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Monday, January 30, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Love: The True Version
About a month ago, the Georgia Tech Housing Department in an effort to popularize the use of recently installed water fountains, provided many of its residents with free water bottles. These bottles became really popular in my Residence Hall and lovingly came to be called 'Sippy Cups'. These sippy cups had the unintended effect of transferring us back to the our childhood days. Many of my friends carried them around EVERYWHERE. I was lucky enough to catch a few of them professing their love for these bottles on camera.
When asked about how much he loved his bottle, T.S. Elliott (his actual name) quoted T.S.Eliot -
"We have lingered in the chambers of the sea,
By sea girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown..."
Chris dedicated to it a poem of his own -
" Oh bottle, how your presence entices me!
Life without you was without purpose.
Your loving embrace provides me with life.
I love you."
Trevor wasn't as expressive, but his eyes plainly showed the love he had for the little plastic device:
"IT WAS FREE....and so portable.."
This young man was busy on Facebook and was thus not available for comment. A picture however is worth a thousand words. Not even Facebook will be able to divide us from these bottles, sent to us from heaven itself.
Beauty in Circuitry
The other day we made a virtual 4*3 RAM in one of my computer science classes. I'm not going to bore you with technical jargon, but I am going to show you a picture. It may look small, but this little circuit has the power to store information. It is circuits like these form the basis of all the computing systems in the world.
Must Watch Movies
I am a really big movie buff. Over the course of the last few years I have watched well over five hundred movies encompassing several genres. Based on my limited experience I now provide you with a list of many of the movies which I love and believe that every person should see by the end of his or her life.
1. Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
2. Kill Bill: Volume 1
3. Inglourious Basterds
4.The Green Mile
5. The Matrix
6. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
7. Batman Begins and The Dark Knight
8. Memento
9. The Presitige
10. Snatch
11. A Clockwork Orange
12. Paths of Glory
13. The Silence of the Lambs
14. The Departed
15. Blood Diamond
16. Requiem for a Dream
17. How to train your Dragon
18. No Country for Old Men
19. The Wrestler
20.The Truman Show
I hope you are lucky enough to watch at least a few of these films as soon as possible.
Enough said
Math Love
**A boy and a girl were once chatting online**
Girl: Hey! Listen I know we’ve only been dating for a short time, but…
Boy: But?
Girl: I think i <3 u
Boy: I don’t understand…
Girl: What's not to understand honey?
Boy: I just don’t see how anyone could compare an imaginary number to a real one??
Girl: *goes offline*
The Greatest Video game ever made
Last semester, I fell in love with the videogame Batman: Arkham city just a week before finals. Needless to say THAT WAS NOT A GOOD IDEA. Arkham City is probably the best game that I have EVER played. The story is good and the gameplay is fantastic. The game's story line is intriguing and well written. In the game Arkham city is essentially a cordoned of portion of old Gotham city surrounded by high walls and guns on all sides. All the inmates from all the prisons in Gotham have been released here and left to fend for themselves. Within the walls various supervillains of the batman universe fight it out in a struggle for supremacy. As Batman you must enter the city and fight your way through it trying to figure out what the antagonist's real purpose is in creating this huge super prison.
Everything about the game is simply put, superb. The fighting is fluid and if done properly, deeply satisfactory. Stealth as an important part to the game and you truly never feel outnumbered whether you're facing or even twenty inmates. I have included a few trailers to the game below.Hopefully they will serve their purpose and enthuse you, the reader of this post, to play this fantastic game
I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech..
Here's a treat for all of you. I found this on youtube and it's really cool. Enjoy!!
1. Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
2. Kill Bill: Volume 1
3. Inglourious Basterds
4.The Green Mile
5. The Matrix
6. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
7. Batman Begins and The Dark Knight
8. Memento
9. The Presitige
10. Snatch
11. A Clockwork Orange
12. Paths of Glory
13. The Silence of the Lambs
14. The Departed
15. Blood Diamond
16. Requiem for a Dream
17. How to train your Dragon
18. No Country for Old Men
19. The Wrestler
20.The Truman Show
I hope you are lucky enough to watch at least a few of these films as soon as possible.
