http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/ weblogging since february 2004 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:25:16 -0400 19070701 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:13:01 -0400 arts-n-crafts cite http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?19070701 funny commentary on my robot on this gamer site. 17080701 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:13:01 -0400 arts-n-crafts robots http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?17080701 that's it. my thesis is printed and signed by my advisor. still hunting for some signatures, but there's no more work to be done, and no changes to be made. i've uploaded the final pdf for your reading pleasure. 09080701 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:13:01 -0400 animation http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?09080701 so far the cutest bit i've spotted here at siggraph: jun fujiki's ole coordinate system, which lets you interactively create m.c.esher-like 2d/3d visual illusions virtually inhabited by little guys obeying the laws of the particular projection you're currently viewing. 05080701 Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:13:01 -0400 arts-n-crafts http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?05080701 if you're in southern california, check out time bracketing at siggraph 2007's art gallery. view a print of "stata latin" on display, and get a chance to play with the software that was written to generate the images. 25070701 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:13:01 -0400 arts-n-crafts mit robots http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?25070701 in accidental sync with the cuban revolutionary movement day, and after four years of work, my thesis defense is scheduled for tomorrow at 3:30pm in the bartos theater of the media lab (lower level of m.i.t building e15). here comes a date that for years was located "somewhere" in the muddy future, with often a day on which it didn't even seem possible. 22070701 Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:13:01 -0400 cite http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?22070701 from 'a man without a country', after reflecting on the grand visions of "the world of tomorrow" more commonplace in the early decades of the 20th century: 14070702 Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:13:01 -0400 cite comments-on http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?14070702 two quotes i read this morning in harper's magazine. one inspiring (but hard to live by) and one insightful. 14070701 Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:13:01 -0400 arts-n-crafts design http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?14070701 following on my renewed infatuation with the flip clock screensave, i've decided to design my own flip clock digits to use in a video i'm editing. 13070701 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:13:01 -0400 comments-on http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?13070701 continuing to report on my study findings, and as another gender issue, i found it striking that the only really significant gender bias was in the ranking (on a scale of 1-7) of the following sentence: "I was the most important member on the team." 10070701 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:13:01 -0400 comments-on http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?10070701 last month i ran human subject studies in which people worked with a robot to solve a task. as part of the post-experimental debriefing i asked the subjects whether they felt the robot was male or female. 08070702 Sun, 08 Jul 2007 02:13:01 -0400 mit arts-n-crafts robots http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?08070702 probably the most publicly important event of the last few months was the completion of my robotic desk lamp. 08070701 Sun, 08 Jul 2007 01:13:01 -0400 tips-n-tricks flesh http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?08070701 every once in a while you make a good purchase that you're really happy with for many years to come. 06070701 Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:13:01 -0400 america arts-n-crafts http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?06070701 eight (!) new phrases in the american phrase book. thanks to dan, shahar, and mikey. 05040701 Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:13:01 -0400 america travel http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?05040701 pretty soon i couldn't see anything. my headlights were reflected off the incoming snowflakes, resulting in a 100x speed version of the old starfield simulation screensaver. turning up the headlights to high beam only made it worse, amplifying the influx, and given the fact that the thick snowfall totally obscured my vision, i actually considered turning off the headlights altogether. 23030701 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:13:01 -0400 useless http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?23030701 the way information flows... i overheard a conversation on the subway escalator about this youtube clip: stevie wonder sings 'superstition' on sesame street. funky. 16030701 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:13:01 -0400 cite http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?16030701 people are whispering it in boston, too. 'all this global warming is not too bad, really. at least for us... considering the mild winter we're getting this year.' 13030701 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:13:01 -0400 travel http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?13030701 this one's old, but i'm cleaning out my desktop. check out the cute language on the free wireless login page at kyiv's borispyl airport: 12030702 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:13:01 -0400 motd http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?12030702 "Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever." from an alleged list of analogies and metaphors foundin actual high school essays. 12030701 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:13:01 -0400 robots http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?12030701 just came back from the 2nd human-robot interaction conference, and an mit student who works in gehry's extravagant stata center, home of m.i.t's computer science and a.i lab, made a curious comment to me. 26020703 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:13:01 -0500 america http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?26020703 it's not new to my readers that i think america is insane in its attitude towards alcohol. 26020702 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:13:01 -0500 arts-n-crafts http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?26020702 as a background projection for a panel talk i gave on the topic of 'distortion', i made a quartz composer graphic of something that is intended to look like analog noise over text. the effect is quite fetching, if you're into that kind of stuff. it basically makes your monitor look broken. 26020701 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:13:01 -0500 comments-on http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?26020701 one big advantage that i find about aging, is that increasingly more literature makes sense to you. 19020701 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:13:01 -0500 film http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?19020701 last night i watched 'infernal affairs', the hong kong thriller that was the almost scene-by-scene inspiration for scorcese's 'the departed'. if you liked that movie, i would highly recommend watching the original, if only for trivia value. 18020702 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:13:01 -0500 motd http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?18020702 this one has been up for a while: 18020701 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:13:01 -0500 arts-n-crafts http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?18020701 so i've entered the hey hot shot! competition, and as the deadline for decision is approaching (tomorrow to be precise), i find myself increasingly nervous and excited about it. 13020701 Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:13:01 -0500 tips-n-tricks http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?13020701 copilot from fog creek software is their 'it-just-works' remote desktop implementation. 12020701 Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:13:01 -0500 film animation http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?12020701 i don't remember which u.s president said that the only thing new is the history we don't know, but there's something to it. it also seems that anything new has already been done in the 60s. 06020701 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:13:01 -0500 arts-n-crafts http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?06020701 in conjunction with my entering the hey hot shot! competition - the first edition of the official time bracketing site is up. 04020701 Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:13:01 -0500 film arts-n-crafts robots http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?04020701 ok - this seems pretty fucked up. a friend just rang me and called my attention to the following g.m. superbowl ad: 31010702 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:13:01 -0500 design politics http://web.media.mit.edu/~guy/blog/entry.php?31010702 the justice mapping center is a data visualization org that specializes in combining geographic and judicial information. like the 2004 the neighborhood costs of america's prison boom report.