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 December 31, 2009 | category: my work Where did 2009 go? I’m not really sure, but it feels like I’ve blinked and another decade has passed. The wife and I packed up everything and visited the family on the east coast. For the first time in years, there was snow on the ground, and not just a light powdering either. [...] December 17, 2009 | category: my work Martial arts primates in defiance of their master? Oh yes, and the spot does thicken. Lo Wung, 42, taught the monkeys so they could entertain crowds outside a shopping centre in Nshi, in eastern China’s Hubei province. But the money-spinning primates turned the tables on their trainer when he slipped during a show, with [...] December 14, 2009 | category: my work Skunks have faces that look like they are pushed to the end of their head, so I drew one. He can open canned food with his head in a pinch, jackhammer style. Don’t let this fellow raid your kitchen pantry, you will be left with nothing. Nothing, I tell you. To see more [...] December 11, 2009 | category: paranormal Up in the frigid skies of northern Norway, residents witnessed a unique light show, one that had never before displayed in their evening skies. The official story has been confirmed as a Russian missile gone awry when tested fired from the Dmitry Donskoy submarine in the White Sea early on Wednesday, failing at the [...] Silent films are something I’ve always enjoyed. The exaggerated acting and poses are what appeal to me the most. So that leaves one to question, “How would a contemporary sci-fi picture translate into this medium?” An acting troupe from Asia has replied humorously, Russian subtitles included. That Charlie guy sure knows how to [...] St. Wenceslas, the patron saint of the Czech Republic, is honored with many statues around the country. But the sculpture of St. Wenceslas Riding a Dead Horse in Prague turns those monuments — literally — upside down. Hanging in the gallery of a shopping and entertainment complex, it was created in 1999 as [...] November 7, 2009 | category: website Back in 2003 I humbly started version 1 of this website using frontpage and html. If you look at the dates on the right hand toolbar of the blog, you’ll see that I’ve started migrating old posts from the html days into the new website format. By the end of this weekend I’ll have [...] October 28, 2009 | category: technology Here’s an interesting piece of technology developed by a group of scientists. It’s able to fetch information from the internet to dynamically composite images. All it takes for it to happen is your ideas communicated in the form of sketching. Below are storyboards from the proposed technology, showing how input equals output. To [...] October 25, 2009 | category: animal kingdom Wouldn’t it be rad to sit on one of these while you played your favorite games or watched a fantastic movie? Better yet, don’t tell you family about it and invite them over for dinner. “Hey dad, check out the majestic mammal hibernating near the footstool. It keeps the robbers away.” You are [...] There’s a science museum close that the wife and I have had the pleasure of visiting several times. We are both geeks and love going to these places. That’s why it was totally awesome to hear about this world touring BBC dinosaur show, “Walking With Dinosaurs – The Arena Spectacular“, that was going to [...] October 13, 2009 | category: technology Most everything in the natural world takes on a new personality when slowed to frame rate that allows us to focus on the nuances of the moment. Metallic objects appear as heated butter, shearing at imbalanced angles. I wonder how they were able to hit the moving bullets with other projectiles. Germany’s Werner [...] September 30, 2009 | category: animal kingdom Say hello to the piglet squid, a curious critter of the sea. Here it is in normal “piglet” form. Mr. piglet undergoes a transformation when it fills itself with surrounding water. ….it starts to look like a certain friend of Jim Hensen, eh? The Banded Piglet Squid (Helicocranchia pfefferi) is a small [...] |
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