Homesick Intellectual

I’m going to do a series of these. Modern day versions of the Game of Thrones Characters.

Up first is Arya. I bit punk. Inspired somewhat by the emo girl look.

Next is Sandor Clegane. Mafia hit man..50 caliber gun & a black suit with flames going up his right arm.

Next up will be the Lannister twins.

rhamphotheca: Changing Neptune Seasons NASA Hubble Space...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:27:29 -0400

rhamphotheca:

Changing Neptune Seasons

NASA Hubble Space Telescope observations in August 2002 show that Neptune’s brightness has increased significantly since 1996. The rise is due to an increase in the amount of clouds observed in the planet’s southern hemisphere. These increases may be due to seasonal changes caused by a variation in solar heating. Because Neptune’s rotation axis is inclined 29 degrees to its orbital plane, it is subject to seasonal solar heating during its 164.8-year orbit of the Sun.

This seasonal variation is 900 times smaller than experienced by Earth because Neptune is much farther from the Sun. The rate of seasonal change also is much slower because Neptune takes 165 years to orbit the Sun. So, springtime in the southern hemisphere will last for several decades! Remarkably, this is evidence that Neptune is responding to the weak radiation from the Sun. These images were taken in visible and near-infrared light by Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2.

Image: NASA, L. Sromovsky, and P. Fry (University of Wisconsin-Madison) [high-resolution]

Caption: Hubble Heritage Team

(via: Wired Science)

"(I’d advise you to read it slowly, while thinking of someone you love, friend, child, parent,..."

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:27:15 -0400

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(I’d advise you to read it slowly, while thinking of someone you love, friend, child, parent, lover…)

Of the terrible doubt of appearances,
Of the uncertainty after all, that we may be deluded,
That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all,
That may-be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only,
May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills,
shining and flowing waters,
The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these
are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real
something has yet to be known,
(How often they dart out of themselves as if to confound me and mock me!
How often I think neither I know, nor any man knows, aught of them,)
May-be seeming to me what they are (as doubtless they indeed but seem)
as from my present point of view, and might prove (as of course they
would) nought of what they appear, or nought anyhow, from entirely
changed points of view;
To me these and the like of these are curiously answer’d by my
lovers, my dear friends,
When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me
by the hand,
When the subtle air, the impalpable, the sense that words and reason
hold not, surround us and pervade us,
Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I
require nothing further,
I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity
beyond the grave,
But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied,
He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.

”

- “Of the terrible doubt of appearances” — Walt Whitman (via stephen-fry-me)

8 months in Microsoft, I learned these | /home/alp

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:17:55 -0400

8 months in Microsoft, I learned these | /home/alp

Nobody Suspects the Butterfly

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:32:47 -0400

Nobody Suspects the Butterfly:

nobodysuspectsthebutterfly, tumblr.com

June 13th, 2013 at 7:01AM
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a massively extended version of ruthlesscalculus’ post
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Jaime and Brienne, a summary, part three

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Kanye West Talks About His Career and Album ‘Yeezus’ - NYTimes.com

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:47:32 -0400

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