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Name: tiembo
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Birthday: 2/14/1980


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Sunday, September 30, 2007

goodbye xanga

new blog here


Friday, May 11, 2007

our cat has intarweb 15 mins

 

bevo's pic made it on to one of the popular cat pic websites - meme cats!
original pic here (taken by da speedye)
gallery of our cats here


Thursday, April 19, 2007

this one's a keeper

[19:20] duckycarol: can i run linux on this laptop?
[19:21] duckycarol: how to get super linux? I am dumping vista for linux



Sunday, February 11, 2007

chicago auto show

my awesome b-day present from carol was her taking me to the chicago auto show!  we saw the latest and greatest models, along with some wicked concept cars.  dodge set up an indoor SUV course with lots of rocks and hills; scion had a wicked display with miniature garages and "doors" that images were projected onto.  here's the one car that excited me the most, more than any lamborghini or bentley:


the mutiple le mans winning c6r

what a sweet afternoon!    it's definitely the biggest auto show we've been to; we felt drained afterwards though - car information overload...


Saturday, January 13, 2007

Engagement Video



Here's the video that I made and played for Carol during the proposal.  Please watch it using original size or double size.  Stretching it beyond that really distorts the images.  This is due to Google downsizing videos (the original is 720 x 480). 

Some commentary:
  • I tried to match the picture content and the lyrics as closely as possible.  Originally, I wanted to have the pictures in the video as chronological as possible, but basing it on content provided for a better flow.
  • The chorus pictures are: us at a wedding | funny | date/serious | my birthday (Valentine's), with each chorus showing chronological pictures.  The last chorus doesn't contain a birthday picture, because we first met in 2004.
  • The food pictures (during the instrumental solo) are also in chronological order.
  • The Scion "update this slide" picture was "left in" for humor purposes   The creation of the picture probably consumed more time than actually taking a picture, resizing it, and recompiling the video.  Plus, having Carol pose in the Scion xA would've aroused her suspicion; it's hard enough keeping surprises from her!
  • All of the pictures were not post-processed (white balance adjustment, noise reduction, etc) - they were only cropped to fit.  Not that there would've been time for it - the final touches were made 30 minutes before Carol's flight touched down.
  • The Chinese characters are a play on words - the equivalent of their/they're/there.  "Like" is pronounced "xiang" in Chinese, which is also sounds like "elephant.  (See Backstroke of the West for an hilarious example).  There was definitely some help from the parents for "semicolon" and "close parenthesis".
  • The three lines across the forehead is a fobby way to express "banging one's head against the wall" (=_=''') (The pink drink is a "Hello Kitty Bubble Tea".  Apparently the waitresses on duty have never had a customer order this, and had to consult the recipe book)
  • Yes, I know Connick is misspelled



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