Fol­low­ing up on the PictLens post­ing, I have two other cool bits of photo tech (admit­tedly the photos that you’ll see are not the best). First I give you a snowy RIT night:

What makes this unique is not what you can see, but what’s buried in the metadata:

Lat­i­tude: N 43° 5′ 16.844″
Lon­gi­tude: W 77° 40′ 36.637″

This photo was take by my phone (which now has an active GPS chip in it thanks to the excel­lent work of others) and my coor­di­nates were then encoded into it’s .EXIF file header and uploaded directly from the phone to Flickr. The only thing that cur­rently stinks in this process is that Flickr didn’t rec­og­nize the GPS data when I attempted to place this pic­ture on my map.

Here’s the second pic­ture:

Alberto here is note­wor­thy because of the work­flow that got him to Flickr. This pic­ture was shot using my Kodak V705 and uploaded directly to Flickr thanks to the Eye-​Fi Smart Media (SD/SSHD) card inside of it. Func­tion both as memory and as a wire­less modem, the Eye-​Fi card routed the pic­ture, via our home WiFi net­work, to the Eye-​Fi site, and then pushed copies both to Flickr and the hard drive of the laptop I’m presently work­ing on.

Both of these tech­nolo­gies have some inter­est­ing impli­ca­tions and tie into things that I’m work­ing on at RIT, but I can’t quite talk about just yet. Soon though. Real soon.

My office mate just intro­duced me to the PicLens web browser plug-​in. It’s pretty incred­i­ble. This cross plat­form plug in can grab a col­lec­tion of photos, like those in my flickr account above, and con­verts them into an inter­ac­tive (Apple aes­thetic) gallery. The result­ing user expe­ri­ence is ele­gant and totally engag­ing. Give it a try!

So I haven’t been able to update the site on any con­sis­tent base in a while. Life’s been really busy. Unfor­tu­nately, as of late, it seems like I only have time to blog around major, and often tragic, events. So, quickly (with RIT’s quar­ter draw­ing to its close, I have a moun­tain of grad­ing to do) here’s some good things:

• My pre­sen­ta­tion at the Amer­i­can Anthro­po­log­i­cal Association’s national con­fer­ence went well. It looks like I’ll get a jour­nal pub­li­ca­tion out of it.
• The quar­ter itself has gone pretty well, in par­tic­u­lar a lot of strides have been made at set­ting up a pub­lish­ing research lab here at the school. More on that soon.
• Our (boy) cat Lewis, has made a full recov­ery after having two toes ampu­tated because of a can­cer­ous growth.
• I got a new phone/pocket pc, which has helped me get organized.
• I was a judge in a national vari­able data print competition.
• The blog helped me recon­nect with an old friend.
• Dre and I are suc­ceed­ing in get­ting out (and trav­el­ing) to see friends and family. At this rate, who knows, we might actu­ally go on our Hon­ey­moon this year.
• I was awarded my teach­ing rank (black sash) in Kung Fu.

I’m sure there’s more, but my timer is going off, remind­ing me that it’s time to get back to grading.