Enough said
Math Love
**A boy and a girl were once chatting online**
Girl: Hey! Listen I know we’ve only been dating for a short time, but…
Boy: But?
Girl: I think i <3 u
Boy: I don’t understand…
Girl: What's not to understand honey?
Boy: I just don’t see how anyone could compare an imaginary number to a real one??
Girl: *goes offline*
The Greatest Video game ever made
Last semester, I fell in love with the videogame Batman: Arkham city just a week before finals. Needless to say THAT WAS NOT A GOOD IDEA. Arkham City is probably the best game that I have EVER played. The story is good and the gameplay is fantastic. The game's story line is intriguing and well written. In the game Arkham city is essentially a cordoned of portion of old Gotham city surrounded by high walls and guns on all sides. All the inmates from all the prisons in Gotham have been released here and left to fend for themselves. Within the walls various supervillains of the batman universe fight it out in a struggle for supremacy. As Batman you must enter the city and fight your way through it trying to figure out what the antagonist's real purpose is in creating this huge super prison.
Everything about the game is simply put, superb. The fighting is fluid and if done properly, deeply satisfactory. Stealth as an important part to the game and you truly never feel outnumbered whether you're facing or even twenty inmates. I have included a few trailers to the game below.Hopefully they will serve their purpose and enthuse you, the reader of this post, to play this fantastic game
I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech..
Here's a treat for all of you. I found this on youtube and it's really cool. Enjoy!!
Some Really Cool Stuff
Facial Expressions in Video Games
You may have heard of L. A. Noire. Released in 2011, it is a video game which puts you in the shoes of Cole Phelps, a detective in 1947 Los Angeles. The game draws heavily from fim noir using distinctive coloring styles as well as an option to play the entire game in black and white. As the protagonist, you complete the game by completing cases. A key aspect to these cases is the interrogation of suspects and witnesses. The player must ask questions and determine whether he or she is being lied to by closely watching body actions and facial expressions. When it comes to facial expressions most video games do a pretty dismal job. Not so for L.A.Noire. Through a technology called MotionScan, the creators have done a marvelous job. Each character seems real and multidimensional. Often they look really worried and genuinely uncomfortable. At other times they appear to be completely innocent but later turn out to be criminal masterminds. To play the game successfully one must become really adept at understanding these small individual nuances. I found a documentary about the technology used in the game and have embedded it below. I am sure you will find it as fascinating as I did.
Physics Rocks!
Physics is awesome! Last semester I took a class called Modern Physics 1. I made the following animation in one of my labs for the class, using a programming language called vpython.
The video is a simulation of the movement of a spaceship around the earth. The blue sphere in the middle is the earth. The red sphere orbiting it, with the the red trace is the moon. The spaceship that is orbiting the earth is leaving the yellow trace in its path. The beauty of this picture is in its sheer accuracy. At EACH and EVERY single point, the computer is calculating the gravitational force due to the moon and earth. This resulting force is applied on the spaceship, and it moves for a very very short time. At this new position the while process is repeated. The resulting path that is chalked out by the spaceship is thus exactly how Newton's Law of Gravitation defines it. Note that during the second revolution of the red sphere, as the spaceship comes nearer the moon, it seems to veer of its previously ordained orbit. This is due to the fact that as the distance between the moon and the spaceship decreases, the force due to the moon on the spaceship increases. During the third revolution of the red sphere they come so close to each other that they actually collide and the simulation ends. Bad day for the people on the spaceship I guess.
Another one for the physics buffs
For all you physics buffs, here is one the coolest simulative experiences I have ever experienced. Download the tool on this website: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/electric-hockey. The goal of this game is to manipulate a charged hockey puck into a goal, with an unlimited amount of positive and negative charges at your disposal. Each charge you place interacts with the puck electronically forcing it to move as the laws of physics dictate. It is also very entertaining for the fact that you aren't simply limited to playing the game. By placing an plethora of charges at different points around the puck you can observe the crazy ways in which it moves. All this motion is due to simple calculations of Coulomb's force made by the computer at every point, every second.
Perfection, Pure Perfection!!
What I wouldn't give to be one of these guys...
Physics Rocks!
Physics is awesome! Last semester I took a class called Modern Physics 1. I made the following animation in one of my labs for the class, using a programming language called vpython.
