I have been taking Danish lessons for almost two years now. I turn on the Danish news every once in a while to see what I understand, as my Czech friends would put it “Rozumim hovno”. “Alright” I say to myself, “no worries, you will understand it some day.” No need to freak out, learning…
Last night I painted Doomstalker from Gloomhaven. It seems like it will take a while to get throught Gloomhaven minis… After a few false starts with trying to use glazes to bring out the zenithal highlighting, I said fuck it and did the classic, base layer, shade, highlight triumvirate. I am reasonably satisfied with how…
These days my evenings are quite uneventful. So in these lockdown days I am revisiting miniature painting. It also helps that I have Gloomhaven lying about waiting to get painted. So today I sat down and painted the Brute from Gloomhaven. Unfortunately I don’t have progress pictures. I took some pictures before I begin and…
I have always liked how Philips Ambilight looked but didn’t want to replace my carefully selected gaming monitor just yet. The other after market solutions were too expensive and too clunky (a camera pointed at the screen? really?). Last time I checked (back in USA) there wasn’t a good solution for this. A week ago,…
Learning to record lecture videos using open source tools.
So my first project for this year is to get a Dactyl. In true open source spirit, the case is on thingiverse and there are already a dozen iterations of it. What I wanted was to have wrist-rests integrated to the main body. So I got the regular dactyl top and a modified bottom case,…
I am very happy with my matebook, and the screen resolution is a big part of it. One problem that became glaringly obvious recently was that in Ubuntu, I could not mirror displays. So here I am plugging my beautiful laptop to whatever third rate projector is lying about and I am stuck with extended…
I got my new and sexy Matebook X Pro earlier in the week. The reviews were right, it can get somewhat loud at times. One thing I can’t stand is a loud computer. The problem with having an i7 and a discrete nvidia GPU in an ultrabook body is that getting rid of all the…
The teaching evaluations for my last semester here in OU just came in. Wait… I have something in my eye. What?!? NO! I’m not crying! You’re crying! I can’t describe how satisfying getting a review like this was, especially for a course as though as MIS2800. I had some good evaluations in the past, but…
Got around to painting Scythe minis. The character figurines were quite detailed and I ended up using a few tricks I never used before.
What is the deal with the scale mismatch between the mechs of different factions? Rusviet Mech looks like a dieselpunk exoskeleton maybe 5-6m tall, all the others look like they are giant walking fortresses 20 mt tall. I like the detail on the Rusviet mech to be honest but I still find it a bit…
I was slated to teach Predictive Analytics 2 as part of the analytics masters degree here in OU. I have been developing the course content slowly the past few months. Now, with the move to Denmark coming up this summer, I will not get to use this content in the class room. I figured I…
A brief aside (I am in crunch mode and can’t write more). Getting into nls (very exciting) these days and learning quite a bit about it. One issue with fitting these models is the difficulty of finding appropriate starting values. When you are trying to fit one of these models finding starting values is not…
I have to admit, a major reason I choose HTC Vive when I bought it was that it supported Linux. Unfortunately, there were few VR games that worked in Linux and the performance of those that worked in Linux left a lot to be desired. After a few aborted attempts at Talos Principle and Serious…
Finally finished painting Zombicide Black Plague minis.
When I joined OU, there were many things that excited me about the university: the location, the culture, colleagues… I must admit research was not one of the reasons I joined OU. Over the years however I came to realize how mistaken I was as OU provides a fertile ground for my kind of research….
I discuss my experience in setting up a ceiling based retractable cable management system for HTC Vive.
Through some mishaps in Vive repair process, I found myself as the proud owner of a third light house. The thing has been lying around gathering dust since it arrived. This weekend, I set out to put it to use. I established two rooms with separate tracking through three lighthouses. The setup could not have…
Today was the first time I joined the board game group at the library! Met real nice people and had lots of fun playing Endeavor together.
This semester I will be serving in OU COB Research Colloquium. We organize research presentations in college of business. As part of my duties I was tasked with creating posters. I considered my options and decided that creating new posters every other week was too much work. So I created a tex file that grabs…
Tonight I finally finished Last Night on Earth miniatures. I painted the heroes a while back. For a while I was pretty satisfied with the effort. Then I saw Sorastro’s Zombicide painting guide for zombies… Having painted the zombies I thought I was done, but then I saw Consadine’s basic basing guide. Well finally tonight…
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