So I used a neat android app, My Track to record the commute. Turns out it takes 1 hour 30 mins exactly. :(
I still need to compute how long it takes to go back. I am guessing it takes even longer due to traffic.
Showing posts with label gadgets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gadgets. Show all posts
Friday, August 7, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Thoughts about photography
So Ben bought a digital SLR today, and this made me think about getting one myself. I have long been thinking of getting a nice SLR to play with. Unfortunately, lack of money, time and patience to do the research and plenty of other stupid excuses stop me from getting one.
Kuo takes amazing pictures with his old school film SLR. Check it out here.
This brought to mind one of the biggest debate I had, to get a digital SLR or an analog one. Of course people argue about quality of digital SLR, I think that we are getting closer and closer to film SLR quality. I give it a few more years, until we can get the same resolution. :) But that is not my main concern.
The one good thing about digital photography is you don't have to worry about wasting film, so you can take a million bad pictures for one good picture. The bad thing about digital photography is you don't have to worry about wasting film. When shooting with film SLR, I think I would be a lot more careful before going trigger happy and would spend more time worrying about lighting, composition, and what have you. Film is expensive after all. :)
Kuo takes amazing pictures with his old school film SLR. Check it out here.
This brought to mind one of the biggest debate I had, to get a digital SLR or an analog one. Of course people argue about quality of digital SLR, I think that we are getting closer and closer to film SLR quality. I give it a few more years, until we can get the same resolution. :) But that is not my main concern.
The one good thing about digital photography is you don't have to worry about wasting film, so you can take a million bad pictures for one good picture. The bad thing about digital photography is you don't have to worry about wasting film. When shooting with film SLR, I think I would be a lot more careful before going trigger happy and would spend more time worrying about lighting, composition, and what have you. Film is expensive after all. :)
Saturday, December 13, 2008
I super powered by camera :D
So I have one of those simple point and shoot. I was going to say cheap, but it really was not THAT cheap. :D I think my dad paid like 200$ for it like over 1 year ago. Anyways, I am pretty happy with my Canon A570. Today I learned about CHDK and it changed my life. XD Never did I realize that a simple camera had that much potential.
http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK
If you got a canon point and shoot and really love taking pictures with it, but wished you could just edit some of the annoying features, wait no more. :)
http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK
If you got a canon point and shoot and really love taking pictures with it, but wished you could just edit some of the annoying features, wait no more. :)
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Songs that bring back memories
Something interesting happened to me today, while I was browsing through songs on imeem.
< digression >
imeem is this site that streams songs and allows you to purchase them from amazon or itunes. I think they are one of the million social networking music things that are popping up left and right. I wonder what happens in terms of legality and drms. What is cool about imeem, is that there is a light client on the T-mobile G1. G1 being the first Google android phone. Android being the os/software component. G1 is a pretty neat phone. It has some small flaws, but in whole still pretty cool. I don't know if I can go back to my old phone after using it.
< / digression >
I find that as I age, I tend to ramble on and on, and diverge from my original topic...where was I going with this topic again? Ah yes... so, while browsing through imeem, I came across an old song that I used to listen in undergrad. It is an oldie, but a goodie, Steal Away by Park Ji Yoon. This is the song I listened to in first year, when I was feel blue and down. Trinh was the one who introduced me to this song, he had it in his md when I borrowed it to listen to it on our way to our first calculus midterm. I remember walking under the chem buildings overpass and freezing my but off because of the cold weather, and almost pking in the snow. I was feeling rather anxious and depressed about the midterms. I didn't understand a word she sang, but I loved the melody, and felt a little bit better going to meet my executioner. I remember shuffling in to the large lecture hall and writing my exam on the small desks. The prof decided to print the exams on legal pages and the desks were the small ones that can barely fit half of it. My pencil broke through the pages of the exams a couple of times.
I can't believe how many memories were triggered by that one song. I never thought I would remember so much about it. It has been 8 years now. Wow, time does flies.
< digression >
imeem is this site that streams songs and allows you to purchase them from amazon or itunes. I think they are one of the million social networking music things that are popping up left and right. I wonder what happens in terms of legality and drms. What is cool about imeem, is that there is a light client on the T-mobile G1. G1 being the first Google android phone. Android being the os/software component. G1 is a pretty neat phone. It has some small flaws, but in whole still pretty cool. I don't know if I can go back to my old phone after using it.
