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So it seems the US Military is trying to stop the worlds largest wind farm from being constructed in Oregon.  They reason that the windmills will interfere with a radar system in Fossil, OR.
Well that’s bullshit.
I worked on radar in the Navy. If you get a repeatable false reflection down range, you can tune [...]

OK.
Full day and a half of using my iPad and I can’t get it away from my teenage daughters – hence the snappy title.

Battery Life:

Absofuckinglutely unstoppable. I’ve had it on for the entire day today, playing movies, surfing the web – ooohhh… the web surfing… and drawing on it.
As of 8:15pm, battery is at [...]

Robert Rodrigues is releasing a new Predator movie called, strangely, Predators. I was never a fan of the sequels to the totally entertaining 1987 original, but this looks like a fun ride.

Really excellent facial animation work here.  I’m not sure if this is an individual (if so, bravo!) or a studio trying for some kind of viral response.

I took a walk down to the beach with my buddies Jason an Courtney a few months ago – just unloading the camera tonight.  Photoshop’s autostitch tool is amazing.
This is a seadragon viewer available from none other than Microsoft (click the full screen icon, it’s cool). Their R&D guys are also amazing. Gosh.. [...]

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 [...]

I found this cool little app for the iPhone the other day called Pano.  It’s really very good at capturing quick panoramas.
This is my morning at the Aquarium:

Get it at the App Store.

Working in Silo3D for a little bit today.  Such a great modeling tool…

Now with Fins!  Woo!

I should be working on the Climate Change exhibit today, but after discussing a role-playing game concept with my buddy Erik, I got all inspired to work on a concept piece instead.  This is the ancestral home of the Chay-Nee People of the Apocalypse.
Modeled in Silo3D, textured and rendered in Maya, tweaked in Photoshop.

It’s been [...]

Not a remake of the trippy 80’s cult film.  Looks like a good ride film,… Jude Law as a muscleboy?  Really?