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  1. Adam

    Print Your Future

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    The future of technology as we know it is incredibly bright. Every day, new developments help spur further innovation and bring us the products of tomorrow. In this blog post, I wish to explore just a tiny microcosm of that future and discuss it. Currently, there are many promising things coming out from R&D and […]
  2. Adam

    PC Parts and Supercomputers

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    In this blog post, I’m going to try to describe to my computer not-so-literate readers some of the stuff that’s actually inside the thing they are using to read this! To make it simple, I’ll list the name of the part and then talk about it below it. Keep in mind, I’m trying to give […]
  3. Adam

    Tweetz

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    Feeling a little twittery, I’ve decided to go ahead and do the Phun with Phake Tweets DS106 assignment. It involves a couple simple steps. Coming straight from the DS106 assignment page, all you have to do is “Use the Twister tool from ClassTools to generate a series of images representing the voices of past figures […]
  4. Adam

    Whatever humans can do…

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    …computers can do it better! Right? 産業界では2年後に第1弾を迎える消費税増税に戦々恐々としている。 =That we fear in the industry and we welcome war to the consumption tax hike in two years after the first bullet. Eh…maybe not. For this DS106 assignment, “Google Translate Fail”, one must “find something in a foreign language and use Google Translate and laugh about how awful […]
  5. Adam

    Thinking: Personal Cyberinfrastructure

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    Throughout this blog post, I will explain my thoughts and feelings about being a university student in the digital age, what I hope to gain from my University experience, and give my view on Gardner Campbell’s ideas about a personal cyber infrastructure. Being a university student in the Digital age, I feel that most of […]
  6. Adam

    DFPQ1

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    Cutting to the chase, let me get right to the selected quote from Gardner’s essay for today’s quiz: “Sometimes, however, progress means looping back to earlier ideas whose vitality and importance were unrecognized or underexplored at the time, and bringing those ideas back into play in a new context.” This line of text was probably […]
  7. Adam

    Bang!

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    Nothing like seeing a fiery explosion in the middle of the night accompanied by an earsplitting sound to liven things up, don’t you agree? If not, it might pain you to find out that, historically speaking, many cultures have embraced the use of fireworks to celebrate their most memorable occasions. Taken from Wikipedia, “The earliest […]
  8. Adam

    The Art of: Music

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    Taken from Wikipedia, music is defined as:  “an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike; “art of the Muses“).“ […]
  9. Adam

    Everywhere Malware Presentation

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    For my presentation given on the 5th of March, I spoke about the Stuxnet virus article, Cyberbomb That Hit Iran Was 1 of 5 Weapons, Researchers Say. This was a very interesting topic to research and present, as the Stuxnet virus was a very complicated work of computer code that completed a very specific task. […]
  10. Adam

    The Vice of Bullying

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    In the Vice Online section of the readings, I’ve decided to discuss more about what I have learned about Cyber-Bullying and discuss some of my thoughts and opinions on the subject. First and foremost, let me start off by saying that Cyber-bullying is an ever increasing phenomena found (only) on the web. Being just as […]
  11. Adam

    Part III: Infection

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    This next DS106 assignment, The Role Playing Game, was probably the most thought provoking challenge I have done yet. Not only does this assignment test one’s writing skills, it also tests one’s creativity to bring an interesting story to the blogging and DS1o6 community. I will refrain from going into too much about how I ...
  12. Adam

    A Ceaseless Seaside Sunset

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    Sunsets are beautiful, aren’t they? In this DS106 assignment, A Sunset, one was supposed to “Take a picture of a beautiful sunset. Nothing fancy, just a nice picture”. But are pictures ever that simple? The photo you see above was taken in Japan in Yokohama (I think that’s where I was). I remember the day’s ...
  13. Adam

    Cartoon Me

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    Yup, for those of you who are familiar with what I look like, that’s me alright. Quite a striking visage, don’t you think? Thanks to the help of one my good, yet wishes to remain anonymous, friends I was able to get myself drawn in a very anime-like way. For this DS106 assignment, Cartoon You, ...
  14. Adam

