Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous articles and random thoughts

MMA Canada Trip 1-31-11

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These are more photos from MMA’s Educational Community Service Trip to Montreal / Quebec
Photos courtesy of LTC Tim Scherrer

MMA Canada Trip 1-30-11 Part 2

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These are more photos from MMA’s Educational Community Service Trip to Montreal / Quebec
Photos courtesy of LTC Tim Scherrer

MMA Canada Trip 1-30-11

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These are photos from MMA’s Educational Community Service Trip to Montreal / Quebec

Photos courtesy of LTC Tim Scherrer

Body Kit For Honda Prelude

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Well, after a lot of searching, I think I have finally found a body kit I like for my Honda Prelude. Being an 87 It was hard to find…

http://www.andysautosport.com/honda/1984_1987_prelude/exterior/body_kits/aas/

Litany Against Fear

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The litany against fear is an incantation used by the Bene Gesserit throughout the series to focus their minds and calm themselves in times of peril. The litany is as follows:
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

The litany is shortened in David Lynch’s 1984 film.

Making a Photoshop Brush

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I saw a small graphic I liked on a friends facebook post. So, I decided to create this.

Birds

Birds

And, I decided to take it one step further. I am making it into a brush.

So, I thought I would document how I made it into a brush

Bird

Bird

I used the magic wand tool to select the white of the background.

Next, I right clicked on the selected white and selected “Select Inverse”

With the black bird selected, I click on edit and Define Brush Preset.

Then I click on the brush icon on the toolbar and look at my brushes on the top bar

brushes

brushes

I See my bird as the last brush. I delete all the other brushes in the palette by simply Alt-click through your brush palette to delete them one by one until the brushes you want are on there.

1brush

1brush

Click on the arrow in the top right to create a menu. Click on Save Brushes. Name it and save it. You will have an *ABR file which is a Photoshop brush

ABR

ABR

Download this brush for use in Photoshop CSx
[download id="3" display="both"]

Fibonacci Sequence

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Once again, thanks to the TV Show Numbers, I got a refresher from my old math course. This time, it is on the Fibonacci Sequence.

In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers are the numbers in the following sequence:

0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89, 144 etc.

By definition, the first two Fibonacci numbers are 0 and 1, and each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two. Some sources omit the initial 0, instead beginning the sequence with two 1s.

The Fibonacci sequence is named after Leonardo of Pisa, who was known as Fibonacci (a contraction of filius Bonacci, “son of Bonaccio”). Fibonacci’s 1202 book Liber Abaci introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics, although the sequence had been previously described in Indian mathematics.

Read more at Wikipedia

Occam’s Razor

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I first heard about Occam’s razor (or Ockham’s razor) on the show Numbers. Since then, I have been interested in the theory. It is the principle that “entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity” (entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem). The popular interpretation of this principle is that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. Simplest is not defined by the time or number of words it takes to express the theory; “[simplest] is really referring to the theory with the fewest new assumptions.

More information at Wikipedia

NCIS: Los Angeles > Script VO 219
“JENNINGS: I doubt it. Occam’s Razor…the simplest explanation is the best.
“SAM: Usually the best.”