At first I saw clockwise only. After about 15 seconds of staring I could make it flip back and forth at will. The easiest switch seems to be the "rotating door" method Knickerbocker mentioned. It's as if she is always facing away and pivoting left then right then left then right.
Staring at her feet makes it easy, harder to switch when looking at the arms for me.
Thanks for the links! I first watched some of these videos when Animusic 1 came out, what, 5 years ago? I had only seen 4 of the videos though, until now! You have made my day and part of tomorrow! (I agree that pipe dream is the best)
I never had any kind of swim test, or any physical requirements at all. I suppose the UC system is lax on health =)
I understand why they require students to take diverse courses. The ideal of the "college educated" person is one who is well-versed in a wide array of topics, but unlike you're jack-of-all-trades they are an expert in one topic.
However I do not feel that I need to be hand-held through the process of becoming "well-rounded." I enjoy reading about topics not at all related to my field of study and learn about them on my own.
Besides, when choosing courses to take as requiremenets I, like most students, chose the ones I already had an interest in, such as Jazz history, film, and economics.
CLF. No worries, it seems we are mostly on the same page for this. My biggest complaint with the uni system is the many classes that one is required to take, like it or lump it. I had to take many classes that I did not wish to take, and had to pay for them. I attended these classes as rarely as possible. These classes are typically introductory courses and one can achieve a pretty good grade by doing a minimum amount of work.
Classes in my major (computer engineering) I attended religiously because I truly enjoyed the classes. I am glad there were enjoyable courses available. However, if I had found the engineering courses boring (and I didnt change my major for whatever reason) I would have skipped out on those too. I still want the diplolma as it has real value. I am not anti-education, I just feel that in many cases I could do a better job of educating myself without the university than with the university. I consider it unfortunate that in many jobs (particularly in the field I am entering) a degree is a pre-requisite.
Hey, caution live frogs, thanks for putting words in my mouth! =)
I never said that I expect an A, or a diplolma. Also, I did not get a spam diplolma because they are not worth their price. I found my university diplolma to be worth the price. I never asked for an A, or insisted raising the grade of a test I was unhappy with. My goals are not the universities goals, and because of that I am some kind of greedy brat?
Thanks!
I agree with Gomi. The grades don't matter too much. If you can, do reseach of some kind in your field are study. Folks are much more interested in what you've done, then a letter given to you by a professor or TA.
I think one should skip through school as easily as you can, no need to study hard and all that. Do what it takes to get the B-average or whatever the school demands you get to stay in good standing, and then spend the rest of the time doing some work in your field of study. Note that I don't mean skip class to play WoW or eat chips and watch TV.
I disagree WPDK. I paid for a diplolma, not for them to educate me. I would encourage any new freshmen to find out which classes can safely be skipped and which cant. Of the ones that can, find out when the important lectures/test dates are, and make a note to go on those days!
Upon watching it a second time though, the message at the very end informing us that fakes like these are being made to encourage Israel to stop its attacks, that is certainly biased and probably untrue. More likely the photographers just wanted a good shot.
I agree that the video would be much better and interesting if they cut out that last 10 seconds. Nevertheless, I do like that I am able to find out about these many faked photos, and how they are more common than I would have guessed. There is a dozen or so shown in there, and they all concern a series of events that have only been going on for roughly 3 weeks. So thats what, about 1 faked photo every 2 days for the past 24 days in some mainstream news source or another? Still fairly interesting.
I didn't see this video as trying to downplay the actual violence going on in Lebanon. I saw it as pointing out some of the doctored photos coming out, along the lines of "don't trust everything you see." Certainly there are important things going on with the very real civilian deaths, but does that mean such staged/faked photos are suddenly unimportant? Should we be putting aside other issues and be concerned with a death count?
Sir Knickerbocker, for the same reason as the photo with the billowing smoke, the image contains 2 cloned versions of a single rocket (my guess). The other possibility is that all 3 are fakes, and he copy/pasted it 3 times. More info here
I know I have seen some discussions on the blue about this (for example), but havent seen any in MoFi, so forgive me for any doubley postage.
