[Toshi]

here's a well done crankworx video: http://video2.nsmb.com/snowburn/snowburn_crankworx_2004.mov

also, if you go to http://www.observedtrials.net/ you can download a full length trials flick from 2002

 

[WTGPhoben]

some "real" low light shots for you, keith

image 1 and 2: iso 3200 (!), 1/50, f/2.8
image 3: iso 1600, 1/60, f/2.0

definitely see some camera shake in here, my bad. blame 1/60 @ 50mm x 1.6x as before.

my thoughts: the iso 3200 shots look as good as my D30's iso 800 shots. considering that the 20D has 2.5 times the number of pixels as the D30 i am very pleased, as that makes the difference is far greater than "just" 2 stops.

Yeah, those look real good.

 

[Toshi]

an interesting bit of reading (from Wedding, "Behavior & Medicine")

"Sublimation may be understood as a relatively mature defense in which various instincts are displaced or converted into socially acceptable outlets. Normal sexual curiosity, for example, can become voyeurism under adverse circumstances. Under more favorable circumstances, the same impulse may be sublimated into an interest in photography. Similarly, a sadistic impulse to inflict pain can be sublimated into the socially acceptable and necessary practice of surgery. The surgeon can cut and hurt the patient in the service of a higher goal. Note that in both of these examples of sublimation, the infantile and sexual origins of these behaviors are nearly completely disguised."

i sense that the author is neither a photographer nor a surgeon.

 

[Toshi]

let's see, i will be out of this place and earning a meager wage as a resident in 2008 or 2009 (if no research/research), this GTI is released in "Late fall 2005 in U.S." according to autoweek, yup, that's about right to pick it up used...

anyway, to the duplicated post from the lounge about the upcoming vw gti that explains what i'm talking about:

:heart:

http://www.autoweek.com/article.cms?articleId=100993
http://www.vwvortex.com/artman/publish/article_984.shtml

0-60 in 6.9 with the "direct-shift" transmission, under 3000 lbs., and actually practical being a hatchback...

 

[Barbaton]

my illustrious home state strikes again:

http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100238

hehe

 

[Toshi]

good job sox

 

[Toshi]

i'm going to see alan vizzuti play! in 50 minutes

 

[Barbaton]

Woohoo. Now I'm not the only one on this thread to be a champion.

In the words of the immortal pedro I am the daddy of the pingu. :dancing:

 

[Toshi]

i'm going to see alan vizzuti play! in 50 minutes

oops, it's vizzutti, two ts. he is the man. i am going to go practice in shame now.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c2coff=1&q=alan+vizzutti&spell=1

 

[Toshi]

Woohoo. Now I'm not the only one on this thread to be a champion.

In the words of the immortal pedro I am the daddy of the pingu. :dancing:

nice! i tried futilely to master the pingu slap, but always would screw up around the 8th penguin

 

[Barbaton]

This is pretty slick:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/noises.php

 

[Toshi]

hehe, that is cool.

 

[Toshi]

recent phonepix:

captions: a double rainbow, one of my profs dressed up as a uterus (his arms would be the broad ligaments), the signboard in front of my friend kristel's place, moving a table that barely fit into the pathfinder...

in other news i am now 1-0 in the intramural racquetball tournament. i may be entered into the wrong category, as i walked over the other guy, 15-3, 15-4...

 

[Toshi]

musical gems:

http://www.greenamp.com/images/simpsongoofup.mpg
http://www.greenamp.com/images/Ashlee.avi [divx]

and this is supposedly what enrique iglesias sounds like under the sync, recorded at a concert in poland off the stage mic: http://www.madsb.com/enrique/enrique.mp3

 

[narlus]

toshi, thanks for that link. my wife almost peed herself listening to it.

 

[Toshi]

this is kind of old, as it was discussed around the time of the RNC, but here's a video of the bike rigged up to paint messages on the sidewalk. it uses chalk? so it's not permanent.

http://korswg.free.fr/ilovenewyork.mov

 

[Toshi]

new pics tonight:

see the rest in the gallery here

 

[Toshi]

"Simpson, who has since cited swollen vocal cords due to acid reflux disease as the reason she used a guide vocal"

hehe, riiiiiiight

 

[narlus]

someone posted a link to a NZ paper which had a headline like "acid ruins singer's performance".

