telnet miku.acm.uiuc.edu

Of course this posting doesn’t end there as the Nyan telent service is not new to me and I have only linked it here because a) it is quite interesting and more people should know about it and b) it lends a nice degree of context to the following paragraphs.

Also linked to on that Reddit post where two relevant applications that where new to me, both of which are hosted on the wonderful Github and each has its own application, or at the very least: reason to exist.

Nyancat CLI

The Nyancat CLI is essentially the same thing as displayed in the telnet link above except you can set it to only output one frame and therefore theoretically it could be set to be run when people log into your server via SSH for a nice welcome. As it is also a very simple C application it could also prove interesting to those learning C, in finding out basic terminal interaction and how to write a makefile for a very simple application with very few header files (I found it interesting for this very reason.)

In any case to have the Nyancat CLI output just one frame use the following code:

./nyancat -esnf 1

This can be used in your login script to output the Nyancat graphic on login over SSH.

Lolcat CLI

The second interesting little tool that is linked to from the Reddit post is called lolcat. Unfortunately unlike the Nyancat CLI, Lolcat has been written in Ruby rather than C and therefore I am unable to install it, mostly because I don’t wish to go through the effort of installing Ruby just to screen grab lolcat running on my development server. Instead I have included an screenshot below taken from the Github page where the Lolcat CLI is hosted. As you will see from the screenshot the Lolcat CLI takes an input and “rainbow-fies” it.

Michel Style appears to be a Russian fashion outlet or at least google translate would lead me to believe so. While a lot of the fashion items on there are not to my taste, the image above and the small gallery below took my fancy because the model has both stunning hair and legs and the photographer has not only captured her as a whole very well but also lit and composed the shot in such a way as to evoke a plethora of meaning within each frame.

As a side note I also really like both those shoes and that chair, I really like antique looking simple chairs and I can just imagine one like that depicted within the above and below photos being sat in my office and while hard it would be a pleasure to sit in

“The collection for H&M is the essence of Versace. For the collaboration we’ve brought back from the archives, as well as from more recent collections, some of the icons of Versace, such as the bright prints, the Greek key and daring cuts. I can’t wait to see how H&M’s wide audience will make these pieces their own.” – Donatella Versace.

“Versace’s collection for H&M is a moment in fashion. It is full of strong pieces that stand out, with colours, prints and cuts that are clean and precise. The women’s collection is flattering and full of dresses, while the men’s collection is very sophisticated. When I think about Versace I think of iconic items. With this collection for H&M we’ve got the essence of Versace.” – Margareta van den Bosch, creative advisor at H&M.

And without further ado, the entire collection both male and female.

The Doctor has spoken, Bow ties are now cool! They are also now available as cute knitted necklaces for girls with no collars and are available for the reasonable price of $20 from ohjustjess on etsy here.

So what if you dont like gray, or it just wont go with that outfit you wanted to finish off with a bow tie? Well she hand makes them in 20 different colours so you certainly have plenty to choose from. The crocheted bow measures 5in by 3in and hangs on a 20in bronze metal chain and it certainly adds some pizzaz to any outfit.

It could be your new ice breaker?

Conrad Roset

Some of the techniques that he uses in his work I aim to replicate in my own, the above art work is from a series that he has done in which line drawn figures on paper are both painted and inked over using what would appear to be a selection of water colours, oil paints, pencils and ink pens to provide a vibrant mixture of textures, colours and themes. This use of mixed media can be seen in the below two examples of Conrads work, and if you like these pieces then I would implore you to go and have a look at his portfolio.

The above photo is of Christina Shapran at St. Petersburg’s Vaganova Ballet Academy and was taken by esteemed and critically acclaimed Fashion photographer Arthur Elgort.

Arthur Elgort was born June 8th 1940 in New York City where he currently resides in his professional capacity as a Photographer / Director. An acclaimed photographer, Arthur has been published in Vogue, Vanity Fair, American Photo, New Yorker, Dance, Aperture, London Times Magazine, Telegraph and the Economist amongst others as well as his own exhibitions, film work and book publications.

