ทุกที every time

ผมไม่เข้าใจว่าทำไมเวลาคนมาพูดว่า "ก็เห็นเป็นอย่างนี้ทุกที" แล้วผมจะต้องรู้สึกเหมือนโดนว่า เหมือนโดนดูถูก เหมือนมันเป็นคำตัดพ้อต่อว่า รู้สึกไม่พอใจขึ้นมา มันอาจจะเป็นเพราะว่าประโยคที่ผมพูดออกไป ก่อนหน้าที่จะได้รับประโยคนี้กลับมา คือ "ช่วงนี้งานมันยุ่ง งานเยอะมากจริงๆ" ซึ่งผมก็ยังรู้สึกว่ามันเป็นอย่างนั้น เดือนก่อนผมยังไม่ยุ่งขนาดนี้ ผมมีเวลากลับบ้านเร็ว ออกไปวิ่งบ้าง (นับครั้งได้) หรือมาอยู่กับลูกแล้วให้แฟนผมไปออกกำลังกาย คือถ้าผมยุ่งอย่างนี้ "ทุกที" ในช่วงนั้น คนคนที่พูดออกมาก็คงจะไม่ได้อยู่ในเหตุการณ์ เลยไม่ทราบว่าผมไม่ได้ "เป็นอย่างนั้นทุกที" ซะทีเดียว

ก่อนที่ผมจะอ้างถึงสิ่งที่คนอื่นทำ เป็นไปได้ ผมก็จะเลี่ยงการใช้คำว่า ทุกที ทุกครั้ง เป็นประจำ ตลอดเวลา เพราะผมเชื่อว่ากรณีส่วนใหญ่มีข้อยกเว้น และไม่มีใครทำอะไรเหมือนกันทุกครั้งไป หากจะต้องแทนคำจริงๆ ผมก็ใช้คำว่า ส่วนใหญ่ หลายครั้ง บางครั้ง แม้กระทั่งคำว่า บ่อยๆ ผมก็พยายามเลี่ยง นอกจากว่ามันเป็นเรื่องที่ไม่เสียหาย และเป็นเรื่องที่บ่อยจริง

ผมอาจจะคิดไปเองก็ได้เนอะ ผมก็ออกมาบ่นอย่างนี้ทุกทีแหละ ไม่มีอะไรหรอก เป็นอย่างนี้ประจำ

ราตรีสวัสดิ์

Movies

ผ่านกระทู้ใน soccersuck เกี่ยวกับหนังในใจของแต่ละคน ต้องขอแอบจดเอาไว้ด้วย เพราะหลายเรื่องดูน่าสนใจไม่ใช่น้อย แล้วจะคอยตามดุให้ครบเลย

The Road Home
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Rainbow song
in the mood for love
The Way Home
บางระจัน
Butterfly Effect
Secret Secret (The Secret That Cannot Be Told)
15 ค่ำ เดือน 11
ดึก ดำ ดี้ยส์

Organizing my digital photo/video

There are currently more than 200 GB of photos in my hard drive. The number continues to grow because of my conversion to RAW. Until now, there has not been a final solution to organizing these photos. After reading few articles here and there, I have decided to finalize my own steps to organizing my photo, as well as video files.

From Camera to Computer
Create New Folder on Desktop, using Date as convention.
2009-04-22_IMG (or 2009-04-22_VID)

Create New Sub Folder called "RAW" within the newly created folder.
Copy files from device into "RAW"

Rename all RAW files to be in sync with the folder name

From RAW to JPEG
Open ALL images in "RAW" using Adobe Bridge CS3 and Photoshop CS3, then make any necessary color adjustment.

If possible, apply tags

Save ALL images as JPEG format into the same directory.

Go to the Folder Structure and create a new folder called "JPEG" and move all the newly created JPEG files into that folder.

Make any further color adjustments/cropping/border to files in this "JPEG" directory.

Once finished, make a duplicate of "JPEG" and rename it "WEB"

In Photoshop CS3, use Batch to resize (and/or add border) to all files in "WEB"

Final Folder = 2009-04-22_IMG_Description = "RAW", "JPEG", "WEB", and "PHOTOSHOP"

Sick

I skipped work on Wednesday as well as today. Because I decided to go to work yesterday (Thursday), my condition got worse, and my flu turned into high fever last night. Weekend is here, but I am still ill. =(

Web Lesson

http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/firstcss

derived from http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/


Web design is not easy for me, but I'll try.

