An interesting experience this morning. Two large glass bowls fell about 5 feet onto a granite kitchen counter, shattering in to 10’s of millions of pieces of glass shards and dust. The glass explosion covered >25′ radius, including 5 different rooms and every counter surface in sight. It even reached inside closets that had the door shut. The largest piece was only about 1″ and most were finer than sand on a beach. I think it’s realistic to say that we will likely never find and clean up every single shard, in spite of hours sweeping, vacuuming, moping and wiping. Heck of a demonstration of the laws of physics.
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For those of us who have coded away for decades using rudimentary text editors, take a look at this video series that demonstrates creation of a 2D side scrolling game using the latest/greatest Unreal engine. This stuff is only a VR helmet and gloves away from the William Gibson/Minority Report type of computing. Enjoy… https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Videos/Player?series=PLZlv_N0_O1gauJh60307mE_67jqK42twB
Masked bandits
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