The video is a simulation of the movement of a spaceship around the earth. The blue sphere in the middle is the earth. The red sphere orbiting it, with the the red trace is the moon. The spaceship that is orbiting the earth is leaving the yellow trace in its path. The beauty of this picture is in its sheer accuracy. At EACH and EVERY single point, the computer is calculating the gravitational force due to the moon and earth. This resulting force is applied on the spaceship, and it moves for a very very short time. At this new position the while process is repeated. The resulting path that is chalked out by the spaceship is thus exactly how Newton's Law of Gravitation defines it. Note that during the second revolution of the red sphere, as the spaceship comes nearer the moon, it seems to veer of its previously ordained orbit. This is due to the fact that as the distance between the moon and the spaceship decreases, the force due to the moon on the spaceship increases. During the third revolution of the red sphere they come so close to each other that they actually collide and the simulation ends. Bad day for the people on the spaceship I guess.
Another one for the physics buffs
For all you physics buffs, here is one the coolest simulative experiences I have ever experienced. Download the tool on this website: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/electric-hockey. The goal of this game is to manipulate a charged hockey puck into a goal, with an unlimited amount of positive and negative charges at your disposal. Each charge you place interacts with the puck electronically forcing it to move as the laws of physics dictate. It is also very entertaining for the fact that you aren't simply limited to playing the game. By placing an plethora of charges at different points around the puck you can observe the crazy ways in which it moves. All this motion is due to simple calculations of Coulomb's force made by the computer at every point, every second.
Perfection, Pure Perfection!!
What I wouldn't give to be one of these guys...
Research Project 1101
Last semester, I was taking English 1101 under Professor Amanda Madden. In class we were discussing serendipity (the act of discovering something useful by accident). As an assignment we were required to create group blogs in which we all wrote articles our thoughts about serendipity. We even used the blog to publish our research papers. I based mine on "The Impact of Science Fiction on the World Wide Web." I worked extremely hard on this project and nothing would please me more then if some people actually read my work. If you wish to take a chance, the link is below. If you do visit the website, you will also find several well written articles by of many of my old classmates which might be of interest to you.
http://english1101electronicblog.blogspot.com
Awesome Pic
I found this last semester when I was browsing the internet. The cameras they are making these days are truly amazing
Saturday, January 28, 2012
To See the Serious Side of Things...
Time: Mickey Mouse says we still have it
In Shakespeare's play, Twelfth Night, the protagonist Viola is seen to say,
Oh Time, thou must untangle this, not
I.
It is too hard a knot for me t' untie! (Viola, 2.2.40-41)
Viola has gotten herself into a serious entanglement, and she believes that only time will tell whether she will be saved at the end. When I came across these lines in the play I was struck by how these exact thoughts can be applied so beautifully to all of us. As college students we are all being prepared for the future, but that future itself is uncertain. Oddly enough I remembered the famous Georgia Tech Mickey Mouse clock which can be found on campus, on the eastern side of the Skiles building.
Covered by dense foliage on all sides, the Mickey Mouse clock has over the years attained legend status as most Georgia Tech students go their entire college lives without ever seeing it. However this is exactly the opposite of what the clock stands for. It is placed such, that had the foliage not existed it would have been the first thing thousands of students would have seen when they trailed up freshman hill in the early hours of the morning. What better way to start the day then with the great Mickey Mouse smiling at you telling you everything will be all right. They would have started the day on a happy note and their whole day would have been better as a result.
The message must have been so simple. Time however has not stolen any of its beauty. Times may be trying, and our futures may be uncertain but at least we will always know that Mickey Mouse will be there for us, egging us on to face the future undaunted.
SOPA and PIPA
You may have heard of the recent controversies surrounding the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act). These acts were introduced into the Congress in January and May, 2011, respectively. The purpose of these acts was to give the government the power to shut down foreign domains that infringed copyright laws. The congressmen who supported to bill believed that it would help decrease piracy which has recently become rampant. I am not going to dispute whether these acts are morally right or wrong here. What interested me was the way domains and websites all over the world banded together to voice and show their disapproval for what they believe to harmful to the free nature of the world wide web as it exists today.
