Geek moments or: Family and Celebrities Side by Side

13 May 2009 468 views 4 Comments

Today I am way too tired for a full fledged report and I really want to do John Billingsley justice, so I decided to share two of my geek moments with you that also have to do with FedCon.

While sifting through my photos during the weekend, faithfully tagging all of them so I won’t get totally lost, I suddenly realized what my most used keywords were at that moment:

Adobe Lightroom keywords

Keywords in Adobe Lightroom

Now, how cool is that? Usually I see only rather boring keywords like ’sunset’, ‘dresden’, ‘flower’, or ‘macro’. Having the names of the BSG, Eureka and Star Trek actors appear there really puts a grin on my face and makes me feel almost professional. But it doesn’t stop there.

The pictures I uploaded to my photo site In The Moment I put in iPhoto for archiving and the new iPhoto ‘09 has the Faces feature where the app recognizes faces and lets you assign names to them.

Face recognition by iPhoto

Face recognition through iPhoto works pretty well. Usually.

Face recognition fail

Not the intended effect

But overall, the recognition works great and leads to results like this (blurred ones are family):

Coolest iPhoto Faces overview ever

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tschilai said:

_Nice_ feature!!

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Starstuff Reply:
May 13th, 2009 at 7:47 pm

Gonna switch?

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# 13 May 2009 at 7:33 pm

Isisgate said:

These posts make me more determined to get to a con in this life. I see you are on twitter so I just followed you. I’m @glyphgeek.
I know what you mean about the big smiles for the collection of tags. And only another sci-fi geek will get how cool that is. I’m still all tingly-warm over the Robert Picardo thing. I didn’t really know how much Iliked him till I squealed with delight when he showed up on the season finale of Castle.
When Castle gets to Germany watch it. Rick Castle is a sci-fi geek like us but writes detective fiction and consults with the NYC police all in the name of research. Wow.
See you in the twitterverse.

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Starstuff Reply:
May 16th, 2009 at 11:20 pm

His Isisgate! Thanks for the heads-up on Castle, I will make sure to check it out.

And yeah, Robert Picardo is just great, I am so sorry I missed his panel at FedCon. Looking forward to the DVD to see what I missed.

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# 16 May 2009 at 9:16 pm