Monthly Archives: January 2009

The Story of O

In addition to my day job, I run a small business writing image processing software. Sales have been pretty shitty for the past few months, so I've kindof lost interest in writing new stuff for it. It's no fun writing new features when you don't expect anyone to care - I work much better when people ask for things. But over the Christmas break, I found a research paper that got me interested in programming again; it describes a magic beast: an O(1) Median Filter.

What?

Come with me. I will tell you.
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Here Comes Wrangler

In my school, you wore Levi's, or you were a tool. Lee's were for dorks, and under no circumstances did you wear Wrangler's unless you actually worked on a farm, and in that case you were already suspect.

But, here I am wearing Wrangler's because I went to the store and couldn't find a new pair of Levi's that didn't look like they belonged on a fourteen year old.

Here comes Wrangler,
He's one tough customer.
And he knows what he likes when he sees it.
Ooo ooo, Wraaaanngler!

I'm old.

Start Your iPods

All my peoples in Cary, you don't stop
Now all my peoples in Apex, you don't stop
And all my peoples downtown ya don't stop
That includes Five Points an' Hillsborough ya don't stop

  1. A Tribe Called Quest - Jazz
  2. Jurassic 5 - Acetate Prophets
  3. My Bloody Valentine - What You Want
  4. Son Volt - Streets That Time Walks
  5. Talking Heads - Houses In Motion
  6. Devendra Banhart - Sawkill River
  7. Bettie Serveert - All The Other Fish
  8. Robyn Hitchcock - The Abandoned Brain
  9. John Scofield - Trio Blues
  10. Broken Social Scene - Hotel

Everybody in the place ya don't stop
Ya keep it on, to the rhythm, ya don't stop
And last but not least on the sure shot
It's the R.T.P.