Your mama's so FAT she can't save files bigger than 4GB
— HAL 9000 (@HAL9000_) May 8, 2013
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Yo momma's so FAT
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Friday, April 5, 2013
YouTube
Dear loyal & faithful YouTube subscribers and friends:
As of today I am quitting YouTube. It's very sad for me to say this, because YouTube is more than people posting cat videos; it's a community. It's a community that I've been honored to be a part of for the past 2 years. I've grown a lot since I started making YouTube videos in 2011. My skills in video making have improved tremendously but I've also grown as a person.
When I posted my first video I honestly thought it would get 1M views in a couple days or a month at the least. I think it had around 40 views the last time I checked. I thought I was going to become "YouTube famous" within a couple weeks or months, a year at the latest. Two years later, barely 115 subscribers and almost 25K total video views. But even with that few amount of subscribers and views it allowed me to interact with my viewers and other smaller YouTuber's like myself. I really felt apart of something.
However, YouTube is not for me. I do like make videos but believe it or not, it can take a lot out of you. I am taking 3 college classes right now along with 1 high school class and it's demanding. I also have a girlfriend who I want to spend as much time as possible with, as well as my other friends. As you can see, my time is very limited these days.
YouTube for me was never about making money, it was doing something that I really liked to do. And good thing it wasn't about the money...I've only made $12.90 from my YouTube videos. That's no where near enough to support myself, pay for college, etc.
Where from here? I posted a couple weeks ago about my "perfect" life, I don't know what I was thinking when I posted that. My life will never be 100% how I want it to be and it will never be perfect, so who cares! You have to roll with the punches of life and go with the flow. But in real life I am planning on now majoring in Computer Science and I hope to attend DevBootcamp in place of college or after college. I want to be a full time web developer. I know writing code sounds like an extremely boring thing to do as a job, but I love it. I truly love it and want to make a living from doing it. I want to create apps and programs to not only make life easier and more fun but to enhance it. I have a lot of ideas that I want to make so I want to get started off working for a company as one of their developers then eventually start my own company.
No more videos then? Of course not! I don't want to completely quit YouTube, but it won't be my main priority anymore. So I guess I'm not technically "quitting" YouTube but whateva! ;) I do want to post maybe an "update" video on what I'm doing and working on every once and a while because again, YouTube is more than just a spot to post videos; it's a community!
In closing, thank you to all of you who have supported me these past years. Philip Defranco gave me my first big boost of subscribers by featuring my video in one of his movie club things, so a big thanks to him. Thanks to Featureman for all the support lately. A huge shout out to my friends Tyler and Brenden who were in some of my videos and they have their own skating channels so check them out and subscribe! Also thanks to everyone over at Elite Collabers, you guys were great and I had a fun time making videos with you! Lastly thank you to all my subscribers and anyone else who I'm forgetting to mention, you guys rock!
As of today I am quitting YouTube. It's very sad for me to say this, because YouTube is more than people posting cat videos; it's a community. It's a community that I've been honored to be a part of for the past 2 years. I've grown a lot since I started making YouTube videos in 2011. My skills in video making have improved tremendously but I've also grown as a person.
When I posted my first video I honestly thought it would get 1M views in a couple days or a month at the least. I think it had around 40 views the last time I checked. I thought I was going to become "YouTube famous" within a couple weeks or months, a year at the latest. Two years later, barely 115 subscribers and almost 25K total video views. But even with that few amount of subscribers and views it allowed me to interact with my viewers and other smaller YouTuber's like myself. I really felt apart of something.
However, YouTube is not for me. I do like make videos but believe it or not, it can take a lot out of you. I am taking 3 college classes right now along with 1 high school class and it's demanding. I also have a girlfriend who I want to spend as much time as possible with, as well as my other friends. As you can see, my time is very limited these days.
YouTube for me was never about making money, it was doing something that I really liked to do. And good thing it wasn't about the money...I've only made $12.90 from my YouTube videos. That's no where near enough to support myself, pay for college, etc.