    Living Freely

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    For my next DS106 assignment, Design the Cover of Your Autobiography, I chose to work with my own photograph (taken in Yokohama), as an autobiography is something of a personal matter, fiction or not. This picture may seem quite spartan, however, the subtle meaning it has beat out other images in my collection that had ...
  15. Adam

    Pinocchio Paradox

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    What you see above is my latest creation for the DS106 Album Cover assignment. The Band’s name, Pinocchio Paradox, is seemingly a hardcore heavy metal music band that is rectifying the music scene with its new crazy style. Here are a list of the songs on their first CD “Life’s Not the Movies.” 1. The ...
  16. Adam

    Your Nex-Burger

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    As one of my main topics of discussion, food, or in particular hamburgers, is evolving as rapidly as technology is. Decades back, we had the introduction of GM crops, or Genetically Modified crops. In more recent developments, scientists have even been able to create burgers in the lab out of things like fecal matter and ...
  17. Adam

    Time

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    Time. When I was just a child growing up, it seemed as though time crawled by. A single day seemed forever, and completion of a school year marked the end of an eternity. During middle school and high school, things still passed by slowly. Everyday wasn’t a perpetual interlude as it was in the previous ...
  18. Adam

    Pipe Dream

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    Pipe Dream

    "When the storm surged and their pipe sanctuary was crushed, all hoped seemed to be lost for Stick Figure Person 1 and Stick Figure Person 2. Not only did their pipe of hope get destroyed but Stick Figure Person 2 was plunged into a most perilous situation! As the situation progresses, will Stick Figure Person 1 be able to save Stick Figure Person 2? Or will Stick Figure Person 2 be sent to a cold wet grave at the hands of merciless fate?" Tune in next time to find out! Or better yet make your own ending! =P This is my finished DS106 assignment for Stick Figures and Sticky Situations. I hope you enjoyed it! The plot I tried to come up with is really random, but you're welcome to come up with your own ending in the comments section if you want! Just for your information, I used Photoshop to put in these stick figures using the paint brush and that's pretty much it! Once again, I hope you enjoyed it! Let me know what you think! =)

  19. Adam

    Flower Power III

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    Hey! It really is a flower, right? If that’s what you thought, then I am pleased to answer that this is, indeed, a flower. Not to mention a very provocative looking one at that! By now, I am assuming you’re probably wondering what the name of this flower is. Unluckily for me, I was a ...
  20. Adam

    WEB 2.0 – A Response

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    In response to Tim O’Reilly’s article on Web 2.0, I would like to first clarify the meaning of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. That is: Web 2.0 is not an actual “upgrade” of Web 1.0, rather, Web 2.0 is more of a new concept of the web that is replacing the old one. Throughout O’Reilly’s ...
  21. Adam

    Infograph Analysis

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    Well, to cut to the chase, this post will be about the analysis of The Internet infograph. I hope it’s detailed enough. If I am missing anything, please let me know. For my team’s infograph, we chose The Internet. Now this is quite a broad subject but, for the brevity of this infograph, the authors ...
  22. Adam

    Flower Power II

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    Flower Power II

    Pictured above is a solitary, deeply colored...flower. If you read my previous post, I'm not very good with flowers, or flower names to be exact, so if you have any idea what this is (morning glory?) let me know. It's definitely not something exotic, if that helps.. I took this picture in my backyard a few summers ago when I saw them blooming on the side of my house. Maybe (eventually) in the Flower Power series, I will start giving more details about what the flowers actually are. I mean, not knowing anything about them is giving me the urge to do some research later anyway. So I might as well kill two birds with one stone and post that info on here! (Maybe...maybe...) Let me know what you think please, and post the name if you know! Thanks!

  23. Adam

    Got Web?

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    Did you ever wake up in the morning, and say: “Man, I’m so grateful that the world wide web exists! What would I do without it?” Well, if so, the vibrant guy in the picture above, Tim Berners-Lee, is who you should be thanking! Hmm, wait a minute. This guy was knighted by the Queen of ...
  24. Adam

    Classic Double

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    This is the Classic Double from Freshness Burger. I must insist you buy this as soon as you can and savor its melodic taste as its juices harmonize within your mouth creating a symphony of happiness. 5/5 Get it.
  25. Adam

    DS106 in the Making

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    I’m sure most of you who will read this probably never made a DS106 assignment before, but regardless of if you did or not, I want to give you a little insight into what that experience could be like. A few weeks ago I posted a picture of a Wendy’s Triple Baconator on my blog. ...
  26. Adam

    Flower Power!