Also see http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_examples.asp

Photoshop

Photoshop. This name is probably heard or mentioned everyday in the graphic design universe. I have been using it almost everyday for over 10 years. It was back in my college days (around 1995) when I had my first glimpse of Photoshop 3.0. As it stands today, Photoshop is at version CS4 which is an equivilant to version 11.0.

Now here is how it all started.
(pulled directly from http://www.storyphoto.com/multimedia/multimedia_photoshop.html)

Ten years ago this month, Adobe shipped Photoshop 1.0. "Has it really been that long?"

It has.

The story of one of the original "killer apps" begins in Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) with a college professor named Glenn Knoll. Glenn was a photo enthusiast who maintained a darkroom in the family basement. He was also a technology aficionado intrigued by the emergence of the personal computer. His two sons, Thomas and John, inherited their father's inquisitive nature. And the vision for future greatness began with their exposure to Glenn's basement darkroom and with the Apple II Plus that he brought home for research projects.

"Photography was a hobby of mine in high school," explained Thomas in an interview for the Michigan Engineer. "In dad's darkroom, I learned how to make black-and-white and color prints, how to balance color and contrast."

While Thomas learned about image manipulation in the basement darkroom, John was attracted to the odd-shaped box known as a personal computer that his dad had brought home. "The first real computer I ever actually sat down and used was in 1978. I was a 16-year-old high school student when my dad got an Apple II Plus with 64k of RAM," John recalls during an interview for his AppleMasters biography.

"Another memory that is really fixed in my mind" John adds, "was in 1984 when I picked up a copy of Time magazine that had a little article about the Macintosh, and I thought, wow, look at this thing!" A couple of months later Mr. Knoll had purchased one of the first Macs available on the open market.

Even though Thomas loved hands-on darkroom work, he too had a keen interest in computers and programming. In 1987 he purchased an Apple Macintosh Plus to help him with his Ph.D. work on the "processing of digital images." Much to his disappointment, the Mac couldn't display gray-scale levels in his images. To solve that problem, Thomas wrote a subroutine to simulate the gray-scale effect.

Thomas's work led to more subroutines and chunks of image programming. These bits of computer magic caught John's attention during a visit he paid to Ann Arbor while on vacation from his job at Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) in Marin, California. "The work Thomas was doing had to do with how a computer could recognize a predefined object in a digitized picture," John recalls in an interview with Terrence Masson for the book, "CG 101: A Computer Graphics Industry Reference".

"Image processing is the fundamental basis of any of that kind of work, and Tom had written a bunch of image processing tools," John adds. "As Tom showed me his work, it struck me how similar it was to the image processing tools on the Pixar [image computer John had just seen a graphics demo on at ILM]."

"There were a bunch of command line driven shell tools much like the Unix C shell command line interface of the Pixar." Shortly there after, John and Thomas pulled these pieces of code together and Thomas built an amazing little application called "Display."

John Knoll. Photo by Jeff Schewe.

"I was delighted," John said, "but I started asking for more. What if Display could save images in other formats so I could print them in another program? I used Display to open a couple of sample images that I got from the ILM computer graphics department, but they looked too dark on my screen—suddenly I needed gamma correction tools too." John's requests distracted Thomas from his thesis work, but he too was intrigued by the possibilities of image editing on a personal computer.

This cycle of refinement continued over a period of months and led to an improved version of the application that became "ImagePro" in 1988. At this point John began suggesting to Thomas that they turn ImagePro into a commercial application.

Thomas Knoll. Photo by Jeff Schewe.

"My fellowship money had run out and my wife was expecting our first child," Thomas explained during the Michigan Engineer interview. "I was feeling pressure to finish what I was doing and find a job."

In early 1988, Thomas decided to give himself six more months to finish a beta version of ImagePro and let John shop it around Silicon Valley. Interestingly enough, many of the Silicon Valley companies that John approached were cool to the idea of their image manipulation program. SuperMac turned it down because they didn't understand how ImagePro could complement their already popular product, PixelPaint.

But one company, BarneyScan, did show some interest. They offered to bundle (on a short term basis) what was now called "Photoshop" with their slide scanner. A total of about 200 copies of Photoshop were shipped with their scanners, according to Jeff Schewe in his article, "Photoshop: a Decade of Image-Editing Excellence."

The original application icons designed by John Knoll.

In September 1988, the Knoll brothers' luck changed. John presented a demo to Adobe's internal creative team, and they loved the product. A license agreement was struck soon after, and Photoshop 1.0 was shipped in February 1990 after 10 months of development.

