looked for work / did chorse most of the day.
BHK went to "Stitch & bitch"
earned 3 PlayStation®Network trophies in "inFamous".
Good Eats (Bronze) Good guys feed the needy.
Good Riot (Bronze) Good guys stand up and take the heat.
Stunt Man (Bronze) Complete any one stunt from the stunt list.
earned a PlayStation®Network trophy in "LittleBigPlanet™".
Paint Splurge (Bronze) Fire 5,000 paintballs
a/c dies
90 degrees in the house
got a haircut
still no glow-yarn
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Off for our walk this morning - quick picture of the porch - leaves are turning brown, but the cabbage is still vibrant... and these pumpkins are unravaged by squirrels thus far. (can't say that for the others on the left side!)
Off to take Jay and Duncan to Bowens after we get some kettle corn!
I love that I can still learn new words and phrases every day.Horror vacui is the filling of the entire surface of an artwork with ornamental details, figures, shapes, lines and anything else the artist might envision. It may be considered the opposite of minimalism.
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menstrualhut troll, comparison poll, memory from DC (my evil twin), yeti @ home, monster's inc good
Larry and I picked up the bed this morning - BHK and I napped a bit today. Feels good so far, but it is surprisingly high - maybe 6 (likely more) inches taller than the old one. 
From New Scientist Tech: (or, a better use of a Newt/Pye cam?)
To try and develop a more sophisticated model, the team recorded the responses of 49 individual neurons in a part of a cat’s brain called the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN). The LGN receives and processes visual information from the retina, via the optic nerve, before sending it on to the cerebral cortex.
The data made it possible to build a software model of the LGN that can approximate how the neurons would respond to real scenes. The model was tested against scenes recorded from a “catcam” camera attached to a cat’s head.
“We chose the catcam because it was the most natural stimulus we could think of, the closest to what a cat would see when walking around,” Matteo Carandini told New Scientist. Because the catcam footage lacked elements moving independently from the rest of the scene, the researchers also used a scene from Disney’s animated film Tarzan.
The model’s predictions proved to be 80% accurate when shown artificial scenes, but this figure fell to 60% with the natural scenes or the Tarzan movie.
The ultimate goal of the research, still years distant, is to develop an implant that uses visual data to directly stimulate the LGN of blind people whose optic nerve or retina has degenerated from lack of use.
“For these people, a prosthesis in the eye doesn’t help,” Carandini explains. Only people who have recently become blind can benefit from such implants – currently being tested in humans – that stimulate the retina or optic nerve
Work on monkeys last year showed it is possible to stimulate the LGN using electrodes to alter their vision, something previously thought impossible. Software models like that developed by Carandini and colleagues would be vital for an implant to stimulate the right neurons to create a mental impression of vision.
Two such as you with such a master speedThe full poem is on my bio page here.
Cannot be parted nor be swept away
From one another once you are agreed
That life is only life forevermore
Together wing to wing and oar to oar.
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