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First notebook entry: Introducing myself
Hi, I am a Chinese gay. My name is Patrick. I came from Beijing. I am so interested to talk to you. Not only because I hope to practice my English but also because I am so keen to communicate with different cultures and different people in this wide world. I think although I am not very young but I am pretty handsome and so energetic that I am still thinking and considering the opportunity to go abroad for further education. I like travelling, especially travelling to other countries, although I did not travel to many countries. I like jogging and runing. I always have a dream that one day I can go to every corner of this world just by running. I am a movie buff and I like the Iphone and Ipad very much.
I am learning English becasue I want to study abroad. My native language is Chineses and I grew up in China.
I love jogging and going to the movies.
Hope we can talk more in the future after we become friends.0 votedSeptember 25, 20120Stereotypical Russians
Greetings comrades!
I am not sure, if this greeting is correct, but that's how do most of the "bad Russian mobsters" greet each other in the Hollywood pictures. No, I am not a Russian mobster, but I always find it funny, when one of them is shown in the movies. You know, those speaking with a huge accent and armed with an AK-47 - stereotypical Russians.
I've always been curious how do we (Russians) look like to other nations. Do we look like as an the aggressive bandits that are shown in the movies? Is it because of the language that sounds aggressive? Or maybe do we do look like a lazy fanciers of booze? Oh well, that's those are not a nice examples at all. But you get the idea.
I guess that image of the "bad Russian guy" had come from the times of the Cold War between USSR and USA. And one of the most recent examples of such movies is the "Iron Man 2". Do you remember that film? I am talking about the antagonist whose name was Ivan Vanko. There are plenty of badass Russian villains in the American movies. Probably you could remember a few by yourself. :)
So, how many stereotypes about Russians you could could you remember? Feel free to post a comment below.0 votedSeptember 25, 20121My master thesis ... again!
Hi guys :)
Here is the new blog entry of my blog (http://devluz.blogspot.de/). Sadly I can't show videos in italki :(
I have completely finished my master thesis and conducted my final presentation almost two weeks ago and everything worked out well. I am a master of science in applied computer science now. :)
I spent the last few days with ... having a break and doing nothing. :) But now it is the time to go on and planning the future, writing my CV, filling in my blog and finding an awesome job, preferably in London. :)
But at first: the newest version of my master thesis.
This is the first working version of my simulation with nice graphics. It shows the random generation and manipulation of a terrain with the size of one square kilometre. The simulation runs on a gpu.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JsOZWZ0vQI>
In the next video the simulation contains a new GUI. I changed the friction of sand and water to manipulate the behaviour of the simulation.
<http://youtu.be/NIB9omCxQKM>
If you have a computer with a DirectX 11 graphics card and a 64 bit windows version you can test the simulation yourself:
(the link is on the blog)
Important keys:
right mouse button pressed + moving the mouse -> rotate the camera
W/S/A/D -> move the camera
I/K -> add/remove terrain
O/L -> add/remove water
Thank you for reading. :)0 votedSeptember 18, 20122
