I was complaining about a property management company who sent everyone in my neighborhood a letter warning us that renters would be moving in, and asking us to keep an eye on them and report back.

They showed up, really defensive, claiming that they didn't want us to spy on their renters, just report issues like if a fence had fallen over (pretty sure the renters can handle telling their landlord themselves). Then they said they were going to send a new letter to clarify.

After more of my friends replied and said their "explanation" didn't really change anything they deleted their promises, and never sent any follow up letters.

Good job company, you really convinced me you're not creepy.

Really hard to get myself to code on my laptop now.

It's basically a distillation of Joseph Campbell, and it's really entertaining and informative.

The issue appears when I use Rap Coach with Chrome on Android, but doesn't happen in Firefox on Android. It is very frustrating, getting better control over the audio hardware is one of the main reasons I'm going to end up building app store versions of this thing.

Although, with your tech, and the more limited problem space of green screens and poorly lit green screens, you could probably make a pretty amazing tool to do the entire green screen removal.

It's an exciting time for VR.

Basically you pull up Rap Coach on any device, enter party mode, and then a party URL is displayed on the interface. Anyone can go to that URL and pick a beat and topic and add it to the playlist. At the end of each song it announces the next person.

So kinda like karaoke without needing a KJ. We're planning to host live Rap Coach events once that's in place.

The current videos are pretty much placeholders, but I do think they give a decent idea of what the app is about.

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I stopped motorcycling after that.

They're actually really easy to do now in post, After Effects has an effect called time displacement that allows you to displace time on a per pixel level. So to recreate a standard slit scan you'd just supply it with a gradient from black to white, but you can also create even more bizarre effects by mapping the pixels differently.

A few months ago I did all the effects for some music videos, and I created multiple effects based on slit-screen. Things like, having the video smoothly break apart into slices where the time moves at different speeds and then smoothly splice itself back together.

Another cool effect I figured out: using a blurred copy of the video as the time displacement mapping. This makes everything that's colored similarly move together in time, but out of sync with everything else.

I did that effect for a video that was just one long shot, and then I rotoscoped out the performers so they move in regular time and match the music: https://youtu.be/-0zO7Fnqnvs

I really love old school effects work, they're a constant source of inspiration.

It's clever, but I don't think it really holds up: https://youtu.be/Md14H_qD8iQ

I always thought that shot looked weird, but I never questioned the wireframes in Escape From New York.

Later on she had to log in to the admin account, and that password was "burger". It turned out to be the password for every admin account in every school in my district. I'm guessing they were all set up by the same guy, with a note saying, "make sure to change the password!"

I had access to EVERYTHING. But, I was a pretty good kid, so I just poked around enough to really verify that I could do anything and then I logged out and never logged back in. I was terrified that I was going to get in huge trouble just for accessing things I shouldn't have.

However, it had a really hard time detecting my smile even when I smiled as big as I could. Have you tested it with beards? My beard is fairly short but I thought it might be the issue.

As I was reading it I was really expecting it to end with him being immediately destroyed by the introduction of CRT, but it was pretty inspiring to see that he embraced the new technology, learned from it, and built upon it.

I was consulting at a company that's developing a VR real estate app, and the first thing I did was check to see whether they were calculating their rotations with quaternions.

It was easy to do, I just looked straight up and then turned my head to the right. My view rotated to the left, and I almost vomited. I immediately ripped the headset off and said, "You're using euler angles to calculate rotations, you need to use quaternions."

I felt pretty good about finding the biggest flaw in their system in 3 seconds.