I can't stop watching this awesome video of how badass this giant swiss army knife is.
via youtube.com
SO BADASS.
Hi, I'm Garry Tan. I'm a venture partner with Y Combinator. Previously, I cofounded Posterous and was early at Palantir.
“Candidly, those who count on quote ‘Hollywood’ for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who’s going to stand up for them when their job is at stake,” Dodd said to Fox News recently. “Don’t ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don’t pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.”
Luckily what elects our representatives is still our votes, and not a lobbyist's dollars. No amount of money from Hollywood could overpower the voting rights of a well-educated Internet-loving populace.
Advice to people at the beginning of their careers: do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant. Grab every opportunity to take responsibility and do things for which you are unqualified.
Advice to people at the middle of their careers: do not be afraid to switch careers and try something new. As my friend the physicist Leo Szilard said (number nine in his list of ten commandments): “Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.”
Priceonomics is just released the Fixie Bike Index, a measure of who's the most hipster fixie city in America.
Surprisingly, Manhattan beat out Brooklyn for fixies per capita and Orange County is the hipsterest of them all! Whaaat?
Priceonomics continues to be the new OK Cupid of interesting Craigslist data. I know where I'm going to go when I need to know what's the fair price for a bike on Craigslist.
After confronting extraterrestrials in "Cowboys and Aliens," Harrison Ford is ready to take on another alien race in OddLot Entertainment's sci-fi tentpole "Ender's Game" along with Abigail Breslin and Hailee Steinfeld.Also onboard are young thesps Aramis Knight, Moises Arias, Jimmy "Jax" Pinchak, Suraj Parthasarathy, Conor Carroll and Khylin Rhambo.
Gavin Hood ("X-Men Origins: Wolverine") is directing from his own script, adapted from Orson Scott Card's novel. Summit Entertainment is co-financing and will release the film in the U.S. on March 15, 2013. Set in Earth's utopian future, "Ender's Game" stars Asa Butterfield ("Hugo") as a genius strategist recruited by the government to help destroy an insect-like alien race.
My projector is making crazy noise... probaby something to do with the dynamic iris. Anyway, I couldn't find this doc and ended up having to pay for it on one of these PDF document sites. Hoping to save people the trouble, I've posted it on my blog. Hopefully proper google link juice will cause this post to rise to the top and as a result, nobody will have to pay these spammy sites again for the document. *high fives*
If you have an AE900U that’s noisy most all the time then you probably have a faulty iris and your dynamic control is useless. For those that don’t want to send their unit in for repair and are brave enough to go inside, here’s how to shut down the iris: (1) Remove the lens shift lever by unscrewing it and giving a tug. It will pull right out. Be sure to unscrew it enough so you don't strip the threads. (2) Remove the screws on the bottom. There are little arrows on the chassis bottom pointing to the screw locations. (3) Remove one screw from the unit back panel. It’s the one at the top middle of the panel. (4) Lift the top cover off the unit. (5) Locate the main printed circuit board. It’s the one that has the 3 fancy ribbon cables connecting each LCD and right over/inline with the lens system. The board has several connectors around its sides. On the front side of that board find a connector in the middle labeled "A23". These connectors can be a bit of a pain to remove without snapping the plastic ends. Although you normally aren't supposed to yank on the wires to remove a connector this is typically the safest way with this type of connector. We use them in stuff we design where I work. So try to grab all the wires on that connector together then pull toward the front of the unit (inline with the wires as they leave the connector) to unplug it from the board. The iris is now unplugged. (6) Reassemble the unit in the reverse order, of course leaving the iris unplugged. (7) Turn the unit on and disable the dynamic iris in the system menu. Note: The unit doesn't know the iris is not working so it will not be optimally controlling the LCD. With the iris faulty the dynamic range (contrast ratio) will actually be worse than a system that doesn't use an iris. That's because the electronics is counting on the iris to do part of the job. This is why you must tell the projector to not use the iris so you can regain part of the dynamic range. Your projector should now be as quiet as when it was new.
Had Seu Jorge not recorded my songs acoustically in Portuguese," Bowie noted in the album's liner notes, "I would never have heard this new level of beauty which he has imbued them with.
Life Aquatic, directed by Wes Anderson, was one of my favorite films of all time, not in small part to the relaxed and brilliant work of Brazilian singer and actor Seu Jorge. In addition to being the ship's safety officer, he also sings multiple acoustic guitar renderings of David Bowie's songs like Life on Mars with Portugese translation.
Wes Anderson is surely the Woody Allen of our generation.
