Global Wahrman

This is the personal journal of Michael Wahrman.

Sunday, March 30, 2014

What Are Those Damn Pirates Mumbling About Anyway

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In Pirates of the Caribbean  at Disneyland there is a place near the start of the attraction which involves some different voices warning...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Segue from National Security to Vegetarian Tamales

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You may ask what is the relationship between a recipe for vegetarian tamales and national security, not to mention story structure in theme...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Lets Put the National Reconnaissance Office in Charge of Film Production

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Rewritten on 5/1/2025 to tone down my real feelings. Although Hollywood is awash with so-called 3D films, more properly called stereoscopic,...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Story Structure in Theme Parks and the Mystery of the Self-Illuminated Ears

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On March 14th I visited the new Disneyland Resort in Anaheim for the first time since it ceased to be Disneyland and earned its second ga...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Second Case Study of Mass Transit in Southern California

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We have a second case study here of the mass transit system in Southern California. This time the itinerary was Escondido to Los Angeles,...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

Reply From/To Siggraph About the Visual Effects Disaster

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I got a reply from Siggraph about my suggestion to have other points of view on their news article about the layoffs in the visual effects i...

The Train To Los Angeles

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The train from Escondido to Oceanside leaves every half an hour.  That means I need to allow an hour to get to Oceanside.  Then catch Amtrak...
Monday, March 10, 2014

We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties

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We are experiencing temporary technical difficulties.  The car battery is dead, the computer died and the bicycle needs a pump.   We will re...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

When All Roads Lead to Rome

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A friend has just finished a chapter of his life and is making a pilgrimage to Rome as a reward of sorts.  My friend has tastes that lean...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Using the GPU for Real Work: A Postmortem

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After doing about a dozen projects with CUDA/GPU for my own edification, I made the mistake of trying to help out some friends on their p...
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