Twixtor R 4 Kidz

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Two quick clips of playing around with a final cup/after effects plugin that uses a rather rad algorithm to make up frames allowing you to slow down clips to a disgustingly high level allowing me all the functionality of a phantom/red camera without the $50k price tag.

Why am I explaining this to you? Based on my recent viewing of an unnamed red bull athlete’s self edit (which was quite good), this effect is poised to blow up and soon every video I watch on the web will undoubtably be 800% longer to unnecessary slowdown.

Hence why I am posting this now. E-proof I was in on it at the ground floor.

I’ve made soldering-induced bronchitis look good in cotton since 2011

Nik “real Math starts at 5000-level classes and above” Aksamit

Just remember when you are using you are setting your camera’s aperture and slowing down video footage of your fixie bike’s spokes to a nausea-inducing amount that
being a nerd is not:
-anything to do with an SLR camera
-using the gaussian blur in photoshop
-putting a custom skin or boot-rom on your android phone
-using the phrase ‘open-source’, while not actually knowing what it means
-using ubuntu
-knowing how to fix your aunt’s email client
-html or javascript
-or whatever else you think is so rad and 1337 that you feel entitled to wear oversized dorky glasses

being a nerd is (and will always be):
-writing undocumented nested recursive functions in assembly code

Liked it better when being geek was not something people claimed,
Jake

Vishnu’s Irish Mud Pirate

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I would like to tell you that I have been skiing non-stop, enjoying the sun, being extremely healthy and playing basketball in the rain without getting wet, but I cannot lie to you, my audience of n, where n is the number of insomniac, schizophrenic personalities I have whose destiny it is to roam the vast unknown plane of the internet at night…

And with that dark turn, I take a somewhat lighter one. The JCDC has been on an extended nerd hold for a week or so now. With yet another semester ending and my desire to graduate before the year 2050, I have been planning out final semesters and trying to find work experience that will make me unimaginably rich with minimal effort, like double stock bond mergers and fund management embezzling.

Also, I may be trying to create a giant game of simon says with red bull cans and cutting through the heater/AC control PCB on my car, making driving into the cold, harsh Utah spring infinitely less enticing.

So in lieu of a skiing video, here are some over saturated pictures from a climbing trip into City Creek Canyon I took with Nik, the Axematic Coffee World President.

20m north of Salt Lake, 20m south of Dublin. YARR!!! Ireland.

Math major assisted erosion.

Preview of my 2012 big mountain sandal pro model, the German Tourist.

The end.

Oh? Where are the climbing pictures you ask? Well, like all real climbers we chose to leave the guidebook in the car and found a random crack Nik was prepared to pioneer by running out the middle section 30′ until his inspection of the belay station tore out 90% of the murock (that is the words mud and rock shortified, the abbreviation helps me keep this post shorter by combining the two words into one, eliminating a character and a space and allowing the user to absorb the same amount of information in a smaller area. Have I always been this efficient and kind? Yes. I have. I just wish I could teach it to you, the loyal and brilliant readers of h-t-t-p-shift-colon-slash-slash-double u-double u-double u-dot-jake-cast-dot-com, unless you came to the website by accident, in which case you are scum of the earth and a plague on all things that are good, righteous and rad).

After the murock epidemic we decided to leave until Vishnu’s Irish Mud Pirate Crack becomes dry and brittle making hex nut placement 30% more awesomr.

So we hiked out, walking through some backyards and jumping on some stretchy fabric while wearing our unused climbing harnesses.

The best part of climbing? Hidden trampolines in rich neighborhoods.

Until next time…unless you find yourself in the Cade lab today or in the week long Fast and the Furious 5 line I will be starting at the megaplex tonight.

Living life one quarter of a mile at a time,
Jake

January 124th, 2011

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Utah Seasons.
Winter: October 1st -> March 22nd
Spring: March 23rd
Winter: March 24th -> ???

April driving in Salt Lake City

Me jumping over trees and stuff in a hoodie, courtesy of Daryn Edmunds & Unofficial Networks (http://vimeo.com/22063241 @ 2m30s)

Moments before a prerelease binding and getting stuck.

Old photo of the axe-caster that I just found on my phone.

Jake

Space Oddity

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I just like the part where the snow hits me in the face. And ya. I did title the post that without using the David Bowie song. It’s my website and I’ll do what I want.

I call this variation on a fun tower 3 air, the Unofficial JakeCast Air. You can see a previous Unofficial JakeCast bombhole that I managed to land in due to my helmet camera deciding the world was not ready for the radness that was my first send of this thing.

Jawaz.

Hanging Bowl, the Tram Show way.

Death Chute, the Nik Axe-Attack way.

DON’T SHIFTY THE TREE. tree wins everytime.

Repeats before sweeps.

The secret to removing skiing sweat smell is Dove…blood*
Jake

*Thanks Tina Fey for writing this for my site. That was cool of you.

Self-Promoted Podcast Proclamations

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Last week the earth was shaken to its core by a massive magnitude mishap that was followed shortly thereafter by a tsunami of sadness…

…I am of course talking about the departure of Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel & Paul Miller from Engadget team and the disbanding of one of the greatest podcasts known to man. A show that has gotten me through many programming binges and bouts of lab-induced insanity.

In their honor, I followed in proper jcdc fashion with this pre-airtime proclamation on top of a odd variation of Snowbird’s Death Chute that I am dubbing, the EGP Air.

…and some other stuff

Nik goes upside down and cuckoo on his, ‘gad two, double as a single’

Escaping my filming post.

Kyle with a very standard 3 off Silver Fox’s standard air.

Funzoville Air. Awesome as long as you avoid the bushes and rocks.

Also. Sorry to anyone that may have been offended by my blunt intro. Feel free to donate to the relief effort in my name. Japan is rad. Kenjiro lives there and they make a lot of cool tech stuff, despite the fact Subaru Factory in Gunma is refusing to send me a wiring diagram in English of their kookie climate controls.

Now I gotta learn to solder in Japanese…
Jake