Thursday, April 18, 2024

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It's a Thursday night after sports practice. It's dinner time and I haven't eaten since lunch. My stomach releases various rumbles and growls. My hand is directed towards the fridge, opening it. However, there is no food in the fridge. I scramble to the pantry. Empty. Desperately hungry I decide to make a dash to Kroger where  I pick up...
Previously, I showcased my working versions of my two characters to see if anyone was interested in the modeling/rigging/skinning workflow, and I saw enough interest to justify another article. I intentionally left out sculpting, complex character design, and animation, which I will cover here. (I will still be exclusively using free, open source, or student licensed software. The staples are...
During the final minute of each year, the world watches as the drop of the Times Square Ball greets the start of a new year for New York City and the rest of the Eastern Time Zone. With 2014 now already days old, many begin to peruse their resolution lists, viewing the new year as an opportunity to improve,...
Tom Morello, the guitar player for Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, made an appearance at Zuccotti Park Thursday morning, October 13, 2011, to play for Occupy Wall Street protesters. "First they ignored you," Morello told the crowd. "Then you got pepper-sprayed and New York found out about it. Then 700 of you got arrested, and the rest of the...
My name is Jason Andrew Davis ‘21 and I just graduated from Jesuit last year. Currently, I am majoring in Cognitive Science (focus area in Consciousness) & Psychology with a minor in Neuroscience here at Dartmouth.   After college, I am looking to get my PhD in either Experimental Psychology or Cognitive Neuroscience and dedicate myself to scientific research...
I should preface that the conclusion of this article is absolutely biased. I am myself a Saber fencer, and I wholeheartedly believe that it is the superior fencing style. The goal of this article is to review the differences between the different styles of fencing and to explain why I believe that Saber is the best fencing style. Context Fencing was...
Of all the characters in the Westerns of the twentieth century, none is reviled more than the snake oil salesman. While the outlaw pilfers the coffers of the rich or otherwise cash-heavy, the seamy snake oil salesman steals from the penniless, the trusting, the naïve, the desperate. The snake oil salesman capitalizes on catastrophe and calamity, offering a bewilderingly...
World Wrestling Entertainment, also known as WWE, remains the premier wrestling company throughout the world. Every year, millions flock to arenas to watch iconic superstars battle it out in the ring. I'm Gionni Gutierrez, and the question that I get asked most of the time is, "why should I watch WWE?" Well, here are some of the reasons that you...

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