Hope you are having a fun week.
It is springtime ... and the gym I go to is starting to get busier.
Reminder: summer is almost here.
The video below shows what happens when you forget that bathing suit season is coming.
On a positive note, the guy on the left is a pretty good dancer. Love that he plays full-out, dances like no one is watching, and has fun.
Some things are harder than others ...
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
I tried to tell my wife that multitasking was a myth (so she shouldn't expect me to be able to do it).
Sure someone could learn to juggle, or even to solve a Rubik's Cube ... but to do both at the same time?
Watch the video.
via YouTube.
Supposedly, the same guy can solve a Rubik’s Cube in under 8 seconds, making him the 48th fastest cube solver on the planet.
I still can't talk and type ...
There are consequences at playing near the speed of light.
Perhaps it also causes grey hair and thinning wallets.
Happy April Fool's Day!
What bothers you most about someone else is often a clue about what you don't like about your own circumstances ... or, a political cartoonist could point it out instead.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
Are you happy how you spend your day?
Do you ever think about how most people choose to spend their time?
As you might guess, average Americans spend 8 hours at work, maybe half an hour in traffic, a few hours watching TV in the evening.
But what if you looked at it another way - what if you added up all those hours over the course of your whole life? The following infographic shows the tally.
That half an hour in traffic adds up to over a year of your life. And those innocent hours of TV? They add up to 9 years for the average American.
"It's not the years in your life that count ... It's the life in your years." ~ Abraham Lincoln
Are you giving time to the things you really care about?
So there is a new Pope. They probably didn't pick him this way.
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
International Space Station astronaut Don Pettit lived on the station for about a year, and took many pictures while up there. The results of his innovative photographic work and passion have changed the way we see earth from space.
Next, astrophotographer Christoph Malin took thousands of Pettit's individual photos and animated them, adding clips of Pettit giving a talk about his stay aboard the ISS and his photography there. He also set it to music, creating a simply stunning time-lapse video.
The result is certainly worth watching. So, set aside 16 minutes of your busy day, sit back, and soak this in: “The ISS Image Frontier”.
"Making the invisible visible" - the ISS Image Frontier from Christoph Malin on Vimeo.
The video presents an interesting perspective of our planet.
Many astronauts, even from back in the Apollo days, talk about an incredible feeling they get after a few days in space. As they gaze on the Earth from above, they lose their feeling of borders and nationality. The Saudi astronaut Sultan bin Salman Al-Saud, who flew on the Space Shuttle in 1985, commented on this, saying , “The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.”
On a different note, the technique where they create a composite view of a visual time series is facinating. It makes the invisible visible ... and has many uses in the big data space as well. Very cool!
Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading
Whether it is time to lose weight or gain some new skill or capability ... stop telling yourself you will 'try'. Here are your options (according to Yoda).
Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.
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