a dude who lives in dc and grew up in california. prefers the city life. specializes in foreign affairs. passion for tech policy. also obsesses over finding decent and reasonably priced mexican food on the east coast. recently completed a master’s degree in international relations and international communication, but is currently a digital marketing specialist. enjoy.twitterTumblr (3.0; @rojas)http://rojas.tumblr.com/“Maybe to say that someone was “like this” or “like that” was just an attempt to stick a memory to a board where you organized memories, like butterflies in a lepidopterist’s collection. Not really the generalization is seemed, but just a stab at understanding. Was Wahram anything like what she might say about him, if she tried to say something? He was like this, he was like that—she didn’t really know. One had impressions of other people, nothing more. Never to hear them think, only to hear what they said; it was a drop in an ocean, a touch across the abyss. A hand holding your hand as you float in the black of space. It wasn’t much. They couldn’t really know each other very well. So they said he is like this, or she is like that, and called that the person. Presumed to make a judgment. It was such a guess. You would have to talk with someone for years to give the guess any kind of validity. And even then, you wouldn’t know.”<br/><br/> - <em><i>2013</i>, KSR, p. 498</em>http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/45645591981http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/45645591981Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:00:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1uv78usf51qe649zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://racialicious.tumblr.com/post/20368289248/neildegrassetysoncorrectstitanic" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">racialicious</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tumblrpigeon.tumblr.com/post/20350112243/the-star-stuff-neil-degrasse-tyson-is-behind-the" target="_blank">tumblrpigeon</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://the-star-stuff.tumblr.com/post/20348552846/neil-degrasse-tyson-is-behind-the-only-major" target="_blank">the-star-stuff</a>:</p> <blockquote> <h1 class="headline title"><strong><a href="http://io9.com/5898221/neil-degrasse-tyson-is-behind-the-only-major-technical-change-in-the-titanic-re+release" target="_blank">Neil deGrasse Tyson is behind the only major technical change in the<em>Titanic</em> re-release</a></strong></h1> <div class="post-body"> <p>It took James Cameron 60 weeks to prepare Titanic for its rerelease, but apart from remastering the original <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolution" target="_blank">at 4k resolution</a> and converting it to stereoscopic 3D, nothing about the movie has really changed.</p> <p>Well, almost nothing.</p> <p>According to Cameron: “Neil deGrasse Tyson sent me quite a snarky email saying that, at that time of year [April 15, at 4:20 am], in that position in the Atlantic in 1912, when Rose is lying on the piece of driftwood and staring up at the stars, that is not the star field she would have seen.”</p> <p>“And with my reputation as a perfectionist, I should have known that and I should have put the right star field in. So I said ‘All right, send me the right stars for that exact time and I’ll put it in the movie.’”</p> <p>So Tyson did just that, and Cameron re-shot the scene. <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/9179090/James-Cameron-reshoots-Titanic-scene.html" target="_blank">According to the Telegraph</a> , it is the only major technical change in the film’s re-release.</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>Like a boss</p> </blockquote> <p>I love it!</p></blockquote>http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/20603896061http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/20603896061Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:20:22 -0400<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/life/transport/2012/01/jarrett_walker_s_human_transit_are_we_thinking_about_urban_planning_all_wrong_.html">SLATE: What’s the Best Way To Get Users To Embrace Mass Transit?</a>http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/16133124839http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/16133124839Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:52:56 -0500<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/01/17/405467/fact-check-the-keystone-xl-pipeline-project-is-no-hoover-dam/">THINKPROGRESS: FACT CHECK: The Keystone XL Pipeline Project Is No Hoover Dam</a>http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/16133071382http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/16133071382Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:52:04 -0500<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/garden/inside-the-homes-of-mexicos-alleged-drug-lords.html?_r=1">NYTIMES: Inside the Homes of Mexico’s Rich and Infamous</a>http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/16131784086http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/16131784086Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:31:06 -0500<a href="http://www.asymco.com/2012/01/17/the-rise-and-fall-of-personal-computing/">ASYMCO: [INFOGRAPHIC] The rise and fall of personal computing</a>http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/16117311647http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/16117311647Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:39:33 -0500<a href="http://shoyulearning.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/minecraft-and-crafting-to-learn/">SHOYULEARNING: Game-Based Learning Talk A quest to transform 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href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/somewhere-in-europe/">KRUGMAN: Somewhere in Europe</a>http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/15775015653http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/15775015653Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:35:57 -0500<a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1980989">JEREMYWALLACE: Urban Concentration, Redistribution, and Authoritarian Resilience</a>http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/15733237379http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/15733237379Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:59:00 -0500<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-model-city-20120110,0,2326988.story">LATIMES: In Long Beach exhibit, urban planning is art and play</a>http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/15728875126http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/15728875126Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:59:53 -0500<a href="http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/iabc/">INFORMATIONARCHITECTS: The idea: Look at the history, shape and and sound pattern of each letter, sum it up in 140 characters collect beautiful specimen for each letter.</a>http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/15725767069http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/15725767069Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:27:06 -0500<a href="http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/18536/stephen-ives-mr-dictator-head.html">DESIGNBOOM: mr. dictator head</a>http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/15676671570http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/15676671570Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:52:14 -0500<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blog/jalal-abukhater/film-footage-palestine-back-1896">ELECTRONICINTIFADA: Film footage from Palestine back in 1896</a>http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/15631486212http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/15631486212Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:43:10 -0500<a href="http://thehairpin.com/2012/01/an-84-year-old-sends-her-first-text-message">HAIRPIN: An 84-Year-Old Sends Her First Text Message</a>http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/15629095511http://rojas.tumblr.com/post/15629095511Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:48:24 -0500<a href="http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-11112011-100404/unrestricted/Lefler_thesis.pdf">JORDANLEFLER: I CAN HAS 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