Amit Patel

http://www.redblobgames.com/
So many flowers everywhere. In completely unrelated news, I have been sneezing a lot.
Completely unrelated :-) - Todd Hoff
Completely unrelated ;-) - Amit Patel
Correlation is not causation and stuff. - WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Correlation is correlated with causation. - Amit Patel
The U.S. is so far behind, once again, with mobile phones. http://i.imgur.com/Wj37Zgo.png
Carrizo Plain was cool. I probably won't go often though.
PLUSH ORGANS – I Heart Guts - http://iheartguts.com/collect...
"Rectum Plush - Bringing Up The Rear" - Amit Patel
"Kidney Plush - When Urine Love" - Amit Patel
haha! cute! - AHnix (Anna Haro)
Blobs in Games: Simplifying the variants of hex grids - http://simblob.blogspot.com/2015...
"On the original hex grid guide I had claimed there were over 70 variants of hex grids. Most of these turn out to be merely a different choice of axes, either by renaming them or by negating the sign." - Amit Patel
At the Flick of a Switch - Press Releases - Judiciary Committee - http://judiciary.house.gov/index...
WTF - Amit Patel
Yeah, they're very compelling images. Very persuasive. - Stephen Mack
Korea solves mystery of shaking skyscraper - Hot Topics - http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopi...
"I've got the power, hey yeah heh" - Amit Patel
Love that song! - DB, Lil LB's Dad
Plants can move on their own when they want to. It's hard work but they can do it! - Amit Patel
Vast fields of purple along highway 58 north of Soda Lake / Carrizo Plain.
These are next to the Topaz Solar Farm[1] (largest solar farm in the world) and north of Carrizo Plain, home to California Valley Solar Ranch[2] (fifth largest in the world) - Amit Patel
John Urschel, Ravens Offensive Lineman, Publishes Math Paper : The Two-Way : NPR - http://www.npr.org/blogs...
Quentin Tarantina Turner! :) - Ken Morley
Scenic drive: Carmel Valley road between Carmel and Greenfield. Lovely flowers. And also wonderful to see everything green instead of brown.
Liquid droplets that chase each other across a surface | Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/science...
"Recently, scientists at Stanford University have uncovered a phenomenon that's a bit more fun than wetting: spontaneously dancing liquid droplets. In particular, they found that droplets of food coloring containing propylene glycol (PG) mixed with water spontaneously move across glass slides, creating intricate patterns." - Amit Patel
Watch the video! :) - Amit Patel
Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve. Most of the poppies had died out a few days before I got there, but it was still nice seeing what remained. There were other flowers mixed in there too.
I believe this is a "Western Side-blotched Lizard" … cool colors!
I saw approximately 40 bald eagles on my eagle-watching trip! That's more than I've ever seen before. Unfortunately they were all far away. Here's a tree with lots of eagles, plus a few on the ground.
That's awesome. - SAM
Fun. :) - Jenny H.
Eek, 800 photos to share and only a few weeks left. =)
Go for it! :) - Anne Bouey
I hope so too :) - Amit Patel
Burma's bizarre capital: a super-sized slice of post-apocalypse suburbia | Cities | The Guardian - http://www.theguardian.com/cities...
"The purpose-built city of Naypyidaw – unveiled a decade ago this year – boasts 20-lane highways, golf courses, fast Wi-Fi and reliable electricity. The only thing it doesn’t seem to have is people" - Amit Patel
I'm mildly tempted to not export anything from FriendFeed. Just say goodbye.
I thought about that, then I did an export anyway. And I'm purging posts to see how far back I can go. I'll probably do another export before the end, but whether I'll ever look at anything after that is moot. - WoH: Professor MOTHRA
You can always delete your archive later, but once FF disappears, if you change your mind and want to re-read something, it's probably impossible to grab your stuff if you didn't before The End. - Stephen Mack
There are other exporters: http://web.archive.org/web... - Larry Hosken
Once I extracted some humorous posts I made about my girls, I'll delete the archive. - Stephan Planken
BLDGBLOG: American Mine - http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2015...
"The Carlin Trend was discovered in north-central Nevada, near the town of Elko, in 1962. Some fifty years later, at this time of writing, it remains one of the world’s largest actively mined deposits of gold ore. In fact, the region has become something of a category-maker in the gold industry today, which describes analogous landscapes and ore bodies as “Carlin-type” deposits. The Carlin Trend is a standard, in other words: a referent against which others are both literally and rhetorically measured." - Amit Patel
" The mines of the Carlin Trend remain unhealed—in fact, year on year, they are growing—a raw scurvy of rocks exposed on a scale so monumental that geologists estimate mines, not cities, will be the final trace of humanity left visible in a hundred million years’ time." - Amit Patel
"Karst is a landscape formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks including limestone, dolomite and gypsum. It is characterized by sinkholes, caves, and underground drainage systems" - Amit Patel
What an odd word. - Stephen Mack
Indeed. - Amit Patel
A Toast Story - Pacific Standard - http://www.psmag.com/health-...
"How did toast become the latest artisanal food craze? Ask a trivial question, get a profound, heartbreaking answer." - Amit Patel
"For a few weeks $4 toast became a rallying cry in the city’s media—an instant parable and parody of the shallow, expensive new San Francisco—inspiring thousands of shares on Facebook, several follow-up articles, and a petition to the mayor’s office demanding relief from the city’s high costs of living." - Amit Patel
Soda Lake in Carrizo Plain. I had never been to Carrizo Plain. Some wildflowers, old farm equipment, and this lake.
More "Arm&Hammer" and less "Coca-Cola" in this soda. - Amit Patel
Inconvergent - Home - http://inconvergent.net/
"My name is Anders Hoff. I write algorithms that generate images. To me it is fascinating how complex and intricate results you can get from a set of simple rules. My works are often a result of me trying to recreate some behaviour I have seen elsewhere. Either in nature, in previous works by others or in mathematical concepts." - Amit Patel
I was in Lancaster CA driving along 110th street and saw this. Of course I had to stop and take pictures. Wowowow flowers everywhere!
Also odd: Lancaster is a really strange town. Huge grid structure, but most of the streets and avenues are empty desert. I want to read about the town's history to understand how this could've happened. - Amit Patel
Wunderbare Aussicht - kit
Sunny Disposition: Computer-Aided Skyscraper Casts No Shadow | Urbanist - http://weburbanist.com/2015...
"With downtown densification usually comes a lack of light in surrounding spaces, leading one architecture firm to develop the world’s first algorithm-driven strategy to allow a tower to fully shed its shadow." - Amit Patel
How....? - Stephen Mack
There's an animation on the page that shows the light reflecting from one tower to the other. They made the reflection angles just right so that light would reflect to the right place at every time of day. Boggling. - Amit Patel
Purple wildflowers alongside highway 58, near Soda Lake. Huge fields of them. So awesome.
Yes! I saw lots of wildflowers on my weekend wildflower watching trip. This one is in Lancaster, on Avenue L. Thanks to desertusa.com for alerting me to this spot. It was … amazing!
That must've been breathtaking. Thanks for sharing. - bentley
Carmel River diverted to demolish San Clemente Dam - SFGate - http://www.sfgate.com/science...
While on a scenic drive this weekend, I drove past the "San Clemente Dam Removal Project". Of course I had to look it up. Turns out it's the largest dam removal project in California. - Amit Patel
"My maps have been commended as being strongly vaginal, which bothers some men." - Meg VMeg
Western Meadowlark. Instead of asking John the Bird Whisperer, I'm learning how to figure things out on my own. Without FF, I need to become more self-sufficient…