No it was not a random color. According to Susannah Locke at Scienceline, surgeons in particular benefit from the colors green or blue as opposed to white for two reasons:
First, looking at blue or green can refresh a doctor’s vision of red things, including the bloody innards of a patient during surgery. The brain interprets colors relative to each other. If a surgeon stares at something that’s red and pink for too long, he becomes desensitized to it.
Can’t spot the last difference in photohunt? Whip out your iPhone and take a photo of each image, the app would match the 2 photos and search for the differences for you.
Just noticed that the audio in one of my videos on youtube has been disabled. The message says:
Your video, The Pencil, may have audio content from Diagon Alley and The Gringotts Vault by Harry Potter Soundtrack that is owned or licensed by WMG.
Brad Bird’s talk on innovation:
The first step in achieving the impossible is believing that the impossible can be achieved. … “You don’t play it safe—you do something that scares you, that’s at the edge of your capabilities, where you might fail. That’s what gets you up in the morning.”
http://gigaom.com/2008/04/17/pixars-brad-bird-on-fostering-innovation/
Rushing for a few deadlines this week, I stayed over at the new maya lab to work. Usually my well trained sleep-deprived body would allow me to go on for 48 hours non-stop at a go, but I decided that this time, I would restrain myself and get at least a few hours of sleep each day.
After receiving frequent out of memory errors from my After Effects CS3, I decided to do some research and realize you actually need to edit your boot.ini to enable AE to use more than 2.0GB of ram.
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