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Finally Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 trailer is out!If you haven't seen the first season, definitely check it out! You have until January 2019!

And Doctor Who Series 11, with staring Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor, has their trailer also out as well!

And of course the next Godzilla movie!!! Prepare the Godzilla breath attack! Also hiya Eleven! Wonders if the movie has Eggo waffles, I'm hungry now...

P.S.: Catching up on over a week's worth of Slack & emails is just plain exhausting!

Doctor Who and College Degrees

As I progress through the classic series of Doctor Who - still on the 4th Doctor (Tom Baker) and on 17th season - the show is simply amazing if you consider the fact that it started in 1960s and have been going on for almost 20 years now, they really tried to bring out "science fiction" with what was available then for graphics, ideas, and skepticism.

The 16th season was pretty much one giant story - 26 episodes of roughly 25mins each - wrapped around finding the Key of Time scattered across time and space and keeping it from Black Guardian of Time, and its worthy opponent being Moffat's masterpiece with River Song.

K-9 plays a serious role in the classic series unlike the current series, and truly is an amazing companion. Robotic (not Tin - he will shoot you if you say "Tin") dog with sassy attitude? Come on, who doesn't love it?

Ok, not the bad guys...

Also 8th season of the reboot series, starts in August, incoming trailers:

Also want to know what jobs you can find with your major in college? Check this out.

Courtesy:
io9

Post Spring Semester + Link/Video-splosion!

First semester of Master's program ended on last Friday (16/05/2014). Needless to say, never again take the hardest class of the program during your first semester, it was not pleasant. And moving on, no classes till the fall semester, so entire summer just working at SD + working on projects! Go projects!~ Oh! Also time to catch up on movies + TV series + animus!

So I've been storing these up for past few weeks and now I'm letting it go, enjoy!~

Big Hero 6 by Disney:


Guardians of the Galaxy's new trailer:


Flash (bzzzt......) + Flash (bzzzt......):


Interstellar:


Lucy:


Gracepoint aka U.S.'s version of Broadchurch:


Sound of the Internet:

Internet machine (trailer) from Timo on Vimeo.

Selfie:


Constantine (Don't cancel it NBC!):


Orange is the New Black Season 2!:

Most detailed simulation of the Universe:


Hunt for the Robot Body:

Out of Hand from Simon F. on Vimeo.

Arthur Darvill's Let It Go!:


Some beautiful drawings of Pokémon Mayan style + Modernist Style

The origin of TARDIS's sound + Evolution of TARDIS's key

Robot Bartender struggles with Asimov's First Law

H. R. Giger's creations

Remote Desktop

Frozen - Tim Burton style

College-level Computer Science Education for Free

Gif Party! + Gif Party!

Science Fiction to Science Fact

Code Quality = WTFs/min

Linux features on Windows

Summer Show Guide

Salary Negotiation + 401k Extra Fees + Roth or Traditional IRA

Portable Virtual Machines

2048 Doctor Who Edition (My score):

Courtesy:
Gizmodo
How-To-Geek
io9
Lifehacker
The Mary Sue

Mini link-plosion

Finally a comic series that explains how Heartbleed works & List of top websites and their status on Heartbleed bug

All the info you ever need on drinks

MySQL tips, debugging, how to-s, optimizations, etc.

A-Z dance styles

New form of matter - "The new particle is about four times more massive than a proton, has a negative charge, and appears to be a theoretical particle known as a tetraquark. The results are still young, but if this discovery holds up it could have implications for our understanding of neutron stars."

Why?! Why must they destroy Hercules?

Dead Link

Much Wife

Mesmerizing...

k, fine, a bit of videos too :P

Another Giver trailer:


Tetris Rock Band - Yet another amazing musician/band I must follow...


Defiance Season 2 Teaser:

Things just got serious...(more here)

When things go serious, I score high (MWAHAHAHA!):

Finally the best for the last, a long vertical chart that depicts the relative size of stars... its soo long that I can't fit it properly here - Link here.

