MightyFunk

It’s amazing to think that just about ‘anyone’ can write an article about ‘anybody’ or ‘anything’ on Wikipedia.

Is it just me, or does that concept seem faulty at best? The only advantage of this system is that masses of information can be quickly written and updated - but that does not necessarily mean that the people editing or administering this website are so-called ‘experts’ in the fields they are editing.

The Wikipedia system, although extremely popular at the moment has the word FAIL written all over it. I argue that it is a good place for reference, but people MUST remember (and must not forget) to take the articles posted there very lightly.

I suppose if you spend as much time as I do behind a computer, it’s only a matter of time before someone does a ‘better’ job of trying to take your cash. You all might be familiar of receiving emails from Nigeria - the famous 419 scam. You know, the ones with the sick or dying uncle or parent and they need to transfer money to your account?

The Nigerian Con-Artists and my Cadillac:

Well, in my old blog, I had a story about that where I actually got into an email shouting match with one of those Nigerian scammers who was trying to buy my old car, and he ended the conversation by saying:

Words can’t express my admiration for the stupidity of this brave/stupid unfortunate, god-forsaken soul. I’ll probably burn in hell for saying this, but I think I stand better chances than pulling a Lawnchair Larry…:

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — A Roman Catholic priest who floated off under hundreds of helium party balloons was missing Monday off the southern coast of Brazil.

Rescuers in helicopters and small fishing boats were searching off the coast of Santa Catarina state, where pieces of balloons were found.

Hey - I don’t care what floats your boat. Doesn’t bother me one bit. But this is definitely newsworthy:

Greek islanders: We are the true Lesbians
Trio from Lesbos sues gay rights group, says use of L-word is insulting

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS
Associated Press
Published on: 04/30/08 ATHENS, Greece — A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between gay women and the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos.

Three islanders from Lesbos — home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women — have taken a gay rights group to court for using the word lesbian in its name.

Perhaps the most annoyingly useful thing ever created. Too bad I always get them wrong.

This one wasn’t so bad - after three separate attempts…

Here I will outline gear for taking proper HDR (High Dynamic Range) images using the latest technologies available. This article concerns HDR photography for inclusion within computer generated, 3D environments and image based lighting.

Cameras and Lenses

While any camera will basically suffice to produce HDR images, I will focus on professionally-targeted cameras for the sake of this article while focusing on a medium to high range of budget, short of spending $35,000+ on a Spheron camera system. In particular, I will talk about Canon-based cameras.

The camera criteria I look for in order to produce a good HDR image involves the following:

Years ago, I rolled out a website - www.hdrsource.com. It specialized in HDR (High Dynamic Range) imaging with a sole purpose of providing the 3D community with pioneering methods to light their 3D scenes. I worked hard in developing these computer-generated methods to create these images and 3D environments. Visually, these CG-based images I produced weren’t the most attractive - they’re not something you just want to spend hours (let alone minutes) admiring from an aesthetic perspective. Their main intent was simply to light a 3D scene in such a way as to provide a better, more realistic method to light a scene while providing new controls for balancing out an image.

Silicon aka Patrick had a good point. You can’t have P-Funk without the Godfather of all soul:

I’ll be the first to say that I was never a Johnny Cash fan - that is until I heard his covers from the Solitary Man albums. While I still can’t get quite into his older albums, I have nothing but deep-found respect for the man in black.

P.s. - I still haven’t seen the movie ‘Walk the line.’