Think you can handle a gallery of animals with hearts in their fur? We double dog dare you to try.
For @LeeKC
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The question, “If I were President I’d…” implies that if you swap out one leader, put in another, then all will be well with America—as though our leaders are the cause of all ailments.
That must be why we’ve created a tradition of rampant attacks on our politicians. Are they too conservative for you? Too liberal? Too religious? Too atheist? Too gay? Too anti-gay? Too rich? Too dumb? Too smart? Too ethnic? Too philanderous? Curious behavior, given that we elect 88% of Congress every two years.
A second tradition-in-progress is the expectation that everyone else in our culturally pluralistic land should hold exactly your own outlook, on all issues.
When you’re scientifically literate, the world looks different to you. It’s a particular way of questioning what you see and hear. When empowered by this state of mind, objective realities matter. These are the truths of the world that exist outside of whatever your belief system tells you.
One objective reality is that our government doesn’t work, not because we have dysfunctional politicians, but because we have dysfunctional voters. As a scientist and educator, my goal, then, is not to become President and lead a dysfunctional electorate, but to enlighten the electorate so they might choose the right leaders in the first place.
” —Neil deGrasse Tyson
New York, August 21, 2011
(quote from Hayden Planetarium Blog, the unedited version of a quote given to the New York Times as part of a series they did called, “If I Were President, I’d…”)
Smartest man in the room.
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Jess, V, and Vivi for Jessica’s birthday. (Taken with Instagram at Rayuela)
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Taken with Instagram at Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center:
Taken with Instagram at NJ Transit Rail - Rahway Station
Taken with Instagram at NJ Transit Rail - Rahway Station
Taken with Instagram at NJ Transit Rail - Rahway Station
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Taken with Instagram at McCarran International Airport (LAS)
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Beautiful alarm clock. Found on Svpply.
In person, the main issue with this design is apparent. The iPhone’s volume-down button interferes with the metal base. Notice even in this picture that the iPhone is canted slightly upwards from perfect-horizontal (noticeable along top edge). This is why. Kind of an unfortunate oversight on an otherwise elegant concept, but details do matter.
On a professional note, 2011 was all about getting this guy up the beach, and readying reinforcements to the product range for 2012. Buttoning up rough edges of new technology, and managing the organizational changes required to meet the new suite of development challenges that come when a company must step up to new tech/architectures was the inside-baseball bulk of the effort.