Get Off My LAN

Yes, as the title suggests, this is a late night blog.

I see that I work best at night when it’s quiet and the creativity just flows out of me. It reaches critical mass once I start giggling at things for no reason. I’m a weird person…

Anyways, back to business.

CURVE had it’s big grand opening on Wednesday, and I was there to see the initiation of the ceremony. It was cool, and I met some people thinking about how the technologies would help them. Many of them were either into the advanced mapping technologies or the bioware things that showed proteins.

What I have been working on this week are two things: three.js and the Tools Wiki.

Three.js is a Javascript API that focuses on bringing 3D elements to any web browser. Examples here: http://oos.moxiecode.com/blog/index.php/experiments/javascript-webgl/ . Pretty cool right? Everyone has been wanting something for that 4K workstation, so I thought this would be a perfect fit. For interactivity, I plan on manipulating the code to give the mouse position on each of the renders, which will be cool but also take up some resources.

The Tools Wiki is another project I’m working on with other people at CURVE. I can’t say I’m having a little bit of trouble getting off the ground. Since wikis are supposed to be on the Internet on a server somewhere for easy access and edit ability, there is little “base code” available for small, local wikis. However, I am researching as I go, so I might find something worthwhile to report soon.

The Tools Wiki Team has already outlined basic function and information in which we hope compile more of with new technologies found in CURVE. We should be getting close to our next meeting sometime this month, and I am confident we can find the information we need to complete the Wiki.

I think that’s it for me. All the stuff I’ve talked about is interesting, but bringing actual usefulness would need more than just a couple cool sites to bring it to life.

FINALLLY!!!!! My first word on this blog. I wasn’t familiar to the extraordinary tool of EduBlogs, but now I know how to do stuff. I guess there is a learning CURVE to anything you do in life. (See what I did there?) Anyways, I guess a few introductions are worthy for me. I’ll make a bullet-point list here so you don’t have to read through a whole bunch of text.

List of Awesomeness

• Born n’ raised in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Ethnically, I am from a little country called Bangladesh. My parents resided there for most of their childhood.
• Some people I have met say I have a certain Southern accent, but I do not see it. :/
• I am a really good fan of cats, but dogs are fine too as long as I know them. If I’m passing a dog on the street and they start barking at me I will bark back some timessss….. I also have two parakeets.
• I know a lot of things about a wide variety of subjects. When I was around 10 I decided I wanted to have a “polyjob” in which I would just sit at a desk all day and answer people’s question about anything. I guess the equivalent of that in the real world is getting multiple degrees, which I intend to do. 😀 YAY WORK AND PAIN AND FINANCIAL SUICIDE!!!!!
• Strangely, also at 10 years old, my aspiration was to become a worker at Kroger… I had humble aspirations as a child.
• HTML/CSS are some of the “programming languages” I know. I also know a lot of Java, a little Python (actually one of my courses this semester), and not much SQL or PHP but I am a fast learner.
• I am intensely interested in 3D Modeling with Maya Software. I’m currently going through the courses at Lynda. I know a little bit of how some video software works like After Effects, Edge Animate, and Premiere Pro, but I’m hoping to get really into it by taking those Lynda courses and attending workshops at GSU.
• Let’s close with a barrage of interesting facts/conversation starters: My great-great grandfather was apparently a mystic because he could move water, I read a lot of military literature, fan of Shakespeare (so you know, there’s that), somewhat paranoid (If I could remove any evidence of my presence I would), and I am interested in politics, and anything old (like pocket watches and bow hunting).

So there’s that I suppose. Ask me for anything more you need to know about me. I hope I can learn a lot more here at CURVE as well as GSU.

Oh yeah, one more thing. While I have listed a lot of strengths above, I also have some weaknesses. No one is without imperfections. I think my worst imperfections would probably be my lack of social skills. I could never be the “Salesman” of Malcolm Gladwell’s book, The Tipping Point. I’m working on it though. We will see as things go along.

Ho dang, class is in 10. Well, I’d better go. Hopefully, this post will go through. Got a lot of things to do at CURVE. I got some ideas I’ll post later.

EDIT: Wow, never mind I have no idea how to work this thing yet. I thought I published it when I was at CURVE. :/ Ah well…looking for inspiration now….