Archives for June 1999
distortion cam
June 26, 1999 by Eric Richardson
more from the jwz-is-cool department... I just took vidwhacker (also from xscreensaver), converted it to Perl, and made it write out jpg's. You can see the results here (image updates every 10 seconds).
webcollage
June 26, 1999 by Eric Richardson
I was upgrading xscreensaver today and found a new module in called webcollage. It basically makes a collage from random pictures collected off the web. Click for more info... — Continue Reading...
why PICS can not work
June 21, 1999 by Eric Richardson
I was trying to explain why PICS is horribly broken to someone, and I thought I had written a long rant on the subject here... All I could find was one little paragraph and it didn't make a whole lot of sense. Click to read why PICS is doomed. — Continue Reading...
i'm back
June 21, 1999 by Eric Richardson
If you care, i'm now safely back in Michigan and working full time...
south carolina
June 12, 1999 by Eric Richardson
We got to Sumter about 7 this morning after driving all night. I'm trying to stay awake all day off two and a half hours of sleep, but it's looking iffy. Oh well.
vacation at last...
June 11, 1999 by Eric Richardson
in about an hour or two I'll be off to South Carolina. First to Sumter, then on to Myrtle Beach for a week of sun, waves, and cousins. Should be entertaining. Knowing my addiction to Internet life, I'll be checking email and probably posting here if anything interesting happens. Obviously, the camera will be staying here, so it might be a bit boring for a while.
rot13 (part 2)
June 09, 1999 by Eric Richardson
for those of you who don't have machines with Perl, I've set up two little interfaces to the scripts I wrote yesterday. encode text here, and decode it here. — Continue Reading...
rot13
June 08, 1999 by Eric Richardson
I was playing around with rot13 today. (rot13 transposes every letter 13 characters right. an 'a' becomes an 'n', an 'e' becomes an 'r', etc.) I then got bored, so I decided to play with it... — Continue Reading...
AOL instant messenger
June 05, 1999 by Eric Richardson
I've decided that trying to remember to sign off of the AOL messenger thingy is useless... If you IM me and I don't respond, I'm probably not here. I promise I'm not ignoring you, I'm just too lazy to sign off.
Cryptonomicon
June 05, 1999 by Eric Richardson
I haven't been reading a lot lately (something about not having enough time and sleep having greater benefit in the long run), but on Sunday I ordered Neil Stephenson's new book, Cryptonomicon. It came in Thursday, and I'm now on page 320 (of 910). Wow. I should read more. — Continue Reading...
Notting Hill
June 01, 1999 by Eric Richardson
I really promise I don't post about every movie I see... I just see a lot, so it seems like it. I saw Notting Hill on... doh. oh yeah, Sunday. It was brilliant. I've always liked that style of humor, and Notting Hill was filled with it. Highly recommended.