First time on the Beach!

Cheers!
This was my first time on the beach. When I came here and my mom was still visiting I got the opportunity to stay in an apartment with a beautiful view of the beach in Copacabana, but I never got to go to the actual... sand, much less water. So one of our friends invited us to go at night time and have a beer or two. It was so beautiful! There's a mountain right next to it and the ocean looked so refreshing! God's such a genius!

The first two are the view of the apartment in Copacabana.





Here's Marie and I with Rafa, our awesome friend, a true gentleman. Night at the beach.









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Knowledge shall be increased...

Man's knowledge has also increased in these last two years, as it has in other recent years, but it now heads in more dangerous directions than in the past. The Evil One has led many scientists to experiment with life itself--attempting to clone human beings, attempting to grow body parts and organs, attempting to fuse man and beast in the embryo, attempting to genetically modify man, either directly or through the foods he eats, which work on him from the inside. They walk a perilous path, one that they do not understand, for the Devil is not the creator of life, but the destroyer. The things that they create will not unlock the doors to more and abundant life, but will instead unleash unprecedented plagues and pestilences that they do not foresee.
As men seek to unravel the secrets of life in their carnal, scientific way, they also seek to combine it with machine. They seek new and improved robots to serve man, giving them artificial intelligence and mobility such as they've not had before. They seek to make man himself more of a machine, implanting chips, sensors, and electrodes to enhance man's powers and intelligence.
( Excerpt from Endtime Series, Part 1. )

And now for some AI intelligence...:

For some reason I can’t look at MIT’s Leonardo robot without an involuntary shudder - I think it’s the lifelike fur and the evil, calculating eyes. Even scarier is to see it in motion (and there are videos after the cut), when complex facial mapping techniques have taken human expressions and reworked them for the robot’s face (which has 32 degrees of freedom).

He's analyizing you!

Of course the clever people at MIT aren’t just making a particularly impressive toy; their intent is to research new ways of human/machine interaction, where robots are used to give a computer a naturalistic interface that users are comfortable working with.

“Once a task is learned, the robot should then be competent in its ability to provide assistance; understanding how to perform the task as well as how to perform it in partnership with a human”

Capable of being instructed by tutelage, where a user guides Leonardo to complete a task, by imitation, where Leonardo copies a demonstration, and social referencing, where Leonardo responds to a users reaction to a task, their goal is to end up with a machine that can learn from humans in their own terms, rather than them needing to be experts in programming.

Here's an example of teaching the creepy thing:



And just for fun:


Heheh... notice how he twitches?

Ree Ree's Birthday!!... in the Buff.

I'm not the most creative person in the world, but I sure hope this suits your fancy. I'm not feeling very mushy right now, but I love you very much. I wrote you a poem for your birthday. HAVE A GOOD YEAR, BABY!!!!!!!

Swimming in the Buff

I was awoken to the thought of you

Your twenty-second birthday lingering in my mind

I rushed to make you something special

Nicole and I... boy, aren't we kind?

I'm so glad you're with me here

I know that without you things would be tough

But together we can lose ourselves

When we go swimming in the buff.

Life is so full of surprises

And many will come to you this year

The Lord made you so freakin' special

And to remind you of that, I got you beer.

It's amazing what the Lord does

And how wonderful is His love

Just lose yourself in Him

When we go swimming in the buff.

Yes, people may laugh and say

"What wierdos, no one does that here"

But are we going to care?

We're celebrating a wonderful year!

We'll be bare before the Lord

With no clothes and no handcuff(s)

It's just Jesus, you and I

When we go swimming in the buff.

So let's get drunk, get drunk on Jesus

Let's get drunk on Him

To be naked before Him and others

Is no aweful sin.

So let's put on our birthday suits

Our flaws can make it tough

So just stay humble, drink Him in

When we go swimming in the buff.

The End.

I love you tons!!!!!! Let's go swimming in the buff! (By the way, that's what we're about to do.)