Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
does Jilli have a "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself...and spiders." t-shirt? saw one and thought of her.
not sure why I am speaking of you as if you aren't here though. sorry.
ION - my boss is about to leave for the day. omg will lose tiny ounce of motivation I have.
That woman has a long history of mental illness. But I've been in that store and I'm not surprised about the riot.
Holy Crap: [link]
Authorities were scouring the skies Thursday for a 6-year-old boy who reportedly unhooked his family's experimental balloon-powered aircraft and floated away from home, sheriff's officials said.
I so would have gone off in a balloon mobile.
Lock it up, dipshits!
ION, Linda Thorson is still looking good and back to modeling.
The balloon looks like it's starting to deflate. Here's to the good hope of a safe landing.
Lock it up, dipshits!
Yeah, total ParentingFail.
You know what they need? They need a blimp to go catch it.
It's half-inflated now, visibly. I don't think they have to worry about it hitting Denver, I'm hoping it lands soft in a farm field.
I hope the kid's been able to breathe.
Dunno if this goes in Natter, Tech or Gaming... but scientist have made mice run around in Quake 2.
Princeton neuroscientist David Tank wanted to study individual neurons in a mouse’s hippocamus as it moves. But the movement of the mouse’s body prevented accurate readings. So he placed the mouse on a giant trackball and let it run through a virtual maze from the video game Quake 2 displayed on screens. Brandon Keim writes in Wired:
Studying individual neurons has been possible in cell cultures, but brains in a dish behave different than real, living brains. Tracking individual neurons in moving animals has been impossible.
“The neurons move back and forth while you’re trying to measure things,” said Tank. “So we developed a way to keep the head fixed in space, but still have mice perform behaviors that are usually studied in mice running through a maze.”
Tank’s team designed an apparatus in which a mouse, its head firmly held in a metal helmet, walks on the surface of a styrofoam ball. The ball is kept aloft by a jet of air, so that it functions like a multidirectional treadmill. Around it are sensors taken from optical computer mice, which read the ball’s movement as the mouse runs.
Those readings were the input for the researchers’ virtual reality software — a modified version of the open source Quake 2 videogame engine, tweaked to project an image on a screen surrounding the mouse. Tank called it “a mini-IMAX theater.”
