Internet of lies!

No whales at the crappy Aquarium of the Pacific. False advertising!

Just saw Jack Nicholson in

Just saw Jack Nicholson in a Porsche.

I hate Santa Monica.

I hate Santa Monica.

In Lompoc

Now in Lompoc, home to nuclear missle silos and not much else.

Sure are some crazy hills

Sure are some crazy hills here. My left knee is hurtin. We got a Solara. The Mustang was a bit small. Today is Napa day.

A new model of mine

The Gem Electric Car!

Small Quicktime
Large Quicktime
DivX

"Garbage Can"

Waste from the production of my demo reels decorates the outside of and resides in this trash can.

A Night At Croxley's

Last night (or tonight, Sunday night in any case), I went to dinner with my parents at Croxley's Ale House. I had Bangers and Mash, a Dos Equis XX, and a McSorley's Ale. Good times.

Not but ten minutes into the car ride home, John called me, asking if I wanted to go to Croxley's. So I returned to the Ale House 20 minutes after departing. The waitress carded us. She got to me last, at which time I said "You might recognize me, I was here about twenty minutes ago." {hahahahaha} She didn't take my card. We sat down and ordered 30 wings (20¢ each on Sunday). I had a Beck's Amber, which has been the beer of the week for the last three months or so.

On the ride back, John and company decided to go to The Alumni Club, a small corner bar, not situated on a corner. I saw an interesting character crossing the street, and pointed him out. It was Bandana Joe, an Alumni Club regular. We shouted a greeting to him. I declined to go to the Alumni Club and was driven home. The story seemed to amuse me more before the beer had worn off. Now I'll pack some for California, and go to sleep.

{if you hit water, you've gone too far}

California, here we come!

In case you don't know, I'm going to California with Ellen from July 25th to August 5th. We are going to San Francisco and then driving down Highway 1 to Los Angeles for SIGGRAPH 2005. Here's what we plan to do/see:

San Francisco (July 25-30):
Alcatraz
Ghiradelli Square / Fisherman's Wharf
Lomard Street, Hyde Street Cable Car
Palace of Fine Arts
Walk Across Golden Gate Bridge
Pork Store Cafe
Golden Gate Park
-Conservatory of Flowers
-Academy of Science, Chocolate Exhibition
-Japanese Tea Garden
-Stow Lake
See the Row Houses
Fillmore Auditorium
Alamo Square and Civic Center
China Town
Pan American Building
Burlingame Pez Museum (maybe)
Muir Woods
Tiburon Ferry to Angel Island
Sausalito
City Lights Bookstore
Japantown
In-And-Out Burger {They don't have them on the East Coast}
Asian Art Museum
ThirstyBear (Brewery/Restaurant)

Driving Down Highway 1 (Mustang Convertible):
Monterey
Lover's Point Park, Pacific Grove
Carmel
Big Sur
Hearst Castle (San Simeon)
Lompoc (July 30-31)

Los Angeles (July 31-August 5):
Aquarium
Santa Monica Pier (where we're staying)
Hollywood Bowl (maybe)

SIGGRAPH 2005!

{perhaps goings-on at Blur Studios and Rhythm & Hues Studios}

Ellen: call me if I forgot anything :-)

Cell post

Mobile post

{This post, except for this message, was posted from my cell phone. I could use this, or audio post, or go to an internet cafe while I'm away for 10 days. I wonder if it costs anything, cellphone-wise...}

{update: It costs 10 cents to send a message and 2 cents (10 after August 1) to recieve a message with a limit of 160 characters. There may or may not be options in my plan that include text messaging without the fees, but I'm not sure...}

Lover's Point Park, Pacific Grove, California

Just one of the stops to be made on my upcoming trip.

from the archives

Click here to see my old earthlink page.

"Dave and the Silver Dollar Band"

Dave hadn't picked up his guitar in about two years. Click here for the mp3 / podcast.

"Dr Strangelove"

I'm haveing fun playing with the FuzzPad HTML Tester

"Carlos and Lawrence"

"Electric Car So Far"

Electric Car So Far
Originally uploaded by sakraft1.

My 3D model of our electric car for the Solar Decathlon. It is not finished yet.

James Doohan, March 3, 1920 - July 20 2005

image from wikipedia

blogging when I am in San Francisco

I never used bloggers audioblogger system because its a long distance call. But when I'm in San Francisco next week, it will be a local call! I wonder if it will feed in to my feedburner rss2 feed as a podcast...

In other news, I feel the need to make some t-shirts

"LI Wild Cat"

LI Wild Cat
Originally uploaded by sakraft1.

There is a large colony of black cats with white feet living in my neighborhood. Here is one in back yard.

"Jibberish"

{what else would you expect at this hour?}

"Michelle"

Michelle
Originally uploaded by sakraft1.

Solar Decathlon construction is going full steam ahead, and the house looks like a house now.

"Have you got any spare change?"

"Have you got any spare change?"
Originally uploaded by sakraft1.

Taken at the Nassau County Museum of Art. I finally enabled the blogging feature on my flickr account and I'm likeing it. Posting more than one picture to a blog post will still require my old methoods as far as I can tell, but for single photos, flickr makes it really easy.

