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

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

Mini-link/video-plosion

tiii.me - A website that counts up the time you spent watching shows... Give me a few days to add all of mine in...

Short Horror Film about a girl's misadventure at a lake:

Richard Hickey - Francis from Not To Scale on Vimeo.

Cheat sheets and free Books on technological stuff: http://slickdeals.net/f/6825056

Doge2048 - Doge version of Threes:http://doge2048.com/

The Oxford Comma:


Crazy Dance Moves

Honest Trailers did their take on Game of Thrones (Seasons 1-3) (NSFW):
Non-spoiler version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK9YjEBM_GY
Spoiler version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVaD8rouJn0

In the words of Lauren Davis @ io9, "what happens when a lonely woman meets a cosmonaut on chat roulette"?

Russian Roulette from Ben Aston on Vimeo.

Loki as Elsa in the Frozen song - Let It Go (Actually it's pretty accurate...):


Netflix has been releasing some of the top series like House of Cards and Orange is the new Black, and now Amazon is stepping into that realm with Bosch: 


Binge watching... for those in real trouble, for the rest I say "Meh (shrug)":


Courtesy:
io9
io9
The Mary Sue
The Mary Sue
The Mary Sue
Gizmodo
Gizmodo

Past 2 weeks summarized...

With work and classes for masters, I am back to my old schedule despite graduating... It's a shocker! I know... And yes, being a graduate student does give you a lot of time to do stuff like, oh I don't know, play games, socialize, have fun? Add work into that mix and the end result is same as last 4.5 years of my life. Anyhow, I've been saving some juicy stuff to put together in a blog post, turns out this one is going to have a video-plosion (you've been warned).

First of all Vikings is back!!!! With 2 episodes out it is already getting more amazing :D


So is Hannibal, right after Vikings:


Today I watched 300: Rise of an Empire:

It turned out to be more of like Spartacus v2.0, 3D version having blood, arrows, spears, swords and explosions coming at you. 300 vs 300: Rise of an Empire, overall both were good stories with some amount of goriness in each, none near matching those in Spartacus.

And of course the next Transformers movie, Transformers: Age of Extinction:

I don't know, after watching it, it looks more like the first Transformers movie combined with a bit of Real Steel elements.

And next movie I'm looking forward to is Transcendence:


And finally, Karen Gillan (Doctor Who) & Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica & Longmire) is back in a horror movie Oculus. Anyone interested?:

Also there was a moment around Sunday midnight, Monday morning, when TigerDirect, had a price error on their site, roughly $2 for 2-3TB NAS drives... Of course I ordered a ridiculous amount of drives all to be rejected by TigerDirect later during the week... sigh.... Earlier this week, I meet Ace, a police canine, and he was humongous... literally could take down anyone by his sheer mass. Also got Hadoop to finally work on a single-node cluster (guide coming up later on), now to attempt it on a cloud instance and make a multi-node cluster out of it.

Almost done with the Guild Hunter series, and now to pick with series to listen to next... suggestions anyone?

Courtesy: The Mary Sue (for making me aware of the Oculus trailer)

P.S.: My Bachelor's diploma finally came in, whee....

Another mini link/video-splosion

The movie Gravity summarized in about 60 seconds:


First trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy:


Advance guide to rsync

Fish command line

Online Collaborative LaTeX editor

Courtesy: The Mary Sue, How to Geek, Gizmodo

Hannibal - Season 2

More juicy sneak peeks into the season 2 of Hannibal:

Mini Link & Video-plosion

Funny tennis game:


Yes, I know this is a long video, but it gets better with each serve :D :


Downton Abbey + Cats = Downton Tabbies:


Top 10 uses of linux.

Help find disk systems for NASA.

Courtesy - io9, gizmodo, the mary sue.

And here it is...

I guess it was only matter of time before this came out....


Courtesy: io9

Interesting stuff

Happy 30th birthday Mac :D

This week I got around to watching Frozen, it is not your typical run-of-the-mill Disney movie in the antagonist department - no evil witch or wizard, just humans, the climax-ending department - its the typical true love's kiss solves all the problem and love saves the day.

Here is a song from the movie sung in 25 different languages:


The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord - Highly recommended for those who would be an evil overlord in the future.

Scripts for extracting video and audio from YouTube.

Photographs of volcano Cordón Caulle in Chile going up.

Learn web design - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.

Finding cheaper flights.

GeekTool - making Mac desktop more informative.

Week 1 of Graduate School

So first week of graduate school was pretty much like wizard students after their O.W.L.s, so much free time with few classes! So basically I was like Harry and Ron, snickering at other undergraduates as they rush from class to class.

Here is the full clip from the movie, and no I didn't get cornered by a professor or advisor to take another class.

Multi-Core Computing class is going to be a toughie. Advanced Database class is going to be interesting.

Hannibal Season 2 Trailer

Hannibal season 2 trailer... all the gory in its glories! Again returns on February 28th!

The Waters of Greenstone, South Island of New Zealand

I am moving here... please don't follow me.


The Waters of Greenstone from Nathan Kaso on Vimeo.
Shot around the South Island of New Zealand over three weeks, The Waters of Greenstone explores the ever changing landscapes of the Catlins Forest Park, Fiordland NP, Queenstown, Mount Aspiring NP, Mount Cook NP, Arthurs Pass NP and Castle Hill Reserve.

The soundtrack was produced by Tom Day soundcloud.com/tomday

Timelapse sequences were shot on the Canon 5D Mark III and include use of the Emotimo TB3 Black motion control head. The video segments are a combination of 5D Mark III RAW video (using Magic Lantern firmware) and aerial photography from the DJI Phantom quadcopter with Zenmuse H3-2D gimbal and GoPro Hero3+ Black Edition shooting 2.7K Protunes at 25fps.

Processing and editing was completed in Lightroom 5, LRTimelapse, After Effects and Premiere Pro CS6.

Courtesy: Gizmodo

Sherlock - Series 3 Review

Sherlock returned this year with - The Empty Hearse, The Sign of Three, and His Last Vow. The entire  series revolves around John and Mary (not Sherlock), well a little bit of Sherlock. I managed to view all three episodes via live-stream, kudos to http://www.combom.co.uk/ for serving the stream!

The first episode revolves around the engagement of John and Mary and the reappearance of Sherlock. And to spoil to all who have yet to watch Sherlock, here is how he survived the fall in series 2:
First the fall:


Here is how he survived the fall:

Pictorially (can also gotten on a t-shirt):

The second episode deals with the wedding of John and Mary. Never let Sherlock give a best man speech or speech period at a wedding. John and Mary, and the guests learned the lesson the hard way....

The third episode deals with a lie/conspiracy in this series and sets the stage for the next series:


Also as per The Mary Sue, the fourth and fifth series of Sherlock has have been already been "plotted out" and will hopefully air before 2050....

Sum of all natural numbers is -1/12

For those who didn't know sum of all natural numbers equals -1/12.....



Courtesy: Gizmodo

New and Returning Shows!

The 100: Starts on March 19th!


Intelligence (aka Chuck 2.0): Started on January 7th!


Helix: Started on January 10th!


Game of Thrones: Returns on April 6th!


House of Cards: Returns on February 14th! (Valentine Day Date!)


Archer: Returns on January 13th!


Hannibal: Returns on February 28th!

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:

Game of Thrones - Bad Lip Reading

Courtesy: io9

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

Doctor Who - 50th Anniversary Trailer!

Enough said, watch the trailer:

Courtesy: Blogtor Who

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