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aruanI've been deceived! All my life, I've been led to believe the Unsharp Mask feature of PhotoShop, well, unsharpens pictures, but no! No, this is not so, for in a spectacular display of counterintuitivity, it actually de-fuzzes soft-focus photographs! Suddenly struck by paralyzing fear of what else I've been walking around taking for granted.
Alas, yesterday saw the demise of the last of my birthday Junior's raspberry swirl cheesecake, but lunch at Einstein's was pretty good with an incidental Staci and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
walkingshadow, who through a series of unfortunate events slept through her Japanese midterm this morning and though bolting to the professor's office straightaway was told she could not take a makeup exam. The custodian and I had hashed it out this morning and all agreed this was a heinously unjustifiable act of utmost sadism. Err, my words, not hers.
We had the tech writer from USA Today as a guest lecturer in Communication on the Internet, and he told us about this neato-keen thing called E-Ink. It's this dual-tonal ink printed on special paper, and when you pass an electric current through the paper, its text changes! Wild! He said that within 5-10 years, we could have a crude facsimile of the Daily Prophet in our very own hands! It's so amazing what things from science fiction movies we'll live to see, and what the next generation will take for granted, how backwards they'll think we were.
Miranda also sat with me for a good two hours and change this afternoon designing my site which will, through no fault of my own, look fabulous.
I've been having some cool discussions over here and here, one HP speculation, the other a Snape/Brian Kinney analogy. Uh, not like that though. It would seem I officially have three fandoms, and that's a mighty big thing for the big monogamy slut I am.
And on that note, things I love right now: Princes of the People and In Rats' Alley, both by Sullen Siren, William Shatner, my job and coworkers, namely Natalie and Megan, Occlumency scenes, secondary character fic, that apparently we've gotten over this pesky personal space issue by the 23rd century, cover songs, umbrellas, and my new jeans. Mmm.
Alas, yesterday saw the demise of the last of my birthday Junior's raspberry swirl cheesecake, but lunch at Einstein's was pretty good with an incidental Staci and
walkingshadow, who through a series of unfortunate events slept through her Japanese midterm this morning and though bolting to the professor's office straightaway was told she could not take a makeup exam. The custodian and I had hashed it out this morning and all agreed this was a heinously unjustifiable act of utmost sadism. Err, my words, not hers.We had the tech writer from USA Today as a guest lecturer in Communication on the Internet, and he told us about this neato-keen thing called E-Ink. It's this dual-tonal ink printed on special paper, and when you pass an electric current through the paper, its text changes! Wild! He said that within 5-10 years, we could have a crude facsimile of the Daily Prophet in our very own hands! It's so amazing what things from science fiction movies we'll live to see, and what the next generation will take for granted, how backwards they'll think we were.
Miranda also sat with me for a good two hours and change this afternoon designing my site which will, through no fault of my own, look fabulous.
I've been having some cool discussions over here and here, one HP speculation, the other a Snape/Brian Kinney analogy. Uh, not like that though. It would seem I officially have three fandoms, and that's a mighty big thing for the big monogamy slut I am.
And on that note, things I love right now: Princes of the People and In Rats' Alley, both by Sullen Siren, William Shatner, my job and coworkers, namely Natalie and Megan, Occlumency scenes, secondary character fic, that apparently we've gotten over this pesky personal space issue by the 23rd century, cover songs, umbrellas, and my new jeans. Mmm.
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Date: October 12th, 2004 02:54 am (UTC)YOU LIE.
Really? Well, good to know. I've always wondered why images didn't look very unsharpened when I tried it :-P
He said that within 5-10 years, we could have a crude facsimile of the Daily Prophet in our very own hands!
That is the coolest thing I've ever heard.
the other a Snape/Brian Kinney analogy. Uh, not like that though.
Too late. My brain went there. ::reaches for bleach::
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Date: October 12th, 2004 07:30 pm (UTC)Dude, I perked right on up when he started talking about it. Ink that changes on the page! Electrified paper with a wireless receiver that can transmit new stories and videos onto the page! That last bit's a little further down the road, but very much within our lifetimes. It's so unbelievably cool, I could hardly stand it.
Eep. Sorry. But separately, mmm.