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I’ve been making some rock & roll with the Sunrunners the past few months. You can check out: http://soundcloud.com/sunrunners anything we’ve recorded (1 song so far) ustream.tv/sunrunners our shows streaming live when possible (and the archives) facebook.com/sunrunnersband to stay up to date on when you can see us in person around the SF bay, LA, and SD this [ READ MORE ]
I wrote a while back about my/our ongoing struggles trying to figure out what was causing some Ustream videos to be jittery only on Macbook laptops. At the time I posted this, we had figured out what encoding settings could recreate the jitter and that the root cause was when hardware acceleration kicked in to [ READ MORE ]
I blame the near-death of this blog on my current place of employment, Ustream. It’s been a crazy, exciting, challenging 8ish months that has left me with few free waking moments. That being said, it’s been the coolest job I’ve ever had and I’ve found myself in some interesting spots I wouldn’t have otherwise. Around [ READ MORE ]
As far back as I can remember, my family collected monarch caterpillars from the milkweed plants in the ditch at my parents house. Every year, we watched several go through their metamorphosis, sometimes seeing the butterfly emerging from its chrysalis. It generally went like this: 1. caterpillar fattens up on milkweed leaves 2. caterpillar hangs [ READ MORE ]
Ever since I saw Kings of Camouflage on NOVA a few years ago, I’ve had a mild obsession with cuttlefish. I’ve struck out on seeing them at several aquariums, but finally got to see some Pharaoh cuttlefish in person last weekend at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. They were pretty docile while we were there, but [ READ MORE ]
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