Bits of Peter

"Parents may worry that their infant may be more prone to injury at the fontanelles. In fact,..."

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:08:27 -0500

“Parents may worry that their infant may be more prone to injury at the fontanelles. In fact, although they may colloquially be called “soft-spots”, the membrane covering the fontanelles is extremely tough and difficult to penetrate. However, the fontanelles allow the infant brain to be imaged using ultrasonography. Once they are closed, most of the brain is inaccessible to ultrasound imaging, because the bony skull presents an acoustic barrier.”

- Wikipedia, you just made me feel so much better about having a kid someday.

“Customers Who Bought This Item Also...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:29:59 -0500

“Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought…”

That’s not a good sign.

Given my face and beard, how many ounces would you say I’d...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:23:15 -0500

Given my face and beard, how many ounces would you say I’d need?

Be honest.

I just fell in love.

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:20:00 -0500

I just fell in love.

“In The Zone” by frezned

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:43:29 -0500

“In The Zone” by frezned

Thanks, Ryan.

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:41:57 -0500

Thanks, Ryan.

"And if you can stand me sounding even crazier, here is this: making money from art is not a human..."

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:26:10 -0500

“And if you can stand me sounding even crazier, here is this: making money from art is not a human right. It so happens that technological and societal blahbity bloos have conspired to create a situation where selling songs about monkeys and robots is a viable business, but for most of human history people have NOT paid for art. I don’t want this to happen again, and I would be very sad if this came to pass, but it’s not up to me to decide. We are constantly demonstrating through our actions what we believe to be the norms for acquiring and consuming content. Right now a lot of us think that it’s OK to download stuff through illegal sites under certain circumstances, and a lot of us think it’s totally fine to use those things to make videos and put them on YouTube even though YouTube profits from it. That’s not ME saying that, that’s US saying that – we’re a nation of pirates and infringers. Based on our behavior, you would not be wrong to deduce that some of us think funny videos on YouTube are more important than honoring intellectual property rights. This kind of thing has happened before. Entire industries rise and fall as the world changes and our priorities shift. Sorry.”

- Jonathan Coulton on the MegaUpload takedown

Discover Questions in “Non-Alcoholic Drinks” —...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:11:55 -0500

Discover Questions in “Non-Alcoholic Drinks” — Yahoo! Answers

thiswayforeyeway: so pretty and...

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:12:14 -0500

thiswayforeyeway:

so pretty and decorative!!

gothiccharmschool:

These are so lovely. Via lovelymasoka: Mucha Princess Series

Ariel-Rebirth

Snow White-Innocence

Jasmin-Passion

Belle-Ambition

Rapunzel-Freedom

Mulan- Warrior

Alice-Curiosity

violetsphinx: I think I just found my new favourite fusion...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:40:06 -0500

violetsphinx:

I think I just found my new favourite fusion dance style. Gothic Belly Dance, you’re out. Make way for Gothic Clog Dancing!

Fuck. Yes.

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:45:25 -0500

Fuck. Yes.

How to use Aperture.

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:20:34 -0500

Frasier Speirs shares his Aperture workflow:

Once I’ve been through all the images and rated them One Star or Reject, I’ll do another pass asking myself “Does this image deserve to be a Two Star or stay a One Star?”. Having done that, I’ll be looking at some images rated One Star and some Two Star. What I do next is have Aperture hide all the One Star images by choosing ‘Two Stars or Better’ (Ctrl-2) in the search field, then I do another pass deciding if the image is Three-Star or just Two-Star. As an example of how quickly this can happen, I have a 297-image project in front of me right now that I’ve edited down to a set of 38 Two-Star photos in less time than it took to write this blog post.

This post is four years old, but this is the most useful bit of Aperture advice I’ve read so far. Aperture gives you a lot of rope to tie yourself in knots with. This feels like a technique that I can use as an amateur photographer and still use as I start to act more professional.

Pairing with two Johnnys at once. “Deefeecult for you,...

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:19:15 -0500

Pairing with two Johnnys at once.

“Deefeecult for you, easy for me.”

Mesmerizing. Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1...

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:17:27 -0500

Mesmerizing.

Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1 (by kingcosmonaut3000) [via]

(via yukop on Instagram)

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:52:01 -0500

(via yukop on Instagram)

Oh, here, let me fix the order of those for you…

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:15:15 -0500

Oh, here, let me fix the order of those for you…

“You know, if one person, just one person does it they may...

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:23:03 -0500

“You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he’s really sick and they won’t take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they’re both faggots and they won’t take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin’ a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out. They may think it’s an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day walking in singin’ a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may think it’s a movement.

And that’s what it is.”

— Arlo Guthrie

“Hey, Greg, I dare you to write an article that’s a...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:15:07 -0500

“Hey, Greg, I dare you to write an article that’s a single sentence with a triple negative.”

Seen today on YouTube. Guess that’s one way to write a...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:26:35 -0500

Seen today on YouTube.

Guess that’s one way to write a 500 page.

"There is no catching up. There is only catching on."

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:32:38 -0500

“There is no catching up. There is only catching on.”

- David Allen, quoted in The way out is through on GTD Times.