Courtesy:
io9
Gizmodo
The Mary Sue

Happy New Year!

Christmas break was spend recovering from viral fever... not fun stuff, but Doctor Who Christmas special as usual was awesome and left me wanting to strangle Moffat - far too much happened too quick! The new Doctor doesn't like the color of his kidneys... at least it is not his hair color..., and is Scottish this time for real (so Clara's comment/insult earlier in the special applies now :P).

So it is finally 2014! Survived 2013 and walked into the realm of 2014.... 2012 still hasn't happened yet, but still keeping an eye out for it :P , who knows maybe the Mayan's miscalculated (shrug)...

So I am an year older now and my resolution from last year: an episode of Doctor Who a day is still going strong - which by the way, 365 episodes of Doctor Who leaves one in middle of 11th season of it! Sarah Jane Smith is the Doctor's companion since the beginning of season 11 and already she is the best so far, a bit self-centered, but still the best! - before the year is out, I should be caught up with the classic series.

One of the best birthday gift was the return of Sherlock (it airs on Jan 19th here in US) but I managed to watch it live. Nothing like reunion of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson (hehe) :D. Next episode airs on Jan 5th - this Sunday!

Also SD can be addicting, already bought stuff early morning (1-2am) today... it was really good deals, hard to pass it away (shrug)

Sherlock Mini-Episode

Are you ready for season 3 of Sherlock?!


P.S.: Don't forget Doctor Who Christmas Special on Christmas Day! I'll be watching it via live-stream at 11:30am PST (hopefully!) BBCA's schedule says 6pm EST (shrug)

Link/Video-splosion!

Doctor Who - Tim Burton style

Doctor Who - Owl style

Crazy transformation of a hotel in Munich... - http://gizmodo.com/whoa-watch-this-hotel-in-munich-get-transformed-in-88-1481083706

Another step down the crazy ladder... - http://io9.com/we-who-spoke-lolcat-now-speak-doge-1481243678

Finals week... true description - http://cheezburger.com/136965

Vampiric Tesla? - http://jalopnik.com/the-tesla-model-s-might-have-a-vampire-problem-1472168440

Have a Snape-y Christmas! - http://www.themarysue.com/snape-christmas-tree/

Crash course in sequencing genomes - http://gizmodo.com/a-crash-course-in-how-genomes-are-sequenced-1480201633

Physics paper on Doctor Who's mode of space-time travel - http://io9.com/doctor-whos-mode-of-spacetime-travel-described-in-new-1456721896

Let your evil side out! - http://lifehacker.com/top-10-ways-to-unleash-your-inner-evil-1455221758

Deadly linux commands - http://www.howtogeek.com/125157/8-deadly-commands-you-should-never-run-on-linux/

High-resolution Mandelbrot in Obfuscated Python - http://preshing.com/20110926/high-resolution-mandelbrot-in-obfuscated-python/

Star Wars Infographic - http://www.murera.com/starwars/

8 Great philosophical questions - http://io9.com/5945801/8-philosophical-questions-that-well-never-solve



850 meters (HD English version) from THURISTAR on Vimeo.


2013 movie trailers mashup:



Amazing feats:



Sherlock Trailer!!! - Can't wait for January to be here....



A look into the future....



Godzilla returns in May 2014:



Yet another epidemic outbreak from freaky experiments:

Doctor Who: Day of the Doctor

So today aired the 50th anniversary special of Doctor Who! Woohoo! The Day of the Doctor - Amazing story! Amazing graphics! Amazing actors and actresses (sigh... even Rose too...)! Don't forget local theaters will be showing this special on their big screens on Monday! It is a one day event - I highly recommend if possible to go attend it! :D

Ciao! Back to report writing.... Grrrr.... 3 weeks remains!

No-shave November!

