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Twitter: lancearmstrongJuly 31, 2009
I have to admit, in the month or so that I've signed up for Twitter, I haven't seen much that has got me excited. Primarily I've followed the NASA feed, which has been nice but not earth shattering.
One exception: This weekend I added Lance Armstrong, just as he was finishing the second last stage of tour. A little while after he finished, I logged in and there was a personal message from him saying that he felt great today, etc. It was bizarre... it felt like a personal note, very different from anything you'd read in a book or magazine, and it was "live". Wow.
Since then, I've seen a few pictures that Lance has posted while training in Bermuda (I think it was), and then today he posted some pictures of himself freediving at 60 feet (apparently) with some giant sea life. Again, wow! That's some pretty amazing insights into a celebrity's life. And, seriously, freediving to 60 feet in azure waters? I'm seriously jealous!
Significant milestone: 10 MbpsJuly 30, 2009
I just downloaded a video from NASA at 1.3 megabytes per second, also known as 10 Mbps (megabits per second).
Why is this significant? Well, when I was a teenager, 10 Mbps was the speed of the LAN in our house, which was about 200 times faster than our Internet connection at the time.
How times have changed!
"Euphoria" engineJuly 29, 2009
This engine attempts to create more dynamic realistically animated and characters.
VideoImpressive!
Maybe I'm cruel, but I think it would be fun to have a Windows desktop with this little character standing on your taskbar, and you'd be able to run your mouse cursor into him and he's fall over... or you could really ram your cursor into him and he'd go flying across the screen. There would be all sorts of ways to take him down, such as swiping his legs out from underneath him, etc. He could also duck to avoid your cursor, etc.
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