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This tote is constructed from reclaimed and rescued fabrics, and has unique, hand-cut leaf appliques on both sides of the tote. I made this tote very large. As I sewed this tote, I envisioned picnic lunches, trips to the farmers market, apple-picking with loved ones. . . . a gathering together as much as a gathering of necessities and treasures.
...than everything else.
A phrase that has stuck in my head, uttered on a Deep Purple live album from way back when...
Anyhow, with the Lightroom sliders set to max -- AFRPS's Peckett gives vent amongst the conveyors in Scunthorpe.
An image taken during a photo charter around the British Steel Scunthorpe facility. Thanks to AFRPS and British Steel for their hospitality during this event.
11th March 2017
One in three adult Americans suffer from some form of arthritis and the disease affects about twice as many women as men.
Arthritic diseases include rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis, which are autoimmune diseases; septic arthritis, caused by joint infection; and the more common...
Gary Goodman abd Bambi Goodman show opens 24 Oct at Wish Less Gallery Tokyo wish-less.com/2015/10/05/garybambi-goodman-exhibition-eve...
i had the weirdest dream in which Earth was divided into two factions: those who insisted the future involved a melding of man and machine into something more intelligent and more powerful (transhumanists), and those who felt like melding man and machine was a de-evelotion of man's potential to ascend to higher spiritual levels (ascentionists). the transhumanists won the battle and soon enough there were giant robot/human hybrids running around out of control. then the dream shifted a few hundred years into the future, and i descended downwards from a space filled bird's eye view to a large pile of rubble on Venus. as I zoomed in, it became clear that this gigantic pile of rubble was the discarded remnants of the failed transhumanist experiment. mangles of robot and decaying human body parts created a giant pyramid heap of failure.
i awoke with two simultaneous thoughts:
everything has meaning
and
not everything has meaning.
the former is easy to grasp onto. if everything has meaning, then life has meaning and we're all headed in some direction towards some endpoint.
the latter, however, is a bit befuddling. because if you allot meaning to only some things, then you allow the space for random meaningless events which could eventually tip the scales in favor of complete meaninglessness, and if any events are meaningless, then what the hell are we all aspiring to anyway?
/this photo (i accidentally typed potato instead of photo just now) was taken in an abandoned mini bar/hotel - i think just off 1-10 somewhere. Jenn probably knows, she's better at keeping track of these things than me. anyway, i'm pretty sure it's been about five years since the last time we were here. i tried to find a similar photo from back then, but i realized that i probably never uploaded it...just like i tend to do.
The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything
The Ultimate AnswerThe Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is a concept taken from Douglas Adams' science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In the story, the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is sought from the supercomputer Deep Thought. The answer given by Deep Thought leads the protagonists on a quest to discover the question which provides this answer.
Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.
Story lines
According to the Hitchhiker's Guide, researchers taking the form of mice, which are actually 3-dimensional profiles of a pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent race of beings, construct Deep Thought, the second greatest computer of all time and space, to calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question. After seven and a half million years of pondering the question, Deep Thought provides the answer: "forty-two".
"Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"
"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
Deep Thought informs the researchers that it will design a second and greater computer, incorporating living beings as part of its computational matrix, to tell them what the question is. That computer was called Earth and was so big that it was often mistaken for a planet. The question was lost five minutes before it was due to be produced, due to the Vogons' demolition of the Earth, supposedly to build a hyperspace bypass. (Later in the series, it is revealed that the Vogons had been hired to destroy the Earth by a consortium of philosophers and psychiatrists who feared for the loss of their jobs when the meaning of life became common knowledge.) Lacking a real question, the mice proposed to use "How many roads must a man walk down?" (the first line of Bob Dylan's famous civil rights song Blowin' In The Wind) as the question for talk shows, after considering and rejecting the question, "What's yellow and dangerous?"—actually a riddle whose answer, not given by Adams, is "Shark-infested custard". However, this may also refer to the Vogon Constructor Fleet that demolished Earth, in that they were yellow and most certainly dangerous.
In one of the books, Marvin mentions that he can read the Question in Arthur's brainwaves. This does nothing to cheer him up.
At the end of the first radio series, the television series, and the book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (the second book of the five-book 'trilogy'), Arthur Dent (as the last human to have left the Earth before its destruction, and therefore the portion of the computer matrix most likely to hold the question) attempts to discover the Question by extracting it from his unconscious mind, through pulling Scrabble letters at random out of a sack. The result is the sentence "WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE".
"Six by nine. Forty-two."
"That's it. That's all there is."
