I sold out of books just in time to catch the Olivia Jaimes panel at CXC! Here’s some doodles from her talk. pic.twitter.com/zBMlgUnVky— Melanie Gill Man CXC 59 (@melgillman) September 30, 2018
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Doodles from Olivia Jaimes's talk at CXC
"Border agent to pay $220K for Tucson-area wildfire sparked at gender-reveal party"
Tucson:
Nearly 800 firefighters from various agencies battled the Sawmill Fire for about a week in April 2017, at a cost of about $8.2 million.
The wildfire began when [he] shot a target that contained Tannerite, an explosive substance designed to detonate when shot by a high-velocity firearm
...
The explosive target was part of a celebration of his wife’s pregnancy and contained colored powder to show the gender of their baby
"Cary Fukunaga Doesn't Mind Taking Notes from Netflix's Algorithm"
GQ:
"Because Netflix is a data company, they know exactly how their viewers watch things," Fukunaga says. "So they can look at something you're writing and say, We know based on our data that if you do this, we will lose this many viewers. So it's a different kind of note-giving. It's not like, Let's discuss this and maybe I'm gonna win. The algorithm's argument is gonna win at the end of the day. So the question is do we want to make a creative decision at the risk of losing people."
Wargaming miniatures roundup
Studio photos for the Callidus Assassin I finished just in time for #ReaperCon! Really enjoyed painting her and happy to bring home a Silver from the Painters group! 😄🖌️❤️ #warmongers #PaintingWarhammer #gamesworkshop #warhammer40k #warhammer pic.twitter.com/SZ0BiaKPX7— Nikki Sullivan (@nikkikolls) September 5, 2018
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Saturday, September 29, 2018
Quantum reality masks
omg this whole collection https://t.co/bSUAPHm047 pic.twitter.com/cHZpHxbdYe— ⁂ (@polclarissou) September 28, 2018
Pigeon of Doom; Gary Oldman was the coachman; Wait, it's a nesting doll?
Can't stop watching the pigeon of doom— Fiona Lang (@fiona_lang) September 26, 2018
Credit: mregfx
More here ---> https://t.co/CtSWifNpJ5 pic.twitter.com/QoJXe1lRX3
say hello to charlie, the WIND UP CLOWN DOLL my grandfather bought me before he died and i was forced to keep on my bedside table throughout my childhood. sometimes the gears would catch and it would stop playing only to start of its own accord in the middle of the night pic.twitter.com/1dp0os27KF— kate (@eatmenIikeair) September 25, 2018
An on set shot reveals Gary Oldman also played the coachman in Dracula. Many adaptations include Stoker's detail that a glimpse of his eyes reveals he's the Count himself. In Coppola's film, Oldman is completely hidden by one of Eiko Ishioka's gorgeous costumes... pic.twitter.com/qo16gGel9y— Richard Wells (@Slippery_Jack) September 29, 2018
...The Coachman as played by Max Schreck and Béla Lugosi... pic.twitter.com/9oI9oiIPe6— Richard Wells (@Slippery_Jack) September 29, 2018
24. We all wear masks pic.twitter.com/FtVS2GRrVJ— Your🏳️🌈Friend🐥Thaum! (@ThaumPenguin) March 11, 2018
All I could think of when I saw this CT scan of a hammerhead shark (via https://t.co/HeVS0b5fQw) was this 1953 lingerie ad photographed by Mark Shaw pic.twitter.com/d8VF8N8Zhh
— Hot Tubs Rosner (@hels) September 28, 2018
Dog wants its medicine; Seal attacks kayaker with octopus; Tiny owl loves attention
my dog has ear medicine she needs and the other one also thinks he needs it too.. nobody has the heart to tell him it’s pretend.. pic.twitter.com/Vshe7dhl3b— chloe copley (@chloecopley_05) September 12, 2018
A seal slaps a man in the face with an octopus. The best headline you'll see today. pic.twitter.com/6C2nST9Wix— Matt Colville (@mattcolville) September 26, 2018
This extinct elephant bird that lived on the island of Madagascar may have weighed as much as 1,700 pounds https://t.co/hZ5nzmlDAe— NYT Science (@NYTScience) September 26, 2018
this owl losing its mind over head scritches is officially the cutest thing on the internet today 🦉😊 pic.twitter.com/kvZxrm2Ie7— Ian Laking (@IHLaking) September 24, 2018
"It appears Chip Kelly had his team do calisthenics in the middle of a game"
UCLA sticking with the sideline calisthenics tonight. They lead Colorado 7-0 in the first quarter. pic.twitter.com/5yZnftBGJ9— Dan Murphy (@DanMurphyESPN) September 29, 2018
"That seems to be the UCLA football team, coached by former Innovative Wunderkind Genius Chip Kelly, sort of gallop skipping around in a circle in the middle of a football game."
Wargaming miniatures roundup
#throwbackthursday to when I susssed out that a little clear plastic washed with pigment could give a reasonable feels of a scanning laser pic.twitter.com/4RldAAWxo9— Graham @ Reamelish (@Reamelish) September 26, 2018
Chinese SUV Bestune T77 features and "Animated Holographic Waifu Personal Assistant"
"The new system is referred to as a 'holographic intelligent control system' according to Car News China, and features three animated characters that include a robot, a small boy and, uh, a school girl. There are five dressing options for each character, too."
