the best things in life aren't things
A tune a day..
Hercules & Love Affair, aka Brooklyn producer Andy Butler, enlists Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons for “Blind”, a superb disco track I came to repeat in my playlist.
the art of complex problem solving
3 years ago
in Writings
As some of you might know, I like to solve problems. I’d like to think I am a solver. While stumbling, I came across an interesting website about the entangled process of problem solving. The picture below illustrates this process.
After scanning the intricate illustrations, may I ask you: Do you,in any way, feel more confident about solving a certain problem? I think not. I appreciate the time put into this work and the idea behind it. But, unfortunately they failed in one of the last steps – communicating clearly. However clever the idea is, if you do not illustrate it in an easy fashion it will only make it more complicated than already is.
My advice to you solving any type of problem: think. If that doesn’t work, Google it!
Seriously now, there are a few tips that you can take into consideration:
- understanding the problem before trying to solve it
- keep it simple and stupid (reduce complexity)
- challenge every one of your assumptions
- address the problem, not the symptoms
Having read all this, go now..find patterns in primes, reconcile quantum mechanics with general relativity, disprove god, cure cancer and bring peace to humanity! And don’t forget.. problems are opportunities.
A tune a day..
“Pork and Beans” from Weezer starring some familiar YouTube faces. New Self-Titled “Red Album” out June 3rd, 2008!
Mobile microwave
3 years ago
in Video
The best way to kill your mobile phone. Microwave that sucker!
We’ve landed!
NASA Phoenix touched down on the Red Planet at 4:53 p.m. Pacific Time (7:53 p.m. Eastern Time), May 25, 2008, in an arctic region called Vastitas Borealis, at 68 degrees north latitude, 234 degrees east longitude.
This is an approximate-color image taken shortly after landing by the spacecraft’s Surface Stereo Imager, inferred from two color filters, a violet, 450-nanometer filter and an infrared, 750-nanometer filter.
The Phoenix Mission is led by the University of Arizona, Tucson, on behalf of NASA. Project management of the mission is by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Spacecraft development is by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona