#eye-ball

[meraki-sunset]

Wrong choice.

You should have taken in count your situation before acting, soldier.

An old scketch i did a while ago.

[alternateworldcomics]

Stupid humans.

[alternateworldcomics]

Now you know how Mike Wazowski paid for his years at Monster University, hey…. Don’t judge,  It’s better than going into debt. 

[hisvisionproject]

Eye-Ball Masquerade Excitement!

a post by Paige McGugin

  Our His Vision Project is partnering with Harman Eye Center of Lynchburg to host the first annual “Eye-ball” Masquerade!

This will be an exciting time for the Lynchburg community including live music by the Sway Katz, dancing and dinner! We will have a live orchestra with a lot of dancing for the guests to enjoy. Throughout the gala, we will have a silent auction with outstanding give-a-ways that you do not want to miss!

This exciting event is expected to have 200-250 people in attendance, so save the date! Come out, support the organization and have a “ball”! ;)

The first annual “Eye-ball” Masquerade will be hosted on Friday, Feb. 7, at 7 p.m. at West Manor Estates. Tickets will be sold for $85 per person and $150 per couple.

Harman Eye Center has always been committed to providing excellent service to each of their patients. They strive to meet the needs of their patients and provide high quality service.

The His Vision Project is a non-profit that works to provide eye care to impoverished communities locally and internationally in Haiti. It was founded in 2010 by Melinda Wilson in Lynchburg, VA. The first Haiti eye clinic established will be January 2014!

[mancave-nl]

De Eye-Ball of de Ball Camera… hoe je hem ook noemt, hij is awesome. Het idee is even simpel als briljant: een bal waarin 36 camera’s rondom zijn gemonteerd, zodat je een foto kunt maken van 360 graden. Gewoon door hem in de lucht te gooien!

[a-bit-off-beat]

Random-ness

Restlessness was deep in my veins, running through my coffee-inhabited-bloodstreams like an annoying itch I couldn't scratch away. It was eating at me for the entire fitful day and I was feeling like - at the end of my rope- clueless on what to do with it. I was simply a bundle of nerves thinking about nothing in particular, attempting to blot out the insistent thirst for something riveting nagging at the back of my head. I was in for anything just to ease up the boredom that was putting me on the edge. #trite

I could dial any random 7-digit-number and vent to whoever would be unfortunate enough to be on the other end of the line; or talk about my almost perverted want to be a ridiculously great author, or about how pathetic our government is, or how a bar of cadbury could reduce me into a freakish docility, or how a cup of sinfully dark coffee could make me do almost anything.The idea had never sounded so compelling until that restive Sunday afternoon. Or I could go and invade the nearest mall and bankrupt my already-impoverished-self in the process. Either way, I would have some fun while I squander my time away.

An equally defiled idea presented itself out of nowhere. A binge-eating invitation came via a text message from an unregistered number. The sender had been texting me in the past couple of days and whoever "Paul" he is, he sounded nothing like a debauched murderer.What's the worst that could happen between two evenly idiotic strangers inside a crowded mall? Ditching each other was on the top of my head. No biggie!

I was apprehensive of course, at my age, I'm way past the meet-up-show that is the sick trend of the high-schoolers-of-this-loose-generation.I did this same thing once out of sheer curiosity, and then made a pact with myself to not do it again afterwards. But I had to do something to keep the boredom from consuming my sanity, and so without a double take, I went off to snug some excitement. I still had some sense of self-preservation and safety but the hunger for some kicks topped them all. Reason and sound logic faded into triviality.

It turned out to be fun, more fun actually than I dared expect from an obtuse meet-up-with-a-stranger. We dined on the topics ranging from how-to-kill-a-common-friend-for-giving-my-number-away-like-a-freebie, to how-to-consume-a-12-inch-hawaiin-pizza-without-infringing-gluttony.

I went home alive =))

[thetotalcio]

Situational Awareness and Enterprise Architecture

EA is a tool for situational awareness and planning to drive modernization, transformation, and improved results. Enterprise architecture helps us as organizations to be more aware of our business and technology resources, desired outcomes, and ways to link resources/investments to results.

As far as mankind can remember, we have always looked to plan ahead to manage change and complexity. In the times of the pharaohs, people looked to the stars for a sign of what was to come. In past centuries, others have looked into the crystal ball to foretell events and plan accordingly. To many, these rudimentary methods were all they had to gain a semblance control over their lives and a world that probably felt very out of control much of the time.

Now the military has a crystal ball all of its own to deploy to the battleground to provide better situational awareness to our troops, and this is particularly helpful for identifying the enemy in close urban combat, as that which we find ourselves fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, now-a-days.

National Defense Magazine, March 2008, reports that ODF Optronics, a technology company in Tel Aviv, Israel has developed an eye-ball surveillance system “which consists of a hardened sphere that houses a sophisticated camera system and comes with a wireless display unit. Durable eye ball can be thrown over walls, into streets, tunnels, houses, or any other place of interest. Once the sphere hits the ground it establishes a 360-degree video image of the surrounding area and feeds it to operators holding the small display unit. It also features audio and day/night sensors.”

Other models like the omni-directional system, “is a sensor platform that is housed inside a hardened pole that can be mounted on top of a vehicle. It provides a 360-degree field of view for the crew inside…A five camera system is housed inside the cylindrical structure that transmits video images to a rugged laptop sitting inside the vehicle.”

ODF is now working with the DoD technical support working group and DARPA developing new sensors, because they “understood that military forces need to see the world around them.” But the truth is with all need to see the world around us with ever more comprehensive views, better resolution and clarity of image, and enhanced processing to understand what we are seeing. Only with this type of situational awareness are we better able to plan and respond to the world around us.

Like the ODF eye-ball for high-tech military surveillance and reconnaissance, our organizations need the ability to capture and analyze information and develop what Danny Nadri, a retired Israeli Air Force captain calls “quick actionable information.” And enterprise architecture is one important tool to provide us this situational awareness and planning capability.