Thomas has remained involved with the project all along. He never did have time to finish his thesis. John has continued his career at ILM, serving as visual effects supervisor on projects such as "Mission Impossible" (1996), "Star Trek: First Contact" (1996), and "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" (1999). Glenn Knoll is still working as a professor for the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. But he now uses a Powerbook G3 at home. And the darkroom in the basement has since been replaced by, yes, you guessed it, Photoshop.

Time to get back to work.

Dollar Sign

What does the $ in the dollar sign represent?

October 23, 1992

Dear Cecil:

What does the S in the dollar sign represent? I read once that it is supposed to be a serpent. Also, what does the C in the cent sign represent?

— M.J.R., U.S.A.

Dear M.:

A serpent? Lord, if Florian Cajori were alive to hear such talk, it would just kill him. Professor Cajori dealt with this question definitively more than 60 years ago in A History of Mathematical Notations--not the ideal beach book, maybe, but one I heartily commend nonetheless.

The subject of the dollar sign was close to Professor Cajori's heart, and he could get quite indignant on the subject. As he tartly noted in his book, "About a dozen different theories [on the dollar sign's origin] have been advanced by men of imaginative minds, but not one of these would-be historians permitted himself to be hampered by the underlying facts." Among the deficient hypotheses:

(1) The dollar sign was originally the letters U and S superimposed. The idea here is that the original dollar sign had two vertical lines, not one. Popular though this idea is, there is zero documentary evidence for it. Furthermore, Robert Morris, the Revolutionary War financier and the first U.S. official to use the dollar sign, made it with a single vertical stroke.

(2) It's a version of the letters IHS, the Greek abbreviation of the name Jesus. No further comment required.

(3) It was originally a P combined with an 8. The dollar, you'll recall, is descended from the Spanish dollar, also known as the "piece of eight" because it consisted of eight reals. Plausible, and as we shall see not that far from the truth, but still wrong.

(4) The sign was inspired by the Spanish "pillar dollar," which on one side had two columns signifying the "pillars of Hercules" at Gibraltar. These were represented in the dollar sign by the two vertical lines, with the S being some sort of scroll wrapped around them.

So much for the tomfoolery; now to get serious. Professor Cajori contends that the dollar sign is an abbreviation for "pesos." Bear in mind that the Spanish dollar, also known as the peso de 8 reales, was the principal coin in circulation in the U.S. up until 1794, when we began minting our own dollars. In handwriting, "pesos" was usually abbreviated lowercase "ps," with S above and to the right of the P and with the hook on the latter written with one or two deep strokes. As time went on, the P and the S tended to get mashed together and the result was $.

The dollar sign and the PS abbreviation were used interchangeably from around 1775 until the end of the century, after which the latter faded from view. Professor Cajori backs up his argument with examples from manuscript, and I'm prepared to declare the matter settled.

As for the C in the cent sign, it seems safe to say it stands for "cent." However, you can never be too careful in this business, so I'm continuing to research the question. If there are any further developments, you'll be the first to know.

— Cecil Adams

P.S. I forgot to quote this, and I forgot where I got this from. Sorry.

Photography Site

Came across this website last night, while shopping around for a camera bag (yes, it turned into wide angle lens hunt, while I searched for lens filter thread size). Figured I should save it for future reference because his site is really clean and straight forward.

On that note, the followings are the thread size of my current lens:

50 mm = 52 mm thread size (round)
18-70 mm DX = 67 mm thread size (round)
80-200 mm = 77 mm thread size (round)

And the result of last night's web surfing? One Crumpler 5 million dollar home, and a skylight/protective filter for the 80-200 mm.

Conclusion: the Internet SUCKS (your money).