Here are a just a few of the things that were done world wide to prevent the passing of these 2 acts. -
1. An open letter to Washington speaking out against the legislation was signed by founders of Craigslist, eBay, Google, Mozilla, Twitter, and Wikipedia, among others.
2. On the 18th of January, 2012, Wikipedia organized a 24 hour worldwide blackout. They were joined by Reditt as well as many as 7000 other domains. In excess of 160 million people have to been said to have witnessed Wikipedias banner.
3. Even google displayed a doodle voicing out against the acts. The doodle was blackened to show how they believed that these acts would restrict freedom on the internet. Estimations stated that Google collected about 7 million signatures supporting their cause.
4. Rallies were held all over the U.S., most notably in New York.
All these motions were successful. President Obama denounce SOPA, and neither of them were passed.
Would this work?
The other day I came across the youtube video below.
If you watched the video, you now know that it is about former melanoma cancer patients try to send a message to all young teenagers warning them about this deadly disease. The video is emotional and well made. The only thing that bothers is that if a sixteen year old were to see this video, would he or she really be so affected that they would do what was suggested? Would they actually begin and continue to check their skin for signs month in and month over the next few years. Somehow I doubt it. They would probably just continue onto the next youtube video on their playlist. For those who'd take it seriously, they'd check initially no doubt. As time progressed however, they would soon begin to forget. My question thus is not actually related to melanoma cancer. It is a simple question: what would one have to do to broadcast such a message to my generation and the ones following it, without that message being disregarded by most who it was meant for. If this issue interests you, please comment and express your own views. I look forward to reading them.
Caffeine Pills Freak Me Out
Caffeine pills freak me out. I’m serious. Essentially a caffeine pill delivers the same amount of caffeine that a cup of coffee does, just without the coffee. They are harmless and often useful. Yet whenever one of my friends says that he has had them, I look at him as if he has admitted to being a drug addict. I myself like to drink coffee. Before my early morning classes I usually need a cup to keep me awake. Thus what these guys are doing is not really that different. They to wish to use the advantages of caffeine and they don't feel the need to hide behind an illusion which I guess I must be doing. What about you? Do you agree with my views or my conclusions or disagree with me in entirety? Feel free to comment and post your own views.
Science: From the Perspective of the Scientists
Last semester, I was lucky enough to read Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything." This book is a very popular book about general science and has been written from the perspective of the scientists who made the discoveries themselves. The language is very simple and lucid and no prior knowledge is required to read the book. I enjoyed it immensely as other then being written well it had the wonderful effect of showing the human side of scientists like Newton and Einstein. If you wish to read the book yourself, click on the link below and you will be redirected to a pdf version. I hope you read this book and that you enjoy it.
Becoming Smarter Requires Effort
In an effort to improve my own general knowledge, I have recently taken to watching the World News with Diane Sawyer on abc.com. This has stemmed from the fact that I am far too lazy to read through lengthy articles from online publications. Of all the websites I searched through, the news on abc.com is probably the best presented and easiest to access. I hope that I am able to continue watching it and in time become a more knowledgeable and smart person. If by any chance, you are like me and you to wish to watch the world news, then I heartily advise clicking the link below. Also, if any of you believe there to be better news sources out there, and wish to share them, you are free to comment and say so. I will be glad to watch them , learn from them and share my own views as well.
In Shakespeare's play, Twelfth Night, the protagonist Viola is seen to say,
It is too hard a knot for me t' untie! (Viola, 2.2.40-41)
Viola has gotten herself into a serious entanglement, and she believes that only time will tell whether she will be saved at the end. When I came across these lines in the play I was struck by how these exact thoughts can be applied so beautifully to all of us. As college students we are all being prepared for the future, but that future itself is uncertain. Oddly enough I remembered the famous Georgia Tech Mickey Mouse clock which can be found on campus, on the eastern side of the Skiles building.
Covered by dense foliage on all sides, the Mickey Mouse clock has over the years attained legend status as most Georgia Tech students go their entire college lives without ever seeing it. However this is exactly the opposite of what the clock stands for. It is placed such, that had the foliage not existed it would have been the first thing thousands of students would have seen when they trailed up freshman hill in the early hours of the morning. What better way to start the day then with the great Mickey Mouse smiling at you telling you everything will be all right. They would have started the day on a happy note and their whole day would have been better as a result.
