Beautiful Complexity

This visualization found on visualcomplexity.com is pretty cool, it analyzes the compositional similarities of different images. Didn't know math could be so beautiful. Now if only I could get my hands on a cool dataset so I can create something like this for my CS 242 class. :)

Visualization by bluprnt_van.

Sentiō

A friend listed her favourite sounds in a post. It was cool and I thought I'd come up with my own list : )

• The crunch of tires on gravel and the soft hum of a car slicing through the thick early-morning silence.
• The reflective silence of church buildings and the hush that blankets a sleeping street.
• The slightly contorted sound of rain as perceived from that region halfway between slumber and waking.
• The sound of crashing waves.
• The sizzle of garlic.
  
• The wind caught among the branches of trees.
• A child's breathing as he rests his head on your shoulder.
• The many bastardized forms of your name.
  
• The tapping sound of the keyboard.
• The collective sound of your friends' laughter.
  
• The gurgle of a mountain stream (the one behind my grandpa's place).
  

Shortcut Generation

You think you're a writer because, well, you enjoy Kerouac and Hemingway, and like to jot down entries on a Moleskin notebook.

Your dad bought you a shiny new SLR and now suddenly you're a photographer.

You can write "working" code and you start calling yourself a software engineer.

Work on your craft until you start living and breathing it or just give up. Mastery is not something you can get on discount.

Yes you

One of these days I'm gotta stock up on canned goods and beer, lock myself up in a room and get down to coding that webapp. Finally.