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Me: home from a long day.
Deb and the Girls™: sitting in the living room watching some crappy chick flick.
Me: I think I’ll watch some olympics video on the NBC site…
NBC: You don’t have the right version of Silverlight.
Silverlight: Do you wanna?
Mac: Hey!  Are you sure?
Silverlight: Well?  Do you wanna?
Silverlight: Where do you want it?
Silverlight: Are [...]

Two very helpful pieces of info that I learned in the past 24 hours:

Western Digital drives are preformatted with NTFS.  In order to install them on an Airport Extreme, you must first reformat them so they are writable by your mac clients.  Use Journaled (Extended).

A side note: Time Machine actually WILL work on the airport [...]

Short post here.  I upgraded the blog to the latest version of WP.  What a pain.  It may be that I’m just a bonehead, but good GOD what a process.  No fun.
In other news, the Tumblr Blog now has comments.
What a boring post.  Sorry your RSS woke you up for this one..

There’s a need in my life for more complexity. So I’m starting a second blog.
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I have no idea what PTAM is but my AR searches this morning have led me to one of the coolest AR projects I’ve seen so far.  The speed at which this unit picks up the geometry of the landscape is scary fast.
PTAM + AR on an iPhone 3G | quietube.

I love that I get to post with titles like this..
This is an interesting application of Augmented Reality:  An animation / movie maker site with pre-composed animations on their own model.
AR is still kinda geeky (OK, a LOT geeky) and somewhat technical to set up but innovations like this are bringing it closer to mainstream.
I [...]

German automation company Festo AG has an amazing demo of their latest robotics experiments.  Flying and swimming penguins as well as some very cool modular robotics components.  It reminds me of Theo Jansen’s walking sculptures I posted about last year.
Check out the video here.
Update 16:13PST
More Festo robots. This one looks a little scary actually…

Had a great day at E3 again yesterday – Tons of recordings and a few cool pics.  Cam and Leneb and i had a conversation over breakfast as to what the litmus test for one being a geek is.  I believe I’ve found at least one method of determination:

This is an Augmented Reality game.  Not [...]

confusion over how to bend Wordpress to my will…