The Long Road Home
I just finished John Grogan’s second best-seller, The Longest Trip Home. It was no Marley and Me but the book had similar bio-rhythms. I read for 2 weeks, laughing most of the time, and only in the last two…
January’s Ending Note
This will probably be my last run for January. I’ve a total of 88.24 kilometers of running logged in runkeeper. I have a student who used to do 40km a week. My golly! Will I ever be able to…
Why Do I Run?
On the last kilometer of my first 13k run, my vision began to dim, the tips of my fingers were numb and prickly. I was dragging my feet like dogs who want to take a leak on a fire…
What’s Wrong With This Bear?
What is wrong with this picture? Is it too the number of motion capture markers on the bear? Is it the pose of the bear? Is it because the top mocap point that should have been an apple? Is…
Quickly Batch Mocap Conversion
In my thrill in the discovery of the mother load of free motioncapture data, I downloaded all the animations, which were made up of ASF files (skeleton setups) and matching AMC files (motion captured animation). The total download was more than 2 gigabytes.
Motion Capture
I discovered a wealth of motion capture data from Carnegie Mellon University’s website that is free to use (commercial or noncommercial), convert and redistribute with no need for permissions.
Wait a minute… Carnegie Mellon… Why does that sound so familiar?…
Slow Running, Sure Running
I had a slow and painful run today. The cross-training I did last Friday did more harm than good. Because the basketball court was filled with people by the time we got there, I did neither stretchings nor warm…
Russian Go All Heaty to Combat Colds
I was reading europeantrotter, a European travel blog and found something incredibly interesting. The Russian remedy to colds is something the Chinese (well at least in my understanding) would consider completely stupid. Now, I’m not trying to start a war…
Stitches
I was invited to basketball by some students. Since basketball could be a chance for me to crosstrain, I said yes. True enough, not ten minutes in the court I felt like giving up. My breathing was worse than…
VFX Students Batch 14
Another quarter in the life of a 3dsense lecturer. I’m advising another set of students who want to specialize in Visual Effects. I asked them to blog all their updates (a discipline I, myself, am trying to learn) and to…
Snickers For Energy
How’s that for a short 30 seconds!! This is soo cool!!! I’ll be running with snickers in my pockets next time!!!
Is it just me or does everybody notice the lack of shadows on the dust particles generated by…
A Dragon For Me
My good friend and colleague, Alvin, agreed to build a body for this dragon so that I would have a model to rig. I’ve been looking for a monster that I could rig and proffer up to the creative…
A Sad Decentralized Social Network
A guy named Loic le Meur wrote an article and drew a graph about the pros and cons of decentralized social maps and how we could reclaim everything. The drawing, albeit its simplicity, opened the eyes of a lot…
Thoughts On My Sister’s Dream
I love my sister’s dream. She has been my new confidant for the last couple of months. Her dream gives me new hope. It tells me there is strength and solidity behind the frailty of paper thin things. It is…
Confirmed! Apple Tablet
Confirmed!! Apple’s new Tablet Computer and here is a picture.
I couldn’t resist not doing this. I must apologize. It was a prank that I myself fell for from a digg’d page. But just so that you didn’t end up…
Ujin Lee’s Dust
I love these photos. They are so humbling. I don’t know why, something about the subject and the way the photo was taken. They are gorgeous. Especially the first one above with its Rose Vale/Cordovan sky.
Blogged with the…
Reach Out
I love this picture. It communicates how I feel right now. I sent two packages over to the Philippines and both of them got halted by the customs. These are two gifts. One of them was supposed to be…
Ten Days Left This January
There’s still 10 days left for 2010’s January and already I ran close to 60 kilometers. Today will be a rest day. I know I earned it because I’ve been running 4 straight days. In fact, my joints are beginning…
How Much I Could Save If I Ran
Click on the picture. Those pink markers are all the MRT stops from City Hall to Pasir Ris. If you look at the lower left part of the picture you’ll see that the total distance from the two train…
Addicted to Running
I am now addicted to running. In between classes (and sometimes during classes), my mind drifts off to the last run or the next run. I love the feeling that comes after a good (and even a bad) run.…
Google Docs
I just love the way Google shows off their products. They came up with all these cool tools and gadget “as a hobby.” Their mainstay business is still their search engine; their main means of making money, ad placements.…
2010 The Year of The Flock
It is 2010. We all grow older and supposedly wiser. Often, we move in one direction not knowing parts of our bodies are left behind. Important relationships are disregarded. For some, there is no alternative. For others, there is no…
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