How did I get here?: Archive

How did I get here?

December 2011

3 posts

[Ted Talk] This guy designs and builds open source industrial equipment and machinery. Kind of feels like re-inventing the wheel, but this could be a major boon for third world countries and/or developing nations. Also, would be a necessity in the case of an economic apocalypse after which we all revert to an agrarian culture.

November 2011

4 posts

One of the best trail riding videos I’ve ever seen. Awesome riding, good soundtrack, great dog. Could not stop smiling.

September 2011

1 post

August 2011

2 posts

July 2011

9 posts

What Is Intelligence, Anyway?

By Isaac Asimov When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over me. (It didn’t mean anything. The next day I was still a buck private with KP - kitchen police - as my highest duty.) All my life I’ve been...

June 2011

17 posts

Networks Are Smart at the Edges →

How to save 8 million dollars with a desk fan: A quick story that gives fresh meaning to the phrase “think outside the box.” Thanks @joshmings

This amazing motion capture film ventures inside what is said to be the largest steel processing plant in the world, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, in the city of Magnitogorsk, in Chelyabinsk Province, Russia. The incredible imagery and contemplative soundtrack give an ordinarily very grimy and no doubt uncomfortable setting a highly transcendent quality.

May 2011

15 posts

Exclusive Area 51 Pictures: Secret Plane Crash... →

Area 51 Spy Plane, Intact