From what i've read about Leyton, he is a mathematical and musical genius...
I recall, on the first day of class, he gave a talk about overcoming adversity, being childlike, saying "civilization" sarcastically, and not growing into a useless adult. He said "really, to be president you need to have the mind of a five year old," and I broke into applause. I don't think that's what he was going for, though.
I'll acknowledge that his math is neat, but the messiah complex is a bit wearying.
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Some photos.
Secret advertising burial ground 2
radio transmitter
edited 9:51 PM EDT May 13, 2008
""The man is so full of himself it's amazing, but it's OK because every great artist in history thinks exactly the same as he does.""
EVERY single person I have ever met with the slightest amount of intelligence (that didn't "follow the leader"), is a cocky son of a bitch. And I love it. People with natural-born intelligence deserve the right to be full of themself. If they weren't, how would anyone else "learn"? They set examples for us all, and teach even when they're not even aware of the fact [that they are teaching].
""I recall, on the first day of class, he gave a talk about overcoming adversity, being childlike, saying "civilization" sarcastically, and not growing into a useless adult. He said "really, to be president you need to have the mind of a five year old," and I broke into applause.""
Pwahahahaha, that is f-ing great, and perhaps the greatest thing I have heard in a long while. After reading that exact sentence (president-related), I immediately "cracked" a huge smile and literally gave my PC monitor a "thumbs up". I couldn't agree more... but i'll spare you my view of politics ;)
the messiah complex is a bit wearying
Hmmm, I wasn't aware that he publicly spoke of religion... what exactly are his views of the "messiah"?
@"Photo of fallen laptop" - I don't think that laptop was dropped from a "higher story"; it looks like someone beat the shit out of it with a blunt object, then threw it. The HDD looks like it had seen it's "better days"... Besides, it's a Gateway; I would have thrown it out a window, myself (<-owns a Gateway >.>).
P.S. I would pay to own that KFC bucket-sign. @_@
edited 10:28 PM EDT May 13, 2008
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STANDARD FOUNDATIONS FOR GEOMETRY
(Euclid, Klein, Einstein)
A geometric object is an invariant; i.e., memoryless.
NEW FOUNDATIONS FOR GEOMETRY
(Leyton)
A geometric object is a memory store.
Furthermore, my argument is that the latter view of geometry is the appropriate one for the computer age. A computational system is founded on the use of memory stores. Our age is concerned with the retention of memory rather than the loss of it. We try to buy computes with greater memory, not less. People are worried about declining into old age, because memory decreases.
The point is that, for the computational age, we don't want a theory of geometry based on the notion of memorylessness - the theory of the last 2,500 years. We want a theory of geometry that does the opposite: Equates shape with memory storage. This is the theory proposed and developed in my books."
That and his moderately lame motivational speeches which popped up all the time.
I don't quite understand why I had a problem with him. I had a similarly-minded teacher in high school and he remains one of my all-time favorites. It may be because I was taking Leyton's class to fulfill requirements for my degree that I really couldn't care less about, but that doesn't seem very convincing. Had it been a geometry class, without the appeals to emotion (which in the end still came down to misuse of terms and pointing at a line and saying "doesn't this look depressed?"), it may have been fine.
Oh, and he insisted on emphasizing every syllable in "e-mo-tion". He wanted to emphasize the "-motion" part, but it got old quick. I suggested (after class) that maybe he could just stress the two parts, which would at least make sense, it would be tolerable. He agreed but didn't change.
Maybe he'll turn out to have been right about the vast importance of his work and I'll look like a fool, but I hope you can at least see why I felt this way.
At least the exam was easy.
I always thought those bucket things were cool, too:
desktop
edited 5:45 AM EDT May 14, 2008
Now, thanks to this stupidity, I am going to be including a Google Maps feature in my own presentation that will be coming up.
Found some lousy old videos from an English project back in high school, thought I'd share some.
It fell to me to assemble the videos, that other members of the project group had filmed, into a single presentation. Of course they didn't actually get me the videos, on VHS and 8mm, until the night before it was due, and I knew nothing about video editing. I had a computer with an ATI All-in-wonder card, which did video capture and output, albeit only at 320x240. So I loaded up the videos, burned a lot of stuff to CD (as I only had a 2 GB hard drive), and spliced things together the best I could with VirtualDub. Then I recorded it back onto another VHS tape
Note that the videos are at a fairly high bitrate despite the shitty quality.
Title 90 MB 1:09. I put this together by playing the song (Tangled Up In Blue) in Winamp with the tiny fullscreen visualization running, with the output going to the VCR. I then read that back in, superimposed the text over it (which was made with Aldus Photostyler SE), and eventually wrote it back out to tape.
"High-Quality Productions" is intentionally ironic.
Tim Coffield & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 47 MB 0:37
David Stone & And Then There Were None 36 MB 0:28
Pete & The Hobbit 18 MB 0:11
I was also involved in a skit, which I'm uploading now so you can see just how terrible an actor I am, in addition to being a terrible editor.
edited 12:30 AM EDT May 25, 2008
Inside the Writers' Studio 635 MB 8:23
This might be considered funny if you imagine us playing people trying to act. I think Anthony did a decent job.
For those unaware it's supposed to be approximately the SNL parody of Inside the Actors Studio.
Sorry it's so huge but I don't have the time to reencode it.
edited 1:07 AM EDT May 25, 2008
I picked up their Anthology album, here it is: individual ogg Vorbis or zipped ogg Vorbis, FLACs available on request. I hope those of you who have never heard of them will check it out, maybe catch them on the reunion tour.
The drummer, Lenny White, said: "In an era of Boy Bands, we're a Man Band."
edited 6:40 PM EDT May 30, 2008
a) I don't know much beyond the name yet
b) IT'S A SECRET TO EVERYBODY.
When it is eventually released I'll point at it.
My office (larger than it looks, w/ door!)
Fwiw, my manager's office is right next door, same size, and also has no window.
My picture for the employee directory (least chubby-looking of many photos).
edited 12:27 AM EDT June 7, 2008