funny, well spoken, interesting

http://fora.tv/2009/04/23/Alain_de_Botton_on_the_Pleasures_and_Sorrows_of_Work

So it's taken me an extra day to get this far. But I've finally got unbiased global illumination added. I kept thinking about the problem wrong. It's weird getting your head wrap around the use of randomness and probability to converge quickly or slowly to the real solution in an unbiased way ( Read more... )

So it took all day yesterday to layout the groundwork for my path tracer. I created this Cornell Box scene and added the code to handle the direct illumination from an area light. You can see the soft shadows caused by the area light and a hemispherical falloff to the ceiling caused by attenuating the light by the steradians it subtends. At only 16 ( Read more... )

Please take a moment to read up on Google's initiative to open up TV white spaces for unlicensed use. This basically would render all the present communications companies that obsolete.. so it could prove to be a pretty tough battle to win going against the likes of Comcast and ATT. So, the more people who sign the better! If we can get started on ( Read more... )

ATTN American voters:

Sarah Palin is either too dumb or too evil to be VP.

From her remarks at the RNC:

"Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America ... he's worried that someone won't read them their rights?"

Ok so last I checked aleged terrorists are humans, and no human is to be denied human rights. To deny any human the ( Read more... )

Finals done. No dispute over the pwnage of my physics final, but I have no clue how i did on my comparative religion one.. I was waffling between a B and A in that class, so we shall see. That class totally kicked ass though.. having been raised secular and always considering myself nonreligious and thinking the idea of an anthropomorphic ( Read more... )

Hey I urge everybody who has or will have kids at some point should read this essay.

Gatto's Seven Lesson SchoolteacherAs having been through 12 years of government education myself, and being able to compare it to my higher education and education in the "real world" I believe the author is spot on. I think i have been and am struggling to ( Read more... )

K so I read somewhere last night that costco was selling ps3's at their online store only at 8am this morning. So at 8am this morning I thought "what the heck" and went to check it out.. And I uh got one apparently ( Read more... )

Cost of speeding:

+ Speeding fine: $191
+ Cost to unsuspend my license after 30 days: $120
+ 30 days of depreciation of my vehicle: $410
+ 30 days of useless auto insurence: $100

- Savings in gas: $100

Total Cost to speed: $721

It ain't worth it, kids. Consider this my PSA for the year.

Hero?