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Pig

rmorlok — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 02:48:45 +0000

I haven’t posted in forever, but in case you missed it, Katy and I have a pet pig named Hamlet.

Let’s hit all the questions we normally get:

Why?!?
Because we wanted a pet that was litter box trainable and I’m allergic to cats. We don’t want to feel like we have to be home right after work to let a dog out. Also I don’t want something that I feel that I would have to walk (I’m lazy).

How big will he get?
He’s a “teacup” pig, now 50 lbs full grown (he is a year and three months old). He’s about the size of a spaniel, but huskier. When we got him (1 month old) he was 3 lbs.

What does he eat?
Anything he can find. He gets special mini-pig food daily and fruits and vegetables as treats.

Are you crazy?
Probably.

Can I eat your pig?
No.

Have you given up pork since getting him?
No. We don’t feed him any meat, of course, but we still eat pork/bacon/ham. We even keep his daily food in a recycled, frozen pulled pork container just to be ironic.

That’s about it. Katy has started a YouTube channel to document all of Hamlet’s crazy exploits. One of her recent videos is below.

Digitally Assisted Billiards

rmorlok — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:02:31 +0000

Engadget has a nice piece on some Georgia Tech students who built a digitally assisted pool table using a webcam, an LCD projector, and computer vision techniques. Cool idea. Would have been even cooler if they would have implemented some sort of vision based UI system where you could ask the program to compute a shot for you (targetting how to get a certain ball in the pocket or something). Regardless, good job guys!

Matrix + Windows = Awesome

rmorlok — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:52:00 +0000

Another great College Humor original video.

The Concept of Superman can Limit Plot Complexity

rmorlok — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:15:19 +0000

As shown in this video. Still my favorite super hero, though.

3..2..1..Resume Posting YouTube Videos…

rmorlok — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:37:11 +0000

Carmen has indicated that she needs more help procrastinating at work, so I’ll do my part.

These gems are from a recent gem that was on Digg.

Magical Flashback to my Childhood

rmorlok — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:51:04 +0000

This video takes me back to when I was a kid. If you don’t watch the video, it shows a magic trick in which you appear to bend a fork but actually don’t. I had video that taught me magic tricks as a kid and I showed this particular trick to my next door neighbor Andrew. Problem was, I didn’t show him the final part fast enough (where the fork isn’t actually bent). Being the competitive kids we were, he quickly grabbed his own spoon and bent it for real. I think my mom still has that spoon that we partially were able to bend back to the right shape.

Star Wars ASCIIMATION

rmorlok — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:06:45 +0000

I think I’ve sent this around to people via email, but never blogged it. Here is a version of the first Star Wars movie, done entirely in character art. This project deserves some props if for nothing else than the sheer amount of effort. Or insanity.

(what reminded me of this was this digg article about the original Star Wars trilogy done in animated gif)

Scaling down an image? Get rid of the irrelevant stuff

rmorlok — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:52:34 +0000

Found this interesting video on College Humor by way of Digg. Not your usual College Humor fodder; this describes a method for re-targetting images by removing the least relevant part. Very interesting.

UPDATE: The creator of this technology has joined Adobe. Good for him (and for the people who will get to use his technology). I really wish it wasn’t Adobe, though, their software is crappy.

College Humor Movie Parodies

rmorlok — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:50:53 +0000

Here are a couple great College Humor movie parodies that I’ve run into over the last few weeks:

He’ll be back…

rmorlok — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 02:00:08 +0000

While I’m making up for lost blogging time by posting random YouTube videos, here’s another good one.