Clement

8 year old breakdancing.

Darn… thoroughly impressed. :O

Turn Any Surface Into A Whiteboard With Transparent Paint

How would you like to turn your bare walls into a creative thinking space for your ideas?

Paint making company IdeaPaint has recently launched its latest paint product that turns any walls or wood surface into a dry erasable board.

Called ‘CLEAR’, the transparent dry erase paint blends into any existing décor. Once dried, the paint turns the surface into an erasable board that can be written on with whiteboard markers.

The paint is odorless, complies with child and school safety regulations, and comes with a 10-year warranty.

CLEAR is available in a single kit for USD$225 on IdeaPaint’s online shop. The kit comes with a roller, stir stick, can opener and wet paint sign.

Cool idea!

Don’t give up what you want most for what you want now.

1. You can’t date a jerk and expect to turn them into a good person. Jerks are fully committed to being unpleasant. Those brief moments of tenderness they give you are designed to trip you up and give you false hope. It’s best to stay away altogether.
2. The rumors are true: your metabolism does slow down as you get older! That means if you’re still eating whatever you want, there’s a good chance you’ll start to gain an awkward amount of weight. It won’t be too drastic but your clothes will start to hang differently on your body and you’ll feel an overall feeling of unattractiveness. Start to be conscious of what you eat and strive to live a healthier lifestyle if you want to get your teen body back. (Let’s be real though, that might not ever come back.)
3. You’re going to lose touch with a lot of your friends. With some people, it will be expected but with others it will feel like a punch to the stomach. No friendship is truly safe in your twenties. You’re undergoing so many personal and professional changes that there’s bound to be some casualties along the way. Don’t worry though. You’ll end up with the ones that matter. If someone’s no longer in your life, it’s for a reason.
4. You’ll be jealous of everyone who’s more successful than you. That’s okay. Just transfer that jealousy into something productive, like working really hard so you can one day eclipse them and make them feel jealous of YOU.
5. You’ll question every decision you make and never feel completely certain that you made the right choice. It’s pointless to wonder though. You’re here now so you might as well make it be the right decision.
6. You’re going to give your heart to a few people who don’t deserve it. Then, one day you’ll come to your senses and ask them to give it back.
7. You’ll see your parents get older. You’ll come home during Christmas break and see new lines developing on their faces. One day it’ll just hit you that your parents are old and going to die. There’s nothing you can do about it, besides treat them with kindness and visit as much as your budget permits.
8. You’ll have a boss who makes you feel like you’re nothing. It doesn’t have to be in a Devil Wears Prada way. The cruelty can be much more subtle. Don’t let them get to you though. They have no idea who the hell you really are and you’re probably going to have their job someday so… Doing drugs is fun until it’s not, until it starts affecting your life in negative ways and leaves you feeling guilty and wrecked. If that happens, you should stop doing them.
9. You’re going to puke in public. It’s fine. No one cares. Just puke.
10. You’ll know how to make twenty dollars last an entire week because you spent almost all of your paycheck on groceries at Whole Foods and drunk cab rides. This lesson in frugality will serve you well.
11. You’re going to betray your convictions. You’re going to feel shame. You’re going to continue to put yourself in situations that aren’t good for you. And then, slowly but surely, it will become less frequent. It might not ever go away completely but it won’t be as bad. In the meantime, stop shame spiraling about it. It gets you nowhere.
12. Loving yourself is hard. Hating yourself is harder.
13. You’re going to hook up with someone who you would never touch in the daylight sober. Just don’t freak out too much about it. Consider it to be your good deed for the day.
14. You’re going to have people in your life who are toxic. They may say that they love you, they may say that they have your back, but they don’t. Get rid of them.
15. You’ll have moments with someone that are so intense, it’ll feel like you’ve been electrocuted back to life. You’ll hold on to these moments for a long time. They’ll give you hope when you’re going through the motions.
16. You’ll always care about your first love. That doesn’t make you crazy, it just makes you human. When relationships end, it’s not so cut and dry. You carry everyone you’ve ever loved into every relationship thereafter.
17. You’ll enter your twenties as a fashion disaster and (hopefully) leave them looking fantastic. If you don’t know how to put yourself together by then, I really don’t know what to tell you.
18. You’ll realize that the Internet can be a cruel son of a bitch but, you know, www.whatever.com.
19. So much of what you think matters doesn’t actually matter at all. It’s kind of rude. Like, thanks for making me believe in things that are ultimately so inconsequential, you jerk.
20. You’ll treat someone terribly. Whether it to be a lover or your friend, there’ll be someone whose feelings you take for granted. We focus too much on whether or not someone is hurting us. The reality is that we might actually be the one who’s hurting someone.
21. Doing “grown-up things” doesn’t make you a grown up. Shopping for housewares, buying a plant, embracing domesticity — these things don’t create maturity. If you’re still a baby who hasn’t figured things out, you’ll remain a baby, no matter how many times you pay your rent on time.
22. Don’t force yourself into loving anyone. If it’s not working in the beginning, it’s probably not going to work ever.
23. You are so lucky to have everything that you have. Stop crying about an unreturned text message and get some perspective.
24. Don’t go too long without having sex. Ever.

Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle by Jason Kauzlarich

Pixar’s “The Avengers”

Irene Kiss has created a transforming crocheted Fish to Sushi amigurumi and posted its pattern (pdf) on Ravelry.

Wow.

Religion and Gay Marriage (by vlogbrothers)

Finally some common sense.

alexlau:

The Final Scene from ABC’s “Desperate Housewives.”

“They watched her as they watch everyone, always hoping the living could learn to put aside rage and sorrow, bitterness and regret. These ghosts watch, wanting people to remember that even the most desperate life is oh so wonderful. But only a lucky few realize the gift they’ve been given. Most people just go on, day after day, trying in vain to keep secrets that will never stay hidden.” - Mary Alice Young

This show is definitely was something that I’ve grown with over the past 8 years. Thank you for being an integral part of my life and also allowing me to grow with your series. Although a fictional story about fictional lives of fictional characters with a variety of faults may seem like a poor choice of role models, the actors portrayed real world situations that were very relevant to my life. Thank you Marc Cherry for your creative genius. You’ve ended the show with grace. Although I was disappointed the ladies were never reunited again, they lived long fruitful lives away from the drama that was present in Wisteria Lane. 

Flickr is still pretty wonderful. But it’s lovely in the same way a box of old photos you’ve stashed under the bed is. It’s an archive of nostalgia that you love dearly, on the rare occasion you stumble across it. You pull them out, and hold them up to the light, and remember a time when you were younger, and the Web was a more optimistic place, and it really was almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. And then you close the box.

Reading this makes me sad. I really liked Flickr. :’/

Photowalk: Sunset Cliffs, a set on Flickr.

THE COLOR RUN - Be a Color Runner

I’m doing this in Nov. So excited!

Lobster Roll!! (Taken with Instagram at Searsucker)

JavaScript is a very flexible object-oriented language when it comes to syntax. In this article you can find three ways of defining and instantiating an object. Even if you have already picked your favorite way of doing it, it helps to know some alternatives in order to read other people’s code.

It’s important to note that there are no classes in JavaScript. Functions can be used to somewhat simulate classes, but in general JavaScript is a class-less language. Everything is an object. And when it comes to inheritance, objects inherit from objects, not classes from classes as in the “class”-ical languages.

P.S. Compression and performance comparison by mfolnovic

So Cal really is a gorgeous place to live in.

