Space Capsule calling Planet Earth! Retired Astronaut Vincent Grant reporting for duty! Nope, wasn’t sucked into a space vortex and no Klingons round Uranus. My damn daughter gone and put me in a home, the thanks you get for fifty odd years of washing nappies. When she was small I used to take the kids [...]
Entries from July 25th, 2010
Try remember how to individuate.
July 14th, 2010 · Comments Off · Ranting
For some time there have been things that have pissed me off, yet in denouncing these things I have often failed to translate my personal distrust into a coherent, communicable reason for such curmudgeonly thinking. Although you wouldn’t know it, I’ve been held back by the worry that I’m quite possibly just an old git [...]
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I’ve got a really big one
July 7th, 2010 · Comments Off · Advertisement, General Research
Actually my students have a big one that I’m working on. Don’t think too hard about that – think of this: you are making an animation that pulls back from a single image to reveal it is the middle of a larger mosaic of images, 39 by 39 in fact. The screen is 768 pixels [...]
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Hellovision – ergonomics and aging.
July 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off · General Research, Ranting
Here’s the details. The old man had a stroke about a year and a half ago. Because the Australian public health service is fantastic they cleared the blood clot in about 2 hours from the emergency call. No hemiplegia, although he shuffles. He has problems remembering many things, and gets irritable like you would if [...]
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