Jodjuya Yulm

End of semester project presentation abstract

Reading the settings on a DSLR camera can be difficult due to the small size of the display screen on the camera and inside its viewfinder.

This project will develop an interface to DSLR cameras which will assist vision-impaired photographers to operate the camera.
Using an Arduino microcontroller as a go-between, the camera will pass the values of its current settings to an Android smartphone which will then display them on its own, much larger screen, and (as a secondary project goal) read them aloud with text-to-speech software.

Currently, the Arduino-to-Android via bluetooth connection is implemented. Future work includes the camera-to-Arduino connection, and the data processing and display that will be done by the smartphone.

Woke up, fell out of bed,
Dragged a comb across my head.
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup,
And looking up I noticed I was late.

Always go for the decision that makes a better story.

Feminists can claim to be about equality between women and men until they are blue in the face. It doesn’t make their claim true. Numerous laws that grant women special rights, that strip away the males right to due process, domestic violence enforcement which jails men even when the women are the perpetrators, grossly unbalanced child custody rates, greater education assistance for women, and perhaps most importantly the awkward silence of the alleged ‘majority’ of feminists in shouting down these travesties of justice (but yet vocal enough to continue quoting falsified and discredited pro-feminist statistics regarding rape an DV) all testify to feminism having nothing to do with equality.

If they really wanted equality, they would be egalitarians. The very name, feminism, explains that that they are only really concerned with women’s issues, not equality.

— Brutal_Antipathy

The problem I have with most ideological movements is their disconnection from reality.

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Ivory Tower: “We are [A], we’re all about [X], not [Y]. [Y] is evil.”

Real World: *huge amount of people doing [Y] in the name of [A]*

IT: “Ah, but those aren’t _REAL_ [A] people. [A] is about [X]! *smug*”

RW: “No, but seriously, just look at all the [A] people doing [Y]”

IT: “lalalala, can’t hear you. [A] is all about [X], regardless of what is actually happening in reality. If you disagree then you’re a racist/sexist/homophobic asshole who is without compassion or empathy or kindness or a soul or whatever.”

RW: “but…”

IT: “you’re wrong because I’m right because you are ignorant, therefore shut up.”

See:
feminism/misandry
Islam/terrorism
christianity/being a huge douchebag

I walk the empty path.
Without passion, drifting as a no-thing.

I exist without being alive. This is not bad nor good, but just is.

Waiting until I don’t need to wait.

Life is about learning from your mistakes, about listening to the little
voice in the back of your head that is telling you that it’s a bad idea.

Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.