CGI hackers discover secret of rainbows
CGI hackers discover secret of rainbows | Cutting Edge – CNET News.
Ice Cream Bean
Inga edulis – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
My friend John Hincapie told me about these magic beans from his childhood in Colombia.
Jasmen Gonzalez Benefit Dinner
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Hard drive prices!
Hard-disk shortage hits consumer outlets | Nanotech – The Circuits Blog – CNET News.
Tesla Model S
Inside the Tesla Model S
This new plug-in electric sedan will be revolutionary in more ways than one.
When Tesla Motors begins sales of the Model S sedan next year it’ll be a huge move. The “boutique” electric car maker will go from selling a relative handful of its two-seat roadsters to tens of thousands of these much bigger — but also much less expensive — four-door cars.
Buffett goes on $20 billion stock buying spree (CNNMoney)
By Chris Isidore November 7, 2011: 1:29 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — In the worst quarter for U.S. stocks since the financial crisis, investor Warren Buffett went on a stock buying spree.
via Buffett buys $20 billion in stocks in 3rd quarter – Nov. 7, 2011.
Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi
Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi
Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519)
Salvator Mundi
Oil on panel, 25 13/16 x 17 7/8 inches (65.6 x 45.4 cm)
Private Collection
© 2011 Salvator Mundi LLC
Photograph: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art
For information regarding Leonardo da Vinci’s painting, Salvator Mundi (or Savior of the World) please follow this link to the official press releases. There you will information on the attribution of this discovery, including key figures, scholarship, and conservation.
Please check back regularly to stay abreast of news regarding the exhibition at the National Gallery in London, and the publication of a monograph on the painting.
Translator Tool
Here is a translation tool that I found online. It was made by the Translate Team at Google. I excitedly anticipate using this tool when building my websites which will cater to a multilingual audience. The only problem so far is that it is Javascript, and WordPress doesn’t natively support it. There are circumventions, so I will be looking into those.
Quotes to live by!
In no particular order, these are some of the quotes I look back to when inertia starts to creep in.
- “A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.” ~Robert Green Ingersoll on avoiding debt.
- “Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” -Henry Ford
- “Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.” – rephrased from JC Watts
- “Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.” -Benjamin Franklin
- “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” -Thomas Jefferson
- “It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.” -Benjamin Franklin
- “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” -Benjamin Franklin
- “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a narrow field.” -Neils Bohr
- “If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti
- “The truth is, EVERYONE is going to hurt you. You just have to find the one’s worth suffering for.” -Bob Marley
- “The greatest luxury of all is having the time to experience life.” -paraphrased, John Maeda, President of RISD
- “Sometimes the best medicine is inspiration. It beats caffeine every time.” – Chris Hernandez
- “You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.” – Paulo Coelho
Detroit Tornadoes
My parents were shopping for houses in Troy this day. On our way back to Detroit, we discovered that the tornadoes had followed us from Oklahoma!
