Friday, April 9, 2010

photo-shop and ya don't stop & (exit external hard drive to the left, followed by a bear)

First!


Yo Team what up?



Second! Some time in the photoshop:

The studios of Lou and Lou present:
Dedicated to the dear readers of course,


"A Threnody of self-portraits as Donkey Kong, with annie schiff" 



"self-portrait as Donkey Kong, with annie schiff"


"self-portrait as Donkey Wong, with annie schiff"


"The Efficacy of Grandeur,
or self-portrait as donkey tron, with annie schiff"






OK, Next Section! how to make photos like these:

    You use a macintoj, but you dont have $9-hundo to spend on adobe ps, here's an alternative to stealing yourself a copy with bittorent.

    "are you feeling alright?"

    Yes dear readers. I've made some good art and I'm feeling grand.
The scoop:
There is a free and open source program called GIMP,
(which is the only acronym programmers can come up with apparently. [see GIMPS])

 - it's almost exactly the same as adobe ps. it's great but it's a little complicated and a little linuxy you know?
    good thing there's a simple version made with cocoa (the pretty programing language) just for catintosh called
 

simple and pretty and free, just perfect for a rank-amature like me.

Lou uses gimp, and the new Mattese exhibit at the art institute is entirely made of his fakes.
    Here's a pretty picture of Seashore, chi-check it out.


Next.
    Me and lou name our drives after minor Shakespeare characters because they are important and no one important should be named "Macintosh HD" or "MHW2120BH".
    they are, in order of appearance:


     a fatty 1TB external named 'Richard Duke of Gloucester'



     a 250G firewire 800 external named 'Guildenstern'
     a 250G firewire drive named 'Rosencrantz'
     a jump drive named 'Autolycus'
     and when I repartitioned patsy's external hard drive,
     I named it 'The Duke of Clarence' without asking.

    Oh and this internal hard drive is named Tojo,

Why Tojo? the handsome and/or pretty reader might ask.
 
    because my great grandmother Jean was blind, and matt schiff got her a little talking clock that she kept in her purse.

    The clock was a Sony, therefore the 'little man' in her purse who told her the time was japanese, and the only japanese person she knew was Emperor Tojo.

    Tojo lived in grandma Jean's purse for over 10 years and was used at full volume in all circumstances.

    In middle of the night: "IT IS FOUR THIRTY-SEVEN-A-M!"

    or if she wanted to leave somewhere, she would press it over and over, so it would give the same time, in the same minute, loudly.

    I couldn't google-image one, but i had a cat i know do an artist rendering:

Hey-Yo Tojo! *click*

"IT-IS-TWELVE-OH-TWO-P-M, DEAR READERS!"

Tojo, you're the man.




    And now, since I have been good, and got the post done early in the week (It's 3:00PM on Wednesday), the remainder of the post is for:



***********BONUS PHOTOSHOPS!***********


a pokemon card I found in a pack. super rare insert!


haha...horrifying!


banjo-kalouie! what a team!

Friday, April 2, 2010

lou types on the catbookpro, not me & they're actually called titanic primes and it's actually called GIMPS

    A very good good friday to you.


    First, "what do you want from ltc blog? - a level of grammer and spelliing appropriate for a 22 year old" ... that's a joke. so don't bother clicking it. it's not happening.

    you see, lou the 22 year-old doesn't do the typing, lou the cat does. lou the 22 year-old just dictates, and the qwerty-keyboard wasn't designed with feline digits in mind.


plus the ragdoll breed is part maine-coon so lou has tufts of hair between his toes which hit the wrong keys sometimes. plus, shut up.



    readers, i'm sorry we exchanged harsh words.

    you are very dear to me and lou and we love you very much. to make it up to you here is that logo on the back of the computer.

  
that's the new lou the cat blog logo as of today, friday. i tried to make the little apple in the top left corner look like a kittycat. I screen-shot it and worked with a less that 25-25 pixel picture.
if anyone has legitimate photo shop skills we could use a real logo.



    Second, moving on from kittintosh, We're looking for prime numbers...biguns.

    I'm checking (2^43041367)-1 and lou's checking out (2^43378589)-1. each are about 15-million digits (digits!) long and would be the largest prime ever if either of our respective core-duo's say so.

It's The Great Internet Marsenne Prime Search, or GIMPS (awesome), and it's the gold rush of the number theory yukon.
     the mathmatically-minded philanthropist simply donates their unused cpu-hours to a program that checks the primality of a titanically-large prime-number candidate, and three weeks later, BOOM BABY! there's a 1 in 178845 chance that you've got yourself a prime numbsky and eternal fame.

    But wait even cooler than that - GIMPS tracks the your contribution to the project, and even tracks whole TEAMS of number cruntching number theorist bloggers and blogies.

    Team lou the cat blog! It should be called Team Win!

    For serious, Team lou would be in the guiness book of world records if we found one. I set up a proper team to join, and i'll put a little teraflop meter on the blog to keep track of our unbelievable progress, and it will be gnarly.



Nice!


How to do the voodoo that you so desperately want to do-do(heh):

   - Join the GIMPS

   - Download the software (Prime 95 for Macs)

   - Join Team Lou the Cat!


    Even if you run the program when you sleep, you can find a new prime in the time of only a few blog posts.

    lou thinks you should totally go for it.

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*Update* no luck as of:
[Apr 2 16:21] Iteration: 814297 / 43041367 
[1.89%] primality test of M43041367 
                     (thats a big number)
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