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Things to do in Qatar

Skeptic in Qatar

From Loney planet's suggestions of Things to do, I like the Souq waqif, Qatar museum of Islamic Art, Falcon Souq, Qatar National museum.

Imitation

To imitate life in a painting is bringing a 3D world onto 2D. A Hyper-realistic drawings by Ruben Belloso brings a portrait to be a protome

Rubiks cube Art

My friend sent this link to  Rubiks cube art
Most people usually have one or no Rubik's cube in their house.
A pattern on one cube would have set off the artist to gather more and coming to the realisation that the artist would need so many Rubiks cube is a crazy Eureka moment. Making icon pictures out of icon material is a hedged tete-a-tete with audience (for lack of a specific term for art readers). 

To read or not to

A First Grader's Dad is in a fix. His son is reading Junie B books but Junie is not upto the english that he wants his son to acquire by reading.

Snakemaster

Have you ever come across an article which matches a book that you are about to read that week. Thats what happened to me with From genes to fangs snake venom recipes remain mysterious and Snakemaster by Austin Stevens

Kalbeliya - Sanke Gypsies documentary

Modernist Women Poetry

The Retreat of Hsieh Kung translated by Amy Lowell
Arbutus
On Tenebris
Grass Fingers  by  Angelina Weld Grimke

All about the iGame

Having read O'Reilly's Building iPhoneand iPad electronic projects , I was interested in their 'iOS Game Development Cookbook'. Instead of specific projects, the book format of problem, solutions and discussion arms you with how-tos that would work for any project. If you know what capability you want to add in your game, it is easy to navigate the book to go that section. If you dont, then the book will give you an idea of the considerations you need to take such that your game wont crash and when its running, it transitions smoothly from active to inactive states, how to use UIKit, SpriteKit for your needs, managing multiple sounds.

Building iPhone and iPad Electronic Projects

The book explains how to use your iphone to make all the cool projects of metal detector, tricorder (not much into star trek to appreciate its need), bluetooth low energy shield. This process helped me understand my iphone and its innards better. The author had a good consideration about his audience being from a software or hardware background but not both and maintained that bridge connection to make the readers feel at ease. That said the book still requires a good amount of coding skill. since the book is about very specific projects, it caters to a very narrow niche of makers. The book would have done with a general expanse of applications and less detail.

Bugs, Bogs and Bats and Books

The Poetry of Derek Walcott

Barquentine  Anchored in glass and parroquet - parrot
A training ship like bus drivers in training.

Count your tweets, access flickr pictures

Learning Web App development by Semmy Purewal
The tree diagrams are very helpful in visualising all the elements of a web page. In the process of building the example 'Amazerrific', you fist see the goal page and then break it up into elements on paper and then build them back up on the computer with code. This will build up the confidence of a newbie web developer. Once you get this part, you can build up and delve into more complex stuff like interactive and responsive design, working with java script, what cloud can do for you.

On the walk

a dead bird from yesterday
a bud light on the ground
a long cardboard tube
used for shipping or tube men
and a white plastic cloth hanger

PS: d I found a brilliant way of walking with the family. To keep pace with the baby, we take turns in brisk walking and walking towards the slow party after walking ahead to a landmark in the view, thus making atleast 1 and 1/2 distance.


 

Radiation Biology and Medical Imaging

In 'Radiation Biology of Medical imaging', author Charles A Kelsey, slowly builds up the readers awareness with the field of radiation for medical purposes, by explaining the effects of radiation on cells and the various models used to measure that.
After reading the book, a reader will clearly know how a cancer cell is different from a normal cell. The subheadings under 'The Characteristics of Cancer cells' provide the reader with a very good understanding of that difference. The book has a clear approach to increasing the reader's body of understanding on how radiation has different effects on different parts of the body.
Tables, graphs and pictures enhance the learning process and the technical aspects of the science and experiments of radiation exposure.

Play Doh Sweet Shoppe Mountain Playset

Have you played the online game where on an assembly you can choose all things that go on to make your cake. This is a good way to get hands on with all your design ideas for wonderful cakes.
My toddler and her friend had fun playing with this cake set. The cake pop press works very well. the same cannot be said of the main layer cake molds by pressing on the top. But if you use the mold independently to make the cake, you can get the cake to release decently. The molds on the sides of the cake yield very cute, tiny croissants, bows, shells. I had fun too making the perfect shaped things. The trick is knowing the exact amount of play dough to put in to the press, so it releases without any overhang. For toddlers, the frosting squeezer is a good way to exercise their motor skills. The softer play doh is really that.