The message must have been so simple. Time however has not stolen any of its beauty. Times may be trying, and our futures may be uncertain but at least we will always know that Mickey Mouse will be there for us, egging us on to face the future undaunted.
SOPA and PIPA
You may have heard of the recent controversies surrounding the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act). These acts were introduced into the Congress in January and May, 2011, respectively. The purpose of these acts was to give the government the power to shut down foreign domains that infringed copyright laws. The congressmen who supported to bill believed that it would help decrease piracy which has recently become rampant. I am not going to dispute whether these acts are morally right or wrong here. What interested me was the way domains and websites all over the world banded together to voice and show their disapproval for what they believe to harmful to the free nature of the world wide web as it exists today.
Here are a just a few of the things that were done world wide to prevent the passing of these 2 acts. -
1. An open letter to Washington speaking out against the legislation was signed by founders of Craigslist, eBay, Google, Mozilla, Twitter, and Wikipedia, among others.
2. On the 18th of January, 2012, Wikipedia organized a 24 hour worldwide blackout. They were joined by Reditt as well as many as 7000 other domains. In excess of 160 million people have to been said to have witnessed Wikipedias banner.
3. Even google displayed a doodle voicing out against the acts. The doodle was blackened to show how they believed that these acts would restrict freedom on the internet. Estimations stated that Google collected about 7 million signatures supporting their cause.
4. Rallies were held all over the U.S., most notably in New York.
All these motions were successful. President Obama denounce SOPA, and neither of them were passed.
Would this work?
The other day I came across the youtube video below.
If you watched the video, you now know that it is about former melanoma cancer patients try to send a message to all young teenagers warning them about this deadly disease. The video is emotional and well made. The only thing that bothers is that if a sixteen year old were to see this video, would he or she really be so affected that they would do what was suggested? Would they actually begin and continue to check their skin for signs month in and month over the next few years. Somehow I doubt it. They would probably just continue onto the next youtube video on their playlist. For those who'd take it seriously, they'd check initially no doubt. As time progressed however, they would soon begin to forget. My question thus is not actually related to melanoma cancer. It is a simple question: what would one have to do to broadcast such a message to my generation and the ones following it, without that message being disregarded by most who it was meant for. If this issue interests you, please comment and express your own views. I look forward to reading them.
Caffeine Pills Freak Me Out
Caffeine pills freak me out. I’m serious. Essentially a caffeine pill delivers the same amount of caffeine that a cup of coffee does, just without the coffee. They are harmless and often useful. Yet whenever one of my friends says that he has had them, I look at him as if he has admitted to being a drug addict. I myself like to drink coffee. Before my early morning classes I usually need a cup to keep me awake. Thus what these guys are doing is not really that different. They to wish to use the advantages of caffeine and they don't feel the need to hide behind an illusion which I guess I must be doing. What about you? Do you agree with my views or my conclusions or disagree with me in entirety? Feel free to comment and post your own views.
Science: From the Perspective of the Scientists
Last semester, I was lucky enough to read Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything." This book is a very popular book about general science and has been written from the perspective of the scientists who made the discoveries themselves. The language is very simple and lucid and no prior knowledge is required to read the book. I enjoyed it immensely as other then being written well it had the wonderful effect of showing the human side of scientists like Newton and Einstein. If you wish to read the book yourself, click on the link below and you will be redirected to a pdf version. I hope you read this book and that you enjoy it.
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| http://www.huzheng.org/bookstore/AShortHistoryofNearlyEverything.pdf |
Becoming Smarter Requires Effort
In an effort to improve my own general knowledge, I have recently taken to watching the World News with Diane Sawyer on abc.com. This has stemmed from the fact that I am far too lazy to read through lengthy articles from online publications. Of all the websites I searched through, the news on abc.com is probably the best presented and easiest to access. I hope that I am able to continue watching it and in time become a more knowledgeable and smart person. If by any chance, you are like me and you to wish to watch the world news, then I heartily advise clicking the link below. Also, if any of you believe there to be better news sources out there, and wish to share them, you are free to comment and say so. I will be glad to watch them , learn from them and share my own views as well.
