ISS Tour

This is a video that I found on YouTube; it's a tour of the International Space Station.





On-orbit construction began in 1988, and is set to finish late next year.

Tweet Database

The Library of Congress is archiving all tweets from Twitter made since the site's inception. This means the updates you posted on the Iranian election will be archived, as well as the tweets about how crunchy your toast was and that post you don't want your brother to know about.

Please click this link to know more:

http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/04/how-tweet-it-is-library-acquires-entire-twitter-archive/

Hope this proves to be worth it!

Photoshop CS5

One of the new features of Abode Photoshop CS5 is the content aware fill tool. It's like an automated version of the clone tool, and using it takes considerably less time for complex jobs than it would with the clone tool.




And here is a fun video based on the content aware fill tool. Enjoy.

Eudemons Online

There's this pretty interesting (though fairly standard) MMO that I play; Eudemons Online.  (Oh, it's free.)

Here's a screenshot:

You make an account, and can set up characters (one each) on various serves, like Sydney or Toronto. There are three character classes to pick from: mage, paladin, and warrior. There is no class-specialization, sorry. The most interesting aspect of the game are the pest (the "eudemons") that you carry with you; they help fight alongside you and defend you in combat. They can be combined in different ways to be made stronger in various aspects of their strength and attributes, be ranked, and learn different skills to help you attack and defend.

There is an optional system in the game where you can pay for elite items/eudemons/gear/whatever you want, however it is possible to obtain these without paying for anything. There are also in game events much of the time that allow you to collect some points in the special currency (EP's) that you usually have to pay for. This way, everyone gets a chance.

Taro Magic

Apparently the little doughnut shop down the street from me does have taro drinks; you just have to ask for them. =)

Taro is a vegetable grown for the consumption of its roots and leaves, especially in Oceanic cultures (where it's something of a staple) and in East Asia. The root kind of looks like a hell-potato. Here:

Okay it doesn't look weird, I just said "hell-potato" to get you to laugh. Sad attempt eh?

The plant can be toxic if you don't cook it first, so watch out. With the root, you must clean and remove the skin. Some people may have irritating skin reactions to the plant's juices when they're preparing it, so you can either wear gloves when you're peeling it or just cook it in the microwave first to neutralize the effect.


The plant has a variety of uses, and pretty much any use you can think of for a potato applies to taro as well...except that taro gets made into drinks. Yum!

The purple one on the far right is taro flavored. ㅅ_ㅅ

Don't touch me! - I'm contagious!

So I saw the doctor today about me not feeling good today and yesterday, and it turns out that I am infected with streptococcal pharyngitis. Joy!

By the way, streptococcal pharyngitis = strep throat. It's the most common bacterial infection of the throat that one can get. My doctor had a Rapid Strep Test performed, which took a little more than 10 minutes, and it came back positive. They also took a swab for a throat culture which will take a couple of days to develop, so the RST is good because the results come back quickly. They were positive, so now we know I've got strep.  

Since I doubt any of you want to see any graphical representation of this, I'm posting a picture (that I do not own) of a rabbit instead. Enjoy.

Doesn't its cuteness overwhelm you? ^^

Digital Painting

As of yesterday, I have begun to work on a digital painting. I'm still sketching out the basic design and trying to work out composition. So far I have about 2.5 hours of work on it.

Ordinarily I'd take less time to sketch it, but I'm a little unsure of what I what the final to look like.

One thing that I am certain of though, is that there shall be a robot in it. I'm thinking it "lives" in an old abandoned factory, and periodically goes out with a large sack and forages for scraps of metal and parts in old shipyards and scrapheaps. Then it comes back and works on a generator and tries to replicate the old machines in the factories...

Eh, I'll update you more later. One I have something painted I'll post it up on here so you can see...

...maybe.