Nice Pictures

Very Chill

clipped from www.outdoor-photos.com landscapes and mountains as if the lift for clouds... Photographer: Vertun tags: saymountains, buryatiya, mountains, fog, clouds, autumn *** Photographer: Myaloslavskiy tags: landscapes *** Photographer: Mindaugas Dryza tags: landscapes jablonevyj smoke Photographer: Shkiper® tags: landscapes on coast Photographer: Shumakov Ruslan tags: vein, austria, lock in the morning Photographer: Anatolij Kivrin tags: n, and, m, at, t summer. Photographer: adi tags: fog. **** Photographer: tags: landscapes **** Photographer: Myaloslavskiy tags: landscapes winter evening Photographer: kaprom tags: winter, benches, decline all landscapes for month random landscapes

Multi-touch

Definately a cool idea that I can't wait for to come out.

clipped from pogue.blogs.nytimes.com March 27, 2007,  12:39 pm The Multi-Touch Screen Apple garnered many oohs and ahhs when it demonstrated the touch-screen interface of its new iPhone cellphone/iPod, which is scheduled for release in June. This “multi-touch” screen, Apple says, breaks new ground by permitting more than one finger to touch the screen simultaneously. You can see Jeff Han narrating this demo in this video, although with bad camerawork. Or you can see Han’s official, wordless demo here. In any case, I spent quite awhile trying it out, and it’s spectacular. The visual response to your touch is immediate and satisfying, and there are lots of multi-touch gestures that work. One of the sample programs featured an ever-expanding “family tree” of every known species in nature, complete with photos; by dragging and expanding, you could zoom in infinitely to the branch of this massive tree that you were interested in. The photo-manipulation and mapping modules were also amazing.

Robotics Competition

Photos from the robotics competition....we're team 2141, De La Salle -ATT West Robotics Club....I think we did pretty good for our rookie year, 32/48

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Possible Essay Topic Pt. 3

clipped from www.sparknotes.com Quentin’s Watch Quentin’s watch is a gift from his father, who hopes that it will alleviate Quentin’s feeling that he must devote so much attention to watching time himself. Quentin is unable to escape his preoccupation with time, with or without the watch. Because the watch once belonged to Mr. Compson, it constantly reminds Quentin of the glorious heritage his family considers so important. The watch’s incessant ticking symbolizes the constant inexorable passage of time. Quentin futilely attempts to escape time by breaking the watch, but it continues to tick even without its hands, haunting him even after he leaves the watch behind in his room.

Possible Essay Topic Pt. 2

clipped from www.sparknotes.com Quentin, in contrast, is trapped by time, unable and unwilling to move beyond his memories of the past. He attempts to escape time’s grasp by breaking his watch, but its ticking continues to haunt him afterward, and he sees no solution but suicide. Unlike his brother Quentin, Jason has no use for the past. He focuses completely on the present and the immediate future. To Jason, time exists only for personal gain and cannot be wasted. Dilsey is perhaps the only character at peace with time. Unlike the Compsons, who try to escape time or manipulate it to their advantage, Dilsey understands that her life is a small sliver in the boundless range of time and history.

Possible Essay Topic Pt. 1

clipped from www.sparknotes.com Time Faulkner’s treatment and representation of time in this novel was hailed as revolutionary. Faulkner suggests that time is not a constant or objectively understandable entity, and that humans can interact with it in a variety of ways. Benjy has no concept of time and cannot distinguish between past and present. His disability enables him to draw connections between the past and present that others might not see, and it allows him to escape the other Compsons’ obsessions with the past greatness of their name.