Encase Your Friends in Carbonite A while back a friend of mine asked me if I could help him build a replica of Han Solo encased in carbonite to hang on the wall in his basement bar (which he'd themed to look like the throne room of Jabba the Hutt). So I told him I'd look into it and see what's involved. While I was sitting in the cafe one morning, poring over photos of the original prop, my friend Jenny wandered in and asked what I was doing. So I told her. "Can you really make that?" she asks. "Sure," says I, "it's actually not such a big deal." "Does it have to be Han Solo?" "No," I replied, "it's actually easier if it's someone who can come into the workshop for lifecasting. "What if it was me?" The conversation ended with her gleefully agreeing to come to the workshop and put in all of the labor and pay for all of the materials required to make the project possible. Here's a picture of the finished product.
Stanford trio explore success formula for Reddit posts (Phys.org) —Marketers and other new media workers hoping for traffic payoffs will want to study a paper by three Stanford University scientists who have pulled apart the nature of Reddit posts to determine what, beyond quality of content, constitutes success. "What's in a name? Understanding the Interplay between Titles, Content, and Communities in Social Media," shows what a clever use of mathematics can do in getting to the secret sauce of a successful post. The study by Himabindu Lakkaraju, Julian McAuley, and Jure Leskovec found that important factors include where you post on Reddit, when you post on Reddit, and last but not least what title you give the post on Reddit. "Creating, placing, and presenting social media content is a difficult problem. Reddit is a news and entertainment website where registered users submit content in the form of a link or text post. The authors explained how they went about their investigation. More information: What's in a name? via BusinessInsider
Welcome to Erf: Meeting Women in the Real World By Eric Smith, excerpted from The Geek’s Guide to Dating. “Being clever’s a fine thing, but sometimes a boy just needs to get out of the house and meet some girls.” Such is the wisdom of Flex Mentallo, wrestler/superhero/metafictional comic book character. Now, you sure won’t get any criticism from me for using the power of the Interwebs to search for a romantic partner; I think the previous section of this chapter makes that pretty clear. Planet Earth is a big place, of course, even if it’s not a gas giant or a Dyson sphere. First: If you want to maximize your opportunities, it’s very important to go questing off-map. And second, you really should try to expand your social network—not in the Zuckerberg sense, but in the people-with-whom-I-interact-offline sense. Finding someone to date shouldn’t be like trying to party up in an MMORPG: running around, repeatedly spamming chat channels for a group, and anxiously seeking a random encounter. The comic book store: Approach her. Observe.
Sightsmap Freier Mensch - Axel, Peter, Mario und mehr Wiki Ein Freier Mensch in der BRiD schreibt nicht in seinen Briefen, sondern signiert wie folgt: "[Vorname, Name (beides klein und in Druckbuchstaben)], der gewillkührt Bevollmächtigte, der alleinig freie Administrator für den freien, natürlich beseelten, lebendigen und nicht verschollenen Menschen nach §1 des staatlichen BGB, der alleinige Namensinhaber und ewiglich uneingeschränkt Begünstigter, in Geschäftsführung ohne Auftrag nach Bürgerlichem Gesetzbuch, §677 wegen Personenstandsänderung und wegen Abwesenheit bzw. Ausfallen und Fehlens der staatlichen Stellen in Selbstermächtigung und im Gebrauch und erlaucht der latenten Rechtsfähigkeit " Wenn man so eine Schreiben signiert und mit denen nich in Vertrag geht, dann HLKO, usw.