8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC #5

[MrsScooby]

Any one who has ever been in Chat with me at the same time knows the above means I am doomed.

I actually have to write quite a bit at work and I'm still a lousy typist I chose band over typing in high school

Okay......I am jealous but all of you have a great time!!!

Thanks !! We'll take pics

Yes, we need strong spectators to rescue us when we fall down and can't get up!

This is exactly how I got dragged into floor hockey in college

I just got off of the phone with Disney Weddings...I have been informed that my vow renewal is the 18th (which is okay) but..at 5:30 p.m.! I have early seating. I am not going to Palo that night as we have a DD11 and I would like to celebrate with my family and DD. I told her that we have early seating...she said that there is only a 4:00 p.m. and a 5:30 (takes about an hour)..I said I would like the 4:00 p.m. She informed me that it was taken. I asked what I could do..she said nothing! I asked if I could speak to someone..she said it was decided at DCL..I said I would call them..she said that it wouldn't change anything. She will req. a 4:00 for me but I won't know until the cruise

I called DCL ..they said the time is decided by Disney Weddings! and that if I missed dinner..I could eat at the buffet! Just picture me..wedding dress..DH tuxedo..and daughter all dressed up in line at the buffet...

Anyways..I know..I should be happy I am on the cruise but with what the vow renewal is costing us..I would have liked to celebrate with my family at dinner and not in the buffet line.

thanks for letting me vent!

Desiree

Desiree, take the time they give you now. I'm betting the onboard CMs will be able to accomodate you

Our new puppy!

Ohhhhh! Too cute

I thought we could meet in the cafeteria.
I PM'd my cell phone number to Laurie. I'll send it to you & Mike too. (just need to make sure I charge it )

Oh yeah, charging the cell phone

Thanks for the reminder

 

[danfromca]

Hey, I am working on the last bug in a program right now. It is the 17th last bug I have been working on. Today.

Yep. That's the problem with bugs. Just when you think you've killed off the last of them, you discover they've been hiding in a corner somewhere breeding.

 

[tom31b]

You could just pay me!

If I only had the $$$ for the bills.....

 

[tom31b]

Yep. That's the problem with bugs. Just when you think you've killed off the last of them, you discover they've been hiding in a corner somewhere breeding.

bugs?

 

[captaincrash]

Troublemaker

Who....?

ME?

At least I'm an INNOCENT Troublemaker...​

 

[MrsScooby]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEVIN

 

[captaincrash]

bugs?

 

[tom31b]

 

[captaincrash]

If I only had the $$$ for the bills.....

On a simplistic level, Tom... here's some moola for your bills...

... on another deeper level - can you find WHAT is different in ONE panel of this image sequence?

In reference to the image blinking above and at bottom (find the annomaly in the blinking sequence of 10 images)...​

Change Blindness
Recent research in visualization has explored ways to apply rules of perception to produce images that are visually salient [Ware 2000]. This work is based in large part on psychophysical studies of the low-level human visual system. One of the most important lessons of the past twenty-five years is that human vision does not resemble the relatively faithful and largely passive process of modern photography [Pomerantz & Pristach 89, Treisman 85, Treisman & Gormican, Wolfe 94, Wolfe et al. 2000]. The goal of human vision is not to create a replica or image of the seen world in our heads. A much better metaphor for vision is that of a dynamic and ongoing construction project, where the products being built are short-lived models of the external world that are specifically designed for the current visually guided tasks of the viewer [Egeth & Yantis 97, Mack & Rock 98, Rensink 2000, Simons 2000]. There does not appear to be any general purpose vision. What we "see" when confronted with a new scene depends as much on our goals and expectations as it does on the array of light that enters our eyes.

These new findings differ from one of the initial ideas of preattentive processing, that only certain features in an image are recognized without the need for focused attention, and that other features cannot be detected, even when viewers actively search for these exact features. More recent work in preattentive vision has presented evidence to suggest that this strict dichotomy does not hold. Instead, "visible" or "not visible" represent two ends of a continuous spectrum. Issues like the difference between a target's visual features and its neighbours' features, what a viewer is searching for, and how the image is presented can all have an effect on search performance. For example, Wolfe's guided search theory assumes both bottom-up (i.e., preattentive) and top-down (i.e., attention-based) activation of features in an image [Wolfe & Cave 89, Wolfe et al. 89, Wolfe 94]. Other researchers like Treisman have also studied the dual effects of preattentive and attention-driven demands on what the visual system sees [Treisman 91, Treisman & Souther 86]. Wolfe's discussion of postattentive vision also points to the fact that details of an image cannot be remembered across separate scenes except in areas where viewers have focused their attention [Wolfe et al. 2000].

