Monday, October 21, 2013
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Link/Video-splosion!!!
Newton's 3rd law has been pwned? Apparently by using photons (wavy massless particles) to create an effective mass along with an object of negative mass, German scientists cheated Newton's 3rd law which states - For Every Action There Is An Equal And Opposite Reaction. With this technique there is no opposite reaction... for more head over to Gizmodo!
World's first programmer - Ada Lovelace - the Victorian mother-of-three, born 1815. Gizmodo.
WolframAlpha - the all knowing, ever growing math, science, and facts gallery now has Pokémon information - yes it is now a Pokédex as well! Io9 has some examples... oh yeah, FYI, WolframAlpha also has the curves for drawing the Pokémon out as well!
Over 500 free programming books, covering over 80 programming languages thanks to Victor Felder. Lifehacker.
Halloween is here, but whether it is here or not, one should always be weird, and to help so, here are some weird wallpaper for your machines from Lifehacker!
Christopher Eccleston regenerates as Malekith in Thor: The Dark World... The Mary Sue.
Geography - Africa's true size will blow you away! - io9
A new secret hybrid technology may have been developed by Red Bull. Wait. Say what?! - Jalopnik
World's first net positive nuclear fusion! - io9
Data storage disc that will last a (freakin) billion years and can be used as a cooking utensil... say what?
Een mega- tot gigajaar opslagmedium from University of Twente on Vimeo.
Courtesy: Gizmodo
SQL Injections - Who? What? Where? When? How?
Courtesy: Gizmodo
Soo... Google and NASA joined forces to build and mess with Quantum D-Wave computers, which currently crunches at 512-qubits.
Courtesy: io9
Though after watching the quantum computer video... this following video came to mind...
The similarity is coincidence??? Also 42 in Japanese is pronounced "shini" and means "death", so in a way the intelligence answered the question (what is the meaning of life?) correctly aside from the fact that it took really long time to do so...
Bravest Warriors... sounded interesting...
Courtesy: io9
White lion cub roars!!! Much better than the Katty Perry roar...
Courtesy: io9
Robot uprising!!!
Keloid from BLR_VFX on Vimeo.
Courtesy: io9
The Central Limit Theorem explained with bunnies and dragons
CreatureCast - Central Limit Theorem from Casey Dunn on Vimeo.
Courtesy: io9
Telekinetic Coffee Shop Surprise... people really creep out hard when near a telekinetic person...
Courtesy: Gizmodo
How Virtual Machine Run the Cloud
Courtesy: Gizmodo
War, fate, and a broken walkman transcend space and time in this sci-fi love story!
RECORD/PLAY from jesse atlas on Vimeo.
Courtesy: Gizmodo
World's first programmer - Ada Lovelace - the Victorian mother-of-three, born 1815. Gizmodo.
WolframAlpha - the all knowing, ever growing math, science, and facts gallery now has Pokémon information - yes it is now a Pokédex as well! Io9 has some examples... oh yeah, FYI, WolframAlpha also has the curves for drawing the Pokémon out as well!
Over 500 free programming books, covering over 80 programming languages thanks to Victor Felder. Lifehacker.
Halloween is here, but whether it is here or not, one should always be weird, and to help so, here are some weird wallpaper for your machines from Lifehacker!
Christopher Eccleston regenerates as Malekith in Thor: The Dark World... The Mary Sue.
Geography - Africa's true size will blow you away! - io9
A new secret hybrid technology may have been developed by Red Bull. Wait. Say what?! - Jalopnik
World's first net positive nuclear fusion! - io9
Data storage disc that will last a (freakin) billion years and can be used as a cooking utensil... say what?
Een mega- tot gigajaar opslagmedium from University of Twente on Vimeo.
Courtesy: Gizmodo
SQL Injections - Who? What? Where? When? How?
Courtesy: Gizmodo
Soo... Google and NASA joined forces to build and mess with Quantum D-Wave computers, which currently crunches at 512-qubits.
Courtesy: io9
Though after watching the quantum computer video... this following video came to mind...
