If you thought that's Photoshop work ... it is not. See the video here :

Love mark on puppy makes it special ...

Alexandra (a postdoc here at IAP) is going observing extrasolar planets at the Canaries Islands along with Queen's famous guitarist Brian May ... As odd as it may seem, it is true : Brian H. May was actually doing his PhD in astronomy at Imperial College London when Queen started getting big and therefore later on quitted his PhD (check out his biography).
But apparently he is now finishing his PhD and is going back into astronomy ... see his publication list !
Interesting ! :)

That's news on Reuters : apparently, huge boobs are a requirement to be an Ecuadorian model on an airplane ...
Watch for yourself !

Some freaky Americans (with subtitles)

Now they should do it with Europeans, just to be fair ...
If you think you can do better, refer to this previous post

If you want to know more about my current life, go to PhDcomics ... it always seems to be a very accurate description of what I am going through daily at work :)

Well, my webpage is beginning to be more visible on google, just type in "jc's webpage" or "jc webpage" or something like that and there you go !

However, type something like "jc web page" and one of the results gives you this link : Jc's girls http://www.jcsgirls.com/
Go check it out. By the look of it, at first it looks like a porn website. But no, it is actually priceless :) Lots of fun ...

Stewart on crossfire

Quoted from Wikipedia :

The day after the incident occurred, on The Daily Show Stewart said, "I went to this place, Crossfire, which is a nuanced public debate show named after the stray bullets that strike and kill innocent bystanders during a gang fight. So I go to Crossfire and, let's face it, I was dehydrated, it's the Martin Lawrence defense... and I had always in the past mentioned to friends and people I meet on the street that I think that show blows. So I thought it was only the right thing to do to go and say it to them personally on their program... but here's the thing about confronting someone with that on their show... they're there ... uncomfortable... And they were very mad, because apparently, when you invite someone on a show called Crossfire and you express an opinion, they... they don't care for that... I told them that I thought their show was hurting America and they came back at me pretty good, they said I wasn't being funny. I then said, 'I know that, but tomorrow I will go back to being funny, and your show will still blow.'"

I am having fun with this database of movie sounds : http://www.moviesoundscentral.com
Here is one quote from American Beauty I find really cool. Download the .wav link below to listen to it :

Lester's thoughts while showering in "American Beauty"

Just brilliant :)

This is just a fun way to summarize my thesis work in two sentences ...

" - This is either madness or brilliant.
- It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide."

-- Will Turner & Captain Jack Sparrow


         

watch from the first minute to the second minute of the movie ...

http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=3997304738377042391

Just watch for yourself ...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cLz1qL8hrEQ

This is a video you should not miss out !

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-869183917758574879

Enjoy the ride.

The hilarious video clip of Russell Peters on Comedy Now ! If you have Indian friends, be sure to show this to them !
Enjoy : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2579833089500205658

from CNN

Guy Gabaldon, the Pied Piper of Saipan, dies at 80

"MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- Guy Gabaldon, who as an 18-year-old Marine private single-handedly persuaded more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers to surrender in the World War II battle for Saipan, has died. He was 80.

Gabaldon died of a heart attack Thursday at his home in Old Town, his son, Tech. Sgt. Jeffrey Hunter Gabaldon, said Monday.

Using an elementary knowledge of Japanese, bribes of cigarettes and candy -- and trickery with tales of encampments surrounded by American troops -- Gabaldon was able to persuade soldiers to abandon their posts and surrender. The scheme was so brazen -- and successful -- it won the young Marine the Navy Cross and fame when his story was told on television's "This Is Your Life" and the 1960 movie "Hell to Eternity."

"My plan, as impossible as it seemed, was to get near a Japanese emplacement, bunker, or cave, and tell them that I had a bunch of Marines with me and we were ready to kill them if they did not surrender," he wrote in his 1990 memoir "Saipan: Suicide Island."

"I promised that they would be treated with dignity, and that we would make sure that they were taken back to Japan after the war," he wrote.

The 5-foot-4-inch Gabaldon used piecemeal Japanese he picked up from a childhood friend to earn the trust of the enemy, who believed his story of hundreds of looming troops. In a single day in July 1944, Gabaldon was said to have gotten about 800 Japanese soldiers to follow him back to the American camp.

His exploits earned him the nickname the Pied Piper of Saipan.

The private acknowledged his plan was foolish and, had it not been pulled off, could have resulted in a court-martial. His family suspected his initial disobedience -- though they say officers later approved -- might have kept him from receiving the Medal of Honor.

"My actions prove that God takes care of idiots," he wrote.

Born March 22, 1926, in Los Angeles, Gabaldon signed up for the service on his 17th birthday and arrived on Saipan on D-Day. His military career was cut short after 2 1/2 years by injuries from machine gun fire. He spent the years that followed running a variety of businesses, including a furniture store, a fishing operation and an import-export firm, and made an unsuccessful try for a California congressional seat in 1964.

Services for Gabaldon were to be held Tuesday in Cross City, Florida."

The 5th Solvay conference on Electrons and Photons held in Brussels, Belgium in 1927 at which famous scientists like Einstein, Pauli, Heisenberg, Born, Bohr, Planck, Schrödinger, Curie attended. 17 of the 29 attendees were or later became Nobel Prize winners. Here is the link to the video, shot by Irving Langmuir, the 1932 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.

http://216.120.242.82/~greensp/video.html
 
At this conference took place the famous debates between Einstein and Bohr, when Einstein, still not ready to accept quantum theory and Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, remarked “God does not play dice”, to which Bohr responded, “Einstein, stop telling God what to do.”

and here is the conference official picture :

http://www.alwaysbeta.com/wp-content/uploads/bshih/016.jpg

(cited and arranged from http://www.alwaysbeta.com/2006/02/19/the-solvay-conference-is-smarter-than-you/)

Voila la fameuse serie de publicites - a consommer sans moderation :

Galilee : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zehEzFZqijo
L'effet de serre : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byr53gbdnmg
La Gaule : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdqG19XIJMI
Le taux de fecondite : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sNP7ZGFcbM
Le cerveau : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AgkOGzv9Y

C'est completement incroyable ... non pas qu'une personne se trompe - nombreux sont les gens qui pensent que le soleil tourne autour de la terre - mais que ca soit la majorite (56%) ! En meme temps dans une emission de ce genre, il y a forcement un fort biais ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQRVFILbEi4