It may seems a little odd a dog post in my blog, but this one has an explanation. This Saturday I'm choosing a Jack Russel puppy. I've always loved such dogs, since the TV series Frasier, and the movie Mask, with Jim Carrey. Always heard about the intelligence and loyalty of this dogs, and I dreamed about one since then. Despite my mom's fear of his electric stamina I'm really thrilled. Here are some notes on Wikipedia about them:
"Originating in the early 19th century from dogs bred and used by Reverend John Russell, it has similar origins to the modern Fox terrier. The Jack Russell is an energetic breed which relies on a high level of exercise and stimulation, and is relatively free from serious health complaints. It has gone through several changes over the years, through different use and breed standards set by kennel clubs. Recognition for the breed by kennel clubs has been opposed by the breed's parent societies – which resulted in the breeding and recognition of the Parson Russell terrier. Jack Russells have appeared many times in film, television and print with several historical dogs of note."
For last I will just leave you with pictures from the dogs from Mask and Frasier, and a presentation video.
Hi there, it's been a while since I post and I'm sorry for that, the holidays together with exams at college stoled a lot of my time.
Today I'm here to talk to you about the series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire, written by George R.R. Martin. Many of you (as I), only heard about this when the Game of Thrones series when HBO aired it. But there are novels of course, Role Playing Games, board games, cards games all about this. I've seen the entire show on HBO and read the first 5 books and I can tell you they are really addicted. Cant recall the last time I became so addicted to a book, probably only with Harry Potter's series.
This story as Wikipedia says "takes place in a fictional world, primarily on a continent called Westeros but also on a large landmass to the east, known as Essos. There are three story lines that become increasingly interwoven: the chronicling of a dynastic civil war for control of Westeros among several competing families; the rising threat of the Others, who dwell beyond an immense wall of ice that forms Westeros' northern border; and the ambition of Daenerys Targaryen, the exiled daughter of a king who was murdered in another civil war fifteen years before, to return to Westeros and claim her rightful throne." This last part is what really fascinates me, G. Martin created so many characters without losing focus resulting in a book with various storylines and takes you several pages to evolve, and that gets you addicted to the book, you really can't stop reading them until you finish. Another great thing (but sad tho) is that G Martin is not afraid to kill some of the main characters (SPOIL: as happened to Stark in the very 1st season, to many people one of the best characters in the story, including me). For last I give you some Wikipedia facts that show you the greatness of this books: "The "Ice and Fire" series has been translated into more than 20 languages. The fourth and fifth volumes reached the top of The New York Times bestseller lists in 2005 and 2011. Overall, the series has sold more than seven million copies in the USA and more than 15 million copies worldwide."
Finally I'll just leave you with the official amazing trailer and song:
Today, I'm here to talk to you about a fascinating technology..Arduino! What is Arduino? Arduino is an open source single-board microcontroller, descendant of the open-source Wiring platform, designed to make the process of using electronics in multidisciplinary projects more accessible. It's amazing the uncountable things you can do with it, the limit is your imagination.
The best way to describe an Arduino is with a few examples:
Want to have a coffee pot tweet when the coffee is ready? Arduino.
Want to have plushie steaks glow? Arduino.
How about getting an alert on your phone when there’s physical mail in your mailbox? Arduino.
Want to have a Professor X Steampunk wheelchair that speaks and dispenses booze? Arduino.
Want to make a set of quiz buzzers for an event out of Staples Easy Buttons? Arduino.
Want to make a light-up arm cannon from Metroid for your son? Arduino.
Want to make your own heart rate monitor for cycling that logs to a memory card? Arduino.
Want to make a robot that draws on the ground, or rides around in the snow? Arduino.
That's great but how does this work?
The hardware part it's simply an open hardware design for the Arduino board with an Atmel AVR processor and on-board input/output support. As you can see in the image.
The software consists of a standard programming language compiler and the boot loader that runs on the board.
The project started in Ivrea, Italy, when a college teacher wanted to build more pratical projects that he could show to his students, to encourage them in his classes. Founders Massimo Banzi and David Cuartielles named the project after Arduin of Ivrea, the main historical character of the town. "Arduino" is an Italian masculine first name, meaning "strong friend". The English version of the name is "Hardwin".
I'll just leave you with some videos of Arduino projects, google it, you will find everything you need to get your projects running.
Just discovered a "new" artist this week on the radio. I really liked
the song, so I googled the lyrics (who didn't sometime in life?) and
ended up finding the group Oh Land, the music was by the way "White
Nights": I'll linked you down to the Youtube video as usual in this
blog.
As I really liked the song, went down to the store and bought their
album "Sun of a Gun", and I was really surprised by the quality of the
entire album. It sure has one of two songs more commercial and more
catchy than the others, but it's very regular the entire album, really
recommend you to give it a try.
I'll leave you with "White Nights", here you can feel Nanna's (vocalist)
nordic accent, wich gives the music a really classy touch, watch out
for when she says "pillow", it's almost magical...
Now, I'll leave you with the song that named the album "Sun of a Gun", a really nice one of course
Listening to it you feel like kidnapped to a new colorfull world, of fantasy, fairylistic with ocasional introspective smooth paths. After all, the songs that accompanied us in dreams were born in Oh Land...
Just bought the new FIFA 12, and I must say it looks amazing! If you liked FIFA 11 you will love this new one. As it seems a little harder to adapt to the new defense strategy it's just a matter of adaptation. But I'm not here to talk to you about the gameplay.
My point is to talk about the new online mode game, "Head to Head Season"! It's the same as in FIFA 11, but with a great nice improve. You can choose a Season game, or a Cup Game, choose your team, press "search" and that's it, you have yourself a match! If you play season your game will be the normal 3 points to win, 1 to draw and 0 to defeat. In an amount of games you have to make some points, to keep in the division, or to be promote. You start in 10th divison, and you are promoted until you reache the 1st one. For example, 10 matchs you have to make 7 points to mantain, or 14 to be promoted. Just an example. It is really funny to play, and to keep track of your XP, and division and trash talk at your freinds eheh
Just discovered a site where you can learn about JavaScript, with a nice design and cool exercises. In www.codeacademy.com, you can learn the basics on this programming language. There are 4 courses, with several exercises in each one. It's good even for someone who never programmed before, as you can take some very simple tutorials. Give it a try, as they say on the site "Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It's interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends".
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You would think you know his name, everytime you switch on a light, or turn on your radio. His contributions are far reaching as those of Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton or even his nemesis Thomas Edison.
This misterious tall, dark serbian invented alterneting current, wireless comunication, the modern electric motor, laser and radar technology, x-rays, neon, robotics, remote control and celular technology and even star wars tactical warfare all over 100 years ago...yet today who's ever heard of Nicola Tesla? How can history over look such an incredible legacy?
During his last moments on earth he asked himself the same question lying in a forgotton hotel room in New York, alone! Find out more about this great man in the video below