The similarity is coincidence??? Also 42 in Japanese is pronounced "shini" and means "death", so in a way the intelligence answered the question (what is the meaning of life?) correctly aside from the fact that it took really long time to do so...
Bravest Warriors... sounded interesting...
Courtesy: io9
White lion cub roars!!! Much better than the Katty Perry roar...
Courtesy: io9
Robot uprising!!!
Keloid from BLR_VFX on Vimeo.
Courtesy: io9
The Central Limit Theorem explained with bunnies and dragons
CreatureCast - Central Limit Theorem from Casey Dunn on Vimeo.
Courtesy: io9
Telekinetic Coffee Shop Surprise... people really creep out hard when near a telekinetic person...
Courtesy: Gizmodo
How Virtual Machine Run the Cloud
Courtesy: Gizmodo
War, fate, and a broken walkman transcend space and time in this sci-fi love story!
RECORD/PLAY from jesse atlas on Vimeo.
Courtesy: Gizmodo
Aki Matsuri
Gather around kids! Today (which means whenever you are reading this post) I will tell you the story of the 4th annual Aki Matsuri, the Japanese autumn festival, in Las Vegas. To begin off the epic story, let me start with THE MOST crucial part, RAMEN!!!
Once the team - An, G and his sister, and I got together on UNLV campus, headed off to Aki Matsuri around 12:15pm and were stamped for processing upon arriving there, D from SD arrived later on, also met couple of friends from university there as well. Anyways, since we all had skipped from eating anything substantial or nothing for breakfast, when the clock struck 12:30pm, we were about go into Hunger Cannibal Games mode - to each their own! But we strapped in our wild counterparts and headed over to the line outside Monta for RAMEN , but when we reached the front, they apparently needed tickets for purchase. So we headed over to the ticket line... and saw they only took cash, then we headed went to the ATM to get cash, then went back to the ticket booth to get food and drinks tickets and got RAMEN from Sora (sounded tasty from their description on the paper).
Turns out, it was indeed good! Well I was too hungry to take a picture... so here is a picture taken by G instead. After having eaten, we were ready to roam around as civilized beings... more or less :P . Here are some pictures of the festival - yes it was held outside, in the rear parking lot of Rio casino.
There were bands singing when we got there.
Somehow a Bob Marley stall crept in there....
More pictures of the surrounding...
An decided to grab sweets!
He got Pocky!
And G decided to ruin my childhood by buying a Pikachu mask and wearing it... *Shake my head* Pikachu! THUNDERSHOCK G!!!
Overall it was a fun experience! Thanks and kudos to Steph for getting me and my friends the tickets!
It's Halloween Time!
Disney started off their Halloween celebration... with Mickey & ... (Ghoul) Goofy...
Also Slickdeals.net is having a pumpkin carving contest!
Courtesy: io9
Also Slickdeals.net is having a pumpkin carving contest!
Courtesy: io9
Cats Stealing Dog Beds...
So my Saturday starts off with the following video...:
Which brings me back to this little video from one of the many amazing Tom & Jerry stories:
And this little gif:
Which brings me back to this little video from one of the many amazing Tom & Jerry stories:
And this little gif:
So now the question is...: What is the hierarchy here between Dogs, Cats & Mouse? Is it:
Dog > Cat > Mouse
Cat > Dog & Mouse
Mouse & Dog > Cat
....
(shrug)
Courtesy: Collin (SD), EdisProduction, Youtube, and random cat & mouse gif on the Internet
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
The Fifth Estate
So last night I watched The Fifth Estate. The movie is about Julian Assange and how Wikileaks came to be. While my friends who accompanied me to watch it said it wasn't as good as The Social Network, I thought it was a good movie... I would give it 7 out of 10. Main actors that I recognized include Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock / Khan), Peter Capaldi (12th Doctor) and David Thewlis (Remus Lupin).
The movie comes out to theaters this Friday, so if you are stuck between choosing Gravity and The Fifth Estate, I recommend The Fifth Estate.
