Sandbox II
"I'm just one hundred and one, five months and a day." "I can't believe that!" said Alice. "Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes." Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." Alice in Wonderland
"My name is Alice, but — " "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?" "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: "my name means the shape I am — and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."
From that day onwards, the silver fox would live in a world of past memories, unaware that he had a problem forming new ones. By way of compensation, like many Korsakoff's sufferers, he would fill in gaps by confabulating plausible but nonetheless crazy stories. "I think i saw you at the ball park, " he might say to someone he had just met. "That hot dog was great, wasn't it?" The urge to fabricate experieneces probably grows out of a need to save face. Many alcoholics do it in the early stages of the sundrome, and while it is an intersting component of memory loss, it is not a necessary one. - 76, Reaching down the rabbit hole, allan ropper
Ooo blob detect + kinect flow? Open frameworks or processing? touchdesigner no blob detection
Dead water A person in a boat going over the ocean shouldn't notice a difference between stratified fresh and saltwater and the regular sea — at first. Then, after a traveling normally for a little while through the layered water, their boat will slow, or even stop, seemingly without cause. As the sailor tries to maneuver the craft around, it will either fail to respond to their steering at all, or exaggerate their turns wildly. It will seem as though the boat is being held back, or pushed around, by powerful forces, but the surface of the ocean will remain calm and unchanging. Sailors who strayed into stretches of water like this call it "dead water."
Professor Henry of Princeton.
Joseph Henry, an independent discoverer of electromagnetic induction under
the form of self-induction-a varying current inducing back electricity on itselfconstructed
a shock machine by interrupting the current from a voltaic cell through a
long ribbon of copper rolled up into a spiral. An assistant-you may call him victim,
patient or accomplice according to your mood:'--held two metal handles in his hands,
the handles being in contact with the ends of the copper tape. When Henry broke the
battery circuit by simply rubbing one of the terminals on a file, the collaborator got a
shock. A
Dear Mr. “Ask the Pilot”: I am a Private Pilot in the USA with about 500 hours. This is not the reason for my letter. In the early 1990’s when I was discharged from the US Navy, I went to work for an Airline Catering Company out of Boston, MA / Logan International call “Marriott in-flite Services. My job position was to cater commercial airlines. Later I was promoted to Airline Coordinator and my duties were to check and inspect that all catering items were aboard the Aircraft before departure. My focus was the 5 Trans-Atlantic Flight from BOS-LGA; 747-200, BOS-GLA, BOS-AMS, BOS-CDG, BOS-AMS and BOS-FRA: all DC-10-40 Aircraft. I also catered 767’s, The SST Concorde, Airbus 340, 747-400’s et al. the DC-10 in comparison to B-777 is a pretty good comparison. NWA Flew 38 First and 256 Y Class PAX with a Crew of 12-15. Now I am thinking of all the equipment, Lermer carts and trays, Plastic cups, foam cups, stir sticks, napkins, ovens, plastic food ware, cardboard boxes, duty free items, half filled liquor bottles will float along with all the other aircraft equipment. Now with all that equipment and galley nomenclature; investigators and searches haven’t even found a G-Damn Bloody STYROFOAM CUP! Not one cup, cart, napkin, tray liner, plastic flatware has washed up anywhere. NOT ONE has washed up on an Aussie or Kiwi Beach, or countries in the Northern IO. I mean WTF? There are literally thousands of cups on these planes.
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