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    These are just some of the pictures of flowers that were growing in my yard back in America. I hope you enjoy them! If you happen to know what kind of flowers these are, please post their names in the comments below! Thanks!
  27. Adam

    Do you know what arthropods are?

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    Do you know what arthropods are?

    Now you do! (a specimen of it, at least) Take a look at this bad boy! Caught this one on camera back in America. It was looking for a juicy insect to eat at the time and I couldn't help but take a photo of it. Speaking of eating, these are considered a delicacy in some countries...I think. Now that you're dieing to know more about these crawly creatures, why not take a quick read at the definition below, taken from your favorite encyclopedia, Wikipedia! "Centipedes (from Latin prefix centi-, "hundred", and pes, pedis, "foot") are arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda of the subphylum Myriapoda. They are elongated metameric animals with one pair of legs per body segment. Despite the name, centipedes can have a varying number of legs from under 20 to over 300. Centipedes have an odd number of pairs of legs, e.g. 15 or 17 pairs of legs (30 or 34 legs) but never 16 pairs (32 legs).[1][2] A key trait uniting this group is a pair of venom claws or "forcipules" formed from a modified first appendage. Centipedes are a predominantly carnivorous taxon.[3]:168 Centipedes normally have a drab coloration combining shades of brown and red. Cavernicolous (cave-dwelling) and subterranean species may lack pigmentation and many tropical scolopendromorphs have bright aposematic colours. Size can range from a few millimetres in the smaller lithobiomorphs and geophilomorphs to about 30 cm (12 in) in the largest scolopendromorphs. Centipedes can be found in a wide variety of environments. Worldwide there are estimated to be 8,000 species of centipede,[4] of which 3,000 have been described. Centipedes have a wide geographical range, reaching beyond the Arctic Circle.[3] Centipedes are found in an array of terrestrial habitats from tropical rainforests to deserts. Within these habitats centipedes require a moist micro-habitat because they lack the waxy cuticle of insects and arachnids, and so lose water rapidly through the skin.[5] Accordingly, they are found in soil and leaf litter, under stones and dead wood, and inside logs. Centipedes are among the largest terrestrial invertebrate predators and often contribute significantly to the invertebrate predatory biomass in terrestrial ecosystems." Thanks Wikipedia! =) Leave your comments below and tell me if you already knew what an arthropod was!

  28. Adam

    Patty Pioneers

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    Patty Pioneers

    Engelbart and his burger. I guess it's true what they say: They don't make em' like they used to! Look at the size of that thing! Just so you know, this is a picture of Douglas Engelbart, the creator of (probably one of the most important input devices) the mouse, with a picture of a triple baconator. Speaking of not making them like they used to, Wendy's took off the triple baconator from their menu! I'm going to put up some more picture variants of this later (maybe). Probably the full color original burger with Engelbart pre-final version one. It shows a stark contrast compared to this (horribly done) black and white version. Ah, and one last thing: I edited this picture using photoshop in case you were wondering.

  29. Adam

    One Reason Why I Miss America

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    One Reason Why I Miss America

    The title says it all I think. This is Wendy's Triple Baconator Sandwich. Tastes like awesome and filled with an equal amount of artery clogging fat. How much is that exactly? Check out the link to their main website to find out! Wendy's Nutritonal Statistics for their menu items! Well, I may post here later the nutritional statistics taken directly from their website for the double Baconator. I can't find any for the triple since they might have taken it off their menu because it was too high in fat. Anyway, despite not being the healthiest sandwich in the world, perhaps the most unhealthy one instead, I still recommend trying it! For those of us in Japan, there's no need to worry about not being able to find a Wendy's here. If my memory serves me correctly, they will be opening up their chain again here in the coming year! So, as the French say: Bon Appétit!

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