The movie comes out to theaters this Friday, so if you are stuck between choosing Gravity and The Fifth Estate, I recommend The Fifth Estate.
Monday, October 14, 2013
Erratic Hiatus!
Due to life and its infinite mysteries and cheekiness, I am unable to take time to post amazingly really random ramblings at a regular interval. Sorry! But I'll try to do at least one a week :) Meanwhile have a great October / Halloween / November / Thanksgiving / December!
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Hot Pot + Mucho Mango + Gravity
Fridays I work at SD (Slickdeals.net - for newcomers), and this Friday for entertainment, we (couple of SD-ers) decided to have hot pot for dinner and watch Gravity that just came out and apparently had high reviews.
Noodles Exchange is a Chinese restaurant located at Gold Coast Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Their main speciality or super popular dish is hot pot. As seen in the picture below, a pot of brew is placed in front of you along with raw ingredients that you drop in the pot while the brew is heated to boiling point. Once the ingredient is cooked to your liking, you take it out and dip in sauce (optional) before eating it. While we didn't get that much food shown in the picture, it was still plenty enough to fill me up. I got the beef platter (other choices was seafood and lamb). The beef platter came with beef (duh!), fish balls, taro, radish, daikon, lettuce, tomato, noodles, enoki mushrooms, and couple other veggies. The stew (I ordered spicy) came with tons of red chillies, and spices - garlic, cardamon, cloves, cinnamon sticks, etc.
Noodles Exchange is a Chinese restaurant located at Gold Coast Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Their main speciality or super popular dish is hot pot. As seen in the picture below, a pot of brew is placed in front of you along with raw ingredients that you drop in the pot while the brew is heated to boiling point. Once the ingredient is cooked to your liking, you take it out and dip in sauce (optional) before eating it. While we didn't get that much food shown in the picture, it was still plenty enough to fill me up. I got the beef platter (other choices was seafood and lamb). The beef platter came with beef (duh!), fish balls, taro, radish, daikon, lettuce, tomato, noodles, enoki mushrooms, and couple other veggies. The stew (I ordered spicy) came with tons of red chillies, and spices - garlic, cardamon, cloves, cinnamon sticks, etc.
After hot pot for dinner, we still had an hour and few minutes more to kill before the movie started, so we decided to hit Snowflakes Shavery for desserts. Snowflakes Shavery serves shaved ice of various flavors some includes green tea, strawberry, sesame seed, mango, mochi, chocolate, etc, along with condensed milk and chunks of fruit if you ordered a fruit flavored one. I got the Mucho Mango which looked like this:
After that, we had like 20mins before the movie started, so we all rushed back to Brendan theaters which is right across Gold Coast to watch the movie Gravity staring Sandra Bullock. We watched the IMAX 3D version, and my opinion is that movie is only worth the time if you decide to watch it in IMAX 3D, anything else it is not worth the trouble. Especially since the plot was more or less obvious and predictable with each development in the story. There couple of flaws, but that aside, watching the Sun, Earth, occasionally the Moon and the billions of stars in space was really fun :D. Honestly, watch The Heat if you like Sandra Bullock, this one is just... meh.
Thanks again for inviting me along SD-ers!
Hofbräuhaus
So this Wednesday was the birthday of my friend An, and a couple of friends decided to hit up Hofbräuhaus which is right next to campus to celebrate it! First and foremost, that place is LOUD!!! You have to scream on top of your lungs to speak across the table! Also Hofbräuhaus imports their beers from Munich, occasionally people get on top of the table or the floor to dance, sing, and make ruckus! Sadly no bar fights erupted while we were there...
We were attended by a german-maid dressed server who took our orders for beers, couple of pretzels and cold meat platters. While waiting for the food, friend E bought friend An a fireball shot and spanking from another waitress.... Yes, spanking is given out at this establishment, waitress walk around with paddles.... After most of the food and 2 litres of german beer, and another round of free spanking for the birthday boy from our maid, we headed out and split into two groups, while I went home, An and rest of the group headed off the strip to walk around and tour other drinking establishments.
