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November 8th: SIDESCROLLER3 : SHMUP LOVE

steve cooley — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:58:45 +0000

it’s hard to believe, but it was a year ago that we did the last SIDESCROLLER event, so we’re WAY overdue. Come join us Saturnday, November 8th, from 6:00pm to midnight-ish for a night of retro and not-retro games in the genre of the futuristic side scrolling shooter. $5 donation is requested so we can help pay the rent and electricity bill at Works/San Jose. OMGWTF?! Sidescroller is t3h awesome!1!

Technorati Tags: game, games, gaming, retro, san jose, San JosÃ©, sanjose, sidescroller, works, workssanjose

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nice view

steve cooley — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:03:06 +0000

View from the road going to Muir Woods / stinson beach. Great weather, man did we get lucky or what?? (I’m testing flickr functionality out… )

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ahoy matey

steve cooley — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:40:57 +0000

sausalito harbor long exposure from our hotel room… nice view!

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Space Army General Qorser

steve cooley — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:48:54 +0000

Check out QORSER kicking some alien ass. I’m soooo putting him in charge of the army when we go to war with the aliens. Click the link for higher res movie..

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3 hours with the iPhone

steve cooley — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:41:55 +0000

I’ve been pushing the iPhone through it’s paces all morning, and what I’ve noticed is that when I come back to my mac, I feel like I’m using a supercomputer. And it’s not because the phone feels crippled in any way, it’s because it just feels like a mac. Only when I come back and use my mac, I feel like I’m having the same experience as my iPhone, only a lot more of it. They feel like the same experience, only in different sizes.

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Etsy is SO awesome.

steve cooley — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:14:09 +0000

I got a look at the new thing they’re working on today. I’m… speechless. They’re consistently coming up with the greatest person-to-person handmade goods buying and selling experiences. This new thing truly is above and beyond their tools to date. Jared is a freakin’ genius.

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The Diamond Age coming to TV

steve cooley — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:10:58 +0000

zomgomzomgomgomzogmomzgomgomgomzgomZomzgomzgomg:

Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson’s best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions.

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cute green spider

steve cooley — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:49:01 +0000

that would be “F2.8 AUTOFOCUS 50MM” … as in the text on my iSight camera above the lens.

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Phillip Torrone got my patch

steve cooley — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 05:26:57 +0000

OMGWTF patch Originally uploaded by pt.
Mark from the Netherlands saw this photo of the patch I sent along to Phillip Torrone from the awesome Make Magazine Blog from his personal flickr stream… then decided to buy some. Thanks, Phillip!

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OMGWTF patches in the Netherlands

steve cooley — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 05:07:01 +0000

Pink patch on a pink bag

Originally uploaded by markhoekstra.

Mark in the Netherlands ordered a whole bunch of patches and was kind enough to write a huge post on his blog about them including a ton of photos! Thank you Mark!

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Family Dog

steve cooley — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:34:55 +0000

Holy crap, go watch these three movies on youtube:

http://www.milkandcookies.com/article/3523/

An animated short from people including Spielberg, Tim burton, danny elfman, and steve bartek

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etsy sellers who blog

steve cooley — Thu, 18 May 2006 08:08:00 +0000

Etsy Sellers Who Blog

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3d pixels from realtime video

steve cooley — Sun, 07 May 2006 17:45:05 +0000

Hey, this is a video of the code I wrote in processing to take realtime video and create 3d boxes with a height equalling the pixel’s brightness.

I originally had this posted on my blog, but then I had a server failure, so this is being reposted to try to unbreak the links people made to this page.

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gran turismo 4: my civic

steve cooley — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:11:06 +0000

I just won my first circuit in my civic, woot. Gran Turismo 4 has this way cool “photo shoot” mode where you can take hero shots of your cars. Pretty fun.

OH, the other reason why I’m posting this is because I was able to just stick my iPod Shuffle into my playstation 2 and save the file onto it. No hassles whatsoever. I was kind of shocked. Pleasantly.

