Fun with Star Wars

Awesome stuff from the ImprovEverywhere troop.


And just in case you hadn't seen this in a while. This always brightens my day.

Akinator

I've tried this game a bunch of times now and it has won every time! The computers are getting smarter!

Click on the link below to check it out. You just think of a character (real, fictional, animated, etc - anything is fine) then answer the questions and the program *mysteriously* figures out your character.

Algorithms. The universe and all consciousness is just algorithms...

The Link: Akinator





Symian is: worried his computer might be reading his mind... or at least his blog...
Currently Reading: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Currently Listening: Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer - Redemption Song (orig. Bob Marley)
Kanji of the Day: 心／こころ／mind/heart

Come Together

Everything old is new again...
I love living in the time that we do.

Original song by The Beatles (with nifty animation)


A.Skillz remix (also with nifty animation):

Luminarie 2010

This Sunday we went out to Kobe to have dinner with Ulala's family and to see this year's Luminarie. The city of Kobe puts this on every year to commemorate the victims of the Hanshin-Daishhin earthquake 13 years ago that leveled Kobe and killed thousands of people. The even runs for a couple weeks and involves hundreds of thousands of tiny lights arranged in a slightly different pattern every year. It's always crowded but if you go with people and you take it sow and go with the flow, and if you can ignore the multitude of volunteer traffic directors with megaphones (a ubiquity at all Japanese events, unfortunately).it can be quite beautiful. The walk winds through the Kobe streets and ends with the main lit-up center-piece in a park which also contains the earthquake memorial.

Take a look:









Symian is: all a-twinkle.
Currently Reading: Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Currently Listening: Coverville podcast with Brian Ibbott

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