“the sound of lips smacking together”
Today I learned… that there is a word for everything :) I do this sometimes - it’s a fun sound :)
Facebook - The notifications icon shows a different side of the globe depending on your location.
/via Thomas Park
Interesting…
If hashtags were rice grains, do you know how many starving families we could feed? Neither do I – I can’t Google it.
Tarantino // From Below (by kogonada)
Shots looking up at characters in the films of Quentin Tarantino.
Interesting… I hadn’t thought about that/noticed this trend in Tarantino films.
“With AML eventual recurrence/relapse after chemotherapy is the most common outcome, so you are in good company.”
I haven’t written about myself much in the past few months, but one thing I often talk about when seeing friends are THE ODDS. I researched them constantly in the first few months of my diagnosis. I have folders full of study data, research on different treatments, experimental drug therapies, how cytogenetics impact those odds.
I don’t think about them every day anymore, but the odds aren’t good.
Even among people who go through a well-matched stem cell transplant for AML like me, 25% will die in the first year. By year five, 50% will be gone.
If one survives past year five, there’s a lot less data. But I will face a lifetime of health problems due to the rigorous mutilation of my body I endured to irradicate leukemic cells and make room for my transplanted immune system.
For the rest of my life, the risk of every possible health problem, from small to large, is multiplied many times over for me. I am broken.
But I am alive.
I do think about that a lot.
I’m in Hawaii right now for my brother’s wedding, and decided to stay on for another week for myself. It’s the farthest I’ve been since this ordeal began. I sometimes allow myself to feel guilty that I am enjoying this – A few days ago I swam in the ocean for the first time in almost a year, I accidentally stood on a giant sea turtle (he seemed ok with it), I smiled and laughed with my family, my girlfriend, my brother, my new sister. I’ve eaten a fresh papaya like every day here. Do I deserve this?
I am not sure about all that will come next. But I do know that I’ve stopped wasting time. I can’t help but feel the weight of its value each day. That awareness itself feels like a gift.
I have some time, and if I use it well, it will be more than enough.
The plan, for now:
Leave here soon and fly back East. Get checked up, rent an RV, and travel back to San Francisco with my girlfriend and the puppy. See things I’ve always wanted to see, go at my own pace, work along the way. Write and photograph.
I’ll stay in San Francisco for a while, with visits back to Boston to see my medical team. I’ll work with the Photojojo crew as much as I’m able. And when I’m allowed to travel internationally, I’ll visit places I’ve always wanted to live and will do my best not to feel guilty about it. I will use my time fully, all of it.
– Amit
Very interesting to follow his story.
Reddit interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Question: What do you believe will be the biggest technical innovation within the next 20 years and why?
Tyson: These are always hard to predict. Who would have thought 20 years ago that the smart phone would out-perform every handheld device ever portrayed in a science fiction story, even those taking place centuries into our future. With that caveat, I'd say machine-brain implants that connect the internet directly to our neurophysiology. That'll be fun. Perhaps then we can beat Watson on Jeopardy.
Question: If a space traveling entity approached you with an opportunity to visit any celestial object from any distance and allow you bring one scientific instrument of your choosing, where would you go and what would you bring? The size of the instrument does not matter, but keep in mind the farther away your object of choice is, the more it may have changed (i.e. if you hoped to visit the recently discovered supernova SN 2011fe, you would arrive 21 million years after the event).
Tyson: I'd bring my iPhone, as the most compact representation of modern culture there is. And I'd visit a civilization on a galaxy 65 million light years away. Assuming I can get there instantaneously, I would look back to Earth with their presumably super telescopes and witness the extinction of the dinosaurs - the light of which is just now reach them.
Stages of a photographer (Knowledge, Quality of photos, How good you think you are)
Nice :) I especially like “The HDR hole” ;)
(via Fred Thomas)
The Story of Keep Calm and Carry On (by BarterBooksLtd)
Very interesting…
Glaucus Atlanticus sea slug
So, apparently this is a real thing (not Photoshop’d/alien). The more you know…
That feeling you get when you leave a conversation and think of all the things you should have said.
All. The Time.
Well, not all the time, but you know…
A U.S. Army soldier takes five with an Afghan boy during a patrol in Pul-e Alam, a town in Logar province, eastern Afghanistan. (via The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011)
Magnaðar myndir…
“Playa Time: Dust to Dust” - Burning Man 2011 Time Lapse (by meawoppl)
Flott time-lapse. Þessi Burning Man hátíð er frekar áhugaverð. Það komu víst 50.000 manns núna í ár (uppselt).
(via @yimmyayo)
The other day I was explaining to a friend how a camera works. It’s a simple and old analogy, but she said he helped her understand very easily. Think about the components of a camera as such;
Blink - Shutter
Pupil - Aperture
Color - ISONow imagine the camera as an eye - How fast you can blink…
Skemmtileg útskýring. Já, einmitt, bláeygðir er næmari fyrir birtu… ég var búinn að heyra þá kenningu. Áhugavert.