As it is an Easter weekend and I am in-between projects I decided to sort out the nagging issues with this website, take off the dust covers and tidy up. In doing so I have reinstated an older wordpress theme I designed over two years ago that I love and both updated it and as many posts as I can find with problems (missing images, broken links, poorly written content… the list goes on.)

One post that did take my fancy during this clean up is simply titled Gooimaging and depicts an interesting little boredom breaker that I came up with after watching David Gorman’s Google-whacking adventures. I have decided to revive that game as its 8:59am and I need to wake up properly before getting on with work. As the old rules were written for a google image search that has since been vastly updated and improved upon, I have revised the rules and listed them below:

1. You must image search for a name, male or female. It must be a name that is associated with a person such as “Sam”, “Jamie”, “Keith” or “Max.”
2. Scroll down the equal page number to your birth-date-month and then count along the images until you rest upon the image equal to your birth-date-day. This is your selected image.
3. The image must not be pornographic or non-human (play with safe-search off for increased difficulty,) if it is then you have to go back one link. If at the beginning then start again with a different name.
4. Click on the image in question and open the webpage, you are looking for other names that meet rule one. You then repeat the rules for that name and continue doing so until you come to a dead end or you discover better things to be spending you time doing.

My Game

I began with a search for “Bronwyn”  and it returned 2,260,000 results of very similar looking people, this was however not a very good start as I landed on the only non human picture in the search: a pair of dogs from romanycollies.com. Taking this early defeat in hand I rolled again and searched this time for “Jamie” which amongst 810,000,000 results returned a photo of Jamie Foxx at thecinemasource.com a distinctively human image which has been linked to an article written by Andrea Tuccillo.

After rolling again with “Andrea” google returned 487,000,000 results and I hit upon the below desktop wallpaper image of Andrea Parker hosted at a blogspot blog titled filmovizia. Once again I looked for an attractive name prospect and chose “Alicia“.

Rolling with “Alicia” returned 203,000,000 results with my result in question being the Alicia Keys Wikipedia page and a shamefully small photo at that. Thanks to both google similar image search and Tineye plus a generous slapping of photoshop skills I have been able to recreate the image big enough to include below.

As Alicia’s manager is called Jeff Robinson I have decided to roll again with the name “Jeff“, this returned 2,040,000,000 results and landed me on another Wikipedia page. This time the page in question was that describing the professional wrestler Jeffrey Leonard Jarrett pictured below.

Wiki pages make finding names for this game too easy so in an attempt to make things more difficult I scourer the Jeff Jarrett wiki page for the most obscure name that I could find – the best I could do was “Dixie“. This roll returned about 86,900,000 results, the least amount so far so I was going in the right direction. However the first page of results had plenty of non human images and I was only four rounds in, this was not the time to play Russian Roulette with my results. I got lucky and landed on the below picture hosted at impawards.com of an 1976 poster for Dixie Dynamite!

The page in question only had two choices for names “James Bond” and “Drew Struzan,” as I am going down the obscure path I chose “Drew” for my next roll as I haven’t heard of Drew Stuzan, but every ones grandmother has heard of James Bond. In a search full of pictures of Drew Barrymore I landed on the only male photo in the list – just my luck. My sixth round search gave me a photo of Drew Brees amongst 676,000,000 other results of mostly Miss Barrymore. The photo in question pictured below is hosted at athline.com and a very quick look of that webpage lead me to quickly roll again, this time using the name “Eli.”

Rolling with Eli returned 184,000,000 results not as little as Dixie, but few enough to bring some interest back into the game as up until now the rolls I have made have brought mostly boring webpages. Unfortunately I have to say this my seventh roll was just as disappointing as I landed on a paparazzi family shot of Eli Manning hosted at tmz.com.

