A Peek into a Mind

Been on the Israeli SIGGRAPH chapter yesterday, in Tel Aviv university. Raanan had a presentation of his Gradient Domain High Dynamic Range Compression paper (which will be published at SIGGRAPH 2002). Personally, I thought most other presentations less interesting. Ho well.

I’m stucked with the Data Structure exercise I had to submit on Thursday. Of course, it still ain’t ready and I can’t submit it, which makes the whole issue a little embaressing to me, since Dani, the head of the lab, is also the teacher of the course. I think the main reason I’m so late is that I’m working alone (it’s an exercise for pairs) - I do have experience in programming which might gives me a better starting point, but it also means I only get half the work done in the same time interval, and not really someone to consult with during the work (explaining someone the whole drill and then show him my problem takes too much time for most people). Anyway, I’m really making an effort to complete this. To complicate the issue, the network where our lab drivers are at fell for the weekend so I can’t access my files. so, to atleast make something done during the weekend I’ve coded all the data types from scratch again, on my local computer and re-implemented things like LinkedList and Stack. Hell, It’s 20:22 now and I’ve got a headache (and 3 annoying bugs to solve). I’ll have to ask extention tomorrow. I was hoping to avoid it but seems I’ll have to.

On to other things. Terry Mitchell sent me an email asking to plug his website. Since I hardly ever do that, I took the time to browse it and see if I like it. And I do. Terry, a real party dude from Amsterdam, got a really nice site. I liked his travelers tips most, and was happy to discovered I’ve done some really smart choises when I was in Amsterdam, though unknowingly… Pay him a visit and decide for yourself.

I’ve also started a little webcams portal. There are too many of them around, right? So my little ‘portal’ only lists Israeli webcams. If you wish to be added (and you’re from Israel, mind you) then just email me. By the way, I’ve got to reveal that I was quite surprised by reactions to some of my photos. I used HotOrNot to see what rates different pictures of mine are going to get (feel free to rate my current pic). Anyway, this picture, which I thought to be the best, resulted in 6.8 points. This pic resulted in 6.2. However this pic is currently resulting with 7.6!! Whats wrong with the girls, huh?! I was sure they will rate that pic as ‘childish’. hmpf!

I also recieved the contract from webshots today. The deal sounds really fine, though I was surprised to find that they ask professional pictures submitted in 5400 x 3600 at 300 dpi !!! There is no digital camera I know that reachs this resolution at all! I guess I’ll have to work like other professional photographer - get “regular” pictures and scan then. I don’t mind, really, I got a really good Canon camera from my dad, with all equipment and lens (he used to teach photography in seminars as a side job). It’s just that photographing with Digital Camera is much cheeper. No need to change films, you see immediatly how the picture went and deside if you want another picture taken. Ho well. It’s good money of your pictures are accepted, so I think I’ll give it a try anyway.