Vibrations

I. Expired Rights II. Microsoft Monorail III. Your Arm's on Fire IV. A New Look on Things ...Literally I. Expired Rights Wow! This year's Band Festival kicked ass! It rocked! Of all the events held in school, this is the most successful. Food booths were selling, good music and lots of people. Hats off to Raymond H. for that! For me and my bandmates, it was good competition. I knew we wouldn't win. Hah! Besides, the fraction of a point of getting to the finals didn't really matter. Just like Vin Diesel played in Fast and the Furious, "It doesn't matter if you win by a mile or an inch". We ranked fourth. It told my bandmates not to be too proud. Sort of. Anyhoo, congratulations to the winners! Band Fest sure was a great way to get good music for free. El Gitarista, the champion, was great. I was bowing at the stage (to knee level). It only sucks that they didn't do anything original. They did exact copies of tricks, gestures and facial expressions by Satch, Vai, Eric Johnson, Hamm and the other famous exhibitionists. But still, it's really hard to spot a band with showmanship and musicanship altogether. They were like rock gods! I'm glad it's over. Now I have more time again for the stuff I've been working on. On a side note, it was great to see my high school friends again, Bheng, Fred, Gian and the all-time favorite Ramel was there. Things certainly have changed. I forgot to ask for the picture from Bheng's camphone. Here's something from last Wednesday's practice. Listen to the whole track to hear the funny part. II. Microsoft Monorail Here's another overdue topic I wanted to write about. The Philippine .NET Users' Group (PHINUG), organized a .NET Fest last month. One of the topics mentioned was Microsoft Monorail if memory serves me right. I was curious to what it was and did a little research on it and led me to Microsoft's Monorail System at their headquarters (the topic wasn't about it by the way). Pretty cool. Fun things to do when you have lots of cash on hand. Here's the article I found. Fancy, eh? I want to see this in action someday and probably ride on it too. III. Your Arm's on Fire After last night's event, we went to 7-11 for a midnight snack instead of playing DotA. When we were about to leave, just chatting for a while outside, a car arrived with three guys. The driver was intentionally lifting his shirt to his gun. We were all looking until they all went in. I was surprised until the bastard said a bit loudly, "surrender all firearms". Oh, the sick sad reality. He thinks he's a god now just because he has gun. Maybe somebody should give him the taste of a fire arm. IV. A New Look on Things ...Literally Check out these video clips by HITLabNZ (Human Interface Technology, New Zealand). I was watching Discovery Channel the other day and saw this cool segment about augmented reality. Close to virtual reality, this one kicks ass. If I do get kids in the future, I'd get them toys like these. Just to make things clearer courtesy of Wikipedia:

Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real world and computer generated data. At present, most AR research is concerned with the use of live video imagery which is digitally processed and "augmented" by the addition of computer generated graphics.

Science fiction movies are starting to become reality.

iRant has moved. Click here.