I’ve completely overhauled the website with a new WordPress theme. I also removed all my old posts from college and will be using this blog as an outlet for my professional/technological findings and adventures.

Here’s my parting video for DS106. It’s been fun, everyone!

I spent a lot of time on this, about 90% of which was in figuring out how to quickly and cleanly record the Minecraft window. I started out in Windows using FRAPS. This made clean videos, but the overhead brought the framerate down too low. I was also unimpressed with the flexibility of the free/trial ...

I spent a lot of time on this, about 90% of which was in figuring out how to quickly and cleanly record the Minecraft window. I started out in Windows using FRAPS. This made clean videos, but the overhead brought the framerate down too low. I was also unimpressed with the flexibility of the free/trial ...

For my web story, I decided to play around with bo.lt, at the suggestion of Martha Burtis. It’s a nifty little WYSIWYG HTML editor, although I feel it eliminates a lot of the sophisticated control you can have with FireFox’s Firebug, Chrome’s Element Inspector, and similar DOM-tree editors.  This is not to say you can’t ...

For my web story, I decided to play around with bo.lt, at the suggestion of Martha Burtis. It’s a nifty little WYSIWYG HTML editor, although I feel it eliminates a lot of the sophisticated control you can have with FireFox’s Firebug, Chrome’s Element Inspector, and similar DOM-tree editors.  This is not to say you can’t ...

Sound Effect Story: The Nether by Matthew Presser I enjoyed this one once I finally figured out how to record it. In Ubuntu, the system allows you to set the recording device to “analog loopback” (i.e., it sends the total output of your sound card into your sound input, as if you were to record ...

Sound Effect Story: The Nether by Matthew Presser I enjoyed this one once I finally figured out how to record it. In Ubuntu, the system allows you to set the recording device to “analog loopback” (i.e., it sends the total output of your sound card into your sound input, as if you were to record ...

I’m really excited about the audio unit, even if I’m getting to it a little late.  I think it might be because I really love audacity. It’s a wonderful program that allows even those with no experience in music to make some very interesting audio projects.  For my first assignment, I started out simple with ...

I’m really excited about the audio unit, even if I’m getting to it a little late.  I think it might be because I really love audacity. It’s a wonderful program that allows even those with no experience in music to make some very interesting audio projects.  For my first assignment, I started out simple with ...

My favorite part of his whole talk on design is the art of the album.  Rush is my favorite band of all time, and they are an excellent example of beautiful design. Their album artist since Caress of Steel (1975), Hugh Syme, has not only contributed some instrumental bits to a few songs, but also ...

My random article was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtori_Haparchi. My random quote was  ”All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.). My random picture was Weirdo, by Lord Jezzer. I’ll confess that I didn’t pick the original image that came up. It was a waterfall. I ...

For my last Visual Assignment, I decided to pull out the stops. I anchored down and did some serious bulkr downloading and Picasa creating. If you read my previous posts on averaging collages, you’ll notice I found a rather boring element of uniform “fogginess” in the finished products, with the exception of one collage I ...

For my last Visual Assignment, I decided to pull out the stops. I anchored down and did some serious bulkr downloading and Picasa creating. If you read my previous posts on averaging collages, you’ll notice I found a rather boring element of uniform “fogginess” in the finished products, with the exception of one collage I ...

Minecraft, a photo by theunwiseman on Flickr. Via Flickr: I took the average of over 50 Minecraft screenshots. This is what Picasa gave me. I particularly like how well the HUD stands out. This almost makes it look like you’re playing the game in some eerie fog. Again, I thought I would enjoy this more, ...

Dungeon Raid, a set on Flickr. Via Flickr: Found a dungeon while filling in the western part of my map. I know this raid was almost a week ago, but I figured I would explain my process a bit on looting dungeons. First, I should explain precisely what a dungeon is to the less Minecraft-inclined ...

Adventure, a photo by theunwiseman on Flickr. The image above is the combination of the first 50 images found when searching for the word “Adventure” on Flickr. This was a very adventurous exercise. I definitely enjoyed the process more than the end result. I feel like the picture is really bland. This reminds me of ...

I’ve already ranted about Gardner Campbell’s talk, “No More Digital Facelifts,” once before.  However, I didn’t really touch on the importance of understanding the context in which you use the medium. A big reason why newspapers have had a difficult time migrating to online formats is not just because it’s a “digital facelift,” but because ...

I explored the area north of my house in the ds106 SMP server today. Here is a set of screenshots I took during the outing: I found two large areas of interest: the Lava Plains and the Northern Ridge (names subject to change).  The Lava plains are a large savanna biome with two natural above-ground ...

I will start out by saying that this was a taxing assignment.  It really took the wind out of me.  Not only did I have problems ripping the DVD of 2001: A Space Odyssey (more on this in a moment), my perfectionist side kicked in and I ended up spending hours getting the GIF exactly ...