Since 6 × 9 = 54, this being the question would imply that the universe is bizarre and irrational; on the other hand, there is no proof that this was the actual question. After all, Arthur Dent composed only a minuscule fragment of the vast and complex computer matrix that was the Earth, and besides, it was stated that the computer's run had not finished when it was destroyed. In addition, Arthur and Ford realized that the original ape-like inhabitants of Earth were displaced by the Golgafrinchams, which could account for the irrational nature of the question in Arthur's mind (as he himself is a descendant of the Golgafrinchans). On discovering the question in the original radio series, Arthur Dent remarks: "I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe."
Another thought as to the false equation in the Hitchhiker's Guide was that the program (Earth) would have run correctly if not for the crash landing of the Golgafrinchams. This race introduced error into the program and thus turned what would have been the equation 7 times 6 = 42 into 9 times 6 = 42.
It is also possible, given Adams' often bleak view of technology, that the 6 × 9 = 42 answer is meant to indicate that the Earth project was a flawed design to begin with, one that was always going to produce the wrong answer even if the program had been run successfully.
It was later pointed out that 6 × 9 = 42 if the calculations are performed in base 13, not base 10. Douglas Adams was not aware of this at the time, and has since been quoted as saying that "nobody writes jokes in base 13." and also "I may be a pretty sad person, but I don't make jokes in base 13."
Alternately, some have suggested that the question may be, "Pick a number, any number." Although this is not exactly a question, Marvin the Paranoid Android asks Zem the mattress in Life, the Universe, and Everything to pick any number.
"I gave a speech once," he said suddenly and apparently unconnectedly. "You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number."
"Er, five," said the mattress.
"Wrong," said Marvin. "You see?"
Since he often complains that his brain is "the size of a planet," it is somewhat feasible that he could have discovered what Earth was supposed to find out. Also, Eddie the shipboard computer in one part of the books mentions, "Pick a number, guys!" when Arthur wonders aloud what the Question is, but is ignored by the human inhabitants of the Heart of Gold.
At the end of Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book in the series, Arthur encounters a man named Prak, who through a significant overdose of a remarkably effective truth serum has gained the knowledge of all truth. Prak confirms that 42 is indeed the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything, but reveals that it is impossible for both the ultimate answer and the ultimate question to be known about the same universe. He states that if such a thing should come to pass, the universe would disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable. He then speculates that this may have already happened.
Later, in So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish, the fourth book in the series, Arthur wonders if the ultimate answer might be the sudden startling revelation which Fenchurch had shortly before the demolition of the Earth. This theory turns out to be false; Fenchurch instead discovered God's Final Message to His Creation, the location of which was revealed to Arthur by Prak at the end of the previous book.
It should be noted that 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe opens with the lines: "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." The book then repeats part of the "prologue" of the first book: "...a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realised what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything." At that point the story takes off. It is not unreasonable to assume that the universe before then had been 'normal' and that Arthur's life and everything that happened after that point was a direct result of the answer and question both being known (which would, of course, make the answer and question useless as the universe itself had changed).
Douglas Adams' view
On November 2, 1993 Douglas Adams gave an answer (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.fan.douglas-adams/msg/d1064f7b27808692?dmode=source&hl=en) on alt.fan.douglas-adams:
The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do'. I typed it out. End of story.
Miscellany
The true reason 42 was used in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (as revealed in "The Salmon of Doubt") is that Douglas Adams thought it was the funniest two-digit number.
According to the production notes of the DVD for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1981 TV series, the scenes with Deep Thought were shot during week 42 of the BBC's calendar.
Google has a calculator function in its search engine, which knows the supposed answer to life the universe and everything (http://www.google.com/search?q=answer+to+life+the+universe+and+everything+=).
MSN Search also calculates this query correctly in a similar fashion (http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=the%20answer%20to%20life%20the%20universe%20and%20everything).
Computer programmers' joke
There is a joke amongst computer programmers that Deep Thought may have had some order of operations issues. The following code in the C programming language defines the macros SIX as "1 + 5" and NINE as "8 + 1", and then performs the computation "SIX * NINE". It returns the answer "42", because "SIX * NINE" is expanded by the computer to "1 + 5 * 8 + 1", and the multiplication takes precedence over the additions. (This occurs because the macro expansion is textual, not logical.)