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who loves you?

steve cooley — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 08:20:01 +0000

I LOVE ETSY!! They just have so many freaking cool features!!! This is a realtime graph of all the people who have marked me as a favorite…. how cool is that?!

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r-type delta

steve cooley — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:15:01 +0000

Ow, my hands… I’ve been getting a lot of time in multitasking treadmill and playstation…. to a fault, tonight. I played r-type delta for over an hour while on the treadmill. That was a great walk, but, omg, my hands are killing me. How can a game be so hard and insane, and so much fun to play?

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DIY Pro Tripod iSight mount

steve cooley — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 09:24:54 +0000

My dad is a master deal finder. Over the thanksgiving holiday, I traded him a broadband router for this super nice pro camera tripod that he located for $6.95 at his local Salvation Army store. The only thing it was missing was any way to mount a camera.. a problem I’m sure I can rectify with an inexpensive solution from a camera store, or an even less expensive solution from my garage. While my camera’s in the shop, I figured I can use it for a really great iSight tripod.

So, here I present a solution for a pro-tripod mounted iSight bracket. Even simpler than the last version, this only has 3 pieces. The mounting plate is cut from some scrap hardboard, and has two angle bevels sloping inward like this: /___\ Add to this, a tall piece of hard board of the same width as the mounting plate, and a small piece of hardwood or plywood … whatever, I mean.. this is so basic. The goal here isn’t to match the angles of the tripod’s mounting angles so much as it is to just get the length of the mounting plate such that the cam lever will secure it in place.

Glue it up, and add a couple of counter-sunk short screws for stability (offset from each other so as not to crash into each other in your backer block of wood), and voila, iSight tripod mount v.3… the pro-edition.

Technorati Tags: diy, make, tripod, tools

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DIY iSight Tripod Mount

steve cooley — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:46:58 +0000

Well, as you may know I like to shoot a timelapse video now and then… I’ve been using an earlier version of this iSight tripod mount for about a year, so today I thought I’d share the new and improved version:

It consists of a couple of pieces of hardwood braced at a 90 degree angle… I have one piece of wood with two holes in it (the mounting plate), and then a piece of wood that is 90 degrees to the mounting plate for the iSight bracket to grab on to, and then two triangles (with the corners cut off)…

On the mounting plate, I drilled a hole slightly smaller than the mounting screw on the tripod. The idea was to make the hole small enough for the screw to bite into, and then force it into cutting the mating grooves into the wood. The second hole is for the little pop up doodad to help with alignment. If your tripod doesn’t have this, it probably isn’t making sense, and it’s probably nothing to worry about anyway. Just screw the mounting plate down nice and tight, and you’ll be in good shape.

I got to thinking that if you turn the iSight bracket around the other way, that mould make it easier to adjust the camera if you were recording something like woodworking, or sewing, or what-have-you. I think I’ll probably end up leaving it like this.

Technorati Tags: apple, diy, isight, make, photography, tools, tripod, woodworking

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AJAX

steve cooley — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:30:44 +0000

I found a place for AJAX at work! It’s so rad! It’s not in a customer-facing application, but where I was able to use it, it’s increased the speed of the app by about 300% or so. I’d love to show you! but, I probably shouldn’t. You can ask me about it in general terms, though!

The application feels more like a desktop app now.. and a lot less like a web app. This is very exciting stuff, I just needed to find a place for it. Now I can see lots of other places for it.

steve cooley presents » cool

November 8th: SIDESCROLLER3 : SHMUP LOVE

nice view

ahoy matey

Space Army General Qorser

3 hours with the iPhone

Etsy is SO awesome.

The Diamond Age coming to TV

cute green spider

Phillip Torrone got my patch

OMGWTF patches in the Netherlands

Family Dog

etsy sellers who blog

3d pixels from realtime video

gran turismo 4: my civic

who loves you?

r-type delta

DIY Pro Tripod iSight mount

DIY iSight Tripod Mount

AJAX

lots of iPods