A New York morning

The reservoir in Central Park was still and reflecting the apartments that line the park’s East side this morning. It was warm and a little humid as I made the circuit from 44th and Sixth around the reservoir. Security lines at SFO were no worse than ususal, but at JFK it took an hour before […]

Heading out on the road…

Just my luck, a business trip sends me out on the road, just in time for the most recent Homeland Security response to world affairs. I’m leaving the toothpaste and hair gel home. So we’ll be in airports a lot for the forseeable future. Hope they all have WiFi…

The ‘Ballbot’

A Carnegie-Mellon prof has whipped up a  human-sized robot that balances on a metal sphere. It’s like an inverse ball-driven mouse: motorized rollers constantly adjust the balance of the bot on top of the ball.  CMU prof Ralph Hollis, who started out hacking robots as a hobby in the 1950s, thinks ballbots will be good […]

Back to the labs….

So we’re still trying to prune the clutter here at gulker.com World HQ, now that the Paperless Project is in place. We were struggling with the decision to retire the G4 Cube, but now that it’s the big-format scanning workstation I guess we’ll keep it around. So I  think the Mac OS X Server will […]

Leopard, redux

Paul left a couple of thoughtful comments about Leopard: Hasn’t Apple been swatting the dual-platform bugs all along? Won’t Time Machine eat my hard drive?
Apple has, indeed, been, secretly and openly working on the Intel code almost since Apple acquired NeXT. However, Apple has a finite OS engineering team (there were about 300 OS engineers […]

The new Mac Pro arrives, with a peek at Leopard

The amazing thing about the new Mac Pro is the interior layout. As Jason Snell points out over at Macworld, when you take the PowerPC chips’ massive heat sinks, 9-fan array and liquid cooling system out of the box, there is a heck of a lot more room for stuff like hard drives and DVD […]

Bracelet and anklet

Here’s another scan, this one from the early 1980s I think. This was an illustration for the L.A. Herald Examiner’s Style section, for a story about bracelets and anklets. The model is spouse Linda’s college roommate, dancer Christine Wallace…

AOL releases search logs from 500,000 users

“AOL just released the logs of all searches done by 500,000 of their users over the course of three months earlier this year. That means that if you happened to be randomly chosen as one of these users, everything you searched for from March to May (2006) is now public information on the internet.
“This was […]

Tough job, but somebody had to do it

Over the course of my career at L.A. Herald Examiner, I became more and more interested in feature work, including fashion illustration. I read everything I could find about studio lighting, and I used to hang out at Irena’s P.R.S - the  rental service for L.A. photogs, and chat with rising stars about how to […]

A new scanner arrives, unexpectedly

A large box arrived for me at work yesterday, unexpectedly. It contained a Mustek A3 USB scanner. Some months ago we were looking at 11×17 inch (A3) scanners. There were a couple in the $1000 price range, a bunch of more expensive ones, and one outlier, the $180 Mustek scanner. I have lots of 11×14 […]

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