Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Della Vega



Edit:

winning the guinness book speed record - this is just ridiculus

Saturday, October 9, 2010

It was 70 years ago today...

"When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius — I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care."

* John Lennon interview with Rolling Stone magazine (December 1970)


It's John Lennon's Birthday today.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Rockville High School Renovation

Worked a photo shoot at my old high school and took a few photos of my own.





Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Fighter



We saw this movie on Sundance channel and really liked it. Hoping to see more of Semra Turan in the future.

Quotes

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

* Richard Dawkins

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Space Station Sightings for October

Only early risers get to see it this month.

THE FOLLOWING ISS SIGHTINGS ARE POSSIBLE FROM FRI OCT 01 TO SAT OCT 16
ISS
Sat Oct 02/05:26 AM
1

41
41 above SE 27 above E

ISS
Sun Oct 03/05:53 AM
2

46
41 above WNW 17 above NE

ISS
Mon Oct 04/06:19 AM
2

18
15 above NW 15 above N

ISS
Tue Oct 05/05:13 AM
< 1

20
20 above NNE 16 above NNE
ISS
Wed Oct 06/05:39 AM
< 1

16
16 above NNW 15 above N
ISS
Fri Oct 15/06:30 AM
3

31
15 above NNW 27 above ENE
ISS
Sat Oct 16/05:23 AM
< 1

15
15 above NNE 15 above NE
ISS
Sat Oct 16/06:56 AM
2

68
16 above WNW 68 above WSW

ONLY DAYS WITH SIGHTING OPPORTUNITIES ARE LISTED

This data makes more senseThis is, of course, sightings from my house. Your data may vary.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Quotes

Physics is like sex: Sure, it may have practical results, but that is not the reason we do it.
Richard Feynman

王力宏 guitar

Wang LeeHom has one of the coolest guitars ever.


Monday, September 6, 2010

3d printer for 1,500 $US

Here we go, just wait till we are at work with one these things trying to print out new spoons and cups with specs from the company that don't work properly.
Welcome to the future!
via Bruce Sterling at Beyond the Beyond

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Dinosaur Feather Color Revealed

from GrrlScientist's new blog at The Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2010/feb/28/dinosaurs-fossil-feathers-colors
"...the filaments of the theropod Sinornithosaurus (Figure 3) are packed with regions that are rich in either eumelanosomes or phaeomelanosomes, indicating that they might have been speckled with the distinctive Hallowe'en motif; orange and black."

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Firefly Fanfic

I know, I know...
I just started reading it, we'll see how it goes.
The guy is a legit author. At the beginning, Wash's dialog is good...
We'll see...

My Own Kind of Freedom by Steven Brust

Lego Firefly


Found this thru google images

Gear for Browncoats

This is not me advertising this is me saying "WOW! look at all the cool stuff!"

qmxonline



Wednesday, August 25, 2010

如果的事 (Ru Guo De Shi)

here deal with this:


Translation Ru Guo De Shi (What If)
Angela Zhang feat. Fan Wei Qi

(Fan)I've thought about something
(Fan)It's not something bad
(Fan)Kept on persisting to myself
(Fan)The meaning of love
(Fan)Like the wind,blowing gently and strolls along without a reason
(Fan)There's no right and wrong in love
(Fan)Won't bother about time
(Fan)Telling us how difficult it would be if we're together

(Angela) I don't dare to verify
(Angela) 'Love you',these two words
(Angela) Not constraining myself
(Angela) Also not satirizing
(Angela) The others said that IÂ'm actually very ignorant
(Angela) This kind of love is very dissolute
(Angela) I'm very dissatisfied
(Angela) I'm still thinking about it

(Fan)If you can't control
(Fan)Thinking of me once every day
(Fan)You're honest because of me

(Angela) If you see the movie I love
(Angela) Listen to the CD I love
(Angela) If you can take me traveling with you

(Fan)If you've decided to follow your feelings
(Fan)Be brave for love once
(Fan)If you said that we have each other

(Angela) If you start to believe
(Angela) This kind of love
(Angela) If you can tell me what if

(together)I just want to you to tell me what if
(together) Then,I will go all the way to love you

and karaoke so you can sing along:

wo xiang guo yi jian shi bu shi huai de shi
yi zhi dui zi ji jian chi ai qing de yi si
xiang feng mei you li you qing qing chui zhe zou
shui ai shui mei you suo wei de dui yu cuo
bu guan shi jian shuo zhe wo men zai yi qi you duo kan ke

wo bu gan qu zheng shi ai ni liang ge zi
bu shi dui zi ji jin chi ye bu shi feng ci
bie ren dou zai shuo wo qi shi hen wu zhi
zhe yang de gan qing bei ren ding hen fang si
wo hen bu fu wo hai zai xiang zhe na jian shi

ru guo ni yi jing bu neng kong zhi
mei tian xiang wo yi ci
ru guo ni yin wei wo er cheng shi
ru guo ni kan wo de dian ying
ting wo ai de CD
ru guo ni neng dai wo yi qi lv xing

ru guo ni jue ding gen sui gan jue
wei ai yong gan yi ci
ru guo ni shuo wo men you bi ci
ru guo ni hui kai shi xiang xin
zhe ban lian ai xin qing
ru guo ni neng gei wo ru guo de shi

ru guo ni yi jing bu neng kong zhi
mei tian xiang wo yi ci
ru guo ni yin wei wo er cheng shi
ru guo ni kan wo de dian ying
ting wo ai de CD
ru guo ni neng dai wo yi qi lv xing

ru guo ni jue ding gen sui gan jue
wei ai yong gan yi ci
ru guo ni shuo wo men you bi ci
ru guo ni hui kai shi xiang xin
zhe ban lian ai xin qing
wo zhi yao ni yi jian ru guo de shi
wo hui fen bu gu shen de qu ai ni

this is one of my favorites

Monday, August 23, 2010

The Firefly that never was...

The Large Hadron Collider

The LHC is doing collisions at night. This page shows live info about the particle beams.
This page shows live collision data on an animated view of the Atlas detector.


This page, this page, and this page help explain how to understand those first 2 pages.
Collisions go on all night sometimes. That's around 6pm to midnight EST.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010