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Occupational Therapy :: Throwback technology

Thursday, 7. May 2009, 05:15:45

I'm installing a couple of PS-2 hand scanners on an old Pentium I PC. This is an artistic project to scan a human body using those scanners. To make it through, we need a Win98 box, mostly because of the need of MS-DOS and Photoshop in the same computer.

The computer in internet enabled, so the files can be easly moved through a network and I installed Opera, which has a problem with an old .dll file called msimg32, but overall it works well... A little bit slow because of the 32 MB in RAM but well enough.

It's always interesting to get old computers working, this almost feels like the time I fixed a 286 PC, about 7 years ago!

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Occupational Therapy :: LP to MP3-CD

Friday, 20. March 2009, 20:46:29

My dad's on a project of creating a museum about the Unions and Labor Fight here in MX City, one of the main aspects of achieving this is to find a suitable place to put it, it's not an option to build a new venue, so it'll have to be an existing one.

During his expeditions to find the venue, he visited "La Casa del Obrero Mundial" where he got on lend an LP containing the recorded history of the place. My job is, as you can imagine, to put this record on a CD. I have the technology, but it implied a lot of moving.

For that I used my old HP computer, which has all the audio and microphone jacks needed to plug an old fashion LP turntable, I just downloaded the always trustworthy Audacity and put the whole thing together in the living room, where the turn table is.

Right now, the LP is playing while Audacity records. Please be patient. It's in real time. Same thing happens with mixtapes, right? :wink:

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Occupational Therapy :: The photo album

Wednesday, 28. January 2009, 21:54:54

I was searching for a job when I remembered that I needed a picture of myself for certain application. I tried looking among the pics I have and found a lot of pictures of people I have met in the past and still know right now (practical use of the present perfect tense).

Those pictures have been kept there for about 10 years and I decided that it was time to make something with them. I took out a photo album that I'm using to put all the non-digital pictures I have found around the house. Among them, pictures of my parents and family.

It was sooo nice to look at that pictures again and they reminded me that there are some friends whose photos I still don't have (they're receiving a private message).

I enjoyed my photo album afternoon and here's a pic of the page where some of my friends share a space.

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Occupational Therapy :: Reciclando latas

Thursday, 18. December 2008, 22:12:42

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Occupational Therapy :: Global Warming

Sunday, 30. November 2008, 19:14:25

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I'm learning how to use Keynote and I made a small presentation about global warming for my students, let me share it with you. And of course, if you have any ideas on how to improve it, please let me know :smile:





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Occupational Therapy :: Subnetting

Wednesday, 26. November 2008, 02:01:16

Once upon a time, I was supposed to learn how to subnet but I really was too lazy and downloaded a calculator to do that, but apparently, I never learned how to use it cuz I was always wrong. A few weeks ago, I found an IP Addressing and Subnetting Workbook and downloaded it.

I printed for free at work using recycled paper, bound it and put it away P:

I started solving it when I had nothing to do at school and I learned a couple of things about myself: I'm too lazy but when I'm not being lazy I can learn things by myself. Really, just by reading the simple explanations and by solving the excercies, I'm relearning what I should probably already know by now! Now the challenge is to find out why didn't my calculator work or if I was misinterpreting the results.

Speaking of calculators, today I took an UDG exam and for the first time in ages I took out my HP calculator. I really find Polish notation more useful, but I'll talk about that in another post.

Today, it has been one of those days when I just trip on myself, for some reason I felt down all day and being in the traffic after seeng the doctor really pissed me off. I don't understand how is it possible that even with the new traffic police, my average speed is about 3/4 block per hour :angry:

I think I need to find something else to do because right now I'm not feeling happy and apparently, but at least my surgery wound is progressing nicely and I'm off of the antibiotics and now I just need to take anti-inflamatories, like in the good old football days.

Speaking of football, I got a place where to see the game (too bad Manato won't be joining us) and I got a pretty interesting bet going on on this "must win" game, more about that on Thursday.

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Occupational Therapy :: making movies

Sunday, 27. July 2008, 09:49:35

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I went over to Manato's to get the pictures from the trip, you'll be able to see most of them at his and Federico's blog when they upload them. Among the pictures were some videos shot by his camera and I couldn't resist to try to make a movie using them.

So, when I got home, I opened iMovie and started to learn how to use it (I was going to, anyway) and I realized that first I had to convert every video to m4v using iSquint, otherwise iMovie won't import them. So after several minutes of choosing a song, adding video and photos and finally editing Eric's butt flashing, I finally got a nice video but couldn't stop there: I also made a "music" video for the IPN anthem using footage I had on my cellphone (so the video is rather low quality).

The best part, is that iMovie allows you to upload directly to YouTube, so now you can see both videos there, just log on to my YouTube site and enjoy my having nothing to do while I learn that in Campeche there's no Leon beer and I'm not at the party I was invited to.

I think I'll buy myself a video camera with my next paycheck. Gosh! Don't you love your Mac?

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Occupational Therapy :: EVP recording

Friday, 6. June 2008, 15:19:22

Electronic voice phenomena (EVP) are sections of static noise on the radio or electronic recording media that are interpreted by paranormal investigators as voices speaking words usually attributed to ghosts or spirits. Recording EVP has become a technique of those who attempt to contact the souls of dead loved ones or during ghost hunting activities.


Last night Federico, Jefe Panda and I decided to give it a shot at EVP recording, given the fact that legends of a girl haunting V2 exist. We set up Audacity on the 13th computer of the lab, jacked in my USB Samson microphone and let it record for 9 straight hours.

Unfortunately, nothing happened. After 9 hours, nothing appeared on the recording, except for the sounds of some airplanes.

V2 is surrounded by graveyards and probably it was a graveyard itself before becoming a school, there have also been riots where people has been injured and killed, thus creating legends of hauntings which this morning are finally proven untrue.

I really wanted to believe, though.

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Occupational Therapy :: ThinkJot

Thursday, 29. May 2008, 21:24:49

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Almost all blogging software depends on PHP and a database to work. At school, my server is Windows based and has little resources, installing a DB engine is not an option. I wanted an easy and fast option to publish info onto the labs intranet, that is a blog.

I downloaded and installed TJ on IIS and it really gave me a hard time! There were some tings that needed correction and some others had to be installed o the server first (like the .net framework, but I foreseen that and installed it first), the documentation wasn't clear enough on this, it also didn't tell me that I had to create a virtual directory, but after playing with IIS for a little while I finally got to publish on the root. So, after going to breakfast and a couple of hours later, I finally got it up and running.

ThinkJot is an asp.net based blog that doesn't use a database, perfect for my lab, not so much for a website.

Tomorrow's tasks are to customize it, take a screenshot for this post and start publishing stuff on the intranet (and make an easy pathway to the online exams we're planning). I expect this to be a very useful add to the lab and of course, it's open source, another pennyless tool to help me take over the IPN system!

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Occupational Therapy :: Voice over

Monday, 11. February 2008, 08:42:43

I submitted my Spanish voice over for the Opera Mini video. I used the super Samson mic and GarageBand to do it and I think it went ok. Maybe someone else will win to be featured but I just enjoyed participating (as always) and winning a t-shirt (as always) for the submission.

I think that I'd love to work at Opera because every day I'd get to wear an Opera/Mac/Geek t-shirt everyday and will get a b33r every Friday. At IPN I get to use my coat, though.

Anyways, It's already submitted and I'm in the hope of hearing my voice on the video ^.^

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