Nerdtastic

I am officially a total dork. (As though this weren't already old news)

I don't want to carry around a 3 ring binder to shove class notes into but I was getting a big pile of them for this quarter, so I cam up with a better (read, more horrible) solution.

Scan page -> OCR with images -> PDF output.

Took a couple of hours of playing with it to get the text readable after the OCR was done with it. Schools seem to specialize in bad copiers.

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but most of it is considerable readable.


One of my instructors was generous enough to print all of his class notes in a nice clean 14pt arial font. Those scan well. Some of the others I had to save just as compressed images, but hey. Now rather than stacks of messy papers, I have tidy multi-page PDFs that fit on my USB thumb drive and I've propagated copies for myself to a couple of places so I'll be able to find the notes much easier than if they were on paper.

Escape to San Francisco

Tomorrow morning I'm going to head up to SF and work for the morning. In the afternoon I'm going to take off for a doctor's appointment.

Stacey is going to come up and meet me there and we're going to go to this exhibit at the SF MoMA: http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_media/2006/8bit.html

After that, I'm thinking about going to the Castro, finding a hair stylist and saying, "I want hair that pings gaydar so hard people flying over in passenger jets suddenly shout out, 'OH MY GOD! THERE'S A DYKE DOWN THERE!' I want a gay Chernobyl on my head!"

Anyone wanna come?