Also, it's worth noting that Reuters has yanked the offended photo and is reviewing all its other photos.
I study and work in the computer vision and image processing field, so know a fair bit about that. I also know a good bit of statistics and other math, as computer vision is fairly heavy on the math side.
I also studied as a computer engineer in college and am able to talk competantly about circuits, systems design, IC design and fabrication. I also brew beer and am ALWAYS happy to talk about brewing!
Didn't want to derail another thread, or waste some FP space for this, but I am looking to get a GMail account. Can anyone hook me up with an invite? Emails in the profile.
I used a program called BookmarkPriest which allows you to select a source browser and a destination browser and transfer your links between them. However, it would not work right when I tried to transfer straight from Opera to Firefox, so I transferred to IE first, then from IE to Firefox. Then I exported my Firefox links to the desktop, transferred that file to my new laptop, and imported them.
sigh...
I spent an hour trying to figure this out, and 3 minutes after I posted this curious george I figured it out.
Admin, feel free to remove this from the FP. Sorry to waste your time everyone! =)
> I don't think that's the vegan standpoint with regards to eggs and dairy, roryk
Chimaera. I have been vegan for a bit more than two and a half years. I don't do it for the bunnies either. I do it for my own health, and for exactly the reasons stated by roryk. Dairy and cheese tend to have too much fat (and other ill effects from various drugs used on the cows), and eggs have more cholesterol than I like (I try and have a 0-cholesterol diet, and most days it works).
OK, that was freakin' great.
posted by LoopyG 16 years ago
In "RIGHT VS LEFT"
At first I saw clockwise only. After about 15 seconds of staring I could make it flip back and forth at will. The easiest switch seems to be the "rotating door" method Knickerbocker mentioned. It's as if she is always facing away and pivoting left then right then left then right. Staring at her feet makes it easy, harder to switch when looking at the arms for me.
posted by LoopyG 16 years ago
In "Animusic Rocks."
Thanks for the links! I first watched some of these videos when Animusic 1 came out, what, 5 years ago? I had only seen 4 of the videos though, until now! You have made my day and part of tomorrow! (I agree that pipe dream is the best)
posted by LoopyG 17 years ago
In "Curious George the Frosh."
I never had any kind of swim test, or any physical requirements at all. I suppose the UC system is lax on health =) I understand why they require students to take diverse courses. The ideal of the "college educated" person is one who is well-versed in a wide array of topics, but unlike you're jack-of-all-trades they are an expert in one topic. However I do not feel that I need to be hand-held through the process of becoming "well-rounded." I enjoy reading about topics not at all related to my field of study and learn about them on my own. Besides, when choosing courses to take as requiremenets I, like most students, chose the ones I already had an interest in, such as Jazz history, film, and economics.
posted by LoopyG 17 years ago
CLF. No worries, it seems we are mostly on the same page for this. My biggest complaint with the uni system is the many classes that one is required to take, like it or lump it. I had to take many classes that I did not wish to take, and had to pay for them. I attended these classes as rarely as possible. These classes are typically introductory courses and one can achieve a pretty good grade by doing a minimum amount of work. Classes in my major (computer engineering) I attended religiously because I truly enjoyed the classes. I am glad there were enjoyable courses available. However, if I had found the engineering courses boring (and I didnt change my major for whatever reason) I would have skipped out on those too. I still want the diplolma as it has real value. I am not anti-education, I just feel that in many cases I could do a better job of educating myself without the university than with the university. I consider it unfortunate that in many jobs (particularly in the field I am entering) a degree is a pre-requisite.
posted by LoopyG 17 years ago
Hey, caution live frogs, thanks for putting words in my mouth! =) I never said that I expect an A, or a diplolma. Also, I did not get a spam diplolma because they are not worth their price. I found my university diplolma to be worth the price. I never asked for an A, or insisted raising the grade of a test I was unhappy with. My goals are not the universities goals, and because of that I am some kind of greedy brat? Thanks!
