Author: fish1964

  • Generic Brand Video

    The original copy came from here. Then these guys turned it into a video.

  • Aerial Photography

    Fascinating, from Alex MacLean, each in their own way. Click them all…

  • Mobile First

    Microsoft’s new CEO Satya Nadella today said life today is:

    mobile-first and cloud-first

    Well duh, but amazing to hear Microsoft say this. They are doing solid work in the cloud with Azure, but he led with “mobile first”. Uh, Bueller.

    Anyway, it will be interesting to see how Office for the iPad goes over.

  • Puerto Rico Redux

    We didn’t have any imagination with our vacation this year. For the third straight year we went to San Juan. And we had a similarly great time. You could refer to either of the past posts and it was basically the same vacation.

    With older girls, there was more night swimming:

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    We went to El Morro as usual:

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    The big new thing was a rainforest excursion. We had been meaning to do this in past years, but didn’t find the time. This year we also wanted to check out zip lining. So we rented a car and drove towards El Yunque, the rain forest. First we headed here. We had no detailed information, we just showed up. It was around 11:30 and they told us the next group would zip line at 1:00. So we had some time to kill. They suggested the nearby beach, Luquillo. So we headed over there for a bit.

    We ate some great alcapurrias at a local joint and walked along the beach.

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    And then it was time to zip line. They said you had to be 8, so Victoria aged a year that day. We were worried it might be too scary for her. At first she was a little scared, but she rallied and had a blast.

    Tori getting ready:

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    And she’s off…

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    Danielle about to go:

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    And off..

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    And to give you some sense of how far these lines, go, the video below shows both girls zipping off to a final landing spot you can’t see:

    And we followed this up with a hike in the rainforest.

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    To a beautiful (and very cold) waterfall. Tori is usually my cold water girl, but only Danielle would swim with me.

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    It was a great vacation…

  • The Comments Section

    I was reading this post, Lefsetz’s Business Rules on The Big Picture, when I happened to notice the instructions above the comments section:

    Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer the conversation into irrelevant, off topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.

    Hilarious.

  • CUBESTORMER 3

    Smashes the Rubik’s cube record by solving it in 3.253 seconds. This is a robot made with Lego and a Galaxy 4 phone.

    You only need to watch seconds 10-16 of this video:

  • Stock Market Sell-Off Explained

    The sell-off on Thursday, amusingly explained.