ย่อรูปทั้งโฟลเดอร์ด้วย Photoshop

การใช้โปรแกรมย่อขนาดภาพถ่ายดิจิตอล หากเป็นเพียงไฟล์ภาพเดียวหรือไม่มากนัก ก็คงจะไม่ใช่เรื่องหนักหนาสาหัสเท่าใดนัก แต่ถ้าใครเคยมีปัญหาเกี่ยวกับการย่อขนาดภาพถ่ายจำนวนมากเป็นสิบๆ หรือร้อยๆ ภาพที่มีอยู่ทั้งหมดในโฟลเดอร์ในเวลาเดียวกัน เพื่อจุดประสงค์เช่น นำไปโพสต์ในเว็บ หรือสร้างเป็นแกลเลอรี่ออนไลน์ อันนี้ก็คงเป็นปัญหาใหญ่น่าหนักใจไม่น้อยหากไม่มีเทคนิคลัดเข้ามาช่วย
เทคนิคลัดนี้เหมาะสำหรับคอมพิวเตอร์ที่มีโปรแกรม Photoshop ติดตั้งอยู่ในเครื่อง โดยให้เปิดโปรแกรม Photoshop ขึ้นมา (ควรจะเป็นรุ่น CS เป็นต้นมา) แล้วไปที่เมนู File เลือกคำสั่ง Scripts แล้วเลือกหัวข้อ Image Processor จากนั้นจะปรากฏหน้าต่างการทำงานใหม่ขึ้นมา ในหัวข้อที่ 1 จะเป็นการเลือกโฟลเดอร์รูปภาพที่คุณต้องการจะย่อภาพที่มีอยู่ภายใน ในหัวข้อที่ 2 จะเป็นการเลือกโฟลเดอร์ปลายทางที่คุณจะใช้เก็บรูปหลังจากที่ได้ย่อขนาดลง แล้ว ในหัวข้อที่ 3 จะเป็นการกำหนดคุณภาพของรูปหลังจากการย่อแล้ว (1 คือค่าต่ำสุด 12 คือค่าสูงสุด) และกำหนดขนาดความกว้างและสูงของไฟล์ที่ต้องการจะย่อเป็นพิกเซล รวมถึงการกำหนดรูปแบบของไฟล์ใหม่ที่ย่อแล้วให้เป็นสกุลใหม่ เช่น JPEG, PSD, TIFF
ในหัวข้อที่ 4 จะเป็นการกำหนดค่าเอฟเฟ็กต์พิเศษที่คุณต้องการใส่ในภาพเพิ่มเติม เช่น การใส่กรอบให้รูป การทำสีรูปเป็นแบบซีเปีย เป็นต้น แต่ถ้าต้องการแค่ย่อรูปอย่างเดียว คำสั่งในข้อ 4 นี้ก็ให้ข้ามไปได้ไม่ต้องสนใจ หลังจากกำหนดค่าต่างๆ ตามข้อ 1, 2 และ 3 เรียบร้อยแล้ว ก็ให้คลิกปุ่ม Run หลังจากนั้นโปรแกรมจะทำการย่อรูปทั้งหมดให้คุณโดยอัตโนมัติ

credit: manager.co.th

แล้วจะลองทำดูคืนนี้เลย มีรูปอยู่เยอะมากที่รอคอยการปรับแต่ง เฮ้ออออ (เสียงภาคิน)

Owner

I have just made the last payment on my 2004 Honda Civic HX. Once they (Honda) cashed my check, I will officially be the owner of my car.

No more payment for a car is a really good feeling, really.

On the other news, there will not be any raises or bonuses this year (as far as I know). Therefore, the plan to get a new car may as well be postponed until further notice.

Compact Car

Parking is essential for my everyday life. Last year, I have spent over $_00 in parking tickets (actual figure has been omitted for my own safety purpose). Working in a neighborhood that has 2-hour parking limit is a challenge for all of us who drive. My 2002 Honda Civic has served me well for the past 5 years. Reasons why I consider changing are as followed; car is paid off, gas mileage got worsen, boring ride, and it does not fit many parking spots available. Therefore, I have compiled thoughts and information on compact car, in hope to find my perfect ride.

Length comes in as my first priority, and here is the comparison:
Length Comparison
Civic: 174.7 "
GTI: 165.8"
MINI: 145.6"

MINI is almost 30" shorter than my Civic!!! This could easily be the winner!

Road&Track Comparison
The Truth About Cars
This one is the spec. of my current civic. Civic HX

Durian

Ever wonder why some people love durian (that pricky fruit that could stinks the whole house) and some hate it to the gut?

Yesterday, I went to BBQ/Shabu at P Aey's house. We brought over some gelato from Marco Polo; durian, lychee and jackfruit flavor. For us grown ups, it is typical to take a side - love it or hate it. But what about those who never had durian before, ever?

Nong Plern, a 5-6 year old girl, tried it. First bite was enough to make sure she will hate it for the rest of her life. Though she enjoys stuffs like Som Tum, durian is not her thing. Nong Myles, a 1-2 year old boy, tried it. First bite and he loves it. That probably ensures that he will also love it for the rest of his life. Needless to say, both of them were siblings and raised in the same environement.


The Question of the Day is:

Why would a sense of smell differ from one to another? Should the two kids have the same opinion, good or bad, before they learn more about durian and decide whether they like it or not?

All I know is durian is just stinking good!