The Best Quotes in the World
Dr. Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory
Sheldon: Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors.
Sheldon: Why are you crying?
Penny: Because I'm stupid!
Sheldon: That's no reason to cry. One cries because one is sad. For example, I cry because others are stupid, and that makes me sad.
Raj: I don't like bugs, okay? They freak me out.
Sheldon: Interesting. You're afraid of insects and women. Ladybugs must render you catatonic.
Sheldon: Ah, gravity - thou art a heartless b*tch.
Sheldon: Under normal circumstances I'd say I told you so. But, as I have told so with such vehemence and frequency already the phrase has lost all meaning. Therefore, I will be replacing it with the phrase, I have informed you thusly.
Howard: Don't you think I should answer the engineering questions? I am an engineer.
Sheldon: By that logic I should answer all the anthropology questions because I'm a mammal.
Leonard: Have you considered telling her how you feel?
Sheldon: Leonard, I'm a physicist, not a hippie!
Glados in Valve's Portal and Portal 2
Note - If you aren't a portal player.....BECOME A PORTAL PLAYER
GLaDOS: [the character has just destroyed part of GLaDOS] You think you're doing some damage? Two plus two is...
[sparking and fizzling noise]
GLaDOS: Ten. IN BASE FOUR! I'M FINE!
GLaDOS: [the player is carrying a sphere that fell from GLaDOS] Maybe you should marry that thing since you love it so much. Do you want to marry it? WELL I WON'T LET YOU! How does that feel?
GLaDOS: There was even going to be a party for you. A big party that all your friends were invited to. I invited your best friend, the Companion Cube. Of course, he couldn't come because you murdered him. All your other friends couldn't come, either, because you don't have any other friends because of how unlikable you are. It says so right here in your personnel file: "Unlikable. Liked by no one. A bitter, unlikable loner, whose passing shall not be mourned. Shall NOT be mourned." That's exactly what it says. Very formal. Very official. It also says you were adopted, so that's funny, too.
GLaDOS: Your entire life has been a mathematical error... a mathematical error I'm about to correct!
GLaDOS: Good news. I figured what that thing you just incinerated did. It was a morality core they installed after I flooded the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin, to make me stop flooding the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin. So get comfortable while I warm up the neurotoxin emitters.
GLaDOS: That thing you burned up isn't important to me; it's the fluid catalytic cracking unit. It makes shoes for orphans... nice job breaking it, hero.
GLaDOS: Congratulations, the test is now over.
[while sending Chell to a fire pit via moving platform]
GLaDOS: All Aperture technologies remain safely operational up to 4000 degrees kelvin. Rest assured, that there is absolutely no chance of a dangerous equipment malfunction prior to your victory candescence. Thank you for participating in that Aperture Science Enrichment activity. Goodbye!
GLaDOS: Oh, it's you.
Wheatley: You *know* her?
GLaDOS: It's been a long time. How have you been?
Wheatley: [whispers] I think she likes you!
GLaDOS: I've been *really* busy being dead. You know, after you *murdered* me!
[Chell completes a puzzle] GLaDOS: Well done. Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I'm serious, that's what it says: "A horrible person." We weren't even testing for that. Don't let that horrible-person thing discourage you. It's just a data point. If it makes you feel any better, science has now validated your birth mother's decision to abandon you on a doorstep.
GLaDOS: Most people emerge from suspension terribly undernourished. I want to congratulate you on beating the odds and somehow managing to pack on a few pounds.Cave Johnson: [Cave Johnson died long before the events of the game. Chell and GLaDOS are listening to his last recorded words, a message for his human test subjects, which he made while he was deathly ill] All right, I've been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade!
GLaDOS: Yeah.
Cave Johnson: Make life take the lemons back!
GLaDOS: Yeah!
Cave Johnson: Get Mad!
GLaDOS: Yeah!
Cave Johnson: I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?
GLaDOS: Yeah, take the lemons!
Cave Johnson: Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man whose gonna burn your house down - with the lemons!
GLaDOS: Oh, I like this guy.
Cave Johnson: I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that'll burn your house down!
GLaDOS: Burn it down! Burning people. He says what we're all thinking.
