There is this hilarious collection of the graduates’ photographs – “Planetdan’s Senior Photo Collection“. If there is a chance that you will ever have to photograph a graduate, then check these pictures with comments. If you are not going to make any pictures ever, then check the pictures and read the comments anyway. They will make you smile. I promise.
Year: 2004
List of User-Agents
If for some reason you need a list of all sorts of different web user agents (spiders, robots, crawlers, browsers), then you can check the list here. These are separated into three huge pages with descriptions, and links to the vendors’ sites.
This might be useful when writing a robots.txt file or developing a site with different content varied by the web client.
World Beard and Moustache Championships
If you have been seeing lots of bearded and moustached guys lately and thinking of growing your own facial hair, but don’t know what design you should go for, I can give you some help here. Apparently, lots of people with beards and moustaches are gathering together very often to have some kind of contest. Like a beauty contest. This type of events should be a lot of entertainment to participate in, but being an audience should be good too.
Here is one of the websites that cover such an event. There are galleries with photographs of the event and of the participants (separately) too. Enjoy.
You can find other similar sites if you suddenly get carried away. Here’s a list of several beard competitions to get you going.
I, Robot
Olga and I went to RIO cinema to watch “I, Robot” today. It is a much hyped film about robots getting too smart and not following three laws of robotics (1. Don’t harm people. 2. Obey people, unless orders conflict with law 1. 3. Self preserve, unless conflict with laws 1 and 2.)
Many people who saw this movie and read original story by Isaac Asimov were really pissed off by how much the film was different. I haven’t read any Isaac Asimov, but I the story was in the film was very simple and stampy usual. Anyone who has seen more than two Hollywood cop movies, knows the story and the characters. By now I think that anything else would be better. So, I do support the group which is pissed off about turning Asimov’s story around and simplifying it, because I really doubt that a classic sci-fi author (or whatever was that he wrote) would come up with such simplicity.
Apart from the simple story, everything else was pretty good. Will Smith was as good as he usually is. Else of the actors crew was acceptable. The soundtrack was pretty good. And the computer graphics were excellent. Graphics were the main point of hype about the film and they proved themselves worthy. Lots of details, dynamics, and surroundings. Lots of things rendered. Actually, even part of Smith was rendered, but that’s a spoiler. :)
In general, I would expect a little less tak and a little more action from a movie like that, but the difference would be small. So, I’ll rate it as a strong 7 out of 10, while Olga thinks that 6.5/10 is enough. Go see it while it is in the movies.
Picture of the day
The most difficult days for my POTD project are those when I sleep through the most of the first part of the day, go to the movies in the second, and go to work for my night shift. Days like these don’t leave me with many photo opportunities.
Today is one of these days. So, what I have to do is just grab my camera, think about things I wanted to photograph, think about things that I haven’t yet photographed, and photograph them. If I cannot find anything, only than I can photograph those items that I consider to be backup for the black day. Fortunately, today, I found three things to photograph which is good enough for the POTD, and which are not yet the backup stuff.
Pictures of my CD collection (backup of photographs), fan, and some power cables are all here. I do feel how I get better with finding photo frames in the casual subjects. And that is excellent, because that is the point of the project.