My Friend Emily

Emily – the woman in the above animation – was produced using a new modelling technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be captured and recreated. 

She is considered to be one of the first animations to have overleapt a long-standing barrier known as ‘uncanny valley’ – which refers to the perception that animation looks less realistic as it approaches human likeness.

Source: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4557935.ece

I can ride my bike with no handle bars..

“Well from the way i see it, it’s two friend riding a bike with no hands. This means they are living life with no limits. When they reach a break in the road they split and take their own paths. One goes for corporate and control and the other goes for moral and peace. The person who went for control ends up getting caught up in power and doesnt notice his friend in the crowd. And after he dies, he realises that he’s left with nothing.” (taken from original post)

I think this is still reflective in society in how we don’t look at our actions and only strive for what we want the most and not the consequences it leaves behind.

The Myers Brigg Personality Test

I found this test quite interesting and it explained to me the type of person I really am. It was definitely accurate I would say.

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

I am a ESTJ- ‘The Guardian type’ most driven to show some type of leadership is the Supervisor (ESTJ).  Many seek a career where they can either run their own business, or move up the ladder to positions of influence.  Those who do not find this opportunity through work may show leadership in a volunteer position.  Others are driven to give service to the community in such areas as government employee, military or police officer.  Some are drawn to more technical positions such as engineer, or computer analyst.  Still others find their sense of belonging in the professional community by becoming a dentist, judge, or physician. 

Guess who else was an ESTJ- George W. Bush

I have a Dragon in my Garage

Personally I am an open minded person. I come to the belief that not everyone or everything can be judged equally with a straight forward answer off the bat. I will tell you that I choose not to believe something without a form of validated evidence and without an understanding of both sets of ‘for’ and ‘against’  arguments.

What defines me as a ‘closed book’ is my insight into societies tribulations where the media will displace information openly as a can of air. Is it essential to our survival that we know about the next celebrity to have a baby? 

I hope my ideology can be best described with this attachment:

The Famous Carl Sagan put it - 

 
“A fire-breathing dragon lives in my garage” 
Suppose (I’m following a group therapy approach by the psychologist Richard Franklin) I seriously make such an assertion to you. Surely you’d want to check it out, see for yourself. There have been innumerable stories of dragons over the centuries, but no real evidence. What an opportunity!

“Show me,” you say. I lead you to my garage. You look inside and see a ladder, empty paint cans, an old tricycle–but no dragon. 

“Where’s the dragon?” you ask. 

“Oh, she’s right here,” I reply, waving vaguely. “I neglected to mention that she’s an invisible dragon.” 

You propose spreading flour on the floor of the garage to capture the dragon’s footprints. 

“Good idea,” I say, “but this dragon floates in the air.” 

Then you’ll use an infrared sensor to detect the invisible fire. 

“Good idea, but the invisible fire is also heatless.” 

You’ll spray-paint the dragon and make her visible. 

“Good idea, but she’s an incorporeal dragon and the paint won’t stick.” 

And so on. I counter every physical test you propose with a special explanation of why it won’t work. 

Now, what’s the difference between an invisible, incorporeal, floating dragon who spits heatless fire and no dragon at all? If there’s no way to disprove my contention, no conceivable experiment that would count against it, what does it mean to say that my dragon exists? Your inability to invalidate my hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true. Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof are veridically worthless, whatever value they may have in inspiring us or in exciting our sense of wonder. What I’m asking you to do comes down to believing, in the absence of evidence, on my say-so. 

The only thing you’ve really learned from my insistence that there’s a dragon in my garage is that something funny is going on inside my head. You’d wonder, if no physical tests apply, what convinced me. The possibility that it was a dream or a hallucination would certainly enter your mind. But then, why am I taking it so seriously? Maybe I need help. At the least, maybe I’ve seriously underestimated human fallibility. 

Imagine that, despite none of the tests being successful, you wish to be scrupulously open-minded. So you don’t outright reject the notion that there’s a fire-breathing dragon in my garage. You merely put it on hold. Present evidence is strongly against it, but if a new body of data emerge you’re prepared to examine it and see if it convinces you. Surely it’s unfair of me to be offended at not being believed; or to criticize you for being stodgy and unimaginative– merely because you rendered the Scottish verdict of “not proved.” 

Imagine that things had gone otherwise. The dragon is invisible, all right, but footprints are being made in the flour as you watch. Your infrared detector reads off-scale. The spray paint reveals a jagged crest bobbing in the air before you. No matter how skeptical you might have been about the existence of dragons–to say nothing about invisible ones–you must now acknowledge that there’s something here, and that in a preliminary way it’s consistent with an invisible, fire-breathing dragon. 

Now another scenario: Suppose it’s not just me. Suppose that several people of your acquaintance, including people who you’re pretty sure don’t know each other, all tell you that they have dragons in their garages–but in every case the evidence is maddeningly elusive. All of us admit we’re disturbed at being gripped by so odd a conviction so ill-supported by the physical evidence. None of us is a lunatic. We speculate about what it would mean if invisible dragons were really hiding out in garages all over the world, with us humans just catching on. I’d rather it not be true, I tell you. But maybe all those ancient European and Chinese myths about dragons weren’t myths at all. 

Gratifyingly, some dragon-size footprints in the flour are now reported. But they’re never made when a skeptic is looking. An alternative explanation presents itself. On close examination it seems clear that the footprints could have been faked. Another dragon enthusiast shows up with a burnt finger and attributes it to a rare physical manifestation of the dragon’s fiery breath. But again, other possibilities exist. We understand that there are other ways to burn fingers besides the breath of invisible dragons. Such “evidence”–no matter how important the dragon advocates consider it–is far from compelling. Once again, the only sensible approach is tentatively to reject the dragon hypothesis, to be open to future physical data, and to wonder what the cause might be that so many apparently sane and sober people share the same strange delusion.

Things..

“The tragedy of our times is that in a world where things are to be used and people are to be loved, people are being used and things are being loved.”

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