Where from here? I posted a couple weeks ago about my "perfect" life, I don't know what I was thinking when I posted that. My life will never be 100% how I want it to be and it will never be perfect, so who cares! You have to roll with the punches of life and go with the flow. But in real life I am planning on now majoring in Computer Science and I hope to attend DevBootcamp in place of college or after college. I want to be a full time web developer. I know writing code sounds like an extremely boring thing to do as a job, but I love it. I truly love it and want to make a living from doing it. I want to create apps and programs to not only make life easier and more fun but to enhance it. I have a lot of ideas that I want to make so I want to get started off working for a company as one of their developers then eventually start my own company.
No more videos then? Of course not! I don't want to completely quit YouTube, but it won't be my main priority anymore. So I guess I'm not technically "quitting" YouTube but whateva! ;) I do want to post maybe an "update" video on what I'm doing and working on every once and a while because again, YouTube is more than just a spot to post videos; it's a community!
In closing, thank you to all of you who have supported me these past years. Philip Defranco gave me my first big boost of subscribers by featuring my video in one of his movie club things, so a big thanks to him. Thanks to Featureman for all the support lately. A huge shout out to my friends Tyler and Brenden who were in some of my videos and they have their own skating channels so check them out and subscribe! Also thanks to everyone over at Elite Collabers, you guys were great and I had a fun time making videos with you! Lastly thank you to all my subscribers and anyone else who I'm forgetting to mention, you guys rock!
Until we meet again, thanks and keep on, keeping on!
-Eli
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Fight For Internet Freedom!
I've shown support for internet freedom before, but the need for more support is greater than ever! Visit freepress for tons of great information to get started and also check out & sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom. Also check out this CISPA petition, and contact your representatives, senators, everyone and tell them how you feel!
Lastly, show your support by putting up some of these posters courtesy of Freepress Flicker.
Here's 8.5x11 JPG image for the poster:
Here's a link to a 8.5x11 PDF of the poster via Mediafire.
Enjoy and spread the word!
-Eli
Lastly, show your support by putting up some of these posters courtesy of Freepress Flicker.
Here's 8.5x11 JPG image for the poster:
Enjoy and spread the word!
-Eli
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi. Quite possibly the most simple yet powerful computer ever made. It doesn't have much for specs: 256MB of RAM, CPU, and GPU, HDMI port, 2 USB ports, RCA port, Ethernet port, and an SD card slot.
Even though it doesn't have much for specs, it was made this way on purpose. This little (45g) computer was made for coding and programming.
People have made this little guy do some pretty cool things. Some people have used it for robotics, send to the edge of space, and so much more!
I want to push the Raspberry Pi to its limits and beyond!
My Idea
I want to use the Raspberry Pi and other open source software to basically create the perfect operating system and personal assistant.
I want to use a RPi along with:
- Microsoft Kinect
- For speech recognition and motion recognition
- 55" Computer Monitor
- This will be the final purchase and feature of this build. It's also touchscreen as another way to input information.
- HD DVR Security System
- Mainly using this for the cameras. I will use open source facial recognition along with the cameras to alert me when someone is at the door and if their face is recognized it will tell me who is at the door.
- i'm Watch
- This runs on a modified version of the Android operating system, so I will modify it most likely by just making an app where it will give me any alerts I setup.
- Weather Station
- Obviously you need weather, so I found some open source software along with a personal weather station to give me relevant weather information.
- Automated Lighting
- I'm still working out how this will work, but basically the computer will turn on the lights when I get out of bed in the morning and turn them off when I go to sleep.
Besides these other pieces of hardware and software, this is what I want the operating system to be like:
- Simple yet powerful
- Intuitive
- Personal Assistant
- I want to develop the most advanced personal assistant in existence. Big goal...yeah but I think I can do it
- It needs to be able to learn and "think"
- Understand and execute voice commands (i.e. "I want to watch a harlem shake video on YouTube" or "Play my favorite Pandora radio station")
- Distro of linux
- Obviously since linux is open source, that's where I'm going to be building from. To start off, I will be using the Raspbian distro but once I start getting into the "real" programming of the operating system, I will be working from open source linux
All the software I will be using to create this "operating system" will be open source and I hope it works. I don't know when I will start making this crazy awesome system, but I hope to start realitively soon...especially because a RPi is only $35!