So, apparently November is no-shave November... http://www.no-shavenovember.com/ and I'm partially doing it.

Also since it has been a month roughly since my last post, quick recap:
- Went go karting for the first time with co-workers, and earned a reputation at the office... I am to be feared and to be stayed cleared off... Mwahahahahahahaha!
- IEEE Xtreme 7.0 occurred on October 25-26, 24hr worldwide programming competition... my team was 453rd out of 2500 teams!
- ACM ICPC occurred on November 9th... that was a horrible mess (sigh)... Their (ACM's) new program for code submission, scoreboard, etc, was hogging up the memory on our machine... We had 1GB RAM... and it was eating up 1GB! leaving a measly 10MB for rest of the processes like writing codes... compiling them... testing them... :\ we ended up being 42nd out of 90 teams :\
- Its is a BF/Thanksgiving nightmare at SD, optimizing codes, posting deals, etc....
- Got ticket to watch Doctor Who in theater! Watched Ender's Game and Thor II in theater - great movies, good graphics, and fun stories :)

Trailer for upcoming Day of the Doctor special - Doctor Who's 50th anniversary episode:


Be back once December rolls in...

Doctor Who - 50th Anniversary Trailer!

Enough said, watch the trailer:

Courtesy: Blogtor Who

Video-plosion!

Soo many interesting videos this week... and after parsing through them, I bring to you the best and interesting ones:

Few reasons why I'm posting this video:
 - Starts off with Tennant (10th Doctor in Doctor Who - honestly if you are following this blog watch Doctor Who!!!!) fixing the TARDIS
 - Has couple(lots) of Doctor Who scenes
 - And we all do this at some point in time and get things working

Percussive Maintenance from Duncan Robson on Vimeo.
Music by Joel Robson. http://joelrobson.bandcamp.com
Thanks to tvtropes and everyone else who helped me to collect these. If there's a good clip I missed, let me know in the comments.
http://dunk3d.tumblr.com
@dunkr
Courtesy : The Mary Sue


This video blew me away! Amazing performance!

Box from Bot & Dolly on Vimeo.
Box explores the synthesis of real and digital space through projection-mapping onto moving surfaces. The short film documents a live performance, captured entirely in camera. http://www.botndolly.com/box
CREDITS
Production Company: BOT & DOLLY
Executive Producers: Bill Galusha, Nick Read
Creative & Technical Director: Tarik Abdel-Gawad
Design Director: Bradley G Munkowitz
Lead Graphic Designers: Bradley G Munkowitz, Jason English Kerr
3D Artists: Scott Pagano, Bradley G Munkowitz, Jason English Kerr, Conor Grebel
2D Animators: Conor Grebel, Ben Hawkins, Pedro Figueira
Director of Photography: Joe Picard
Lighting Designers: Joe Picard, Phil Reyneri
Projection / TouchDesigner: Phil Reyneri
Robotics Animation: Tarik Abdel-Gawad, Brandon Kruysman, George Banks, Michael Beardsworth
Robotics Operator: Michael Beardsworth, Brandon Kruysman
Prop Fabrication: Matt Bitterman, Ethan Dale
Script Supervisor: Ian Colon
Sound Engineers: Joe Picard, Michael Beardsworth
PAs: Sean Servis, Dakota Smith, Nico Mizono, Eric Wendel, Patrick Walsh
Editors: Ashley Rodholm, Ian Colon
Music / Sound Design: Keith Ruggiero
Sound Mix: Joel Raabe
Performers: Tarik Abdel-Gawad, Iris, Scout
Courtesy: io9


What if all the people in Paris just disappeared...

