Weekend

Monday May 21, 2012

Spent Saturday walking around the piers of San Francisco, from the ferry building to Fort Mason. Seen most of it before but we took a detour to Coit Tower and saw some amazing views of the city. Continued to Fort Mason, visiting Musee Mecanique and Fisherman's Wharf along the way and was surprised to find a wine tasting festival by the chocolate factory there. We returned to Pier 39 for the seals and some shopping, and of course, some delicious seafood for dinner. Not completely satisfied, we headed back to the Cheesecake Factory for dessert.

I met Tobias for lunch today. We took a walk around to the Haight to catch the tail end of the Bay to Breakers race, a crazy costumed 12km run from one side of the city to another. Think the Wellington Sevens except bigger, crazier and running instead of rugby. We settled at the Dolores Park to catch the annular solar eclipse. Armed with four pairs of sunglasses, we observed the day darkening as the moon obscured the sun to a magnificent crescent. Awesome stuff! There will be a lunar eclipse in two weeks and the transit of Venus too!

Posted by Jeremy at 5:17am on Monday May 21, 2012 :: 2 comments ::

Where? san francisco | What? astronomy

San Francisco, we meet again

Saturday May 19, 2012

I am typing this from my brand new iPhone4S that I purchased from the Apple store on Market and Stockton. This is really hard. Anyway, flight was noisy and not that great, but I managed to get a bit of sleep and even watched the Lion King too! Arrived safely and made our way to the motel, which is near Chinatown. Had a bit of an explore around Union Square and indulged in a Mango and Key Lime Cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory above Macy's. It was so good.

Stay tuned for more updates!

Posted by Jeremy at 3:04am on Saturday May 19, 2012 :: 4 comments ::

Where? san francisco | What? iphone

Excited about Extinction

Wednesday May 16, 2012

Do you love animals? Want to do your bit for conservation? Then grab your iPhone, iTouch or iPad and download EXTINCTION SQUAD! Travel the world in search of suicidal creatures and save them with your Extinction Squad trampoline and the guidance of the one and only, Chuck Darwin!

High five to Team XS, it has been an awesome four months working with you and I'm ecstatic to see this game finally out on the App Store!

PS: I am way too excited to sleep.

Posted by Jeremy at 12:54pm on Wednesday May 16, 2012 :: 0 comments ::

What Game? extinction squad | What? pikpok, iphone

Counting Down

Wednesday May 2, 2012

So the project I've been working on for the past four months or so is finally in submission and we're just waiting for Apple to review it. Once that's done, it'll be out on the AppStore and you awesome people who actually read my blog will be the first to know about it. You get more points if you actually download it too. I can provide hugs and/or personalised thank you messages with the download if you so wish.

It hit me in the shower last night that my trip to the US is really close. I am really excited. Excited about the chance to travel and get away for a while. Really excited about the food. Reminiscing about all the delicious things I ate in San Francisco last year - especially that Key Lime and Mango Cheesecake, oh my goodness it was soooo good. Excited about friends I'll be catching up with and friends who I haven't met in person before. It's going to be amazing.

In short since my last update:
- saw the Avengers movie (it was awesome)
- finished the game Limbo
- still playing weekly badminton (two new recruits this Saturday!)
- average weekly alcohol consumption has increased (hopefully tolerance too)
- helped to ship a project I didn't work on (I actually just pushed buttons on a webpage) - this is now out on the App Store as DreamWorks Dragons: TapDragonDrop!
- sang "My Heart Will Go On" at karaoke on the 100th anniversary of the Titanic sinking, and scored 100% for it
- decoded a secret message that said two of my good friends are engaged (most convoluted way ever - but still better than updating your Facebook status) - congratulations to you both!
- started watching Adventure Time, Invader Zim and Samurai Pizza Cats

The days are quite short now and the cold has definitely set in. Winter is here :(

Posted by Jeremy at 7:51am on Wednesday May 2, 2012 :: 2 comments ::

Where? san francisco | What? pikpok, avengers, badminton, alcohol, wedding

Super Face Scanning Software

Sunday April 1, 2012

(This is not an April Fools thing). From Gizmodo:

Here's a pleasant first little look at Skynet—Face.com, which develops facial recognition software, now boasts that it can pinpoint your age based on your mug alone. Let's test it out.

The software is meant for developers to use in their apps—say, a browser extension that would block certain sites when kids were on the computer. Sure it's a little eery to think a computer can know us so well, but, God, get over it. And as it turns out, it's still pretty rough around the edges.


So I tried it out (direct link here) with these pictures:



And here are the results I got:

Bearded Me:
Estimated Age: 31
Max Age: 42
Min Age: 23
Gender: Male
Glasses: true
Lips: Sealed
Mood: Happy
Smiling: false

Clean Shaven Me:
Estimated Age: 24
Max Age: 32
Min Age: 19
Gender: Male
Glasses: true
Lips: Sealed
Mood: Neutral
Smiling: false

So the natural conclusion is that I look older with facial hair. Not bad! I was 25 at the time I took the photos so it looks like the age estimation stuff isn't too bad. At least for me. What are some of your results?

Posted by Jeremy at 1:23am on Sunday April 1, 2012 :: 1 comment ::

What? beard, glasses, internet

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