I have http://www.macports.org/ . Are people using Homebrew now instead? http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ http://www.philwhln.com/homebrew-intro-to-the-mac-os-x-package-installer got rid of macports in favor of homebrew As for me, I haven’t installed homebrew. I’m gonna hang on to my existing macports installation. The comment at http://www.philwhln.com/homebrew-intro-to-the-mac-os-x-package-installer/comment-page-1#comment-995 says sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local so i did that so now I don’t have… Continue reading Questions: macports vs homebrew, mac & bash, Rails versions
Category: curiosity
Things I want to learn more about. Things I have just started to explore.
bicycle generators and almaty friends
Today I was looking at my google+ stream, and I saw a post that my friend Morgan was, well, Hanging Out. I hadn’t used the Hangouts feature of google+ before and I’d kept hearing about how awesome it was, so I clicked the friendly “join” button. I found myself staring at the faces of Morgan… Continue reading bicycle generators and almaty friends
TEWTI! Na’vi friends in 3D-picture form!!
You can’t tell from my 2d picture, but this is a piece of cardboard with plastic over the picture, and the people pop out as if it were a 3d picture! I think that they traced each person and assigned them a depth in a simulated 3d space (cuz I don’t think this was taken… Continue reading TEWTI! Na’vi friends in 3D-picture form!!
introspective at 3am
It’s easier to microblog than to post here. Here, I have to talk in complete sentences, and my strings of words have to make sense. In microblogging, I can just throw my chaff to the wind and watch it sparkle in the wind on the fading sunlight. I don’t know how I feel about Egypt.… Continue reading introspective at 3am
StatusNet!
maiki just set up my own personal instance of StatusNet at http://status.judytuna.com. I wave my sword pen keyboard valiantly in the air! For the Federated Social Web!!
kinect: day 2
I got it to work! I got both libfreenect and ofxKinect to compile and run. The community has figured out how to get access to the regular video camera, the IR camera for depth, the status LED, and the tilt on the Kinect. No mic access yet, but it’s only a matter of time, I… Continue reading kinect: day 2
kinect for the first time
Today, we got a family xbox. I wanted a Kinect so much because people are programming applications for it using OpenFrameworks. OF: http://www.openframeworks.cc/ Open source, community-made Kinect drivers for mac and linux: https://github.com/ofTheo/ofxKinect Examples: Bird puppet: http://vimeo.com/16985224 3d drawing in space: http://vimeo.com/16818988 PLAYING MARIO WITH YOUR SELF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CTJL5lUjHg and so on. But the one we… Continue reading kinect for the first time