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How did he do that? Welcome to Earth. Smartass Responses to Signs. Everywhere there's signs.

Smartass Responses to Signs

Blocking out the scenery and shaking my mind. Let's face it, we live in a society of signage and a large number of them are imperial and unnecessary! Let's rise up against the signs and eat them! This Boy Is Cold: Amazing Athletic Talent! 64 Things Every Geek Should Know - laptoplogic.com. The term ‘geek’, once used to label a circus freak, has morphed in meaning over the years. What was once an unusual profession transferred into a word indicating social awkwardness. As time has gone on, the word has yet again morphed to indicate a new type of individual: someone who is obsessive over one (or more) particular subjects, whether it be science, photography, electronics, computers, media, or any other field. A geek is one who isn’t satisfied knowing only the surface facts, but instead has a visceral desire to learn everything possible about a particular subject.

A techie geek is usually one who knows a little about everything, and is thus the person family and friends turn to whenever they have a question. If you’re that type of person and are looking for a few extra skills to pick up, or if you’re a newbie aiming to get a handhold on the honor that is geekhood, read on to find out what skills you need to know. 1. USB – Universal Serial Bus GPU – Graphics Processing Unit 2. 3.

Pythagorean cup. Cross section Cross section of a Pythagorean cup.

Pythagorean cup

A Pythagorean cup (also known as a Pythagoras cup, a Greedy Cup or a Tantalus cup) is a form of drinking cup that forces its user to imbibe only in moderation. Credited to Pythagoras of Samos, it allows the user to fill the cup with wine up to a certain level. If he fills the cup only to that level, the imbiber may enjoy a drink in peace. If he exhibits gluttony, however, the cup spills its entire contents out of the bottom (onto the lap of the immodest drinker).[1] Form and function[edit] A Pythagorean cup looks like a normal drinking cup, except that the bowl has a central column in it – giving it a shape like a Bundt pan in the center of the cup. When the cup is filled, liquid rises through the second pipe up to the chamber at the top of the central column, following Pascal's principle of communicating vessels. Common occurrences[edit]

How To Learn Photoshop In 24 Hrs. Quite a bold statement, Learn Photoshop in 24 hours.

How To Learn Photoshop In 24 Hrs

Its simple and you can. Stepping into Photoshop at first can be quite daunting, were do you start? With these 20 tutorials we have given you some direction, you will start of with some very basic techniques and build towards the more advanced. By the end of it you will be an expert. Tutorial 1:Combining Two Photos for New Effect – Basic Tutorial running time : 10 minutes. We’ll start with something basic. Tutorial 2:Grass Texture – Basic Tutorial running time : 15 minutes.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a nice-looking grass texture. Tutorial 3:Underwater Effect – Basic In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an underwater scene from scratch, using Gradients, Transform and Filters. Tutorial 4:2d Mirror Effect – Basic In this tutorial you will learn how to Duplicate, Flip Horizontally/Vertically, Feathering and Blending.

The Scale of the Universe 2. This Guy's Sleight Of Hand Will Blow Your Mind !!! Top 10 Things You Can Upgrade with a Little Electronics Hacking. It is a skill to do a good solder joint, it comes with LOTS of practice. so most people who rarely do it will ever get good at it.

Top 10 Things You Can Upgrade with a Little Electronics Hacking

Bingo. Of course, part of the issue is having a soldering iron at the right temp with a properly tinned tip. Newbies aren't using soldering stations but a cheap iron they got at rat shack (You have questions? We have deer-in-the-headlights... erm... answers!). I don't expect to ever master tricky stuff like smts or even multilayer pcbs so I'm not much better then a newbie, anyway - and I totally suck at sweating pipe joints. Ah, well...

Amazing Mind Reader - JetLife Company. Lost in translation: our top 20 picks - Lonely Planet blog. Lonely Planet’s Lost in Translation photo contest, where travellers submitted pictures of funny and confusing translations, closed recently.

Lost in translation: our top 20 picks - Lonely Planet blog

And let me tell you, selecting the winner has been a difficult process – mostly because it’s really hard to make any progress in the midst of fits of laughter with tears streaming down your face. When we launched the contest, we knew that travellers would dig up funny translations we couldn’t begin to predict, and we weren’t disappointed. Not only did we get funny translations, we also received all sorts of other confusing situations – some without a single word involved – that would cause a traveller to scratch their head and wonder what on earth they were looking at. With over 1200 entries, nearly all of which were some form of funny, paring them down to our favourites was not an easy task. The following 20 are the best of the best (in no particular order), one of which will be announced the winner shortly (watch this space). 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.