 

[Toshi]

i went to the nwd5 premiere in renton tonight. thoughts: music was loud. cymbals are particularly painful to listen to. riding in vid was good, a slight step up from that of other videos. camera work was ok, varying between scenes.

i also brought my camera and snapped these two pics (the second is oly from here on ridemonkey):

 

[Toshi]

i think it's worth plugging my friend steve's blog: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/india/ . he's in india for a few months, and is an amusing writer.

 

[Toshi]

new pics today, went to snoqualmie falls:

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/snoqualmie falls - october 30, 2004/

a few samples:

 

[Toshi]

and a few more for kicks:

+ 100% crop

 

[Toshi]

and news of the weird: http://www.liquidgeneration.com/rumormill/ipod_killing.html

Brad Pulaski had died of blunt trauma to the head after being repeatedly bludgeoned with an iPod, a popular MP3 player produced by Apple.

 

[Toshi]

remember back in elementary school, where it was said that you can't fold a piece of paper more than N times? (where N = ~8). well, it isn't true: http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/pages/puzzlezone/muse/muse0704.asp

spending the money for gold foil and an $85 roll of toilet paper is a lot of effort just for some extra credit... altho she did show something novel, if not groundbreaking.

folded 12 times:

 

[Toshi]

i'm tired about writing about the external and internal anatomy of the heart and its vasculature so here is another timewaster, my current list of books to read as of halloween 2004

http://s91590527.onlinehome.us/books to read halloween.pdf

i'm currently reading the john wheeler biography, "geons" etc. and it is interesting. something good to read during rests at rehearsals at least.

 

[Toshi]

this is kind of interesting, from http://www.electoral-vote.com/ :

http://www.electoral-vote.com/info/edu.html

harvard kids surf the electoral-vote.com site more than any others... followed by UMN of all places. UW is doing ok in #4 too, which makes sense since it's so huuuuuge (40k+, http://tinyurl.com/6sv9x)

 

[Toshi]

http://static.vidvote.com/movies/bushuncensored.mov

"just a one-fingered victory salute"

hmm.

 

[Toshi]

go Vote

 

[Toshi]

meh. looks like it will be four more years of "staying the course."

 

[Toshi]

meh. looks like it will be four more years of "staying the course."

on the upside we had the highest voter turnout since 1960... http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=voter+turnout&btnG=Search+News

in other news, here's a sign that seattle is cool (less than a mile away from my place):

 

[Barbaton]

hmmm. funny what happens when you're looking or bike racks on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1523&item=5531720315&rd=1

 

[Toshi]

hmmm. funny what happens when you're looking or bike racks on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1523&item=5531720315&rd=1

ahha, did you order one?

"Life Technology Research International®"
"energetically modified"
"personal energy tool"
"When it is in contact with the body, The*Thule takyonator™ forms a resonance loop tuned to the Earth's beneficial pulsation"

the funny thing is that they are right about the effects of stress on disease progression. too bad they surround it with a bunch of pseudoscience of the worst variety...

 

[Barbaton]

ahha, did you order one?

"Life Technology Research International®"
"energetically modified"
"personal energy tool"
"When it is in contact with the body, The*Thule takyonator™ forms a resonance loop tuned to the Earth's beneficial pulsation"

the funny thing is that they are right about the effects of stress on disease progression. too bad they surround it with a bunch of pseudoscience of the worst variety...

No. Didn't. Did just miss a chance to get the short roof adaptor for the car, though. In other news, someone beat my pingu score, so I racked it up another 90 pts. :evil:

 

[Toshi]

beers i have tried:

spied in the med student lounge:

 

[Toshi]

props to giro: i just called them up to order a replacement rocloc piece for my battered Giro Gila '02 ("what's the model?" "gila '02" "giro what? what's the model?" "GILA!" "oh, gila."), and they are sending out a replacement rocloc for free



also, i ordered these snazzy fenders for the klein from rei:

they work with frames without eyelets. seattle is wet, ya know...

 

[Toshi]

this is kind of old, but check out the toyota hilux video on this page:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/downloads/

 

[Barbaton]

So I think it's time I got me an avatar. At a bit of a loss for ideas, though. You s got any suggestions?

 

[Toshi]

So I think it's time I got me an avatar. At a bit of a loss for ideas, though. You s got any suggestions?

http://tjclark.ath.cx/images/subjects/Thad Sze.html ?

 

[Toshi]

i wrote about 7800 words (30 pages) worth of anatomy text today. ugh. brain is now dead. i hope to get about 3000 more in tomorrow...

ooh, you have an avatar, thad. props.