Hope you enjoyed it! Like I said before, if you haven't done it already, you really must play the game.
Sheldon: Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and as it always has, rock crushes scissors.
Sheldon: Why are you crying?
Penny: Because I'm stupid!
Sheldon: That's no reason to cry. One cries because one is sad. For example, I cry because others are stupid, and that makes me sad.
Raj: I don't like bugs, okay? They freak me out.
Sheldon: Interesting. You're afraid of insects and women. Ladybugs must render you catatonic.
Sheldon: Ah, gravity - thou art a heartless b*tch.
Sheldon: Under normal circumstances I'd say I told you so. But, as I have told so with such vehemence and frequency already the phrase has lost all meaning. Therefore, I will be replacing it with the phrase, I have informed you thusly.
Howard: Don't you think I should answer the engineering questions? I am an engineer.
Sheldon: By that logic I should answer all the anthropology questions because I'm a mammal.
Leonard: Have you considered telling her how you feel?
Sheldon: Leonard, I'm a physicist, not a hippie!
Glados in Valve's Portal and Portal 2
Note - If you aren't a portal player.....BECOME A PORTAL PLAYER
GLaDOS: [the character has just destroyed part of GLaDOS] You think you're doing some damage? Two plus two is...
[sparking and fizzling noise]
GLaDOS: Ten. IN BASE FOUR! I'M FINE!
GLaDOS: [the player is carrying a sphere that fell from GLaDOS] Maybe you should marry that thing since you love it so much. Do you want to marry it? WELL I WON'T LET YOU! How does that feel?
GLaDOS: There was even going to be a party for you. A big party that all your friends were invited to. I invited your best friend, the Companion Cube. Of course, he couldn't come because you murdered him. All your other friends couldn't come, either, because you don't have any other friends because of how unlikable you are. It says so right here in your personnel file: "Unlikable. Liked by no one. A bitter, unlikable loner, whose passing shall not be mourned. Shall NOT be mourned." That's exactly what it says. Very formal. Very official. It also says you were adopted, so that's funny, too.
GLaDOS: Your entire life has been a mathematical error... a mathematical error I'm about to correct!
GLaDOS: Good news. I figured what that thing you just incinerated did. It was a morality core they installed after I flooded the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin, to make me stop flooding the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin. So get comfortable while I warm up the neurotoxin emitters.
GLaDOS: That thing you burned up isn't important to me; it's the fluid catalytic cracking unit. It makes shoes for orphans... nice job breaking it, hero.
GLaDOS: Congratulations, the test is now over.
[while sending Chell to a fire pit via moving platform]
GLaDOS: All Aperture technologies remain safely operational up to 4000 degrees kelvin. Rest assured, that there is absolutely no chance of a dangerous equipment malfunction prior to your victory candescence. Thank you for participating in that Aperture Science Enrichment activity. Goodbye!
GLaDOS: Oh, it's you.
Wheatley: You *know* her?
GLaDOS: It's been a long time. How have you been?
Wheatley: [whispers] I think she likes you!
GLaDOS: I've been *really* busy being dead. You know, after you *murdered* me!
[Chell completes a puzzle] GLaDOS: Well done. Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I'm serious, that's what it says: "A horrible person." We weren't even testing for that. Don't let that horrible-person thing discourage you. It's just a data point. If it makes you feel any better, science has now validated your birth mother's decision to abandon you on a doorstep.
GLaDOS: Most people emerge from suspension terribly undernourished. I want to congratulate you on beating the odds and somehow managing to pack on a few pounds.Cave Johnson: [Cave Johnson died long before the events of the game. Chell and GLaDOS are listening to his last recorded words, a message for his human test subjects, which he made while he was deathly ill] All right, I've been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade!
GLaDOS: Yeah.
Cave Johnson: Make life take the lemons back!
GLaDOS: Yeah!
Cave Johnson: Get Mad!
GLaDOS: Yeah!
Cave Johnson: I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?
GLaDOS: Yeah, take the lemons!
Cave Johnson: Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man whose gonna burn your house down - with the lemons!
GLaDOS: Oh, I like this guy.
Cave Johnson: I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that'll burn your house down!
