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 | MEZ is an interactive, live, real-time video art installation. | |||
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 | How to keep a pool safe with limited equipment. | |||
 | Moving AxiDraw plotter pen in 3-D for artistic brush effects. | |||
 | Simple Python server to share your AxiDraw over the net. | |||
 | Exterminate irritating spam emoji in gmail subject lines. | |||
 | What every programmer must know about 480i, 576i, 1080i, and 720p. | |||
 | What is interlaced video and why do I care? | |||
 | I can't believe we still have to deal with non-square pixels! | |||
 | Understand the different flavors of timecode used for video. | |||
 | Trove of technical video knowledge, not just for SGI any more. | |||
 | I wrote Apple's spec for storing uncompressed video in QuickTime files. | |||
 | Article I wrote to help linux video developers avoid the mistakes SGI made. | |||
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 | Ever wonder what Homeland Security conditions green to red really mean? | |||
 | Discover the answer to meetings—Tom Davis's buzzword bingo. | |||
 | Out-BS your boss: generate endless corporate bullshit with corpspeak. | |||
 | Get VC funding: generate spews of meaningless web techno jargon. | |||
 | Resistance is futile—you will be assimilated. Check out my 1994 image. | |||
 | IRS, United Airlines, Bank of America launch free online music service. | |||
 | See some of the worst the world has to offer, and add some of your own! | |||
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 | Party? Meeting? Request a map, label it yourself, and easily fling it to your friends! | |||
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 | Tasty morsels of information on Thai food, language, culture, and general silliness. | |||
 | A site about Pai, my peaceful home in the mountains of Northern Thailand. | |||
 | I co-authored this bilingual cultural guide to Thai-Western romantic relationships. | |||
 | Check out my Thai-English talking dictionary/phrasebook apps for iOS/Android/Windows. | |||
 | Check out my Chinese-English talking phrasebook app for iOS. | |||
 | Travel with my friend Nang, who is a great nature, birding, and cultural guide. | |||
 | My English-fluent Thai friend Jeed is a freelance illustrator who is available for hire. | |||
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 | Some journal entries for a trip to Yunnan in China, including Dali. | |||
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 | Journal for a 1-month trip to Argentina and Chile for a total solar eclipse. | |||
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 | Cool articles about devices which can pump water without gas or electricity. | |||
 | Stats and pictures from a 9 day, 61 mile hiking trip along the John Muir trail. | |||
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 | Use this link to Amazon—you pay the same, I get 4%. | |||
 | Learn Thai with my Talking Thai-English-Thai Dictionary app: iOS, Android, Windows. | |||
| Experience Thailand richly with my Talking Thai-English-Thai Phrasebook app. | |||
| Visit China easily with my Talking Chinese-English-Chinese Phrasebook app. | |||
| I co-authored this bilingual cultural guide to Thai-Western romantic relationships. | |||
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