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Entries this day: After_Valparaiso Chat_with_Fred Today Valparaiso,_Chile After Valparaiso 1:45pm ART Saturday 25 February 2006 The ship is pretty rocky today. I'm enjoying it. Today is our day off after Valparaiso. Tomorrow the third term of classes will begin. I'm on the late shift of classes, and have a shload of Afternoon GET to do. I have a bit of a concern that I may miss something that I'm supposed to do, but for now, everything is a-okay. Not really enough time to take a big phat nap like I'd like to do, but I'll mindfully write a to-do list and see what happens. Things to do "today"
(*) Fred showed me a cool thing called AMS2HID, which converts physical orientation information into mouse movements in different applications. The coolest application that uses this is a ball rolling app, so the ball appears to roll according to which way the computer is tilted. 2:47pm ART Saturday 25 February 2006 I just spent maybe 45 minutes cleaning up the chat with Fred so it could be archived below. I hope I appreciate this later. Or at least I hope someone else appreciates it. permalinkChat with Fred 1:59pm ART Saturday 25 February 2006 From yesterday, my first long gmail-chat with Fred: Fred: yoyoyoybecome
unidle then check
out this link: me: yo Fred: this
guy is tilting his powerbook as input to the game, which is a 'marble
madness' thing, where the floor tilts to make the ball
move whassap!!!! me: holy
shit! It's
downloading now Fred: yeah! me: probably Fred: i
have it on my machine now too! me: FUCK! how
can the machine detect tilts??? Fred: it's
got a motion sensor inside, which is how it knows to park the
harddrive heads when you drop it me: the
new ones do Mine
doesn't Fred: urs
too me: shit;
I didn't know they knew the direction of tiltage mine
does?????? Fred: yeah prolly me: the
heads don't stop far as I know Fred: it's
not new technology me: my
shit is 4 years old now haha Fred: just
download the links i send you and
see if it works me: k send
em Fred: i'll
send em tonite or something me: I
have basically 20 minutes left before I have to
jet Fred: figured i'll
line it all out, bim bim bim. so
how're things???! me: stuff
is pretty cool um
sorry distracted Fred: 's
coo that's
why ur there, eh? me: Uh,
we are in Valparaiso Chile now This
voyage has been more relaxed for me Fred: get
u some coffee? me: I
haven't been like OH MY GOD about
everything Fred: hahahaha me: and
I didnt get coffee, even though I'm in South America Yeah
yeah now we're in CapeTown. Yeah
now Namibia it's pretty
weird. really. Fred: and
next voyage, you'll be all, no no, go down to this place, and
you'll find where the locals go me: I'm
just living on this cruise ship and, like an elevator, we end up in
different places, and I get off and walk around. zactly Fred: hahaha elevator! the
elevator of rob's life me: I
was pretty pleased with that analogy. Fred: make
sure the doors stay open while you're out! or
like dr. who's phone booth, traveling all over space and
time but most
people won't know who dr. who is, i guess so
what have you done lately? me: ummmm today? Fred: sure me: I
have just written a Rob Update and sent it, for one
thing Fred: i
see it but
what else me: I'll
forward you an email that is much mo' longer about the trip in
general. it's written to a teacher from previous
voyage I have been
trying not to chase girls all around the
ship Fred: k haha same except
for the ship part me: I
have been trying not to work too much onthe ship, but still get
the shit done I need to Fred: yeah me:
hey
do you have links to the game? Fred: yeah me: I
have Hitomi's camera me: pretty
nice one with 7.2 Megapix Fred: that's
the ball game. i don't like its
setup; the camera moves with respect to the board (it follows the
balls motion, always "behind" the ball) and
so your tilt direction becomes outdated. me: I'm
downloading the .dmg file now Fred: like,
if you tilt back, so the ball rolls toward you, the camera will swing
around, and then the ball will be rolling uphill, because you're
tilting back and so the ball
will go back and forth you'll
see. this
is the "apple motion sensor" 2 "human interface device"
program run
neverball first, then runn
ams2hid select
neverball in the ams2hid application window me: Um,
so the camera got sandy, somehow... may have had to do with me
SANDBOARDING down these fucking tall tall tall ass steep sand dunes
in Namibia on my belly on masonite sheets!!!!!!!!! Fred: set
the Hz to like 360, not 60 oh,
and here are two other apps to check to see if ams2hid will work at
all also, in
ams2hid, switch from "normal mode" to "test mode" when trying stuff
for the first time. cause ams2hid
steals the mouse/keyboard, and if something goes wrong, you have no
mouse/keyboard but test mode will
stop after a time me: So
I took it apart, trying to get any sand out. A bit tedious, but
I was able to get it all together again. There are some pics in
the ones I referenced today in my recent mass
email. Fred: (so
does normal mode, though, cause it's nagware or
something.) me: And
in other news we met Lee Hirsch, the director of Amandla! a movie that
made me want to be black. You should prolly check it out if you
want to get back to your black roots. forget
prev AMSVISUALIZER link hahahaha ok! AMSTracker
is command-line AMSVisualizer
shows the orientation of your powerbook StableWindow
rotates a window to stay horizontal totally
awesome about the sand dunes i wanna
see the vids have
you heard from dude recently? me: Lee
is a cool cat, super busy, but at times we were able to just
chill out and chat Fred: he's
got news that i won't spoil for him i
know them kinda ppl me: haven't
really heard from Dude, but I heard about Gabi, baby number
2 Fred: that's
one of the two things me: ain't
heard other news Fred: also
cool, though not the other thing, is that his car has an lcd, and he
had this gmail up on it i think
it was his laptop plugged in to the car's lcd me: I've
got to escape, relatively pronto.. wow lcd? Fred: yeah check
ur gmail, which i forwarded to you me: that's
pretty sweet Fred: a
couple days ago well, good
talking to you i
have a new phone now, been trying to figure out a way to text you from
it me: Oh
shit! that pic makes
me laugh!!!!! Fred: but
ur phone is probably out of service on the ocean yeah me: definitely
no service on my phone I
might not have service even when I get back; out of
money Fred: and
texts to an email address are considered emails and cost
extra truu
me: but
it ain't a big thing aight
I gots to jam Fred: not
really coo me: love
you lots and htnaks for the links Fred: see
you lates np me: What's
yer phone number? Fred: love
you too 555-555-5555 cell
phone me: cool
peace! Fred: a
new razr v3 see
ya Sent
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