ARE YOU A REAL PILOT? from Joe Burton An old Marine Pilot sat down at the Starbucks, still wearing his old USMC flight suit and leather jacket and ordered a cup of coffee. As he sat sipping his coffee, a young woman sat down next to him. She turned to the pilot and asked, 'Are you a real pilot?' He replied, 'Well, I've spent my whole life flying planes, first Stearmans, then the early Grummans... flew a Wildcat and Corsair in WWII, and later in the Korean conflict, Banshees and Cougars. I've taught more than 260 people to fly and given rides to hundreds, so I guess I am a pilot, and you, what are you? She said, 'I'm a lesbian.
One makes oneself a visionary by a long, immense, and reasoned One makes oneself a visionary by a long, immense, and reasoned disordering of the senses Paintings by Nicholas Kalmakoff Title: Arthur Rimbaud In 1955, a Russian émigré died alone, unknown and in poverty at the hôpital de Lagny to the north of Paris. After leading a hermit's existence in his small room at the hotel de la Rochefoucault in Paris, this former Russian aristocrat had created a fascinating body of work which, deemed eccentric and worthless, was locked away in storage and forgotten. Continue... Pancake Sandwich Dot Biz I read "A Lack Of Crackers" to everyone I knew whilst laughing my ass off, but no one thought it was that funny :c I love you comics though. Keep up the good work. Anonymous Haha, I don’t think it’s even that funny anymore so I understand.
7 Innocent Gestures That Can Get You Killed Overseas If you've ever had your penis cut off and/or been executed while on holiday, you'll probably know that it's easy to offend people from other cultures. Unless you learn the ways of the place you're visiting, even the most well-meaning tourist can regularly find his oesophagus stuffed with burning goat. But surely just plain common sense and good manners will save you, right? Wrong.
ACTIONSCRIPT « [ draw.logic ] Tim Knip, a papervision core developer, has brought a pipeline improvement for users of Blender to import blender files directly into papervision and as3. This allows you to get at the blender objects, or blender DNA as it is called, that construct the 3d scene within Blender. Unity3D has a great workflow that includes this where you can update your .blend file and then it updates in the Unity IDE, this work by Tim creates a similar workflow for Flash (recompile would be needed to show if embedded). Supermarket Psychic A woman at the grocery store went to the register with these items in her cart: * a carton of eggs * a quart of orange juice * a head of romaine lettuce * a 2 lb. can of coffee * a 1 lb. package of bacon. As she was unloading her items on the conveyor belt to check out, a drunk standing behind her watched as she placed the items in front of the cashier. While the cashier was ringing up her purchases, the drunk calmly stated, "You must be single."
James Marshall Hendrix A quick little sketch I did. It’s not the best…but hey, it’s Jimi man. Hi, I just felt like sharing my tattoo with hendrix fans c: Taken an hour after it was finish… ‘And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually’ The one and only Jimi Hendrix will forever be apart of me, I couldn’t ask for anything more c: The Hendrix Episode: GSTV celebrates the genius of Jim Hendrix! Neurological Control - Neurotransmitters - StumbleUpon Neurotransmitter Molecules Neurotransmitters can be broadly split into two groups – the ‘classical’, small molecule neurotransmitters and the relatively larger neuropeptide neurotransmitters. Within the category of small molecule neurotransmitters, the biogenic amines (dopamine, noradrenaline, serotonin and histamine) are often referred to as a discrete group because of their similarity in terms of their chemical properties. Click on the links in the table above to read more about some of the important neurotransmitters. Serotonin Although the CNS contains less than 2% of the total serotonin in the body, serotonin plays a very important role in a range of brain functions.
Bump Mapping in Flash « [ draw.logic ] BumpMapping in Flash has been a possibility since Flash 8/AS2 but libraries are showing up in AS3 now. Here is a collection of the best samples and authors of that code. ByteArray AS3 BumpMapping and Ralph Hauwert 3D BumpMap + sources. BumpMapping shows off the power of per pixel operations and how beneficial the addition of per pixel work is when it was added to Flash 8 with the graphics libraries and filters. BumpMapping is great for simulating 3d depth in textures and can only be used minimally right now in flash due to the per pixel nature of the operation. The Vulgar Parrot The Vulgar Parrot A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. John tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of to "clean up" the bird's vocabulary. Finally, John was fed up and he yelled at the parrot.