Yup, winter is coming near... And with winter comes one of my biggest challenges in japan... the cold... and don`t start giving me those wimpy looks... sure, Osaka isn`t actually Vlodivostok, but still coming from a country that`s smack in the middle of the equator does make you a bit reliant on heat from the o-so-kind sun... I admit, there has been times where the sun came short of frying me in my pants or threaten to turn me into a puddle of mucky sweat, but I`ve always prefered hotness rather then coldness... I`m warmblooded... what`d you expect...
The only good that comes outta winter is snow!... and of course pleasures that come with it, such as snowboarding, skiing, snowmans, pelting people with snowballs and the way it floats down flake by flake (hint.. girl with you at this time would give you an extra 66% successs rate ^-^). Avalanches are NOT in the list due to fact that considering that watching tons of snow slide down bulldozing anything is its path might sound fun in a sick way, death and destruction is not something I find humourous (especially if I`m somehow in the middle of it)...
Why do you wonder all this talk about the snow and cold... I`m going snowboarding!!!
Will of course fill you on that after I come back... (^-^)...
Bloging off...
Monday, December 27, 2004
Monday, December 13, 2004
Digitally Paranoid
I have always enjoyed technology... and how it makes life easy for human kind... its applications vast, its limits boundless... but from experience working in the electronics industry and my own personal experience, technology is anything but reliable... from a simple calculator to a high end laptop...
I blame it on the complexity of the system... a rule of thumb, more components/parts a thing is made from the higher the probability of failure... doesn't it make you feel better knowing that for example a motherboard depends on all of its 600 discrete components behaving 'normally' for it to function properly?... consider that when you buy something next time...
Even in terms of design, sytems are getting drasticly smaller and increasingly complex. Complex systems, (e.g - microprocessors) have reached the point where even a fracture of miscalculation, a sliver of unaccuracy, a tad of unsufficient calibration can cause bugs and in worst cases failure. Sometimes, the system can be so complex that debugging it is seemingly more trial and error `black magic' then proper calculated analysis (which of course I admit works too if your lucky! ^^).
It brings a chill down my spine when I know the more money a jack in to buy something electronic, the more complex it is, hence the higher probability it is to fail... and for you digital camera freaks out there.. you think your memorable pics are safe on harddisk and CD's?... HAH.. i laugh at your face... hahahahaha.... well, again I might be wrong, I am of course `digitally paranoid'....
(This article is a lame attempt to actually realize the authors `engineering-self' and is not in reference to any material or source whatsoever. People don't usually take me seriously, why should you start now?...^^)
Blogging off...
I blame it on the complexity of the system... a rule of thumb, more components/parts a thing is made from the higher the probability of failure... doesn't it make you feel better knowing that for example a motherboard depends on all of its 600 discrete components behaving 'normally' for it to function properly?... consider that when you buy something next time...
Even in terms of design, sytems are getting drasticly smaller and increasingly complex. Complex systems, (e.g - microprocessors) have reached the point where even a fracture of miscalculation, a sliver of unaccuracy, a tad of unsufficient calibration can cause bugs and in worst cases failure. Sometimes, the system can be so complex that debugging it is seemingly more trial and error `black magic' then proper calculated analysis (which of course I admit works too if your lucky! ^^).
It brings a chill down my spine when I know the more money a jack in to buy something electronic, the more complex it is, hence the higher probability it is to fail... and for you digital camera freaks out there.. you think your memorable pics are safe on harddisk and CD's?... HAH.. i laugh at your face... hahahahaha.... well, again I might be wrong, I am of course `digitally paranoid'....
(This article is a lame attempt to actually realize the authors `engineering-self' and is not in reference to any material or source whatsoever. People don't usually take me seriously, why should you start now?...^^)
Blogging off...
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Friday, December 03, 2004
Scan a Sketch
My first scan... Notice my brown sweater?
Well finally i managed to scan this pic.. took me 1 hour to set-up the scanners TWAIN to my photoshop... but still the quality is real bad... have to ask help from the adobe-guru, Tanechan later...
In anycase, this is suppose to be an outline sketch of what one of the main characters will look like... It was of course modeled from yours truly, but I admit somehow how he looks much cooler in the manga version...lolz... I`ll post any new pics as soon as I finish with them... hopefully this time with better scans...
He does kinda look like me eh? (refer to picture the below).... (^-^)
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