Surgery Update

It has been a while since I did an update on my surgery, so I though it was about time.

I am back to work, and finally making money again, which is great. The drive to work though is not so great. The problem is that my chest is really sore, and I don’t think driving in Los Angeles rush hour traffic helps much. Neither does doing household things like, like mowing the lawn, or cleaning or carrying laundry even. I am just sore.

And the scar is sore too. Some times it itches, but mostly it is sore, and doesn’t like having a shirt on it.
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And as you can see it is still red as can be. I have been alternating with ScarAway and Wheat Germ which my chiropractor got me to use, but overall the scar is still pretty inflamed.

And it seems the whole having been put under thing has taken it’s tole. My editing, graphics and computer skills are fine, but my memory is shot. I have to write everything down or it will be forgotten. And if I think of something, I had better do it then or I won’t remember, and I have NEVER had that problem before. They say it could take a year for that to clear up, but I hope it is a lot faster than that!

Am exercising, though need to do more, but I get up at 4:30 AM so I can do the treadmill for 30 minutes before work. I was trying to do some kettle bell for a while, but not now with my chest so sore. And while I am still doing pretty low salt, mostly under 2000 mg (except once a month with a reuben) and still doing my soy sauce substitute and making bread if I want any (I know I need to quite eating bread), but have basically gone back to my weight before surgery and I need to lose 50 pounds!

Overall feeling pretty good, and so nice to not get out of breath (though I still sweat like a stuck pick when it is hot, which has been all the time lately).

Apple announces a new iPod Touch

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Apple has released a new iPod touch based on the iPhone 5, but still missing a true GPS, with a 5 Megapixel isight camera, but still a 720P Facetime HD camera.

Still at starting at $299 since it is not subsidized it is expensive!

Apple has announced the iPhone 5 coming out next week

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And they didn’t name it the next iPhone, which is even better. It has a powerful quad core A6 processor and a taller screen, which allows one more row of icons, or bigger 1135 by 640 16×9 apps, which is great for watching movies and old apps show up as letterboxed instead of stretched. It has a better 8 Megapizel camera, and it’s towards you camera is now 720p for facetime. It has a new connector called Lightning that should be faster and is much smaller, but will require all new accessories or adapter cables.

Nothing revolutionary, but certainly very cool. I would love to replace my iPhone 4 with one, but it is not going to happen. Too broke after surgery and possible not having work for a while. It is $199, $299 or $499 for 16, 32 or 64 GB versions.

Does anyone else think the new iTunes looks awful?

Today as Apple announced the iPhone 5, new iPod Touch and Nano and iOS release next week, they also showed off a new version of iTunes which is a complete revamp, and I am scared, very scared.

As with OS X it seems to be getting dumber.

It looks like you have to look via album covers, instead of a text list, which is not convenient for someone with as big of a library as I have (I can’t even get an iCloud account as it won’t fit). And how does that work for playlists? Is that still a list?

I am not saying iTunes doesn’t need help, but I want a nice list view for things, and not have to use album covers! Hell many of my playlists are random, so they don’t have covers anyway!

I would also like to see the music sync window for iPods, as that has been a peave of mine and needed an update, but the site says nothing about how it works.

Honestly I am scared that this new version will cut down on functionality and only be for the lowest common denominator!

Please apple keep list views for those of us with huge libraries.

NVIDIA announces Kepler based Quadro K5000 GPU for Mac Pro!!!! This is huge for CUDA users!

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Arstechnica has the news on this HUGE announcement. The K5000 is the replacement for the QUADRO 5000 and runs at $2249. You check it out at NVIDIA as well.

Built around NVIDIA’s latest “Kepler” architecture, the double-wide card boasts 1536 processing cores shuffling pixels at up to 173GB/s along a 256-bit path to 4GB of GDDR5 memory. The card supports Shader Model 5.0, Open GL 3.2 on Mac OS X, and Open GL 4.3 and DirectX 11 when running Windows under BootCamp. And, it can support up to four monitors: two running at 2560×1600 over dual-link DVI ports, and two running up to 4096×2160 over DisplayPort 1.2. All that power also fits within an Energy Star-rated 122W power envelope.

This has serious CUDA performance and should be awesome for Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve 9.

Even more exciting for us not quite able to afford such a behometh card is that it signals some changes from Apple and Drivers. As you can actually run many Kepler cards now without much effort, since they included the drivers to deal with the NVIDIA powered MacBookPro and NVIDIA has started just writing a single driver for all cards in a series instead of different drivers. The thing is as of now you can only see 2GB of RAM on a card without doing some fiddling, which is an arbitrary addition made by Apple. The 4GB of RAM in this card looks like this will soon change for the better. And hopefully we get some Kepler GeForce cards running at full power on the mac soon. Like a GeForce GTX 680 (which matches the 1536 CUDA cores of the QUADRO) with slightly higher memory bandwidth.

Any way you look at this it is good news for high end mac graphics as it looks like NVIDIA is back and here to stay.

Adobe announced the new colaborative editing tool Adobe Anywhere

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Adobe has announced the collaborative editing tool Adobe Anywhere. You can check the less than 4 minute video on it at Adobe TV. Basically using the new Mercury Streaming Engine, media for an edit can now be kept centrally on a server, and be edited on a local network or anywhere with a good internet connection as long as you have a good CUDA video card to work with. And as you edit you can share you sequences and the cuts instantly show up at different ends.

A very exciting prospect for remote editing. In fact this could be HUGE! This way an edit house could keep media locally and still have editors working remotely. Talk about enhanced security!

Still think they need an iChat theater type component, so you can show what you are viewing.