Do you want Doge coins :D!?

Come join the pool, lets mine Non stop!

Courtesy of Eli :3

Just made my own space shirt, with bleach and regular paint.

New hair. Blue/Green (depending on the light) with Purple.

Collecting fossils and exploring nature.

My sister in Dutchland

Connie and I.

"This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

Today we have lost one of the great ones, rest in peace Neil Armstrong , I will always look up to you.

Awesome Silver Certificate dollar! (meaning it was backed up by $1 worth of U.S. silver. Until 1968, you could turn them in for silver bullion). Today it is only worth $1.25 - $1.50, but what matters is that is fine piece of history. 

With great friends

Today is Nikola Tesla's birthday! For those who don't know, Tesla was instrumental in giving us the modern world as we know it. He came up with alternating current, making modern electrical networks possible. Without him, we likely not only wouldn't be able to power our computers, but we'd also not have the networks many of us use to connect to the internet. Tesla laid the groundwork for our modern understanding of wireless communications. Aside from being a great scientist, he was also fluent in several languages, and incredibly intelligent. Let's celebrate his birthday and remember what a great man he was; Happy birthday Tesla! 


Tesla in his laboratory, 1916, in 8th West 40th Street, New York City

The biggest financial scam in the history of the world.

"Explain it like I'm five" explanation:

LIBOR (the London InterBank Offered Rate) is the rate at which banks charge each other to lend to each other. A committee made up of 16 banks (some sources say "up to 18") determines the average rate which the banks (within this committee) have been charging each other, and report that as the LIBOR. These numbers are self-reported and are not necessarily based on real trades. They "throw out" the highest four and lowest four numbers and average the remaining eight to make the LIBOR.
Why do we care about the banks trading? Banks lend to each other "to either make a profit or cover any short-term cash shortfalls on the part of the borrower." The banks who are lending the cash make extra profit. If banks have to raise interest rates for lending funds, it means the lending bank is less confident in the loan. This is meant to reflect "the health of the wider banking sector."
For Europeans, you may be familiar with Euribor. This is the equivalent.
However, this committee has been, evidently, lying about it, in both directions (higher and lower than reality.) Because of the fact that numbers are thrown out, it means that it's possible more than just one or two banks are falsifying their numbers.
Effectively, they've been falsifying their credit scores. They've been doing so to make money. Now, "in many cases", these falsifications were made to push rates down, so consumption would go up. They also did this to mask how much financial stress they were under: if they lowered interest rates, it would make them seem more confident. Again: higher consumption, more profit. However, they pushed them higher on many other occasions. They do this, from the evidence we have, at the request of traders. (Comment with more detail on how they make money off this.)
"Every interest rate in the world is based on LIBOR." Ok, not every single one. But "some mortgages and loans are directly linked to the Libor rate." Most of the remaining loans are at least influenced by it, as it is often used as a benchmark, especially for commercial mortgages and loans.
Individual sources of blame aren't clear yet. The recently-quit chief executive of Barclays Plc "blam[ed] a group of 14 traders out of 2,000" and claimed that he "didn't know about their activities until a week before regulators published their findings." However, these requests and exchanges had been going on for years, so there's a lot of questions around why it took so long to come out. This particular bank (Barclays) seems to have born the brunt of the news flurry: I couldn't find much mention of other banks aside from the Bank of England. I did find a reference to an ongoing US aggregated lawsuit against a dozen (+) banks (including Citigroup and BofA), accusing them of this same behavior (reference). However, as this is currently evolving news, it's possible more banks could come under scrutiny. Several others have been implicated thus far: UBS, RBS and Citibank.
TL;DR: LIBOR is the bank-to-bank lending rate. It's self-reported and easy to fake. It has a wide influence in the lending market. We know for sure that traders within one bank faked and manipulated their LIBOR numbers to maximize profits. They did so at the request of other traders.

Sources: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18622907
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18613988
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-07-04/diamond-says-barclays-penalized-for-being-first-fined-over-libor
http://buzz.money.cnn.com/2012/07/04/barclays-libor-email/

"..And I could never understand national or ethnic pride, because to me Pride should be reserved for something you achieve on your own. Being Irish isn't a skill, it's a fucking genetic accident. You wouldn't be proud to be 5'11". You wouldn't be proud to have a pre-disposition for colon cancer."
-George Carlin

Just saying.

Now that there's some good evidence for the Higgs boson maybe people should stop calling it the "God Particle".

Circling Manhatthan

Today I did a 35 miles walk, 32 miles of circling Manhattan (walking around the island completely) and the other 3 from the highland park, crossing the George Washington bridge back and forth and going in a park in New Jersey to do a little hike. I honestly don't feel both of my legs right now, but I regret nothing :).

Sincerely, my legs

http://i.imgur.com/V4DLi.jpg

Turtle pond in central park

Yesterday I went rollerblading with Alex and Ethan in central park, we then went exploring around central park and visited the Turtle Pond and the Balvedere Castle, we also went into the woods. Later on we took the train downtown to Union Square and went to grab a bite at Vanessa's Dumplings then we headed to Saint Marks to get some pizza, later we rested in the grass of Washington Square park which it was hosting a movie night. They were playing the 1962 first version which is french of my favorite movie "Wars of the buttons". I personally prefer the 1994 Irish version, since that was the first one I saw when I was 4 and the first one that captivated me. It was a perfect day, and they will be many more to come.

Belvedere Castle

Thorium age? Exploring safe nuclear energy.

http://www.bbc5.tv/video/thorium-safe-nuclear-energy-solution

Robert Goddard and his team working on a rocket , Roswell, New Mexico, 1940.

Seasons

Summer

Winter

Invisible children Kony 2012 campaign is everywhere!

I found a few poster like the one above around the city and saw a quite significant amount of people wearing the Kony 2012 t-shirts.

Nessun Dorma of Turandot

*soothe*

I just love how we look alike

Funny duck face :P

Part of the valentine gift: Troll Valentines! :P

And He loved it :D!!!

Krina and I :3

Carl Sagan

15 years ago, we lost one of our greats. RIP Carl Sagan.

Space marines at GameStop.

Space: My favorites.

NGC 6914

Jabbah

Light Echoes from V838 Mon

Women Airforce Service Pilots c.1943.

Mongolian Stuff, swan stuff, wolf stuff and unpopular language books? Any ideas? Perhaps it wont hurt to learn some zulu..

I also agreed with the message hahaha.

Birthday Poem/Thought.

To my little turtle.

I love you more than everything.

I can't stop thinking about you, you

lighten up my life with your shining radiance and beauty.

You really are the most beautiful.

Every moment with you is an eternity of joy.

Every moment with you never ends (because is infinite)

So these infinities interlap; but since joy is a single quantity,

and since infinity last forever, one moment with you is a lifetime of joy,

but since moments can add up, and joy is like snow, a blanket term for similar but

distint concepts/things. So each moment is a truly unique experience extending

into endlessness.

My most beautiful goddess, you are my universe.
I love you more than everything and even more than that!!!

- Written By V. S

This Gentleman was magnificent.

RIP UNCLE JUAN.

Aguante HERMETICA!

Black dress

A girl of the French Resistance. Paris, France. August 29, 1944

FFFUUUU

Cosmos Carl Sagan~.

How fascinating! Happy birthday Einstein and happy Pi day everyone!

"One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts." - Albert Einstein.