Hey-
It’s the last year of Titular Head for me and that means that I have gots to win again. Bare Aspirations did well, but it may have also ruin all chances any of us would have of running for political office. So this movie is going to be nude-free. Morgan and I are working really hard on it and expect a link to the video after the show. Until then, SCREENSHOTS!
I have not posted in a while, and I think these photos are pretty amazing. I figured this would be a good place to post ‘em cuz this site caters to a lot of nerds who also like photography. Here they are:
http://www.cinematical.com/2008/04/15/star-wars-goes-urban/
Look what I’m doing. I’m special, too!
Sun Chips – Test Run 01 from Joel Gillman on Vimeo.
Pimping is totally easier than it looks.
First order of business is for me to shamelessly pimp my Uncle’s website. Rustic Workbench isn’t exactly shambot-style wares, but I thought you all might want to look around, just in case. Plus my Uncle’s story is pretty cool. He graduated from the U of M with a bachelors in Middle Eastern Studies. He and his wife Kay lived and worked in Saudi Arabia as translators for the embassy. After my Uncle got tired of that he got his MBA from Harvard and owned a PIP Printing franchise until he retired about 5 years ago. He then learned how to program and builds websites freelance. He’s currently living in the Maine wilderness, and is spending his time updating the cabin and building the things that he’s selling on his website. His wife Kay has been up to some interesting stuff as of late as well. She performs the ‘ud in various Middle Eastern music productions. They’re really cool people with really interesting lives. Fun stuff.
Also, if you remember the Fire Wire videos I posted a couple weeks ago, it turns out campus security was aware of it, and as a result the newspaper was as well.
Finally, I just wanted to update you on my website project. It’s coming together well, but unfortunately I won’t be able to host it on the public CS server, so you guys won’t be able to see it. Just as well too because we decided not to worry about how it looks, and instead concentrate on how it functions. As a result it’s butt ugly. But I am thinking seriously about developing the site further after I graduate, in which case I’ll get some real hosting for it and might talk to some of you shambers about designing it for keeps.
Sorry guys don’t hate me, I just thought this was SOO funny that it needed postin’. For those of you who didn’t know, the only people nerdier than Comp. Sci. majors are people who make a living off of WOW, and people who work with patents. Proof is in the pudding. By far the nerdiest marriage proposal ever.
Also, my birthday is coming up. To commemorate it, Microsoft is releasing this. Anyone who wants to curry my favor (yes, my favor is worth thousands of dollars) can go ahead and give MS a call.
Happy re-winter everyone!
… to tickle your ears.
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P.S.- My collection of songs is 13 long now. Since they’re all only 1 minute long I think I’ll burn a CD when I hit 35 songs.
Quick video post today.
First, I went ahead and put a bunch of my videos up on Vimeo. They’re not anything at all special or artsy. Basically they’re just occasions where instead of turning my camera to “Auto” i turned it to “Movie”. But heres a link to my page for posterity Alex’s Vimeo Videos (I’m not RickRolling you this time, I promise.) On a related note, if you’re wondering how one entertains oneself in Bemidji, MN check out the video after the break.
Second, Robots are getting cooler. Also props to MIT for coming out with this robot (Nexi), which rivals the expressive abilities of most AIBots I’ve seen to date. It’s amazing what emotions can be expressed with only the eyebrows, eyelids, eyes, and mouth. If you’ve got a spare few minutes, just imagine what it’dd be like to have a conversation with this thing. I remember the first time I talked to an AIMBot. Blew my freaking mind. Anyway, enjoy the video:
Hi shambers,
I am employable! I’ve been worrying a bit lately ’cause i haden’t found a job yet (despite most of the other students in my department having jobs all lined up since February. But yesterday my luck changed and I got an awesome offer from Target! I’m excited! I get to work in a big tall building downtown and wear suits to work. Interestingly, my job will require very little computer-code writing (they outsource that to India.) Instead my job will involve… well, i’m not entirely sure. From what I understand it will involve designing systems and working through the details of solutions, as well as fixing things. Exciting!
On another exciting note, I’ve had this idea for a website kicking around in my head since Christmas. The site pulls articles from blogs using RSS feeds (sites like Shambot, as well as news sites like www.arstechnica.com and www.cnn.com.) It then keeps track of which users read and recommend each article, compares the users’ reads and recommends to each other, and suggests articles for you to read based on these other similar users. It’s kinda like www.digg.com, except instead of using universal recommendations, they’re customized to you and people like you. I came up with the idea when I realized that Digg, which used to be awesome, was beginning to suck because most of the people who ‘digg’ things like things that I do not.
Well, my instructor assigned my Advanced Web Design class a project, but left it up to us to decide what the project would be. I pitched this idea to the class and they liked it. So we’re going ahead with developing it. We’re using the name Jovial right now (it doesn’t really mean anything, so don’t bother asking.) Unfortunately we’re all CS people and not design people, so the site will probably be butt ugly. I’ll post a link to it when we get something working. Oh! But since so many of you people are artists, i’d appreciate any suggestions for a color pallet. Since the site is named Jovial, and it’s a news site, think Jupiter and readability as far as colors are concerned (milky reds and yellows maybe, black text?.) We need colors for the title bar/borders, page background, and article background. Exciting project.
Well I’m off to play some sports on this nice day (no snow in Bemidji.) Happy April Fools everybody.