< / digression >
I find that as I age, I tend to ramble on and on, and diverge from my original topic...where was I going with this topic again? Ah yes... so, while browsing through imeem, I came across an old song that I used to listen in undergrad. It is an oldie, but a goodie, Steal Away by Park Ji Yoon. This is the song I listened to in first year, when I was feel blue and down. Trinh was the one who introduced me to this song, he had it in his md when I borrowed it to listen to it on our way to our first calculus midterm. I remember walking under the chem buildings overpass and freezing my but off because of the cold weather, and almost pking in the snow. I was feeling rather anxious and depressed about the midterms. I didn't understand a word she sang, but I loved the melody, and felt a little bit better going to meet my executioner. I remember shuffling in to the large lecture hall and writing my exam on the small desks. The prof decided to print the exams on legal pages and the desks were the small ones that can barely fit half of it. My pencil broke through the pages of the exams a couple of times.
I can't believe how many memories were triggered by that one song. I never thought I would remember so much about it. It has been 8 years now. Wow, time does flies.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
September 10 2008
The end of the world is here! Mortals repent!
The LHC has been turned on!
Someone on the internet even set up a global watch for it. I will let you ponder the irony of it.
Google has also marked this historic event by a Doodle! :D
On other news, I turned 27 today. Wow, the year just flew by. :)
The LHC has been turned on!
Someone on the internet even set up a global watch for it. I will let you ponder the irony of it.
Google has also marked this historic event by a Doodle! :D
On other news, I turned 27 today. Wow, the year just flew by. :)
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Things have a knack of working out by themselves
Today, I got my new cellphone and it is nice. For one thing the LCD on this one does not bleed like the old one. :D However, I still need to mail back my old broken one and get credit for it. I had to pay 300$ to get it.... Grrr.... Sprint better give that money back to me. :( I have the Samusung Upstage which is one neat little bugger. Except that the constant flipping of the phone to text stuff is starting to get annoying. XD
I also picked up a 17" Sony Trinitron Multiscan e200 CRT that someone was throwing away and it works marvelously. :D It will have to do while I wait for a good sale on those gorgeous 32" LCD screens. It is strange how when I picked the screen up I thought it was a 15". Either I have grown bigger from all the good food I have been eating recently or I forgot how 17" CRT used to look like. I can't believe I am still acting like a student and trying to save up as much as I can. XD hehe... I guess habits are hard to break. Well, granted, I got a big shock from my first paycheck. Half of it disappeared in random taxes. T.T And all the moving expenses are adding up. :( i don't think my first pay check is enough to pay rent. Urgh... Living expenses in California are so expensive. Oh well. I can think of it as doing a good thing. I recycled the CRT. Instead of landing in a dumpster, it sits here on my table, delaying its inevitable fate.
On other notes, I started reading books again. Those low tech method of information transferal. I started reading Fast Food Nation, while I wait for the arrival of my other books from Amazon. I wished there were a better way to buy things online. A centralized Walmart would be cool. :D
I also picked up a 17" Sony Trinitron Multiscan e200 CRT that someone was throwing away and it works marvelously. :D It will have to do while I wait for a good sale on those gorgeous 32" LCD screens. It is strange how when I picked the screen up I thought it was a 15". Either I have grown bigger from all the good food I have been eating recently or I forgot how 17" CRT used to look like. I can't believe I am still acting like a student and trying to save up as much as I can. XD hehe... I guess habits are hard to break. Well, granted, I got a big shock from my first paycheck. Half of it disappeared in random taxes. T.T And all the moving expenses are adding up. :( i don't think my first pay check is enough to pay rent. Urgh... Living expenses in California are so expensive. Oh well. I can think of it as doing a good thing. I recycled the CRT. Instead of landing in a dumpster, it sits here on my table, delaying its inevitable fate.
On other notes, I started reading books again. Those low tech method of information transferal. I started reading Fast Food Nation, while I wait for the arrival of my other books from Amazon. I wished there were a better way to buy things online. A centralized Walmart would be cool. :D
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Immigration woes
Can't seem to get my SSN. Something to do with my I94 form or something. Urgh..
On other news, I am getting a Canon Powershot A570 IS. Woot!!!
So bored here in Chicago, and plus I got food poisoning. Not cool. :(
On other news, I am getting a Canon Powershot A570 IS. Woot!!!
So bored here in Chicago, and plus I got food poisoning. Not cool. :(
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