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Scotland on Rails videos are up
Here’s mine, from my talk “Who Needs Photoshop? Creative Image Manipulation in Ruby.” This was my first time speaking at a conference. Do I look as nervous as I felt?
Who Needs Photoshop? at Scotland on Rails from bantic on Vimeo.
Engineyard is hosting the rest of the Scotland on Rails videos.
My talk at Scotland On Rails
I had the opportunity to speak at Scotland on Rails last weekend. My talk was called “Who Needs Photoshop? Creative Image Manipulation using Ruby.” It was my first time giving a talk at a serious conference and I really enjoyed myself although I was pretty nervous leading up to it. The conference [...]
the czech beast
In August I went hiking for 5 days in the hinterlands of the Czech Republic and Poland, and we made this video afterwards:
the czech beast from bantic on Vimeo.
Playing with Fire
I’m now 2 for 3 with viral youtube science experiments. Previously I fail to make Mountain Dew glow green and successfully created a spouting diet coke geyser.
Yesterday’s experiment, and my Thing for ThingADay, was to try to recreate the handheld fireball* on this youtube video.
The result? Success! Well, mostly. The fireball heats [...]
Thing a Day overview
I haven’t been posting every day, but I’ve been doing things every day.
On Wednesday the “thing” I made was a tattoo. On Saturday I took a picture of my sweet electric guitar. Today I made a hand-held fireball (following along with this youtube video). Friday I “made” Manu Ginobili of the Spurs sign [...]
Melbourne, Distilled
When I was studying abroad in Melb’n I remember walking down Lonsdale street once when a passing, slightly drunk-looking Melburnian greeted with me an effusive, “G’day mate.” I wanly said, “Hi,” and he confidently replied, “Yeah, not bad,” as he strode past me. That experience has always seemed uniquely Australian to me, and [...]
Bearduary: A True Gentleman Grows a Beard
It’s not too late to start your Bearduary beard.
In March of 2006 I assisted Sai in the making of this documentary:
Here is a clip of John Hodgman, from his book The Areas of My Expertise, to get you in the mood on March 1st when it comes time to shear your cheeks.
peep show on chime.tv
I was skeptical of Chime.Tv until I spent 45 minutes last night watching peep show. Nice.
The wisdom of attaching 4MB video files to chain emails
There’s a generational gap right around age 45 that divides those who send mass emails out with a link to a video and those who send the video as an attachment. I’ve always considered attaching the video as antiquated practice. Today my dad forwarded me a WMV file that showed a baseball getting [...]
YouFamous; Not Original or Quick Enough
I just came up with the term YouFamous to describe people that become famous via, and whose fame is primarily limited to, the YouTube viewing audience. Turns out there are already a few matches on Google for the term, although I only count three in their first page of results, and a search on [...]
