I discovered an amazing “bug” in excel tonight. I needed to create a copy of part of a spreadsheet into a new sheet. See if you can spot the difference between the original on the left and the new spreadsheet on the right:
You’ll notice that the dates are off by exactly 4 years and 1 day after a simple cut-and-paste into a fresh spreadsheet. It took a little while to figure out why this was happening.
Every once in a while, emails get stuck in my webserver’s mail queue behind a backlog of spam. Here are a few useful commands from this article to push the legit mails that are hanging out in /var/spool/mqueue/:
About 10 years ago we were curious to see how our SGI’s stacked up against other processors in terms of rendering power. We chose a “highly complicated” scene to render with PovRay since it was available for many systems and collected the results.
We just recently re-ran the benchmark on a modern computer and you’ll notice the update at the top of the table. (more…)
The NY Times prepared an interesting graph showing movie grosses for the last 10+ years. Interesting to see the shapes of gross earnings over time.
ABC News visited Sony Imageworks to confirm that actors really are important for mocap movies. View their 4 minute piece on the subject.
For some reason, Quicktime will choose the lowest quality stream when viewing video (by default.) This is particularly noticeable when you are watching DV footage since DV encoded avi's have…
Congratulations to our two Annie award winners for Surf's Up. Deborah Carlson won the category of "Best Individual Achievement in Animated Effects" for her wave work and John Clark took…
Tomorrow, Saturday, February 9 from 2-5pm, the Visual Effects Society will offer a sneak peek at some of this year's nominated work. I'll be involved in the Surf's Up presentation.…