Phil Huang

Category: Asides

Random things I feel like mentioning without having to write a full post.

  • Photoshop CS5 Content Aware Fill

    I just installed Photoshop CS5 over the weekend and the new content-aware fill feature is just freaking amazing. I mean really. I saw the videos before but you have to put it in action to believe it. I’m sure it has its limitations but in the different cases I tried it on, it was completely seamless and you really couldn’t tell the photo was manipulated.

    This feature really does save a crapton of time for certain tasks that would’ve been incredibly tedious and time-consuming before. This one feature practically makes CS5 a worthy upgrade.

  • Federer Tweener at Shanghai 2010

    Between the legs. Again. Seems like he wants to do this every tournament or every continent. This is quickly becoming one of this trademark shots. The amazing thing is that he keeps winning these points.

  • Summer’s Over

    Wow, haven’t posted in a month. I don’t know if I’m going to keep blogging actually. This site is here just because. Anyway, lots of stuff going on. Summer vacation and other stuff. Then my PC crapped out for a whole week. This caused all kinds of havoc with my work and I’m STILL catching up right now. Because not only did I fall behind on deadlines, a ton of new work typically comes in this time of year.

    Far East Movement’s Like a G6 is #1 on iTunes! Wow, music by Asian Americans in the mainstream, nice. Speaking of music I’m listening to some stupid Kate Perry song – “let me see your peacock your peacock peacock” – wow seriously? SKIP.

    What else… you know what I hate? When people tag every single email as important. It’s completely meaningless when you tag EVERY single email as important. I use Outlook so there’s this exclamation mark for important emails. I’m completely blind to it now – that mark has absolutely no meaning to me.

    Yes this post is all over the place. ;-) PEACE.

  • US Open 2010

    The last major of the year, the US Open, kicks off today in Flushing Meadows. Lots of stories going on and the tournament seems to be wide open, although I have my bets on Roger Federer. Actually I do literally have a personal bet of $100 riding on him winning the US Open. I made this bet immediately following his Wimbledon loss. If you follow tennis, you’d think few would be putting bets on Roger at that time, but I have faith! Now he gets a final and a win on US hardcourt tournaments and he’s suddenly a favorite again. How quickly the media jump bandwagons. The only other time I actually proclaimed Roger would win anything was the 2009 French Open. I declared he’d win 2-3 months beforehand, if I recall correctly, even while Nadal was perfectly fine. Can I go 2 for 2? We shall see.

  • Pesky Mosquito

    Every once in a while, a single mosquito makes its way into my room at night and it’s very annoying. Last night a single mosquito in my room stung me 4 times within 20 minutes. It was 2am and I wanted to sleep but that thing would’ve eaten me alive.

    Tip: Carefully look over your walls top to bottom. When not sucking your blood, mosquitoes tend to rest on walls. It can be real tough depending on the size of your room and also because mosquitos are so small and hard to notice. But the mosquito is usually stationary. Or you can sit still and wait for it try to bite you and swat it. I tried that at first but 1) it’s easy to not notice the mosquito while it’s on you and 2) it’s very hard to keep sight of it once it flies off of your body. So I eventually started scanning my walls.

    In total, it took me a whole freaking hour but I eventually found it and killed it. I wouldn’t have been able to sleep soundly otherwise. I hope you enjoyed your last meal sucker.

  • Express Lane at Supermarket

    What’s the point of having an express lane when the checkout lady chats with every person that walks by? So annoying. Do your damn job.

  • Starcraft 2 Release Tomorrow

    Starcraft 2 was one of my most wanted games for many years and I’m oddly indifferent to its pending release tomorrow. I got a beta invite but never even installed it. Could I be losing interest in gaming? Ha, probably not. I’ll likely get around to it by the weekend. Actually, the thought having to relearn the game is slightly unappealing, because I was only able to be OK at the first game, after playing it for several years. And I haven’t touched the original game for several years so I’m not even good at that anymore. When I do something, even something as trivial as a video game, I want to be really good at it.

    (07/28/2010) P.S. I lied, started playing a little bit of the campaign last night. ;-)

  • Awful Heat Wave

    Boy, it is HOT in NYC these days. In comparison, last summer was very mild. Where I am its 97° F and feels 101° F. I can stand a dry heat, but it’s humid too right now which makes you sticky and uncomfortable. It’s the humidity that I can’t stand.

  • Twilight Movies Are Absolutely Horrible

    Twilight is so bad. Just so freaking bad, it’s no joke. I made the mistake of agreeing to watch the first one. Then the bigger mistake of watching the second one. No way I’m watching another Twilight movie ever. Seriously, the 3 lead actors are so bad. They can’t act at all. I don’t remember my specific reaction to the first one, but I just remember it was nothing special and pretty much a bad movie. But wow, the second one was just an absolute horror. Bored out of my mind watching these crappy actors trying to be all angsty and everything. Makes you want blow your brains out. In fact I barely even remember what the heck happened in the 2 movies. I just remember bad actors squinting their eyes and trying to emote and the girl with the same blank look on her face all the time.

    Sometimes I have these random pockets of free time in front of my computer and I like to check out movie trailers. And judging by the trailer for the latest Twilight movie it’s going to be another huge stinker. It’s like these actors get worse and more wooden after each one. How the hell are these people cast. I’m sure there are a million good-looking, under-employed actors out in L.A. that could’ve done better.

    TWILIGHT IS JUST SO DAMN BAD. DO NOT WATCH THESE MOVIES EVEN IF YOU’RE ACCOMPANYING SOMEONE. YOU’LL REGRET IT – I GUARANTEE. AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE.

    People have died while watching Twilight. It’s that bad.

  • Apple iPhone 4 Reception Issues

    So apparently, because the antenna is built into the outer casing of the phone, when you hold it a certain way, you lose your signal. Wow, that’s a pretty big flaw. And for the first time ever, Apple is releasing a first-party “bumper” case for the iPhone. They always let third parties sell these things. So is Apple really charging people $29 for a piece of rubber, to fix a flaw in the phone? It would seem so. Even if this thing comes to Verizon Wireless in January, as rumored, I ain’t buying it. I’ll stick with Droid, thank you very much. Integrated Google Voice and Skype are already more than enough to go with Droid.