brief, so brief, indeed, … Read more
After installing the new plug-in registry for GIMP, I stumbled upon the amazing National Geographic Script. It is incredible! This script simulates high quality, vivid photos – like the ones from the National Geographic magazine. It uses a configurable mixture of shadow recovery, sharpening, local contrast, and various color overlay layers. The script is buried … Read more
Over the years of installing, updating, re-installing Ubuntu, I have slowly crafted a decent “fresh install” bash script to help setup and configure Ubuntu after a clean install. This script is ever evolving, and still doesn’t capture everything I want it to, but it does knock out a giant chunk of things to do, automatically … Read more
I was curious about how much gas was actually saved when idling my car with the A/C off, so I gathered some fuel efficiency numbers using the MPGuino I made for my 2002 Honda Civic. The MPGuino can display the instant Gallons Per Hour (GPH) consumed, and this measurement was used for these tests. Testing Notes: All tests were … Read more
I stopped listening to the radio many years ago. I just can’t take it. As a teenager, I had two favorite alternative rock stations I listened to. I could turn on the radio at any time, and it was almost guaranteed that one of those stations would be playing a song I liked. Ah, those … Read more