True Quality
If you have to be trained to recognize something of value, it just isn’t that valuable.
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Reading Memory
First Image of Memory Being Made - I completely mistook the headline for implying that memory can be translated to an image (photo, scan). For a moment, I thought we’d actually be able to scan our minds soon and save images off of them. 
Guess that’s a little bit further in the future since they’re just now figuring out what memory in the brain even looks like (not the memory itself but the part of the brain that holds the memory - which isn’t really what the memory looks like but the memory container looks like… kinda like memory cards I guess - ack, confusing terms!). I guess perhaps in the short term future, we can look forward more on learning to increase our memory or enhance.
Maybe one day we can buy extra proteins to enlarge our memory capabilities! 
(though I wouldn’t want a bigger head as a result of it)
Still,…[More]
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Losing Work
Losing work over something stupid is like dying abruptly because you forget to eat.
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Life is Easy
Life is easy. It’s just when you do something you think is impossible - things get a lil’ hard.
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Perfection
The only thing preventing perfection is the idea that perfection is not possible.
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Three Years Past
A freshman boy walks down the school hallway eating a cup of ice cream he got from across the street. While walking, he suddenly looks up from his ice cream to realize his surroundings look different. It's the same location with some things altered, perhaps looking older or worn out. He eventually realizes he has ended up 3 years into the future.
His friends tell him he's crazy. When the boy tries to use his ice cream as proof, they tell him he just got it from across the street. Defeated, the boy just accepts his situation for the time being.
His learning is accelerated and he quickly adapts to his new life. He seems to learn things instantaneously sometimes (such as math) even though he doesn't remember having been good at it before. One day his friends bug him about the ice cream again and the boy gets irritated. The boy suddenly shouts, "How could I have gotten the ice cream...[More]
His friends tell him he's crazy. When the boy tries to use his ice cream as proof, they tell him he just got it from across the street. Defeated, the boy just accepts his situation for the time being.
His learning is accelerated and he quickly adapts to his new life. He seems to learn things instantaneously sometimes (such as math) even though he doesn't remember having been good at it before. One day his friends bug him about the ice cream again and the boy gets irritated. The boy suddenly shouts, "How could I have gotten the ice cream...[More]
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Setting Free
Letting a tree grow on its own doesn't mean removing the very earth in which its roots are entwined.
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Genuine Altruism
Goal of the moment! Out to prove that genuine altruism does exist!
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Pocket Projectors
I guess I’m getting a bit behind these days. I was just joking a few weeks ago about the possibility of having “pocket projectors” in the future. Turns out they already have them! So tiny too - I can’t believe it.
Example:
Castrade Mini-LED Projector
Can’t believe…[More]
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JPEG Timestamp Modifier
If you like to take alot of pictures like I do - better yet if you like to hoard a lot of pictures everyone else like I do - you’ll find the times don’t always match up between cameras. It kind of kills the point of having an album if the pictures don’t line.
I tried to come up with a solution with my file modifier, which works, but lacks an interface. I admit that the tool I found here by far trumps mine. If I had known it existed, I wouldn’t even have bothered making mine.
The JPEG Timestamp Modifier basically lets you set all the creation/modified times to the time picture taken (on the EXIF) or you can shift the times up and down by hr/sec increments. You can load multiple files at once as well. I don’t see anything missing from the package. Definitely something to check out.
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