hypocentre -short film- from Claire&Max on Vimeo.
Imagine an empty worrying Paris.
Imagine that human action is more harmful to our fragile planet.
First, "hypocentre" was a technical exercise for us. Then we decided to focus the film on the environmental side. It's new for us, more specialists in the travel video, to try to do a short film.
All the technical side of this film is explained on our website (with english translator) here: http://menilmonde.com/projet-hypocentre/
Feel free to join us on our dynamic facebook Fan Page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Menilmonde/143123885787492
and our twitter account : https://twitter.com/Menilmonde
Music: "Scathe" by Reid Willis, licensing through the Vimeo Music Store https://vimeo.com/musicstore/track/144244/scathe-by-reid-willis
And Reid Willis website : http://reidmwillis.wix.com/reid-willis-website#!home/mainPage
NASA last footage: Images courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/
Old footage form http://archive.org/
Sounds from http://www.freesound.org/ ans specially Felix Blume http://www.freesound.org/people/felix.blume/
Stephen Hawking's quote from the voice of Google translator
Thanks to Vanguard (http://vanguardworld.fr/) for their support.
Courtesy: io9


So first we(not me) had Teddy Ruxpin, a delightful animatronic pal for little kids. Then we(I was there) had Ted, the CGI-based, foul-mouthed, binge-drinking pal once those kids grew up. And now there's apparently a gun-toting, Sock Monkey-slaying, cyborg-bear vigilante roaming the streets. Stephen Colbert was right, these things are terrifying....

The Mega Plush from Matt Burniston on Vimeo.
Set in the shadows of a gritty underworld, a war is brewing. The Mega Plush, a group of four plush toy vigilantes, are struggling against the uprising of the SOC (Society of Chimps) army. Good vs evil. Bear vs sock monkey. The question is "who has the stuffing to survive?" Watch the first episode of this epic showdown and meet the crew at www.themegaplush.com
Facebook - facebook.com/TheMegaPlush
Website - www.themegaplush.com
Twitter - twitter.com/TheMegaPlush
YouTube - http://youtu.be/j9o1Ey4ZNT4
Music & SFX by www.cassinisound.com
Get a t-shirt - http://shop.heshereallweek.com
Courtesy: Gizmodo

And I've decided to another fun video, a music video, Radioactive by Imagine Dragons, one of my favorite song:


And finally the best for the last - Doctor Who Series 7 DVD Box Set Minisode "Rain Gods":

Courtesy: io9

The Slothocalypse!!!

Albert Einstein sloth: 

Sloth of the 11th Doctor (Matt Smith) along with Amelia Williams and Rory Williams...

Good gracious.... the weeping angel sloth....

Oh great!... Even a minion sloth!!!!

Ahhh... here is the Harry Potter sloth collection:

For more sloth collection check out the artist's home page.

Courtesy: The Mary Sue

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary - The Day of the Doctor

So for those waiting for one of the amazing thing to happen in 2013 - here is probably the best one - The Day of the Doctor - a Doctor Who movie (75 minutes in length) for its 50th Anniversary! Don't forget there is still the Christmas special which marks the 800th episode of Doctor Who as a whole! Say Who?!

BBC One's trailer for the 50th anniversary and for those with 3D glasses here is the 3D version!


Fan-made trailers follows:





Courtesy: The Mary Sue

Roman stuff

So Romans... there have been some fascinating people such as Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, Gaius Julius Caesar, Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, Spartacus, and Leonidas I during the era when Romans ruled over Europe.

And from this era I bring to you:
The Fires of Pompeii (Doctor Who)


Pompeii (Courtesy Berries and Spam for making me aware of this movie)


Spartacus - Beware 3 seasons of highly gory and glorious action and drama, not for those with faint heart and weak stomach.


300


Rome (I have not watched this)

The Doctor and Dance

Ninth Doctor:

Tenth Doctor:
Well this is more of David Tennant dancing :P

Beware... contagious song and some scenes that can never be unseen below:


Eleventh Doctor:


Doctor Who Dance Party:

24/08/2013's Random Collection

Wedding done right - Congrats to lovely couple and go K-9! Oh, I never knew that the phrase "Something Olde, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, A Sixpence in your Shoe" was part of the wedding norm..., I mean I have heard (spoiler alert!) Amelia Pond (much better than Amy Pond) in Doctor Who ( actual and edited versions) say "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue" to summon the Doctor into existence for her wedding reception (not the wedding mind you! And the Doctor loves wedding parties - and yes he is a great dancer... ahem!).

