Cold Owl

    How many things can happen in Westwood in one week?

1. Iran Voting Protest
•     I'd post a gallery of the protest but some of the protesters will be going to Iran and I'd rather not post any photos of their faces on the internet.
2. LA Film Festival
3. Transformers 2 Movie Primiere
•     Look at the Megan Fox Gallery
4. Ed McMahon Dies
5. Michael Jackson Dies
    I have some photos of people at Hayvenhurst. I might post them on here.

    The the Jackson Estate, Hayvenhurst, there were not many people showing sorrow. There were seven large satellite trucks parked outside and about 100 people outside trying to get on TV and putting up candles, postcards, signs in memory of Michael Jackson.

    The Jackson Family is not able to mourn in privacy. They can't even go home. They probably had to get a hotel for the weekend until crazed fans stop going to their home.

    Farah Fawcett died about 5 miles from Westwood too. Westwood was an epicenter this week.

    I just received my copy of Photographer's Forum Best of College Photography 2009. I am published in this hardcover issue of the magazine on page 197.

    I just acquired a new Canon EOS 500D DSLR. I'm still learning to use the camera on the kit lens. Field Test is just all of the pictures I've taken with it so far. "All of the Pics" and "Z Best" are from June 16th. I took photography at CSUN Botanic Garden and at Forest Lawn. "The Beach" is when I took my friend to the beach the first day after 21 days of no sun and all gloom in Los Angeles. The June Gloom Epidimic resulted in spectacularly perfect weather that day!

    I'm working on about 5 or 6 ideas for photography right now. None of which consists of portraiture. I hope this changes soon though. There is no reason why I shouldn't be doing portrait shots.

Enjoy

    I finally got the new server up and running. Albeit four weeks later. Everything is good to go to continue with my summer projects. The stock screener will be the first thing to tackle. I will try porting the project into Git. If I find ample time this summer, perhaps even porting the code to python/C/C++ (thats a tertiary goal).

    I'm reading Algorithms for Computer Algebra currently. It covers the Risch Algrotihm lightly. I plan on starting with the Rational Function Algorithms first. I then hope to cover the introduction into the Risch Algorithm by the end of the summer.

    Mt. Whitney is out of the question for this summer. Although I am running 3 miles everyday. While its not Whitney, its something to keep my 22 year old ticker ticking.

    I'm plan on getting my first DSLR very soon. I then plan on getting a telescope lens for it in midway through the summer. I have about 4.5 project ideas in my head. One idea should be ready to go with as soon as the weather cooperates. I probably won't have the pictures of that shoot developed until the end of the summer. It really depends on my film development funds. It involves the sun and the beach. I don't know if anything has been done quite like it either. The other 3.5 ideas are more or less modern photography ideas.

    Louisiana??? That is still way up in the air. I think I'm going to go though. Bonsai Tree(s)??? I'm going to try it.

Cheers.

    I've already begun upgrading the Cold Owl server. I'm taking my old desktop and making it the Cold Owl server. What is currently the Cold Owl Server is a computer I bought of a hobo on San Vicente and Wilshire Blvd for 80 dollars. It's dual CPU 800 MHz Xeon Processor ancient piece of junk with a bad CMOS battery and has a bad checksum on its BIOS. Somehow it works.

    I will accommodate what was already Cold Owl and will also have act as a private Sage Math Server. I suppose I will upgrade the theme of this blog after I complete the server upgrade. I hope to have all of this finished by 24th of May. The next thing I plan for the new server is to debug the stock screener code.