Scripting iChat

The other day Lawrence asked me if I used something to randomly pick my instant messenger away messages. I don't, but I got me to thinking of how you could use AppleScript to do that. Then I started thinking about what else you could do with AppleScript and iChat. I currently have iChat set up to save my custom messages, but sometimes I want to put something temporary in there. So I wrote an AppleScript application to do that. You can download it here (it only works with iChat):

Scott's Away Message application

Salena

My mom is displaying (and selling I think) some of her stuff at an art show at the Nassau County Museum of Art on Saturday and Sunday from 11am-5pm, if you want to go. http://www.nassaumuseum.com/

I am ever so slightly drunk. We didn't go to Croxley's. We went there initially, but the hostess asked us if we were all ordering food. We said no. She said it was their policy not to give us a table unless we were all ordering food. We found this to be very strange. It was 10:15 and it was not crowded. We had never been asked this at Croxley's before. John was infuriated.

We then attempted to go to Applebee's. The beer selection there is not very good and the service is usually terrible. Tonight was no exception. What was exceptional is how crowded it was. There were a lot of people, even families, eating dinner at 10:30 PM! After a few minutes wait we got a table. We sat and waited for our server, but none showed up. We waited and waited. Finally, we gave up. Just as we stood up to walk out a waitress appeared and said; "You're leaving?" She looked like she was going to cry. John and his brother said yes and we walked toward the door. John stopped at the door and said he was going back in to talk to the manager to complain about how bad the service is, and always was. We convinced him just to leave, but he was again infuriated.

We then went to the local corner bar, which is not actually on a corner. John is friends with Frank, the owner of the Alumni Club. Its a smelly smokey bar where you can't order food, but the beer was in ours hands before we even had a chance to sit down. I kept getting hit in the back by a pool cue, but I didn't really care. I had five mugs of Rhinegold and a mug of Coors. As soon as one mug was empty Frank took it away and filled it up. The highlight of the evening was filling up Chris Nyberg's voicemail box. We sat at the bar calling him and leaving messages under pseudonyms. Finally he called John back, calling him names and using all sorts of profanity, complaining that we woke him up. John paid for all of our beer, a total of $20. That's what 20 beers cost at the Alumni club, at least for John (far less than we would have paid at Croxley's). We left our own tips and then left the bar.

Brilliant!

I made this on Brilliant Button Maker. Cool website.

{}

I finished my graduation tank-you notes. How, you ask?

I wrote down the things I have to do on index cards and put them in the order I need to do them. I've only been using this system for about four hours but I've gotten more done in that time than I have in the last 2 weeks, so its working!

Now I need to sleep. Its not on a card, but whatareyougonnado?

{distracted by Master Shake}

{photos}

"Flannel Tie"


"Fuel Cell and Wall"


"Some Guy"


"Reverse Stop"


"Working Bits"

stuff, and stuff

I was scewing around with my yahoo webhosting and it turns out there is a guestbook feature, which I activated:

Sign Guestbook
View Guestbook

also,

click here to read more about podcasting

Yay, podcast #2

Today's podcast gave me more of a headache than the first. Audacity ran very slowly (maybe because I had many other applications open at the same time).

Song: Cosmos Bossa
Artist: Aleksi Virta
Album: aleksi virta meets torsti at the space lounge

links about this album:
archive.org
zion15.net - Includes a diary of spacecapades
monotonik.com

{aperture quiet podcast #2}

In case your wondering, all of my podcasts are made on my Dual 450 MHz G4 Mac (512MB RAM) with the following software:

Audacity
Quicktime 7 Pro
Wiretap
iTunes
TextEdit (for computer generated voices)
Chipmunk BASIC (for morse code and other stuff)
LAME MP3 codec
LAME component for Quicktime

Podcasts ahoy!

Listen up RSS monkeys! Aperturequiet podcasts are now available in your favorite podcast client! Just stick this url in your subscription box:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Aperturequiet

My first podcast

If you like Elvis Costello, I suggest you buy the album mentioned. I'm still figuring out how to get it in to an RSS feed using feed burner. Until I do that its basically just an mp3 file sitting on my server...

{aperture quiet podcast #1}

Songs to wear pants to!

Click me if you know what;s good for ya!

songstowearpantsto.com

Ramshackle

"Ramshackle Evolution"


"Ramshackle Studios"

©2005 Scott Kraft

Logo stolen!

Cartoon network has stolen the logo that Ellen designed for my demo reel (which I had come up with in 2D design last semester). I think it is part of their summer programming rather than part of their brand identity, but still...


"Ellen's Design for my Demo Reel"


cartoon networks stolen logo

No soup for you!

Hooray! NY is not getting the olympics. We never needed them and they would have, in fact, created a travel nightmare for those of us on Long Island. Long Island traffic is bad enough. The main routes off the island go through the city, unless you take a boat, swim, fly or teleport. I don't see why any new yorkers (other than the contractors who would have made a lot of $$$) should be upset about not getting the games. I know I'm not.

Christiansen sisters

"Three Sisters"


"Mary Ann, April 29"

yesturday

"Sailing on July Fourth No. 1"


"Sailing on July Fourth No. 2"


"Wake in Setting Sunlight"


"Ray's Sunglasses"

Klicky

I have Playmobil on the brain.

Click(y) here to read about Hans Beck.