3hreedee thoughts and pictures

an old lion

[harvest]

Today’s Moment of Zen comes from Harvest developer, Evan Walsh...

[thegongshow]

This is amazing. Watch the video (it’s only 3 minutes). An inventor in Washington published schematics for printing a prosthetic hand. A family in Massachusetts found the instructions online and printed a copy for their son who had developmental issues with his hand growth in the womb.

The 3D printed hand cost ~$10 in supplies (you could also include the $300 cost for a Makerbot if you want). A prosthetic hand bought in retail medical supply costs $20,000.

I often like to talk about the contrast between bits and atoms. The internet excels at disrupting businesses that tax the flow of information, bits. The internet has more difficulty making progress in disrupting businesses that transact in atoms. This video is a great example of how the internet will affect atoms. 

[3hreedee]

I am fairly certain that neither the inventors of the Internet, or the developers of the first 3D printer had this outcome in mind. It's a wonderful example of unintended consequences.

[nprfreshair]

Visit Original Link

A very special kind of place

The only place where I can stay making faces at my face

My bathroom.

Hear the interview about “The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals”

Steve Young: This is from a 1969 American Standard convention show in Las Vegas and it was for the distributors of all of the American Standard bathroom fixtures. Many of the songs on the record are filled with details about the new line of shower stalls and tubs, but this was really more of an anthem, an ode to the business as a whole — why they do what they do. And it’s a remarkable piece of work that I’ve been humming around the house for 20 years. And everybody who hears it is just floored by it, so I think it has some enduring value well beyond 1969 and the convention.

Sheldon Harnick: It’s a very professional, romantic ballad about a bathroom. … It’s extremely well done.

[3hreedee]

ahh capitalism

[3hreedee]

Gee, what time does the bus leave (:-)

[newyorker]

The Borowitz Report: Republicans Shut Down Prefrontal Cortex

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In an escalation of the stalemate gripping Washington, House Republicans voted today to shut down the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that controls reasoning and impulses.

The resolution, which passed with heavy Tea Party support, calls for a partial shutdown of the brain, leaving the medulla and cerebellum, sometimes referred to as the “reptilian brain,” up and running.

Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/19zOFrsThe already closed the heart.

[nprfreshair]

Making Pictures of People | Recent Perspectives on Photographic Portraiture

What compels us to look at pictures of people? When is a photographic portrait truly successful? Does portraiture tell us more about the person sitting for the camera or the image-maker behind the lens?

Produced by Andy Adams.

[3hreedee]

It is worth spending lots of minutes, not all at once, looking at this. When you click on a photographers name, you get a portfolio of that artist's work!!!

[life]

LIFE.com remembers Don Larsen’s Oct. 8, 1956, masterpiece at Yankee Stadium—the only no-hitter in World Series history.

(Photo: George Silk—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

[3hreedee]

I remember hearing the end on radio as school was letting out. I NOTE this was the FIFTH game of the World Series on OCTOBER 8, wh n baseball was meant to be played, not almost sometime in November (as now) at night in the cold !!!!!!

[beautiful-wildlife]

Lion Baby with Mother by Henry Jager

Shortly after sunrise, the lions awake. The lion baby cuddles up to its mother before it goes playing with the other cubs. 

[3hreedee]

awwwwwwwwww. too cute.

[thisiswhatkarinthinks]

"Situations like falling on my dorm room floor scare me not only because they are frightening and uncomfortable at face value, but also because I live in a world where people see my right to autonomy as different simply because I am disabled. I am afraid of situations where I look anything less than totally together and capable because from the time I was four years old and I had to be observed, so that people who didn’t even know me could decide whether I was able to go to mainstream kindergarten. I have spent my whole life having to prove that I should have the same rights and opportunities as everybody else. I have this overpowering need not to admit when I need help because I am afraid that I will lose everything I’ve worked so hard for."

Needing Help and the Perception of Competence (via thisiswhatkarinthinks)

Reblogging because I find this resonates with me in ways I’m not sure how to articulate yet. 

I would welcome a discussion of how to deal with true emergency events safely, in the context of the concerns described about autonomy. That discussion could then generate an entry into http://howtoautism.com, that the moderators could write. Such a discussion could take place here via reblogs, and/or at the artsiaspie tumble.

[3hreedee]

This is a sculptural interpretation of a Chinese fable: Fox and Chicken. This famous Chinese fable describes a fox, who visits chickens and brings presents. Moral: Beware of those who bear gifts. It is at this website: http://www.chinesefablesculpture.com/portfolio/fox_and_chicken.htm

[3hreedee]

Do you know THE answer?

This question has an actual correct answer. I wonder if anyone still knows it: What's the difference between a duck?

[3hreedee]

foxes get around

[disabledbyculture-blog]

Neurobiologists increasingly understand the brain as a modular system, with each module characterized by a high degree of autonomy (Lancaster, 1999). Le Doux (2002) compares the brain to a parallel computer that can perform various computations simultaneously. Like the parallel computer, the brain is organized into neural systems that to some degree function independently of one another. Le Doux marvels at “how fragile a patch job (the self) is” (p. 304). Gazzaniga (1985), who was Le Doux’s mentor, also views consciousness as modularistic, and says that the notion of “linear unified conscious experience is dead wrong” (p. 4). Parallel and multitrack processing may help to explain dissociative experiences on a neurological level. With regard to parallel processing in the brain, Dennett (1991) remarks that the incomprehension and disbelief that many people exhibit about the existence of multiple personality may be due to a “simple arithmetical mistake; they have failed to notice that two or three or seventeen selves per body is really not more metaphysically extravagant than one self per body” (p. 419).

(via disabledbyculture) The theories they are a'changin'. There is now evidence that these parallel modules constantly combine and recombine into multi-modal systems, and that understanding what these systems accomplish is going to be the next big challenge.

[autisticadvocacy]

CBS airs a video justifying the murder of an autistic teenager by his mother - sign this petition to tell them that's wrong

[3hreedee]

The CBS News video Behind the Tragedy: Mother Murders Autistic Son frames autism as an excuse for the murder of a child, Alex Spourdalakis, by his mother & caregiver. CBS should not be promoting what The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network’s Ari Ne’eman described as “a dangerous ideology that preaches that people are better off dead than disabled.” 

Even though Mr. Ne’eman and his quote were included at the end of the video, the bulk of the video tries to justify the unjustifiable — Alex’s murder — and curries sympathy for his killers. Specifically, CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson says, “His murder might be just another unexplained tragedy, if it were not for a documentary following his family in the months leading up to his death.” This is unacceptable.

[3hreedee]

Fox stamp. From Tuva, a Russian Republic in the exact center of Asia. Also home country of Tuvan Throat Singers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD-VGQGPpZY

[3hreedee]

We Hear You! Bat-eared foxes.

[3hreedee]

I like all types of weather

[3hreedee]

Sure is bright out here!