Geminid Meteor Shower (Sky & Telescope)

Source: Sky & Telescope

Movie: The imitation Game

Excellent movie. I watch the movie with my nephew in "City Cinemas Paris Theatre"

Plumb Beach update

Martin Maher: "The Plumb Beach Path project was funded. For 400 thousand dollars orignally by CM Fidler now CM Maisel.  It is 80 percent complete and if the weather cooperates is expected to be finished by"

Contractor: Deb Bradley

The Box... Containers, Containers, Containers..

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels recommended the book in AWS 3rd conference in Las Vegas. Interesting and easy to read book.

The port of New York

This is map from the book by Marc Levinson - "The Box" (How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger)

Far Rockaway hike (Fall). Beach repair

Crossfit: Floyd Bennett Field

Orion Boarding Pass

National Parks: Shenandoah & Great Smoking Mountains

Week Random Pictures

Full Moon getting there... Brooklyn, NY

Flowers at home

Luray Caverns?

http://luraycaverns.com/

Our Solar System

Credits: http://caseygoddard.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-different-breed-of-4x.html

Ovechkin - 8

USA south (fall vacation. Proposal)

Unfurl: spread our from a rolled or folded state

Unfurl: "make or become spread out from a rolled or folded state, especially in order to be open to the wind"

"Lily pads that unfurl during the summer create a new landscape for creatures in freshwater ponds: frogs bask atop them without fearing predators from below, and the shade they provide controls the growth of algae that might choke out fish and other underwater creatures. What’s your relationship with ponds: Swim at will or avoid the muck?" Source:http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/2014/09/photo-day-pond-pad/

Driest Place: Chile’s Atacama Desert.

Chile’s Atacama Desert is popularly known as the driest place on Earth; large parts of this region receive less than a millimeter of rain per year, but people do still manage to get by 
(Source: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/2014/09/photo-day-parched/

Quote: Happiness..by Thomas Jefferson

"It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness." Thomas Jefferson

Tranquility - the quality or state of being tranquil; calm.

Fatrace - report system wide file access events

fatrace - report system wide file access events

// Install on Ubuntu
apt-get install  fatrace

Regina (word meaning)

Latin, literally ‘queen

Why does the moon change shape? (Youtube)

Rocky Mountain National Park

Interjection (Exclamation)

In grammar, an interjection or exclamation may be a word used to express an emotion or sentiment on the part of the speaker (although most interjections have clear definitions). Filled pauses such as uh, er, um are also considered interjections. Interjections are often placed at the beginning of a sentence. Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interjection


The English we speak

Cannondal CAAD9-5 (Jacob Riis Park)

Sour Cherry (Location: Fair Haven State Beach Park)

I stumble upon sour cherry in Fair Haven State Beach Park.

Old Hickory (Andrew Jackson)

"Andrew Jackson was nicknamed Old Hickory after the Hickory tree which produced very tough wood. Jackson was tough like the wood. His men nicknamed Old Hickory when he marched them from Natchez Mississippi back to Tennessee around 1815. Jackson became an American Hero for his defeat of the British in the Battles of New Orleans, January 8 1815. He went on to become the 7th president of the United States. He also appears on the $20 dollar bill!" Source http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_Andrew's_nickname'Old_Hickory_means

Dog Nose (WSF)

A dog’s sense of smell is at least 10,000 times better than our own, thanks in part to an increased number of smell-sensitive receptors in their noses and a bigger section of the brain devoted to analyzing smells. Which one of your senses would you want dialed up 10,000 times stronger?
Source: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/2014/07/photo-day-dog-nose/

Road Trip (July 12 2014) - New York State

http://binged.it/1nlj7Rz

Word: Privilege

Privilege (Latin: privus legum).
Privus (private) and legum (law).
Privilege ~ private law
For More information, visit Webster Dictionary

July 4th barbecue (kosher steak)

What is an Essay?

An 'essay' is an argument, based on testing the evidence. ('Essay' comes from medieval French/Latin 'assay': to test or weigh)

Merge MP4 files on the Ubuntu

1. sudo apt-get install gpac
2. MP4Box -cat part1.mp4 -cat part2.mp4 -new mergefile.mp4

Post-Sandy Proposals

Here is link http://www.rebuildbydesign.org/

Space Junk (World Science Festival)

Source: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/2014/06/space-junk-infographic/

July 2014 vacation (version 3 upstate NY)

Sharks on Emmons

TCP Joke

HTTP 2

BBC Documentary English Birth of a Language (youtube)

Mushrooms in Howard Beach (Queens)

Yesterday, I noticed large mushrooms next to bike path.

Alstede Farm: Strawberries picking

Pheromone - "transferred excitement"

Excellent TED talk.

The Stand (comedy club)

Radiolab: For the Love of Numbers

Evolution of piano

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EVOLUTION_OF_PIANO.jpg

July 24 vacation (Proposal)

Court Composer?

Court Composer - music writer who was hired by the King to create music for an orchestra. For more information - http://www.ask.com/question/what-is-a-court-composer

Random pictures from Spain (2014 vacation)