A bit in the future just yet, but mark your calendars you shutterbugs! creativeLive is a great website to learn all sorts of stuff…I learned my Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and what very little I know about photography there. The instructors are world class…the lessons are free…even the rebroadcasts are. If you see something particularly helpful or suited to your needs, you can purchase the class, its materials and have all time access to it forever. What&rs...
Has anyone seen a good explanation or even just a decent discussion about "time?" I have read that the current popular scientific view of time is that the past has no more "existence" than the future. Is time like the pages of a book, that we could potentially re-read, as in "time travel?" Are there some huge number of quantized pasts? Or is it something altogether different in kind? I've read or heard about as much on this foundational subject as I have o...
I loved the movie, despite its disjointedness, and it was only today, over a week later, that I realized why the scenes were set up that way. The entire movie was IMHO shot to match up with a planned theme park. Too many mis-mixed pure fantasies with hard science. Way too many scenes clearly shot with something other than the plot in mind. But the thing that really caught my attention was when I typed "to" into Google and got back a whole set of "TomorrowLand" ...
Watching weather channel and a report of multiple tornados, 14 counted, around the region. Isn't Stardock in that area? Hope everything is ok.
So now I got cable. I found the weather channel and they show videos of all that crazy weather happening in the mid west. I saw one of a tornado forming live, in real time. I saw the wind whipping around it coming from the right and as it was sucked up into a monstrous storm cloud they call a super cell. Bolts of lightning so bright they leave after images on the TV screen and the thunder, turn up the volume and it sounds like a freight train with your name on it. Also there are storm chaser web...
Well, that’s ok in most situations…but not when it comes to cancer. Cells communicate with the world around them via signals they receive through their membranes which are conducted to their nuclei by various pathways…15 at last count. One is especially important: MAPK/ERK (not the Mod from Oz)…and that cancer cells grown in culture (mouse cancer cells) have dysregulation of this pathway in 85% of all cancer types. In the cancerous cells, it turns out that...
Humor aside, these are great tutorials…from basic to pretty complex. I favor systematic approaches to learning…as it’s done on creativeLive – you’ll find that links to Photoshop Week, which starts in two days…free registrations, wonderful teachers. But sometimes you just wish to learn “something new” or hear the name of a certain effects or tool…well… Here are 122 Photoshop tutorials which are done very well in...
“It’s My Party”. “You Don’t Own Me”…Lesley Gore, born in Brooklyn and raised in New Jersey died of cancer today. Gore was discovered by Quincy Jones as a teenager and signed to Mercury Records. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in English/American literature. She also played Catwoman's sidekick in the cult TV comedy "Batman." Gore co-wrote "My Secret Love" for Allison Anders' film "Grace of My Heart," releas...
I want to dedicate this to my valentine for life, my awesome wife, Lisa!!!
The Cubs announced Ernies' death Friday night, but did not provide a cause…it doesn’t really matter why (just hope it was without pain). No drama player…19 seasons between first base and shortstop, 1953-1971, 512 homers, 1,259 games. Eleven timers an all-star, also selected for the All-Century team in 1999. That kinda says it all…except that he owns just about all the Cubs’ slugging records, and also won the Golden Glove in 1960. Wa...
Now when I was younger let's say 20 I was 6'1", and 145#'s. Now if anyone seen me I was skinny. It was popular for guys to wear muscle shirts which didn't make sense for me wear so all my shirts had sleeves. When people asked me why I never wore muscle I was honest, and admitted I didn't look good. Now I used to say with women that personality was more important than looks. Lets be honest that's nonsense. Deep down I always wanted to have a good looking woman. Now the ...
I spotted this video on Top Gears Facebook newsfeed today, and I just had to show it here. It's a single-seater race car sliding round the track in 14 minutes - on snow - and ice - in -16C driven by Andy Gülden, the driving instructor at the track. Pretty impressive, imo. How 'bout that, Paul. An idea for Bathurst? Oh, wait.....
Miss Baton Rouge and Miss Louisiana of 1957, and the really pretty young woman who prtrayed Elly May Clampett (Beverly Hillbillies) has passed away at age 81. Beyond that, she sued Mattel, Inc. for making a likeness without her permission…she never landed any other roles, though.