Got a Job as a Stormtrooper By Chris Bartlett, July, 2005 Recently I landed a great job at a video game company. On the surface, putting on a helmet and storming into a 6-floor office building carrying a very large, weapon wouldn't seem like the most appropriate way to be considered for a job. Putting that aside, here's what I did... When I submitted my portfolio and phoned the company, the receptionist said, " I'm sorry, we have over 200 resumes of artists we're going through. 200? So, I thought... this sounds like a job for TK409. I asked my wife about it and she was very uneasy about the idea, for exactly the reason I mentioned in the first paragraph. When I got to the location that Friday afternoon, I found a remote section of the parking lot and hid behind my car to suit up. I entered the first floor lobby and headed straight for the elevators. So much for homeland security. I rode to the 6th floor and the doors opened. I told him I was there to deliver a portfolio for Chris Bartlett. He was thrilled.
In the Blink of Bird’s Eye, a Model for Quantum Navigation | Wired Science European robins may maintain quantum entanglement in their eyes a full 20 microseconds longer than the best laboratory systems, say physicists investigating how birds may use quantum effects to “see” Earth’s magnetic field. Quantum entanglement is a state where electrons are spatially separated, but able to affect one another. It’s been proposed that birds’ eyes contain entanglement-based compasses. Conclusive proof doesn’t yet exist, but multiple lines of evidence suggest it. “How can a living system have evolved to protect a quantum state as well — no, better — than we can do in the lab with these exotic molecules?” Many animals — including not only birds, but some mammals, fish, reptiles, even crustaceans and insects — navigate by sensing the direction of Earth’s magnetic field. Research since then has revealed the existence of special optical cells containing a protein called cryptochrome. ‘N@C60 is quite a sexy, interesting, promising molecule.’ Images: 1) The European robin.
videogames It might sound funny, but there are ways to get free weed if you don't have money. The first thing to add of course it that drugs are bad. You should not use drugs, even if they are free. Grow your own Growing your own weed is illegal in many countries and states but not in all. Stop smoking Well, We can't repeat enough. Common option: Be nice It's quite common to share "joints". US option: Coupons In the United States there are some websites that give out free weed. Effects of drugs: not funny The effect of cannabis on the memory of adults has not been proven, but it can be risky for children and adolescents, Wikipedia: Long term exposure to cannabis poses a risk of irreversible cognitive impairment in children and adolescents; other than for the very highest of doses, no similar risk has been established for adults.[3] Changes in attention, psychomotor task ability, and short-term memory are associated with very recent (12 to 24 hours) marijuana use.
201 Ways to Arouse Your Creativity Arouse your creativity Electric flesh-arrows … traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. Creativity is like sex. I know, I know. The people I speak of are writers. Below, I’ve exposed some of their secret tips, methods, and techniques. Now, lie back, relax and take pleasure in these 201 provocative ways to arouse your creativity. Great hacks from Merlin Mann of 43 Folders
These Steampunk Star Wars Figures Are Bully! The sci-fi universe of George Lucas' draws a lot of inspiration from Japanese films by Kurosawa and pulp adventure serials of the 1930s, as well as some old Victorian era firefighter masks . We've also seem some artists take characters and create portraits of them in a steampunk setting . Sculptor Sillof took that one step further by crafting action figures of dozens of characters from the original trilogy as if they were flying airships and "X wing biplanes" instead of space ships. These figures were made using parts and pieces from existing toys and sculpting on top of them using an epoxy polymer to create the shapes that he couldn't find otherwise. The figures were created back in 2007, but I hadn't seen them yet so I figured that you might not have either. It looks like at one time Sillof was selling his custom-made figures on Ebay but most of the auctions he has posted have expired. Sillof.com
Liquid Simulator Check out my blog! E-mail: kotsoft@gmail.com Fluid Instructions: You can drag the fluid around with your mouse and adjust the sliders at the top to change the properties of the fluid in real-time. Check out my newest app: Grantophone! More cool demos! Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=" About This is my implementation of the Material Point Method. For interpolation, I use the quadratic B-spline presented here: Analysis and Reduction of Quadrature Errors in the Material Point Method. Instead of integrating the density over time (which is what most of the MPM papers do), I do a density summation every frame. Material Parameters Some of these parameters are hard to explain in one or two sentences (and a couple I made up) so I'll also link you to their corresponding Wikipedia pages. Density - Target density for the particles. Stiffness - How compressible the fluid is. Bulk viscosity - Kind of like damping. Gravity - How much the particles will accelerate downwards.
Round Three: Your Daily Life in GIFs (26 GIFs) | - StumbleUpon These animated GIFs are like looking into the mirror of your daily life. When you see someone do math without a calculator: When you accidentally email something before you’re finished: When you’re in line and someone cuts in front of you: When you meet someone and find out they like the same band as you: When someone talks during your favorite movie: When someone wants to read something personal you’ve written: When someone says, “Hey, remember when you had a crush on…” When you know your pizza’s too hot, but you can’t wait so you bite it anyway: How fast you run in normal life: How fast you run when there’s food: When it’s your birthday and you go to Facebook to watch the notes roll in: When you walk into a room and a hot person leaves: How you eat in public: How you eat in front of your friends: Getting out of bed on a weekday: When you get a stain on your new shirt: When you greet someone you don’t like: When people leave food unsupervised in your presence: When you find an onion ring in your fries:
The Bojon Gourmet: Chocolate Rosemary Pots De Creme Perhaps I have an insensitive palette, but a pet peeve of mine is when an ice cream or chocolaty confection promises an intriguing flavor, then merely tastes like plain ice cream or chocolate. Not that there's anything wrong with plain ice cream or chocolate, but if balsamic vinegar is billed as a flavor, for example, then I want to taste balsamic vinegar, goshdarnit; otherwise, what is the point of putting it in at all? I once worked at a renowned SF restaurant for as long as I could put up with being treated like crap; i.e, not very long. I could write a novel about all the jacked-up things that went on at said business (and in fact, have begun to do so) but for now I will merely tell you about the front-of-house manager, who, for the purpose of today's post, I will call Sabrina. Sabrina had a shrill voice. The truffles that I had tasted thus far all boasted intriguing flavors - pink peppercorn, honey-balsamic, rosewater - but to me, they all tasted merely like chocolate.
Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock A diagram explaining the outcomes of the game The normal form matrix of rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock. Rows represent available choices for player 1, columns those for player 2. Numbers in cells show utility (payoff) for player 1, player 2. Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock is an expansion of the classic selection method game rock-paper-scissors. Rules[edit] The rules of rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock are: There are ten possible pairings of the five gestures; each gesture beats two of the other gestures and is beaten by the remaining two. References[edit] Quantum machine Photograph of the quantum machine developed by O'Connell. The mechanical resonator is located to the lower left of the coupling capacitor (small white square). The qubit is connected to upper right of the coupling capacitor. The first quantum machine[edit] Cooling to the ground state[edit] In order to demonstrate the quantum mechanical behaviour, the team first needed to cool the mechanical resonator until it was in its quantum ground state (the state with the lowest possible energy). Controlling the quantum state[edit] In quantum mechanics, vibrations are made up of elementary vibrations called phonons. Notes[edit] ^ a: The ground state energy of an oscillator is proportional to its frequency: see quantum harmonic oscillator References[edit] External links[edit]
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