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[PHOTO: George Hernandez based in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.]George Hernandez: Exploring

Still the #1 George Hernandez !!!!

"Both the victor and the vanquished are but drops of dew, but bolts of lightning —thus should we view the world." -Ouchi Yoshitaka (1507/1551).

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  1. A Robot that Navigates Like a Person TAGS: Artificial Intelligence. Biology. Brain. Evolution. Programming. Robotics. Software. TECH.
  2. Is anyone else here a liberal or progressive but not vehemently anti-gun ownership? TAGS: Arms. Guns. Images. Photos. Politics.
  3. University of Chicago freshmen to translate great literary works as 'Twitterature' TAGS: Cyber Life. Literature. Reading. Text. Twitter.
  4. 35,000-year-old flute is oldest known musical instrument TAGS: Archaeology. Music. News.
  5. S-exp vs XML, HTML, LaTeX (was: Why lisp is growing) TAGS: Death. Philosophy. Politics. Programming. Psychology. TECH.
  6. Here's 17 Minutes Of Starcraft II Gameplay TAGS: Activity. Animation. Blizzard. Computers. Cyber Life. Video Games. Videos.

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20090702 011503 Z One pair bought and converted Church into Home in Kyloe Northumberland www.travelet … -northumberland/ www.reddit.c … ch_into_home_in/ Beauty, Cool, Design, Home, Inspiring, Photos I was pretty sure that I wasn't the only who has thought of making a church into a home. They did a great job. Instead of the bed on the altar, I'd have a massive TV. Lots of room for sword fighting and gymnastics. I love the cemetery too.
20090630 201822 Z Minn. court rules for Franken in Senate fight www.google.c … QSrgyOQD9956T5O0 Julia News, Politics, USA Whoot! The Minnesota Supreme Court rules 5-0 in favor of Al Franken for the Senate seat.
20090628 160535 Z LibraryThing http://www.librarything.com/ Julia Amazon, Books, Cyber Life, Folksonomy, Text Sounds like fun. "LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth."
20090625 014038 Z Let's make the web faster code.google. … /speed/articles/ www.reddit.c … _the_web_faster/ Cyber Tech, Google, TECH Some of the tips are good, but from the reddit thread, you'd think the whole thing sucked.
20090624 171432 Z Doctors Baffled, Intrigued by Girl Who Doesn't Age abcnews.go.c … d=7880954&page=1 Biology, Cyber Life, Health, News "Brooke Greenberg is the size of an infant, with the mental capacity of a toddler. She turned 16 in January." A fascinating story in of itself, but the differences between the Digg comments and the reddit comments are interesting as well.
20090624 155916 Z Starting to play the recorder Family, Music, My Stuff My wife, Julia, is taking up the bassoon again, so I've been inspired to start at the bottom and learn to play the recorder. It's awesome! I am the master of "Hot Crossed Buns"!! Will I eventually move up to flute, clarinet, or oboe? We'll see.

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2009-06-30t14:50:04 Z | TAGS: Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Brain, Evolution, Programming, Robotics, Software, TECH
A Robot that Navigates Like a Person
A Robot that Navigates Like a Person [http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22946/?nlid=2140]

Ah ha! The engineers have been caught reverse engineering from nature again. Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

The robot consists of a wheeled platform with a robotic "head" that uses two cameras to capture stereoscopic vision. The robot can turn its head and shift its gaze up and down or sideways to gauge its surroundings, and can quickly measure its own speed relative to its environment. The machine is controlled by algorithms designed to mimic different parts of the human visual system. Rather than capturing and mapping its surroundings over and over in order to plan its route--the way most robots do--the European machine uses a simulated neural network to update its position relative to the environment, continually adjusting to each new input. This mimics human visual processing and movement planning.

Reverse engineering nature is the way to go because nature has complex systems that evolved over thousands of years.

2009-06-29t20:25:12 Z | TAGS: Arms, Guns, Images, Photos, Politics
Is anyone else here a liberal or progressive but not vehemently anti-gun ownership?
Is anyone else here a liberal or progressive but not vehemently anti-gun ownership?Is anyone else here a liberal or progressive but not vehemently anti-gun ownership? [http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/8wimc/is_anyone_else_here_a_liberal_or_progressive_but/]
Yes: I'm a liberal or progressive who is also pro-gun. I'm taking my daughter shooting this Friday.
[PHOTO: George Hernandez wielding a shotgun and sporting an NRA hat]
2009-06-29t15:08:47 Z | TAGS: Cyber Life, Literature, Reading, Text, Twitter
University of Chicago freshmen to translate great literary works as 'Twitterature'
University of Chicago freshmen to translate great literary works as 'Twitterature' [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-talk-twitter-authorsjun29,0,4431673.story]

Pretty funny and yet an interesting exercise by these University of Chicago students.

In a move likely to be greeted by book-lovers with a mixture of horror and why-didn't-I-think-of-that jealousy, college roommates Alex Aciman and Emmett Rensin, both 19, are rewriting classics by Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Dante and other greats in 20 or fewer 140-character tweets. "Imagine if Achilles had a Twitter account and an iPhone, and he was telling his story in real time," Aciman said. "That's what this book is going to be like."
2009-06-24t21:40:25 Z | TAGS: Archaeology, Music, News
35,000-year-old flute is oldest known musical instrument
35,000-year-old flute is oldest known musical instrument [http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-flute25-2009jun25,0,3533361.story] [VIA: Julia]

Fun since I'm considering different wind instruments.

The wing bone of a griffon vulture with five precisely drilled holes in it is the oldest known musical instrument, a 35,000-year-old relic of an early human society that drank beer, played flute and drums and danced around the campfire on cold winter evenings, researchers said today. Excavated from a cave in Germany, the nearly complete flute suggests that the first humans to occupy Europe had a fairly sophisticated culture, complete with alcohol, adornments, art objects and music, that they developed there or even brought with them from Africa when they moved to the new continent 40,000 years or so ago.
2009-06-21t23:37:19 Z | TAGS: Death, Philosophy, Politics, Programming, Psychology, TECH
S-exp vs XML, HTML, LaTeX (was: Why lisp is growing)
S-exp vs XML, HTML, LaTeX (was: Why lisp is growing) [http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/s-exp_vs_XML] [VIA: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8u72o/erik_naggums_wonderful_rant_about_xml/]

A sweet post on why XML sucks that's also garnished with thoughts on things like the metric system, George Bush Jr., date formats, and gun control. The issues of solutions being more troublesome than the problem they were supposed to solve is key. So is the issue of group-think.

Farewell Erik Naggum [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erik_Naggum] (1965/2009).

I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned more fear-preventing tools than any other language, but the solution should have been to create and use a language that does not overload the whole goddamn human brain with irrelevant details.
2009-06-19t17:43:40 Z | TAGS: Activity, Animation, Blizzard, Computers, Cyber Life, Video Games, Videos
Here's 17 Minutes Of Starcraft II Gameplay
Here's 17 Minutes Of Starcraft II Gameplay [http://kotaku.com/5296403/heres-17-minutes-of-starcraft-ii-gameplay]

These "Battle Reports" are videos that show game play from the upcoming computer game "StarCraft II" by Blizzard. Battle Report I (Protoss v Terran) and Battle Report II (Zerg v Terran) have been out, but this third and latest Battle Report is Terran v Protoss, so that completes the combinations (PT, ZT, and ZP).

We're left hungry for the actual game release, which is still vaguely described as coming out in late 2009.

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