GLaDOS: Burn it down! Burning people. He says what we're all thinking.
Hope you enjoyed it! Like I said before, if you haven't done it already, you really must play the game.
Real Quotes by Actual People
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. - Joesph Stalin
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
—A. A. Milne
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great." - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."- Charlton Heston (1924-2008)
"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." - Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup
"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death." - H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." - Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Sense is overrated" - Me
Words to Live By
This isn't a quote. Below you will find a youtube link to Bill Withers' 'Lean on Me' complete with lyrics. I love this song and truly believe that everything said in it should be taken to heart.
A Random One
The other day I was writing this blog in my room. I took a break of about five minutes and went to the restroom. When I returned I found the following words typed, capitalized and enlarged on my desktop screen. Random mysterious quotees by T. S. Eliot should never be ignored and hence I now share these words with the world. Nothing is changed. Even the font size is that of the original.
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. - Joesph Stalin
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
—A. A. Milne
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great." - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."- Charlton Heston (1924-2008)
"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." - Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup
"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death." - H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." - Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Sense is overrated" - Me
Words to Live By
This isn't a quote. Below you will find a youtube link to Bill Withers' 'Lean on Me' complete with lyrics. I love this song and truly believe that everything said in it should be taken to heart.
A Random One
The other day I was writing this blog in my room. I took a break of about five minutes and went to the restroom. When I returned I found the following words typed, capitalized and enlarged on my desktop screen. Random mysterious quotees by T. S. Eliot should never be ignored and hence I now share these words with the world. Nothing is changed. Even the font size is that of the original.
I
have seen the eternal footman hold my coat and snicker. And, in short, I was
afraid.
Friday, January 27, 2012
The Things You'd See at Tech
A bit random, I'd say..
A picture of me fast asleep in the Clough building, in between classes. I'm sure we have all done this or will have done it, in the coming years.
Yo momma so fat, the probability of her being an arbitrary point in the coordinate system is ONE!!
Resume Tray
The other day, I brought some food to my room, to eat. I grabbed the nearest paper available and laid it down on my roommates chair. I placed the food on top of that and then proceeded to gorge myself. It was during this process that I noticed that the paper I had used was in fact a few of my resumes that I had printed earlier for a career fair. I found this highly amusing and clicked a picture of it. If you were wondering, yes, I did finish the meal before I cleared up the papers.
The Georgia Tech registration system however had another idea. On the first day of registration I got NONE of the classes I wanted. It was pretty horrible. It was only by working extremely hard over the entire registration phase that I was able to get even some of them. My final schedule was as follows:
I find it really ironic when I compare these schedules due to the sheer differences between them. I'm sure you'll agree.
We'll always have the M-Train
We all feel like this from time to time.
I found this on one of the boards in the study lounge of the Smith Residence Hall. Make what you will of it. I'm guessing some poor soul just went crazy with all the studying and started doodling.
We've all said these things..
The following video was made by Tech students for Tech students. It is a compilation of what we Tech students say on a day to day basis. You're going to enjoy this if you're from Tech.
Blissful Sleep
A picture of me fast asleep in the Clough building, in between classes. I'm sure we have all done this or will have done it, in the coming years.
A Joke for us Tech students
Yo momma so fat, the probability of her being an arbitrary point in the coordinate system is ONE!!
Resume Tray
The other day, I brought some food to my room, to eat. I grabbed the nearest paper available and laid it down on my roommates chair. I placed the food on top of that and then proceeded to gorge myself. It was during this process that I noticed that the paper I had used was in fact a few of my resumes that I had printed earlier for a career fair. I found this highly amusing and clicked a picture of it. If you were wondering, yes, I did finish the meal before I cleared up the papers.
The Dashing of an Expectation
Last semester I planned what classes I would take in this one, well ahead of time. I had an entire schedule chalked out and was confident that I would get the classes I wanted.
The Georgia Tech registration system however had another idea. On the first day of registration I got NONE of the classes I wanted. It was pretty horrible. It was only by working extremely hard over the entire registration phase that I was able to get even some of them. My final schedule was as follows:
I find it really ironic when I compare these schedules due to the sheer differences between them. I'm sure you'll agree.
We'll always have the M-Train
We all feel like this from time to time.
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