New research in psychophysics has shown that an interruption in what is being seen (e.g., a blink, an eye saccade, or a blank screen) renders us "blind" to significant changes that occur in the scene during the interruption. This change blindness phenomena can be illustrated using a task similar to a game that has amused children reading the comic strips for many years [Mack & Rock 98, Rensink 2000, Simons 2000]. Fig. 11 contains ten Quicktime movies that loop over and over; each movie is made up of two separate images with a short blank interval separating them. A significant change occurs between the two images. Run the movies and try to locate the change. Many viewers have a difficult time seeing any difference and often have to be coached to look carefully to find it. Once they discover it, they realize that the difference was not a subtle one. Change blindness is not a failure to see because of limited visual acuity; rather, it is a failure based on inappropriate attentional guidance. Some parts of the eye and the brain are clearly responding differently to the two pictures. Yet, this does not become part of our visual experience until attention is focused directly on the objects that vary.

The presence of change blindness in our visual system has important implications for visualization. The images we produce are normally novel for our viewers, so prior expectations cannot be used to guide their analyses. Instead, we strive to direct the eye, and therefore the mind, to areas of interest or importance within a visualization. This ability forms the first step towards enabling a viewer to abtract details that will persist over subsequent images.

Dan Simons offers a wonderful overview of change blindness in his introduction to the Visual Cognition special issue on change blindness and visual memory [Simons 2000]. We provide a brief summary of his list of possible explanations for why change blindness occurs in our visual system. Interestingly, none of these explanations by themselves can account for all of the change blindness effects that have been identified. This suggests that some combination of these ideas (or some completely different hypothesis) is needed to properly model this phenomena.

 

[buckifan]

Moving along..we are checking out photogs and djs....i am a really good photographer and I expect the same for the person shooting our memories!!

Chrissie

Chrissie.......a good photographer is so important! I love the artistic shots taken at my sister in law and brother's wedding. Check out their video:

http://www.bankspix.com/Jamie and Joe Wed.html

 

[tom31b]

On a simplistic level, Tom... here's some moola for your bills...

... on another deeper level - can you find WHAT is different in ONE panel of this image sequence?

The dark background round the dead guy?

 

[buckifan]

Our new puppy!

Ahhhhhh! So cute, Erin!

 

[captaincrash]

The dark background round the dead guy?

Yeah... what about the street scene I just added?

 

[wheelerkidz3]

Yeah... what about the street scene I just added?

i figured out the money one...but my eyes are hurting now!!! i can't look at them anymore!

 

[captaincrash]

i figured out the money one...but my eyes are hurting now!!! i can't look at them anymore!

Sorry....

... i wuz looking for livin' up to my label of the day with Tom31... troublemaker... and as such I picked an animated "curve ball" of sorts fer chuckles.

At any rate, I was wondering if anyone wants a used Neptune washing machine? My spouse just replaced ours with one of those fancy LG steam models. Out neptune is not spinning or draining - but tomorrow I'm gonna try and fix it. One of the staffers my spouse ran across was an ex-repair person ... and they were fairly certainof what the problem was - a clogged water pump line that represents an easy fix. Alas, even with this knowledge for an easy fix - she learned this info AFTER she had ordered the LG... and she has been coveting a new washer for some time now. As shes' been talking about it - but only recently had an excuse to get the new washer.

SO - if anyone is interested - it's FREE... only you have to sort of pick it up from Westlake Village. I kno... like, right... you'll be right over in a couple days to pick up.

Oh yeah... the Neptune is 11 years old too.. something to consider. Seriously, Alicia had in mind to donate it or give it away ... figuring on it being worth something to somebody. I think it was near $1 grand when she bought it 11 years ago.

 

[micmse2003]

Hey, I am working on the last bug in a program right now. It is the 17th last bug I have been working on. Today.

