Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Winter holiday 2013-14

December 13, 2013 - January 20, 2014

In short, roughly 4 weeks of struggling with viral fever and roughly 2 weeks to catch up with stuff. Fun days include - Graduation on December 17th, company dinner on December 19th, Christmas, birthday/New Years, dinner with friends on January 12th, dev test & meeting DEs (Deal Editors) on January 15th, graduate orientation on January 17th, game night on January 18th, and end of winter break & three-day weekend celebration on January 20th.

Graduation was horrible - aside for taking 3-4hrs, they butchered my name, but I'm done with my bachelors degrees so thats a relief:
And then I got into the Master's program at UNLV for CS:

Christmas was spent with family and Doctor Who special (which was amazing - though tons of questions regarding the Doctor's regeneration....).

Watched the fireworks in town on TV on new year's eve, and then celebrated my birthday/new years at home watching Sherlock live.

By the January 9th I had recovered from the viral fever and as such organized dinner with friends on January 12th to celebration graduation and new year.

Deal Editors at SD came over on January 15th to visit the crew here, so spend the day with them, and turned in my dev test for the full-time job.

Graduate orientation turned out to be 2hr long presentation out of which I learned, as a graduate you got more forms to fill and need to apply for graduation at least 2 semesters early. Also you are officially crazy and will most likely go insane during the coursework.

Fun game night on January 18th with coworkers - iMAgiNiff, insane card game and munchkins.

And to cap the winter break, went for bowling, arcade, movie (The Legends of Hercules - don't watch it, not worth the time, and if you do want to watch it, watch the disney version - more fun) and dinner on January 20th.

Scoreboard (DD is me, guess what it stands for :P): Still keeping true to averaging 100 per game....

Hannibal Season 2 Trailer

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

Thursday, January 16, 2014

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

Sunday, January 12, 2014

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!