#include
#define SIX 1 + 5
#define NINE 8 + 1
int main(void)
{
printf( "What do you get if you multiply %d by %d: %d\n", SIX, NINE, SIX * NINE );
return 0;
}
Falsely assuming that the answer is indeed correct, that means that the meaning of life, the universe and everything would be 42.
text (i miss some words if you can figure them out be my guest):
everything must go
everything must go
yes!
me made a decision
and everything must be sold
we must walk out empty hands
empty hands mean:
we must sell everything
yes!
we must sell everything for the prices you want
step right in and get what you like for the prices you like
i bet you
you will be happy
you will be satisfied customer
yes!
the best deal in the whole town
come on in and find out
again: the store will be closed in august twenty six
august twenty six will be last day
after august twenty six:
it's no - store - here !
everything will be sold right now
come on in!
come on in and get what you want
step right in and find out
yes!
everything must be sold ... (?)
step right in or be ... (?)
come on in
and ... see ... what you like
Coming soon . . .
2 pair of stacked speedlights, everything on 1/1, at camera right and left, behind subject. (but now that I think about it, doesn't look like the camera left speedlights fired -- fortunately, I think)
1 AB1600 into 22" beauty dish, camera right and up high.
Visit him at travisknights.com.
That purple shirt matches with the pants and purse, right? Kinda, I think she passed the color test.
This is the first cocktail that I invented!
I have fiddled with recipes in the past to tweak flavors to my (and my family and friends') liking, but I have never been confident in my abilities to formulate my own flavor profiles.
Without my noticing, though, over the years, I've developed enough know-how to create my own drink. This was inspired by my huge array of unique bitters. I was eager to find a use for my peach bitters!
So here it is... presenting my baby, Everything is Peachy:
2 oz vodka
1 oz peach vodka
1/2 oz vanilla vodka
1/2 oz bourbon
1 tsp Maraschino liqueur
1 tsp peach bitters
Shake all ingredients well with lots of ice. Select the prettiest small cocktail glass you have, and pour.
This is a sweeter cocktail - more of a dessert cocktail - so you don't want to have too much of it. The dash of bourbon mixed with the vanilla gave the drink a smoky, caramelized note and cut through the sweetness.
Happy drinking!
At "Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos" they raise pigs, they get butchered and used on site
Virtually nothing goes to waste
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En "Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos" tambien crian puercos.
Nada se desperdicia.
Miacatlan, Morelos, Mexico
101_3106
In nature, nothing gets wasted. Everything gets used until it no longer exists. The rising waters in Lake Nakuru have already killed this tree, and after standing for a year or two, this dead tree has rotted and fallen. Eventually, it will fully fall into the water and disintegrate into pieces. Until then, the tree that once let cormorants house their nests, now provides an artistic perch for the birds.
Shot during a boat ride on Lake Nakuru, Kenya.
Everything you want to ask about Boxing. History of boxing,Greatest Heavyweight Champions of past and present, Boxing equipment, Boxing styles, Boxing Rules, Boxing Videos from Important Fights.Muhammad Ali
everywhere I see.
Everything is honey,
and that's quite alright with me.
Made with Sony A900 and a 1986 Hasselblad Sonnar CF 150mm f/4.0 with about 60% crop
Infographic based on The Phantom Tollbooth.
Depicts flow of narrative, character relationships and classifications and location changes.
View them all here.
One of the classic Doggie Diner Heads, now resting in a corner of Streetlight Records in San Jose, California. I'm happy it has a home, though I'd be happier if a proper altar had been built. There are those who would like to pay homage, after all...
Despite what it says on the corner of the building Mayfield station closed to passengers in 1960, the Parcels Depot closed in 1986, The tracks were taken up in 1989 and the overall roof came down in 2013. The gap in the coping stones where it says "Ninja" is where a conveyor went from the parcels depot to Piccadilly. The building itself is nondescript, it could have been a warehouse or office building, there is nothing which makes it stand out as a railway station.
© Copyright Stephen Willetts - No unauthorised use
Just Pinned to Everything Gothic & steampunk: Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #1198 ift.tt/25X3Oqj
I've got that lefty curse
Where everything that I do is flipped
and awkwardly reversed
You're seldom known and barely missed
I always put myself
in destructive situations
I need oxygen
to be exposed where no one goes
Where no one's been
When it all comes crashing...
We've Got a Big Mess on Our Hands - The Academy Is...
I'm so frustrated right now. Between CS3, camera raw, lightroom, and ViewNX... ahhhh. I don't even know what to doooo. I'll view my raw files, but then when I go to open them in CameraRaw/Lightroom, they show up dark, and not like they should. When I convert to jpeg so I can directly open in Photoshop, their grainy and icky. Help? Perhaps? And because of this issue, I haven't sharpened/blurred, etc at all on this. Just tried to make it worrrkkk.
Also frustrated because I really need to get my priorities straight. School comes first. I've got homework to do right now, and a test to study for and it's already 11:24. I'm in need to organize.
C is for Caution
because, my shower is dripping, quite possibly causing an shock hazard, which in turn could turn into a fire hazard, and finally causes imminent death.