Are you also working on the DCL web site as a side job????

 

[cruisin'Mike]

Celestine....we are linked with my parents as well, but DCL keeps telling me there is no guarantee we will have cabins near each other. Now, it won't be the end of the world if we are not right by each other, but I'm hoping they will at least put us on the same deck.

I have my cat 11 assigned but Linda's Cat 6 is still GTY. (I know...I check at least once a day!) Hopefully we'll be near each other.

Deanna, I received two responses from them:

First one:



Second one:



Guess she is busy doing the "cut & paste" thing...

Too funny!

I just got off of the phone with Disney Weddings...I have been informed that my vow renewal is the 18th (which is okay) but..at 5:30 p.m.! I have early seating. I am not going to Palo that night as we have a DD11 and I would like to celebrate with my family and DD. I told her that we have early seating...she said that there is only a 4:00 p.m. and a 5:30 (takes about an hour)..I said I would like the 4:00 p.m. She informed me that it was taken. I asked what I could do..she said nothing! I asked if I could speak to someone..she said it was decided at DCL..I said I would call them..she said that it wouldn't change anything. She will req. a 4:00 for me but I won't know until the cruise

I called DCL ..they said the time is decided by Disney Weddings! and that if I missed dinner..I could eat at the buffet! Just picture me..wedding dress..DH tuxedo..and daughter all dressed up in line at the buffet...

Anyways..I know..I should be happy I am on the cruise but with what the vow renewal is costing us..I would have liked to celebrate with my family at dinner and not in the buffet line.

thanks for letting me vent!

Desiree

I hope it all works out OK for you. So far I've been less than impressed with Disney Weddings.

My turn for DCL email......

I sent them a email ??? some of the entertainment. We saw Taylor Mason on our last cruise (comedien, puppeteer, ventriloquist guy) The kids LOVED his show. They are asking me if they get to see Paco the pig again on this cruise, so I figured let me ask (I guess I should have known better) Here is my response:



4/23/08 Dear Maureen, Thank you for choosing another Disney Cruise Line Vacation! I'm so happy to hear that Ryan and Devin had such a great time on their last cruise. At this time we are still finalizing all the entertainment offerings forour Eastbound Panama Canal Cruise in August. All I am going to say is that lots of new and fun options are being planned! Since these offerings can change at any time, please check your PersonalNavigator once onboard for the daily entertainment schedules. I hope this information has been helpful. If you require further assistance in planning your visit, please feel free to contact us. We look forward to welcoming your family aboard the Disney Magic! AngelaReservations DepartmentDisney Cruise Vacations


At least Angela personalized her response bu adding my kids names (I did not provide, just my ressie#) so at least she took the time to look up the information.

Basically I read.....my translation of response............you will know the entertainment schedule when you read your navigator and not a second before so dont bother asking.

At least Angela is hoping that this information has been helpful.

 

[micmse2003]

Yeah... what about the street scene I just added?

Okay I give up!!!!!!

 

[captaincrash]

Here are a few pictures from today. I volunteered to host a Strawberry Pie making demo for the pre-school kids in Kaleas' class. This week was a taste perception themed week ... so the strawberry thing was good - especially since Alicia had picked up a flat of strawberries from central coast and the season is just starting up.

I made sure every child in the class got to do something - from pouring the bananna filling mix - to stirring the mix and milk - pouring the filling into the pie pans - scooping strawberries - pouring the glaze - then spraying the whipped cream on top! It was truly great fun hosting this for the kids... and afterwards, her teacher thanked me for coming in while saying I was one of a few parents consistently volunteer special diversions in the classroom - and it was appreciated. Besides - before our teacher came in she said she started the day in a "funk" and my activity brought her spirits up!

The finished pies had a rough appearance to them since they were somewhat made by the hands of the kids - but they sure tasted wonderful!

The owner of the school came by and in a friendly tone asked what the occassion was that I brought in the special activity - and I replied there was NO special reason - to which she replied "those were the BEST types of occassions"! < wink >

 

[cruisin'Mike]

Okay I give up!!!!!!

Highlight here if you want to know.
The rear window of the car along the right side of the picture switches from light to dark.

It took me a while to notice it.