posted by LoopyG 17 years ago
I agree with Gomi. The grades don't matter too much. If you can, do reseach of some kind in your field are study. Folks are much more interested in what you've done, then a letter given to you by a professor or TA. I think one should skip through school as easily as you can, no need to study hard and all that. Do what it takes to get the B-average or whatever the school demands you get to stay in good standing, and then spend the rest of the time doing some work in your field of study. Note that I don't mean skip class to play WoW or eat chips and watch TV.
posted by LoopyG 17 years ago
I disagree WPDK. I paid for a diplolma, not for them to educate me. I would encourage any new freshmen to find out which classes can safely be skipped and which cant. Of the ones that can, find out when the important lectures/test dates are, and make a note to go on those days!
posted by LoopyG 17 years ago
In "A short video (warning: Flash) about severl of the photos we have heard about recently involving Lebanon"
Upon watching it a second time though, the message at the very end informing us that fakes like these are being made to encourage Israel to stop its attacks, that is certainly biased and probably untrue. More likely the photographers just wanted a good shot. I agree that the video would be much better and interesting if they cut out that last 10 seconds. Nevertheless, I do like that I am able to find out about these many faked photos, and how they are more common than I would have guessed. There is a dozen or so shown in there, and they all concern a series of events that have only been going on for roughly 3 weeks. So thats what, about 1 faked photo every 2 days for the past 24 days in some mainstream news source or another? Still fairly interesting.
posted by LoopyG 17 years ago
I didn't see this video as trying to downplay the actual violence going on in Lebanon. I saw it as pointing out some of the doctored photos coming out, along the lines of "don't trust everything you see." Certainly there are important things going on with the very real civilian deaths, but does that mean such staged/faked photos are suddenly unimportant? Should we be putting aside other issues and be concerned with a death count?
posted by LoopyG 17 years ago
Sir Knickerbocker, for the same reason as the photo with the billowing smoke, the image contains 2 cloned versions of a single rocket (my guess). The other possibility is that all 3 are fakes, and he copy/pasted it 3 times. More info here
posted by LoopyG 17 years ago
I know I have seen some discussions on the blue about this (for example), but havent seen any in MoFi, so forgive me for any doubley postage. Also, it's worth noting that Reuters has yanked the offended photo and is reviewing all its other photos.
posted by LoopyG 17 years ago
In "Curious George: What, think you're an expert or something?"
I study and work in the computer vision and image processing field, so know a fair bit about that. I also know a good bit of statistics and other math, as computer vision is fairly heavy on the math side. I also studied as a computer engineer in college and am able to talk competantly about circuits, systems design, IC design and fabrication. I also brew beer and am ALWAYS happy to talk about brewing!
posted by LoopyG 17 years ago
In "Want Gmail account!"
Thank you both!
posted by LoopyG 17 years ago
Didn't want to derail another thread, or waste some FP space for this, but I am looking to get a GMail account. Can anyone hook me up with an invite? Emails in the profile.
posted by LoopyG 17 years ago
In "Curious George: Exporting Opera Bookmarks!"
Oh yeah, and let's ban Berek while we're at it!
posted by LoopyG 17 years ago
I used a program called BookmarkPriest which allows you to select a source browser and a destination browser and transfer your links between them. However, it would not work right when I tried to transfer straight from Opera to Firefox, so I transferred to IE first, then from IE to Firefox. Then I exported my Firefox links to the desktop, transferred that file to my new laptop, and imported them.
posted by LoopyG 17 years ago
sigh... I spent an hour trying to figure this out, and 3 minutes after I posted this curious george I figured it out. Admin, feel free to remove this from the FP. Sorry to waste your time everyone! =)
posted by LoopyG 17 years ago
In "Vegan diet reverses diabetes symptoms, study finds"
> I don't think that's the vegan standpoint with regards to eggs and dairy, roryk Chimaera. I have been vegan for a bit more than two and a half years. I don't do it for the bunnies either. I do it for my own health, and for exactly the reasons stated by roryk. Dairy and cheese tend to have too much fat (and other ill effects from various drugs used on the cows), and eggs have more cholesterol than I like (I try and have a 0-cholesterol diet, and most days it works).
posted by LoopyG 17 years ago
In "News 14 Carolina gets pwnt"
pwned! ^
posted by LoopyG 17 years ago
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