So earlier this month, I set Kristi up with wordpress (as I have in the past with lots of other people). For some weird reason, the site was developed quickly and she actually posts on it… :O

Check it out here

If anyone else wants a wp blog for the price of a domain registration, I can host it

In other news, Team USA demolishes Spain???

I did not see that one coming…

Anyway, maybe my thoughts on that at a later point.

So I made flan last night.

and we scared the shit out of it

Mmmmm….

So following xkcd’s geohash algorithm as featured in this comic and made easy by this site and documented by this site, we went out to Encinitas to hit our point for Saturday. Our expedition was added to the wiki here.

Some pictures:

Yes, I now own a GPS
Side story: We left home at around 2:45PM to Fry’s since Kristi’s Garmin (GPS) didn’t display coordinates. We got to Fry’s probably around 3:15 to pick up a GPS that showed coordinates. (Garmin Nuvi 200!!) Anyway, we were able to get to the front of the Fry’s line (it was around 3:30 and we still needed to get to Encinitas at 4:00PM for the scheduled meeting time - around 15 miles away) thanks to the badass Fry’s salesman that sold me the Nuvi after I told him we were in a rush. We ended up making it to the meetup point in Encinitas at 3:58 and got pictures at exactly 4:00PM. So the Hero of the Day award goes to the nameless Fry’s salesman.

Side story 2: We went to Home Depot afterwards to buy wood for the old radio to convert to a gaming computer. More on this next time…

Postscript: A new almostflan coming soon…
Post Postscript: Lakers are in the finals!!! I’ll post on how my predictions went later (after the finals…)

So I just upgraded my wordpress install to version 2.5. The shining new feature is a media library. No more need for various hacks in the form of plugins

To commemorate this occasion, my first wp gallery!

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This is actually kind of old news. Anyway, taaz is a website where you can do virtual makeovers for free.

I made a video yesterday

So as some of you may know, I work for a company that is developing a product that applies makeup on faces in an interactive context. You can apply lipstick, blush, etc to touch up an existing photo that you can upload from your computer. There is also a notion of a social network built in so that you can share your makeovers with your friends along with content pages for tips and tricks for practical usages and stuff. Of course, all of these services will be free.

My primary role in the company is to develop the software surrounding the product, but as a startup, everyone does everything. For example, I would also be responsible for testing various parts of the code. In any case, one of our tests spawned a site which exhibits some interesting edge cases.

Here is a sample from that site. All images on that site were created completely with our makeup editor. No additional photoshop work was done.

Some news:
Higashi has a new blog (it’s in Japanese)!

The Lakers are still without Andrew Bynum (and will continue to be for another several weeks)…I’ll post more on that later.

A few things to add to the blog:
Adventures in Flex Category - I’ve been doing a lot of flex and been learning a lot of random stuff that has been hard to find so I guess I’ll post it.

Stark’s Conjecture - I want to (re)prove Stark’s Conjecture starting from scratch - I’ll post my progress. (This is an OLD goal…)

Go for Breakfast - I have been working on developing a 9×9 go AI for a flash game for Alex Dinerchtein (a 3 dan professional). His handle is “breakfast”.

A more robust flash game scores section (similar to the old one)

A better blogroll/link area