Another cool airship just caught my attention, this one a concept vehicle in the form of a hotel in the sky. It looks a bit like how I imagined the flying manta cloud creatures from the Black Company books by Glen Cook.
Archive for March, 2008
Manned Cloud
Posted: 31 March 2008 in UncategorizedTags: airships, glen cook, hotels, manned cloud, massaud, real sci-fi
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Steampunk Death Star
Posted: 30 March 2008 in UncategorizedTags: death star, movies, sci-fi, star wars, steampunk
Just stumbled on this really cool site if you like steampunk and Star Wars. Being a huge fan of both, I recommend checking it out. If you’re a Star Wars purist, avoiding it might be healthier. The reimagining of Jabba the Hut and the Death Star are the best imo.
Visiting UMD
Posted: 27 March 2008 in UncategorizedTags: clip, computational linguistics, computer science, graduate school, maryland, silver springs, travelling, umd
My blogarrhea has tapered off over the past few weeks due to a number of time constraints, stress, and anxiety. The wikipedia article for graphomania actually suggests blogging may be a form of graphomania. Currently, I’m visiting the University of Maryland tomorrow to take a look at the (cs) grad school and the CLIP (Computational [...]
The babe with the Power
Posted: 27 March 2008 in UncategorizedTags: despair, disillusionment, elections, george r r martin, hope, obama, politics, power, presidential election, riddles, ron paul, sentiment classification
Names unnamed, sources unsourced, a CMU professor told me the other day that the best way to identify the party affiliation of political blogs is to find out who the blogger talks about all the time. Republicans spend their time, not bolstering their own candidates, but denegrating the Democrats. Ditto the Democrats. This is perhaps [...]
Walmart is pure dagnasty evil
Posted: 25 March 2008 in UncategorizedTags: evil, hell, walmart, walmart is evil
Evil like this deserves a special place in hell.
The most awesome mashup ever
Posted: 25 March 2008 in UncategorizedTags: asteroid, atomic bomb, google, google maps, hiroshima, little boy, mashup, nuclear bomb
So what sort of damage would you see if that low-yield nuclear device in your basement “accidentally” went off? What if some government launched a very high yield device on another country? Wonder no more! The following pics are what would happen if “Little Boy” (the bomb dropped on Hiroshima) went off in my basement. [...]
They’re like rats
Posted: 20 March 2008 in UncategorizedTags: bumper stickers, children, humor, rats
I saw a great bumper sticker today. Unfortunately, the pic I snapped was blurry as all crap and I felt too nervous to take another one. Which I shouldn’t have, but I can’t help myself. We child-proofed the house, But they STILL get in!
Of Goldfish and Memory
Posted: 19 March 2008 in UncategorizedTags: animal cruelty, conditioning, dogs, goldfish, learning, memory, mind, opinions, psychology, theories
This kid in Australia recently debunked the myth that goldfish only have 3-second memories. He did so by conditioning them to come to a beacon by associating it with food. He also trained them to follow short mazes using multiple beacons. These memories last for about a week, or indefinitely if used regularly. One of [...]