The awakening - me stare.

Some amazing Wild Pokemon photos - honestly Ninja-Jamal (Jamal Lee) has stunned me with these pictures..., they are simply amazing.

Things Harry Potter Actors/Actresses say... I miss Dobby and Hedwig :'(

Ferrets-omania - cuteness overloaded.

Worth Sharing - Go people!

Welcome to Arranged Marriage!

What Tree Did You Fall From? - For me its Apple-Fir Tree - which means I am:

         - quite & shy at times (true - well most of the time)

         - lots of charm (hmmm... not really)

         - appeal (nah)

         - attraction (???)

         - pleasant attitude (yup)

         - flirtatious smile (nope, I cannot charm someone by my smile)

         - adventurous (yup)

         - sensitive (yup)

         - loyal in love (never been in love)

         - wants to love and be loved (who doesn't?)

         - faithful and tender partner (never been in a relationship)

         - very generous (yup)

         - many talents (nope, maybe one or two?)

         - loves children (hmm...)

         - needs affectionate partner (yup! lol)

         - extraordinary taste (yup)

         - handles stress poorly (false! I handle stress like a pro)

         - loves anything beautiful (yup)

         - can become depressed at times (yup)

         - stubborn (yup)

         - tends to care for those close to them as well as helping strangers (yup)

         - rather modest (yup)

         - hard worker (definitely!)

         - talented (not really)

         - unselfish (one cannot be 100% unselfish)

         - few sexual relationships (none)

         - many friends (a few)

         - doesn't want foes (true)

         - very reliable (yup!)

looks like they managed to characterize me mostly....

Oh! How the times have changed!

About 2 decades ago, people actually had to memorize their friend's and relative's phone numbers, then came along the revolutionary device cellphones or mobile phones.... and roughly about 5-10yrs ago ever since smartphones came along people have stopped looking at each other and their surroundings. While this generated tons of funny gifs, serious injuries and deaths in some scenario, people now view the world through the eyes of their phone rather than their own, not to mention less utilization of their brain from not memorizing numbers :P

Here is a video of how today's world is in the eyes of a person who forgot their phone:


Oh! Few words from the Doctor: "Oh and here they come. The human race. See. The end comes as it was always going to: down to a video phone." Video link (spoiler alert - it is in the middle of the episode!) here.

Doctor Who - Number of regenerations?

For those who are not watching/following Doctor Who, let me stop you right here and right now and guide you to the amazing world of Doctor Who!

And now for those who do watch/follow Doctor Who, the total number of regenerations the Doctor can undergo has been a crucial question, well not as crucial as the Doctor's true name..., but nonetheless an important question that determines the ending of the show. Well the one quick Google search and a quick wiki reading later (BTW - ton of spoilers in that reading) I am still unclear about the total number of regeneration the Doctor has or can have....

Today on The Mary Sue blog, I came across the article that has Moffat's statement on the Doctor only having 12 regenerations, but then there is this.... Also io9 has their post.... So in the end it is a penny in the air... and till it drops we have no clue what the right answer is.... 

Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch... he walked into my field of vision in the production of Sherlock by Steven Moffat & Mark Gatiss (writers for Doctor Who), and then later in Star Trek Into Darkness (spoiler alert!) as the Khan (spoiler alert!). Now he is scheduled to be on the big screen for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Hobbit: There and Back Again (Smaug / The Necromancer) and The Fifth Estate (Julian Assange) -- at least the three out of the many I would be waiting for. Meanwhile I am going to check out The Last Enemy.

FYI - Each of the above links leads to a youtube trailer pertaining to the movie/show.