And speaking of China:
And speaking of China:
Chinese game show where a Harvard grad tries to answer Qs faster than a robot developed by the search Co. SOGOU. Each time she's beaten, some members of the audience fall through the floor 😂 pic.twitter.com/jdecXXnPxa— will knight (@willknight) September 29, 2018
Friday, September 28, 2018
"Why oil derricks are disguised as islands off the Long Beach coast"
Curbed:
To create the four islands, between 10 and 12 acres each, around 640 tons of boulders were transferred from Catalina Island, and 3.2 million cubic yards of sand were dredged from the ocean.
Soon more than 500 people were hard at work shaping man-made islands in the placid San Pedro Bay. The islands were ingeniously designed in a bowl shape, so that runoff would not contaminate the surrounding water.
Design choices in Gone Home
Specifically they were setting out to make a game where you learn the story by exploring an environment, so it was in the 90s to avoid everything getting digital; it was in the PNW because they had just moved there; it was a family home in part because of manageable scope, etc.— Naomi Clark [暗悪・直美] (@metasynthie) September 27, 2018
Finally: ok, it’s a mansion with nobody but you, because no scope for NPCs, obvs. Why don’t you call the cops? Why can’t you turn TV on? Well, because the power is out. All of a sudden it was a spooky game, unintentionally. They knew people would interpret it like this.— Naomi Clark [暗悪・直美] (@metasynthie) September 28, 2018
(Of course this is in part because even though Gone Home is set in the “real world,” game-players have almost no context for this and interpret it as genre, as Ben Abraham describes in this old piece: https://t.co/SNxRgsca7d )— Naomi Clark [暗悪・直美] (@metasynthie) September 28, 2018
"Facebook is blocking users from posting some stories about its security breach"
TC:
Some users are reporting that they are unable to post today’s big story about a security breach affecting 50 million Facebook users. The issue appears to only affect particular stories from certain outlets, at this time one story from The Guardian and one from the Associated Press, both reputable press outlets.Related:
What do we do here at Google? Well, we use our engineering skills to make it impossible for people to find the information they're looking for on the internet, and to replace it with bad information when we can pic.twitter.com/ptOUhMvxYi— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) September 14, 2018
"Insider Trading’s Odd Couple: The Goldman Banker and the NFL Linebacker"
Bloomberg:
His Harvard classmates picked him to speak during their 2013 commencement ceremonies. Onstage, a friend introduced him as a rags-to-riches leader and future banker—and a guy who didn’t warn everyone when his pet [] was loose in the dorms for two weeks. “Don’t forget about us when you’re crashing world economies,” the friend said.
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The next day, students were handed their diplomas; [he] didn’t get his. Several women had accused him of misconduct, including having sex with a student who was incapacitated, according to a person who asked not to be named. [He] didn’t face charges and denied claims of misconduct in a phone interview with Bloomberg Businessweek. He says university systems that decide these cases disproportionately punish black students. A school spokeswoman says he never graduated and wouldn’t comment further.
That didn’t stop him from starting a dream job at Goldman Sachs
Magic Circle Charger
魔法の力に見えるワイヤレス充電器をつくりました #6秒商店 pic.twitter.com/JhVxLd2B0W— 6秒商店/6secShop (@6sec_shop) September 28, 2018
*Previously: Disney's augmented reality bench.
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Nine funny tweets
— northern monkey (@stephaniemain2) September 25, 2018
— Michael is practicing terror with ghoulish delight (@druzod1012) September 25, 2018
wait why do all vulcans have the same hair. is that the most rational haircut— merritt k (@merrittk) September 25, 2018
Please enjoy this picture of my Grandad shooting pigeons off his roof with a giant water pistol. pic.twitter.com/95eKdaA07m— Kerry Jean Lister 🎧 (@kerryjeanlister) September 23, 2018
@ryanqnorth plz make canon TIA pic.twitter.com/ZLO8VgySyV— Phantro City (@Phantrosity) September 26, 2018
Movement afoot to get Wade Phillips to dress like Bum Phillips when Rams wear their throwback uniforms https://t.co/4LH9MXRqy4— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) September 26, 2018
judge: what do you have to say for yourself— Shen the Bird (@Shen_the_Bird) September 26, 2018
scooby-doo villain: i was legally startling trespassers on my own private property and was wrongfully arrested and imprisoned by a group of high teenagers
judge: oh damn
Being goth is hard. The curse on your boss is not working. Ravens are impossible to train. Deodorant marks on your black clothes. Ugh.— meh (@bonehugsnirony) September 6, 2017
A powerful, confusing energy I aspire to: pictures of Paul Giamatti as The Rhino. pic.twitter.com/WzqMmM2mZh— chris person (@Papapishu) September 27, 2018
Poem Pavilion; Final Fantasy or real Macau?; Museum of the Moon
A truly astounding image. A street in Macau with the Grand Lisboa Casino looming in the background. Photograph by Paul Tsui, National Geographic travel photographer of the year.’ The future is now. pic.twitter.com/xTcu7eRkD2— Michael Moran (@TheMichaelMoran) September 26, 2018
The Grand Lisboa Casino, juxtaposed with the slums of Macau.— Mythic (@MythicalRedFox) September 27, 2018
Stunning images. I didn't think they were real at first. pic.twitter.com/ezai93Mxq7
— Laura Drane (@laurahd) September 15, 2018
‘Children play in the water, on the roof of a partially sunken mosque in Savasan’ - Emin Özmen’s photographs of Turkey’s drowned villages https://t.co/jUMO5UD8T0 pic.twitter.com/OCZGjLb4kY— Darran Anderson (@Oniropolis) September 25, 2018
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