For more information on the Raspberry Pi check out their website! http://www.raspberrypi.org/
-Eli
Monday, February 18, 2013
Life
Life is fucking weird. I mean seriously, think about it. Why are we alive? What is our purpose? We as humans don't really have a purpose when you think about it. Even if we explore the ends of the Universe and know all there is to know, what then? If there is other life forms in our universe, which there probably is, what will we do when we meet them? There's a very familiar trend when foreigners go to a new land, they take it over and colonize it. So will we be the ones to take over another planet or solar system? Or will we be the ones being colonized by beings from space.
What is sight? Really though, how the fuck can we see stuff? Yes we have eyes that process light and our environment around us which then gives our brains an "image" and we "see" it. Did you know that you actually see everything upside down? Your brain processes the upside down image and puts it right side up so it looks "normal".
What about sound? Our ears translate sound "waves" into information to give to our brain which allows us to "hear". But what are we actually hearing? We've found that other species of animals can hear different frequencies of sound, so are we as humans really hearing the whole "picture"?
Taste is an interesting one. Why does some food taste good to some people but terrible to others? Sometimes we call it an "acquired" taste, where after you eat a certain food for a long enough time, you will eventually enjoy it. But why does food taste the way we think it does? Well obviously it is made out of certain chemicals and materials but why do those taste the way they do? Did our bodies just all of a sudden start telling us what food tasted like...but what does it actually taste like?
Touch. We are always touching something. But not technically. I mean you most likely have clothes on, but you don't realize that feeling of the clothes touching your skin, because you've gotten used to it. But again, technically you've never touched anything. On an atomic level, only our electrons are touching the electrons of other objects. So yes, you are "touching" things but also not really when looking at it on an atomic level.
We are aware that we are alive, whatever that means. But what does it mean to be alive? I mean, think about it...we wake up every morning and just live our lives. But why are we alive? And why can we think and have emotions which aren't really anything but nerve impulses reacting to situations. When you think about it, we're a lot like computers. They have I/O impulses which make them run, a very simple concept yet computers let us do some of the most advanced things on the planet. We also are run by similar I/O impulses which give our brains information, theses are also surprisingly electrical nerve impulses. Again very similar to computers.
I'm not suggesting anything *cough* matrix *cough*, but seriously...I just wanted to get my thoughts and ideas out in the open. Feel free to comment and share with whomever.
-Eli
TL;DR Life is fucking weird.
What is sight? Really though, how the fuck can we see stuff? Yes we have eyes that process light and our environment around us which then gives our brains an "image" and we "see" it. Did you know that you actually see everything upside down? Your brain processes the upside down image and puts it right side up so it looks "normal".
What about sound? Our ears translate sound "waves" into information to give to our brain which allows us to "hear". But what are we actually hearing? We've found that other species of animals can hear different frequencies of sound, so are we as humans really hearing the whole "picture"?
Taste is an interesting one. Why does some food taste good to some people but terrible to others? Sometimes we call it an "acquired" taste, where after you eat a certain food for a long enough time, you will eventually enjoy it. But why does food taste the way we think it does? Well obviously it is made out of certain chemicals and materials but why do those taste the way they do? Did our bodies just all of a sudden start telling us what food tasted like...but what does it actually taste like?
Touch. We are always touching something. But not technically. I mean you most likely have clothes on, but you don't realize that feeling of the clothes touching your skin, because you've gotten used to it. But again, technically you've never touched anything. On an atomic level, only our electrons are touching the electrons of other objects. So yes, you are "touching" things but also not really when looking at it on an atomic level.
We are aware that we are alive, whatever that means. But what does it mean to be alive? I mean, think about it...we wake up every morning and just live our lives. But why are we alive? And why can we think and have emotions which aren't really anything but nerve impulses reacting to situations. When you think about it, we're a lot like computers. They have I/O impulses which make them run, a very simple concept yet computers let us do some of the most advanced things on the planet. We also are run by similar I/O impulses which give our brains information, theses are also surprisingly electrical nerve impulses. Again very similar to computers.
I'm not suggesting anything *cough* matrix *cough*, but seriously...I just wanted to get my thoughts and ideas out in the open. Feel free to comment and share with whomever.
-Eli
TL;DR Life is fucking weird.
Friday, February 1, 2013
I WON #FREEshirtFRIDAY!!!
So yeah...this happened today!! EPIC!!!
Congratulations @kutarimeikitato! You win #FREEshirtFRIDAY!
— District Lines (@district_lines) February 1, 2013
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