• http: //www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/gay-activists-grandparents-marriage-equality_n_1310537.html
• I saw this article earlier this afternoon and I got suddenly curious how my 86yo grandmother felt about marriage equality and LGBT rights. Since she's often hilarious, I decided to interview her on the phone and post it here. I put it on speakerphone, recorded it, then transcribed it. She's in Miami, and Cuban-born, so this is translated from Spanish. She's a pretty feisty lady. I want to be her when I grow up. Here's what she said.
• Me: Grandma, what do you think about this couple in their 90s supporting their gay grandkids in the fight for marriage equality?
• Grandma: I think it's very nice. You have to support your family, no matter who they are. You can't reject people for things like that.
• Me: If you had gay or lesbian family, would you do the same?
• Grandma: I don't know if I could make a video like those people. They speak English.
• Me: What about in Spanish? Would you make videos supporting marriage equality in Spanish.
• Grandma: Ay... don't get any ideas. I don't want to make a video.
• Me: But is it okay if I post this on the Internet? On one of my websites
• Grandma: Ignorant people might yell at you.
• Me: Oh, that's okay, I don't mind.
• Grandma: Yes, you can put what I said on the Internet.
• Me: Okay. So do you support gay and lesbian people getting married?
• Grandma: I think gay people should be able to get married. Times have changed. Even my ideas have changed. There used to be a lot of ignorance and rumors about gay people, mostly because they had to live in hiding, you know, you couldn't be yourself out in public like they can be sometimes now. So I think people just made things up. But think gay people should be allowed to live their lives like everyone else.
• Me: Would you go to a gay wedding?
• Grandma: Yes, I would. It would probably be more lively than a regular one. I hate weddings. They're so boring.
• Me: They really are. What do you think about people who protest gay marriage?
• Grandma: Oh. Idiots.
• Me: They're wrong?
• Grandma: Idiots. Dumb people with nothing better to do. Out of all the things to protest. They should be out trying to do some good in the world instead.
• Me: Do you think you would have felt the same way when you were my age?
• Grandma: (Pauses) I don't think I gave it any thought. People didn't talk about these things back then. There was a lot of ignorance. Everybody knew gay people, of course, but people didn't talk about it in normal conversation, much less in public like on the news now. I think that's good. Talking is always good. When people know things, they can make up their own minds.I would like to think that maybe with a little information and thinking about it, I would feel the same way.
• Me: Do you think gay people should be able to adopt kids?
• Grandma: Of course.
• Me: As a Christian, what do you think the Bible says about gay people?
• Grandma: The Bible is very clear that Jesus doesn't care about race or gender or where you came from or anything. He loves everyone.
• Me: What about the parts of the Bible that says gay people should be stoned to death?
• Grandma: We don't stone people to death anymore...
• Me: So you don't think that applies?
• Grandma: I think God gave us some common sense to be able to figure out what parts were meant for forever, like "don't kill" and "don't steal" and "be good to people," and what parts were just a record of the society people lived in back then. We don't hide women in the dark during their periods anymore, either. Things like that.
• Me: What about gays in the military? Do you think that should be allowed?
• Grandma: You know, when I heard President Obama had helped made that legal, I was surprised it already wasn't. If you're willing to pick up a gun and go fight in some war somewhere for my freedom, I'm not willing to do that, so if you are, I don't care if you have a boyfriend or a girlfriend or fifteen cats.
• Me: Yeah, I think most people supported that one.
• Grandma: It's like I told you. God gave us common sense for a reason.
• Me: I know you've had a few close gay male friends. Have you ever had a lesbian friend?
• Grandma: I did in Cuba. She was my neighbor and she did everyone's hair on the block. You couldn't really tell she was a lesbian, but she told me, after many years of knowing her.
• Me: What do you mean by "you couldn't tell she was a lesbian?"
• Grandma: Well, she was very glamorous. She looked like a movie star all the time - that's why she did everyone's hair. Some lesbians, you can tell.
• Me: In English, they call the ability to tell if someone's gay "gaydar." Like "radar" but for "gay."
• Grandma: Oh! I think I have that.
• Me: You think you have good gaydar?
• Grandma: Well, I was an artist, so I was around a lot of gay men. And I can usually tell, but Paula fooled me.
• Me: The slang term for lesbians who are very conventionally feminine in English is "lipstick lesbian."
• Grandma: She did wear lipstick!
• Me: Do you think a lot of older people think like you do?
• Grandma: I think so. A lot of older people keep up with the news better than you think. And you get to be my age and you realize a lot of past mistakes in your thinking. You realize that a lot of things you think mattered, really don't. And the people who don't think like that, it's mostly because they don't know any better. But even at my age, people can be taught.
• Me: Thank you, Pupa.
• Grandma: You should show me your website when you put this up. I hope a lot of people read it.

Pool day! (Taken with Instagram at Park East)