We were attended by a german-maid dressed server who took our orders for beers, couple of pretzels and cold meat platters. While waiting for the food, friend E bought friend An a fireball shot and spanking from another waitress.... Yes, spanking is given out at this establishment, waitress walk around with paddles.... After most of the food and 2 litres of german beer, and another round of free spanking for the birthday boy from our maid, we headed out and split into two groups, while I went home, An and rest of the group headed off the strip to walk around and tour other drinking establishments.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Elemental Iceland!
Iceland! A mysterious, wonderful island located off the shore of Greenland (which mostly appears white on the map from all the ice)! Iceland on the other hand... is not filled with ice! Check out the amazing video!!!
Elemental Iceland from Stian Rekdal on Vimeo.
BEST VIEWED IN FULLSCREEN HD - SCALING OFF
This is some of the timelapses I shot in Iceland in september of 2013.
Over three weeks we drove nearly 5500km taking more than 40000 photos on the way.
Shot with Nikon cameras and lenses. Post-processed with LRTimelapse, Adobe Lightroom and Adobe After Effects. Motion control sequences done with a Stage One dolly from Dynamic Perception and a Celestron Skywatcher pan/tilt head.
Thanks to Micheal Levy for his excellent photographer's map of Iceland - http://international-photographer.com/maps/iceland/
Music:
'Chasing Time' by Dexter Britain
Licenced from TheMusicBed.com
Individual scenes available for licensing in up to 4k / UHD resolution
If you would like to see more of my work, check out these links:
Facebook - facebook.com/stianrekdal
500px - 500px.com/plan9
Flickr - flickr.com/photos/stianrekdal/
Courtesy: Gizmodo
Elemental Iceland from Stian Rekdal on Vimeo.
BEST VIEWED IN FULLSCREEN HD - SCALING OFF
This is some of the timelapses I shot in Iceland in september of 2013.
Over three weeks we drove nearly 5500km taking more than 40000 photos on the way.
Shot with Nikon cameras and lenses. Post-processed with LRTimelapse, Adobe Lightroom and Adobe After Effects. Motion control sequences done with a Stage One dolly from Dynamic Perception and a Celestron Skywatcher pan/tilt head.
Thanks to Micheal Levy for his excellent photographer's map of Iceland - http://international-photographer.com/maps/iceland/
Music:
'Chasing Time' by Dexter Britain
Licenced from TheMusicBed.com
Individual scenes available for licensing in up to 4k / UHD resolution
If you would like to see more of my work, check out these links:
Facebook - facebook.com/stianrekdal
500px - 500px.com/plan9
Flickr - flickr.com/photos/stianrekdal/
Courtesy: Gizmodo
Tap Dance - Moses
What not to love about a ghost girl tap dancing with a pair of enchanted shoe??? Aside from the girl being a ghost... and a pair of enchanted shoes tapping their way around singing... "Moses Supposes"....
義足のMoses from ががめ on Vimeo.
FRENZ2013に参加させていただきました！
ちょっと画質劣化してコマが飛んじゃってますが･･･。
『雨に唄えば』に衝撃を受けて、2年半くらい温めてたアイディア、
形にすることができて良かったです。
素敵な映画なので観たことない人は是非！
She likes movie show !
Courtesy: Gizmodo
義足のMoses from ががめ on Vimeo.
FRENZ2013に参加させていただきました！
ちょっと画質劣化してコマが飛んじゃってますが･･･。
『雨に唄えば』に衝撃を受けて、2年半くらい温めてたアイディア、
形にすることができて良かったです。
素敵な映画なので観たことない人は是非！
She likes movie show !
Courtesy: Gizmodo
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) Trailer!
Roughly 2 months till this movie comes out on December 13, 2013 - a Friday... Another Friday that is 13th... Well good news is that week would the final exams week at UNLV!!! Which means, this would be something to add to the list of things to wait for... somewhat patiently to do after the stress of exams!
Courtesy: The Mary Sue
Courtesy: The Mary Sue
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