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Journal >> Previous Entry: 02/04/02 >> 02/05/2002 >> Next Entry: 02/07/02 Posted at 06:13 PM PST: "Stranded" I'm tired. I went climbing today with Brian Babcock, and I only made it to the top of one climb. Climbs that had been easy last week were impossible today. I guess it is accurately reflecting my state. Lonely, lonely, lonely. Sometimes I wonder what impression this site leaves on unsuspecting readers. Life's not perfect. I just choose to show only the good (and mostly superficial) stuff.I had dim sum brunch at Koi Palace with Geoff, Livia, and Stevie yesterday. Eating out with Geoff is always an adventure. :) I guess I don't have much to say. I've been an archiving freak and have been moving my backups from CD-R to DVD-R. It takes forever to burn a DVD-R, and 15% of my burns have been failing for no apparent reason. Stupid DVD-Rs. A failed one is a $3-8 coaster. I bought $3 DVD-R media, but it fails much more often than the more expensive stuff. I guess you get what you pay for. I went to see Brotherhood of the Wolf yesterday, with Emile. I spent the first three quarters of the movie wondering what it was about. The rest of the time, I was waiting for it to end. What a shitty movie. My car is in the shop. I'm stranded at home.
Finally, check out this photo I scanned from Discover's 2/2002 issue:  Examine these images closely. Now flip the magazine upside down (turn your head upside down).Highlight the invisible text below to read more. (after you look at it upside down): Surprised? Chances are you didn't realize at first that the facial expressions of the woman are very different in the two photographs. That's because your brain is accustomed to placing upright eyes and mouths onto upright faces, and it gets confused when asked to build faces upside down. [an error occurred while processing this directive]
Opinions: 9 comments Thanks, Eric I'll add that trick to my slow-growing HTML repertoire. posted by berniesoares @ 02/07/2002 09:54 am PST i think some people aren't surprised by the upside-down image because they don't turn their heads upside down. they just look at the two pictures and wonder why you think that they're strange. i could be totally wrong, but my first reaction was to just look at the upside down picture and assume that the second picture was something that you just scanned and rotated 180 degrees. am i talking coherently? i think maybe not. posted by c- @ 02/06/2002 08:20 pm PST Justin - your being "comfused" surprises no one. :) I fixed the typo, by the way. :) Mark - yeah, I remember the conversation. Basically, I do so much media work now with photographs that archiving is becoming problematic. I go on a week-long trip and end up a 4-5 CD set of archives for the trip that are split up in no particular way. I would much rather keep 10 DVDs than 70 CDs, even if every 5th DVD fails to burn properly. It's much more manageable. I was just thinking of what it might be like a year or two down the road, and I don't want to be stuck with 200 photo archive CDs. :) Also, I find the upside-down image on this page traumatizing. It's scary! Some people don't seem to be surprised by it at all, though. posted by eric @ 02/06/2002 05:11 pm PST Hmm, Eric, didn't you email me about DVD-R once? Even after all this time, CD-R media is still cheaper in terms of cost/data capacity ratio, and more reliable to boot. Do you just like the convenience factor (7 CDs vs. 1 DVD)? Unless I need to burn movies to play on standalone DVD players, I'd avoid DVD-R for now (thanks for the tip to avoid cheap media, BTW...) posted by Mark @ 02/06/2002 02:40 pm PST Yeah, the image and even your text totally "comfused" me. :) posted by jmin @ 02/06/2002 01:56 pm PST
Hey, Bernie - yeah. the movie blew. posted by eric @ 02/06/2002 12:35 pm PST agh. i shoulda told you not to waste your money on brotherhood of the wolf. i too spent the first part wondering what the hell was going on and the latter part hoping it would end soon. posted by Lan @ 02/06/2002 09:36 am PST I don't think the expressions look so differently. However, the invisible text is really cool. How did you do that? I looked at your source code, but I didn't find anything special you did to achieve the effect. posted by berniesoares @ 02/06/2002 07:40 am PST Already knowing what's coming, I decided not to look at these images upside down. I think I was traumatized enough the first two times it happened =P They always show these things in CS lecture. No wonder I have nightmares! posted by Steven @ 02/05/2002 10:08 pm PST |
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