http://bohnsack.com A weblog and other stuff Sat, 24 May 2008 14:11:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Elisa and I have a Hoya carnosa that started to bloom for the first time this week. I'm very excited about it: This plant is the most common Hoya species and a very popular house plant, so you wouldn't think that yet another example of it blooming would be ... http://bohnsack.com/2008/04/12/blooming-hoya-carnosa/ In an effort to communicate a few ideas with someone I am collaborating with, I created a simple self-contained example HTML document to illustrate concepts related to read/write, read-only, and disabled text boxes. The document also demonstrates Javascript control of these properties and a disabled text box that's ... http://bohnsack.com/2008/02/16/readwrite-read-only-and-disabled-text-boxes/ I got back from a two week business trip to southern India last weekend. It was a very interesting experience. Many photos are available here. A few select ones are shown below: General People, Places, and Things of India ... http://bohnsack.com/2008/01/31/trip-to-india/ This year, Elisa and I went into the wilderness with a National Forest Christmas Tree Permit to cut down a tree. We were assisted by Elisa's sister, her husband, and Elisa's parents. We went to the Cibola National Forest, near Magdalena, New Mexico, where we could see the ... http://bohnsack.com/2007/12/22/griswold-family-christmas-tree/ When processing JPEG images taken with a digital camera, you often want rotate the images that were taken in portrait orientation, so that they appear "right side up" on your computer monitor. For example, This is easy enough in a many GUI image manipulation packages, but it tends to ... http://bohnsack.com/2007/12/22/command-line-lossless-jpeg-rotation/ I got an A in my Neural Networks class, keeping my cumulative GPA at 4.04: Here's a screen shot of me working on the final project: I enjoyed the class's back propagation learning assignment. My solution was implemented with Ruby, which resulted in a very elegant implementation (IMHO). http://bohnsack.com/2007/12/16/semester-wrapup/ More photos. http://bohnsack.com/2007/11/23/thanksgiving-2007/ This morning I had need for an in-browser HTML validation tool. I quickly found the Firefox HTML Validator Extension and it's even more than hoped for. It is an awesome tool! If you're doing web development and care about creating standards compliant HTML, you need this ... http://bohnsack.com/2007/11/12/awesome-html-validator-extension-for-firefox/ As I mentioned in Fun with Gnuplot, you can use Gnuplot's epslatex terminal to create really nice vector graphics having fonts that exactly match your LaTeX documents. This post describes the general process I follow to accomplish this. There are quite a few steps involved, but I think ... http://bohnsack.com/2007/11/11/using-gnuplots-epslatex-terminal-to-create-pdf-plots-for-latex-documents/ I left Sandia and CDS last month after almost five years of service to take a new position. For two weeks now, I've been serving as Vice President of Development and Implementation for Pay Lynxs, Inc. - a software startup in headquartered in Albuquerque, with an exciting product and business ... http://bohnsack.com/2007/11/10/employment-update/ I've created a few plots with Gnuplot this semester that I'm fairly proud of. Three examples are shown below. The inline thumbnails are screen shots of PDF plots. If you click on the image, you'll be taken to the PDF file in all its vector glory. The mathpazo (Palatino) ... http://bohnsack.com/2007/11/08/fun-with-gnuplot/ I made another attempt at acquiring source images for my Thesis on Friday. The images below were taken on top of the UNM bookstore looking out at the new Architecture building, the Frontier restaurant, and Central Avenue. Before: 2,336 × 3,504 pixel ... http://bohnsack.com/2007/09/30/on-top-of-the-unm-bookstore/ Summary The digital panoramic photo mosaic process involves taking multiple overlapping source photographs of a scene from slightly different vantage points and then digitally "stitching" these images together to form a single composite image that appears as if is was taken from a higher resolution and a possibly wider angle camera. An ... http://bohnsack.com/2007/09/16/ms-thesis-proposal-parallel-panoramic-photo-mosaics/ My brother Craig Bohnsack was married on September 1st 2007 to Kayla Cichon. Naturally, I took a lot of photos. More than 600 are here. Here's what they looked like: The wedding took place in Sauk Center, Minnesota which is the boyhood home of Sinclair Lewis and the inspiration for ... http://bohnsack.com/2007/09/15/craig-and-kaylas-wedding/ This post is to make commenting about broken bone recovery easier, as the old posts, especially Broken Ankle Progress, Broken Ankle Progress (part II), and Broken Ankle Progress (part III) have so many comments, that navigation has become difficult. So... new comments can be attached to this post, while you can ... http://bohnsack.com/2007/09/06/broken-ankle-progress-part-iv/ Fall 2007 semester classes started for me on Tuesday. My Grad School Curriculum page has been updated to show: I'm taking ECE 547 (Neural Networks) with Thomas Caudell this semester I'm taking 3 credits of ECE 599 (MS Thesis) with Greg Heileman this semester I'm finishing my thesis next semester (Spring 2008) with three ... http://bohnsack.com/2007/08/23/grad-school-curriculum-update/ I came across a fantastic writeup this morning called The Little JavaScripter. Through a wonderful display of Turing Equivalence, it reimplements The Little Schemer, which teaches recursive thinking via Scheme, in Javascript. Really, really cool. I'm increasingly interested in languages and the transformations through which they can be made to solve ... http://bohnsack.com/2007/08/22/the-little-schemer-in-javascript/ Around three months ago, Elisa and I sold one of our cars, and I began bicycling to work every day. This has now become a very enjoyable habit that will be very hard to break. I plan on continuing year-round. Luckily, the winters are fairly mild in ... http://bohnsack.com/2007/08/20/bicycling-to-work-by-default/ I've been watching the Blu-ray vs HD DVD high-definition video format war for what seems like years now. As of the middle of last month, I'm done waiting, an have placed my bet on Blu-ray, purchasing a Sony BDP-S300. Costco has them for $469.99: Overall, I'm very pleased. The ... http://bohnsack.com/2007/08/18/blu-ray-early-adopters/ Elisa and I have executed quite a few fun activities recently. Elisa has written about them on her blog, so I'll just refer you there for more detail. Specific entries include: Montana Vacation Picture Essay, Montana sings to me sweetly, Cumbres & Toltec Railroad, Ojo Caliente Spa and Resort, and ... http://bohnsack.com/2007/08/16/various-recent-activities/