Thursday, October 11, 2012

Transcript of a talk given by Dr. Richard Hamming

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Since I am stuck out here in the middle of nowhere in this perfect republican hell, I am not in a position to hear talks by interesting pe...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The Strange Case of the Bye Bye Birdie (1963) Blue Screen Photography

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[This post should be rewritten, there are two different  topics.  The first topic is how digital has increased the volume of visual effects ...
Monday, October 8, 2012

SIGGRAPH 2012 Mini Trip Report

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[This post will be regularly updated as I think about things to add.   I have put a comment in italics about a test that I saw that I was n...
Friday, October 5, 2012

20th Color Imaging Conference Nov 12-16 2012 Doubletree Hotel in LA

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The 20th Color Imaging Conference is in LA this year from November 12 - 16 at the Doubletree Hotel in Downtown LA.  In spite of a major dos...

Fromkin on British Diplomatic History and its Role in Understanding Lawrence of Arabia

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From time to time, this blog is going to recommend some book or books on a topic.   The goal is to help my readers be so much better inform...

Paperman Breakdown / Disney Project of Some Sort

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Tom Brigham found this on youtube. This is a Disney project called "Paperman". This is the sort of project I would love to do...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Tom Swift and His Amazing Underground Conspiracy Theory

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When researching my posts on "Do Mysterious Booms Indicate a Secret Aerospace Project?" for this blog, I started to delve into t...
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Anne McKenney ( - 2009)

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[I just got email from Elizabeth/Beth McKenney and she had some corrections for me.] I just got the word that Anne McKenney passed away se...
Monday, October 1, 2012

A Tree Falls in Los Angeles

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The following story is mostly true, just slightly abbreviated for impact, so to speak. A few years ago a person was killed while sitti...

Not Even Quatermass Can Avoid the Youtube Copyright Checker!

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From time to time, I put some video excerpt up on Youtube usually as supporting evidence in favor or against some point in some discussion...