I still hadn’t gone to sumo till just recently. It wasn’t that I am not interested, I always watched on TV, but that’s not the same. It was always sold out whenever I tried to get tickets. You would think: “How popular is 2 fat guys ramming into one another? How can that be a [...]
Draper – What Does This Mean (Double Rainbow Remix) Some Vocal LiquidStep here. This song. Man this song make’s me cry simultaneously from beauty and laughter. For those that don’t know, it’s using the below video, which became a pretty strong viral video and meme a couple years back. I’m pretty sure the guy is [...]
Welcome to Zethien.com! If you are here (at least initially) it is probably because you may know me personally. Hopefully in the future, you will be here because of your shared interest in many of the topics I cover. Which brings me to answer this question: What is this blog all about? What is this [...]
Hopefully others find this useful. It is not meant to be all encompassing, but a quick reference, especially for those times like when I haven’t done much MATLAB and need to jump right into a small project. These are just the basics: Vectors & Matrices Looping Plotting Environment Vectors & Matrices Constructors A = [0,1,...,n]; [...]
A while back my CAPSTONE team was working on a project we called PLASMA: Perceptive Light Automation System for Musical Applications. The idea wasn’t necessarily new: audio visualizer. But the application for this visualizer was concert lighting. We wanted to automate the control of concert and effects lighting (like lazers and all that), via an [...]
This is the first in a series of lists of web design inspiration. Often I step away from doing webdesign while I work on other things, and then return to do a freelance job only to find that I have no ideas. I often rely on StumbleUpon and my browser history to remind me of [...]
Hobbesian Political Theory roughly posits that mankind by nature is incapable of managing it’s own affairs. The state of nature being “solitary, nasty, poor, brutish and short,” suggested to Thomas Hobbes that entrance into a political system was for the sake of stability and peace. A complete surrender of individual sovereignty to one omnipotent Leviathan [...]
Alan Jackson- Small Town Southern Man Every once in a while, its easy to think I’m all about technology, grand ideas, whatever whatever. Truth is, I have my roots. Working since I was young, born in a working family. Sure, my family isn’t white, but I don’t think that’s what makes you red neck, country, [...]
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