Female Dogging

To the left you can see my taped up Macbook power supply which still sort of worked. The bend in the cable is not a very clever design, mine was not the only one to start having problems there. Damage can be worse though. Some time after this initial repair, it only worked if I got it to bend the right way.

Until today. Very inconveniently it completely failed on my first day back at school (=work). Luckily a colleague was willing to help and we split it open. I shortened the cable a bit and duck taped the thing back together. It works. The bit of cable I removed did smell kind of funny, like plastic melted on a barbecue...

It does fit in rather nicely with the state university equipment now, as you can see on the right

Those Canadiens

This post is not about the Canadians whom I met at this years SIGGRAPH Conference, though I should have been blogging from New Orleans but was too busy enjoying the experience. Did post a few photos on Flickr

Just came across this post on Drawn!. "Jue" was created by Georges Schizgebel in 2006. Amazing animation, especially since its hand painted and not computer generated. Wonder if an "ordinateur" was used somewhere in the process...

Dali Disney

I wanted to re-blog a post on boing-boing about a Disney / Dali cooperation. I saw the Amazing animation on YouTube, and immediately wondered how long that would be up. It contained the full FBI warning and a text overlay that it was a copy not for distribution. And indeed, it has been taken down

Amazing piece, truly surreal, as is the collaboration itself. From the credits I gathered that it was a collaboration with Roy though, not Walt. The animation is kind of crude with a lot of cross fades but the imagery is wonderful. And the story... who needs a story?

Some images can be seen here

UbuntuBook

My MacBook is a Mac no more. Kept freezing, a complete reinstall of the system did not fix it. Was about to buy a new laptop, looked at netbooks...

Then Ubuntu came to the rescue! Installed as a test to see if my hardware was screwed up, this Linux variant has been running on my MacBook just fine. Okay, my internet is gone after it falls asleep and other small inconveniences, but it has not frozen on me! Wonder what in Os X started fail, was a system upgrade not compatible with my hardware? Bad Apple!

Oh and what have I been so busy with that I did not post for a month? Saturday was Jury day for MetroCAF!

Norovirus Unrelated

A student of mine, Lauren Brown, created a Facebook group to sell the book she created for he senior project: Norovirus book for sale!!! A brilliantly illustrated story / graphic novel which you should all buy.

Automatic content generation does funny things sometimes. In the related groups section of the aforementioned group, these two showed up (see image): "I follow Jesus, Not a Political Party - ...So Apparently I'm Going To Hell". Please also note that the first one actually chooses to categorize itself as "Organizations - Political Organizations". Cyberspace is a funny place, like no place at all.