After a disappointing couple of rolls I decided a more mainstream name might help and Rolls with “Kourtney” from Kim & Kourtney Kardashian on the Tmz webpage. This roll returned the least amount of results so far, totalling about 44,500,000 and having to click “Click to view more results” for page nine meant I was going in the right direction so far as reducing the number of results. Rather disappointingly and at the same time unsurprisingly I landed on the below photo of the Kardashian’s.

I quickly chose “Lauren” for my next roll and at 696,000,000 results I had managed to shoot away from my previous low record. This time I landed on the below photo of Lauren Conrad hosted at hairstylespics.net and a page full of names to select from.

For my tenth, and for the sake of this blog post final roll. I chose the name “Evangeline” to which google responded with about 11,500,000 results and the following desktop wallpaper of Evangeline Lilly hosted at phombo.com.

By my own admittance, this wasn’t the most interesting series of web-searches (or blog post) and had I not been writing this blog post as I went along I would probably have gone through 100 rolls in the same time its taken me to roll and write this at the same time. Attached below is the timeline of my little adventure. I hope I have at least reduced your boredom levels a little bit.

I have always maintained that asl is no conversation opener, at least not if you want the conversation to go anywhere but the gutter. Fortunatly every once in a while you by serendipitous chance meet someone whom has a similar sense of humour. This was one such case, and it made me smile, so I thought I would share.

In my opinion the motherboard pictured above is a thing of technological beauty both in the way that it looks aesthetically and the features that it offers. Being a Apple Mac person myself I do like my computers to look good regardless of the operating system which is why the Mac Pro’s solid aluminium case with precision drilled holes appeals to me and this the new LGA 2011 motherboard from ASRock stimulates those same feelings. It is a thing of beauty, if I had the money I would have one framed and hung on the wall.

Specification

My weirdness aside lets talk about the eye opening features of this board; what it brings to the table is so beyond the needs of most computer users that it fits nicely into the category of extreme computer components and as its part of the ASRock Extreme brand what we expect is a Hulk of a motherboard and with the below feature list we are not disappointed.

The X79 Extreme 11 provides five PCI Express x16 slots, compatible with both SLI and CrossFireX 4-way GPU setups and each slot designed with the ability to run at the full 16x speed, this is one more than the Intel X79 PCH chip can support and is instead thanks to the addition of a pair of GEN3 PLX 8747 chips.

For extreme desktop applications there are a total of eight DDR3 memory sockets able to support a maximum system memory load of 64GB when 8GB modules are used – which short of high-end vm, database and rendering applications is plenty for the day to day extreme gamer.

It can be assumed that ASRock felt that the SATA connectivity provided by the Intel X79 PCH chip was not up to its standards as they have installed a third-party LSI SAS2308 controller which adds eight SAS 6Gbps or eight SATA III ports to the motherboard. Added to the six that the Intel X79 PCH chip natively provides, the ASRock X79 Extreme 11 motherboard can be connected to a total of 14 SAS/SATA III drives (10 of which will be able to work at 6Gbps.)

Finally other features include two legacy 32-bit PCI slots, Creative Core3D audio, dual USB 3,0 on-board headers, two 8-pin CPU power connectors, on-board power and reset buttons as well as a BIOS debug LCD display.

All in all we expect a monster of a motherboard from ASRocks Extreme range and the new ASRock LGA 2011 X79 Extreme 11 does not disappoint!

There is no official word regarding the release date or the price but it is expected to be showcased during the CeBIT 2012 fair.

For those of you who want the very best from your equipment, it appears ASRock have delivered.

The video is just sixty seconds long which makes it all the more impressive that so much detail and scenes have been captured and cut together to produce something that is both interesting and exciting to watch. Love have a few other video shorts on Vimeo, I implore you to also give them a view.

Comments on the video have been disabled for obvious reasons, comments on here haven’t so if you have something to contribute, please do.

Update: For some reason the video hosted at Vimeo posted by Love has been set to private, so I have changed the embedded video to one that is hosted at youtube posted by the official Kate Upton profile, I am hopeful that this one will not also vanish. Below is the Vimeo embed just-incase it comes back online.