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Last time, there were copious amounts of babies. Now, there are copious amounts of couples! We'll start on the canon side of things, I figure, and then generally progress into stranger territory. ( love is in the air~~ )- Tags:bsg, the sims
- Mood:dorky
 - Music:Vienna Teng - Antebellum
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I guess I better put all my fannish babble in one entry, amiright? First off, they released a second trailer for Battlestar Galactica's The Plan. ( OOOOOOOOOMG KEYBOARDMASHING!!! )ALSO. I got Sims 3 the other day! The first thing I did was create a BSG cast, though eventually, I hope to do neighborhoods for other fandoms/original characters/etc etc. :>> Anyway, since a large portion of my flist follows BSG, I figured it was time for a picspam of their wacky lives! ( Spoilers in the commentary through 4.5! Also, image heavy! ) | |
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...I have been putting off organizing this fanmix (/picspam) for ages, but considering starting tomorrow I'm going to have less reliable file transfer access (hi, school network), I figured I might as well get it out of the way. Real updates about my life will happen later. SO. After Me, The Flood
A Gaius and Caprica Fanmix
 Download link, track list, lyric snippets, and picspam (!) under the cut. Pictures contain spoilers through the series finale. ( if you were better for me, you wouldn't be so good )Like what you hear? Check out When the Bombs Go Off, a Baltar fanmix that is less illustrated, but just as exciting! *A special thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) darksong17 and custardpringle for providing me with a few of the songs. :3 - Tags:bsg
- Mood:restless
 - Music:Kevin Spacey - Mack the Knife
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I'm 21!
Score \o/ - Tags:yay!!
- Mood:cheerful
 - Music:Blue Man Group - Your Attention
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Hey, so it looks like I'm going to be actually using my LJ this summer, huh? Famous last words.
Anyway, I'm thinking of starting afresh with Making Things Invisible*, since every time I look back at the first chapter, I see things I want to change. I want to make this a Srs Bsns fic. I want a beta. I want to write at least 500 words a day. Goddamn. Granted, this might not last with all the crazy stuff I need to do this summer (and I'm starting work tomorrow), but I genuinely, truly want to finish a fic some time in my life. We'll see how this goes, right?
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* Making Things Invisible Simply by Concentrating (on Something Else)! It's an epic fic with a long, pretentious title I started writing this winter in which Gaius Baltar cannot wake up from his happy place and what that means for him. - Tags:bsg
- Mood:hopeful
 - Music:Marilyn Monroe - Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
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From The Guardian:
Before doctors opened him up, they were convinced he had lung cancer. Now, they're convinced he inhaled a seed, which sprouted inside him.
Surgeon Vladimir Kamashev at Izhevsk hospital was about to remove a large part of 28-year-old Artyom Sidorkin's lung, when he took a closer look, according to reports. He was stunned to see a 5cm-long spruce inside, the Russian news agency Pravda says.
A spokeswoman for the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London, is flummoxed. "A seed might be able to germinate in the damp, dark conditions of a lung, but it's still bizarre," she says.
Full article.The lung in question. (warning: lung.) | |
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So, I'm going to be writing pretty much the most awesome paper ever.
When we watch a film, we are not watching actual people. We are watching images of people played so fast they appear to be moving, living, and breathing as much as they are in real life. The same could be said to a stronger degree of computer animated movies or cartoons. Though we don't doubt that the characters we see are biological in nature, the truth is that they aren't - the mind is fooled through the illusion of biological motion. For my final paper, I plan to study the mirror neuron system and how it reacts to biological as well as nonbiological motion, and whether or not there are clear differences between the two. How does genuine biological motion compare to artificial biological motion? Is implied intent sufficient to activate the mirror neuron system in a nonbiological setting? Can robots activate mirror neurons? How complex would these robots need to be? Essentially, I wish to explore the line between the recognition of animate and inanimate objects and how the brain successfully manages to cross it.
This is why I love my major, you guys! :DDD | |
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