5 Cognitive Distortions

1. All or Nothing Thinking: You see things in black or white catagories.
2. Overgeneralization: You see a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat.
3. Mental Filter: You pick out a single negative detail and dwell on it exclusively so that your vision of all reality becomes darkened like the drop of ink that discolors the entire beaker of water.
4. Disqualifying the Positive:  You reject positive experience by insisting they "don't count" for some reason or other. In this way you can maintain a negative belief that is contradicted by your everyday experiences.
5. Jumping to Conclusions: You make a negative interpretation even though there are no definte facts that convincingly support your conclusions. e.g. a. Mind Reading and b. The Fortune Teller Error.

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5 Things NOT To Do When Giving A Speech At A Wedding

1. It's not about you.

You're not a comedian opening for a band here. We really don't want you to be clever and do 45 minutes of material. Longer is NOT better in this case. Keep it short. UNDER 5 minutes.

2. Thank the parents.

Someone just spent thousands of dollars to throw a party here. Thank them by name.

3. Say something NICE about the bride and groom.

No one wants to hear an embarrassing story here. Just say something nice.

4. No swearing.

I have to say this? Really? Yes I do. Keep it clean. There are children and people in their 80's in the audience.

5. Start drinking AFTER the speech.

Seriously, you're making a fool of yourself.

Defeating Google Glass' Facial Recognition

Looks like a good project for DIY.

Codecs of the Future!

Ladies and gentlemen, meet hap.

http://vdmx.vidvox.net/blog/hap

Looks like HapQ is the one you want. 280Mb.

Yeah, the future doesn't look like you thought it would. Oh well.

5 Questions Google *Should* Be Asking

1. Who is the current host of the Daily Show (TRICK QUESTION)?
2. How many golf balls are in your apartment?
3. When was the last time you saw a manhole cover? What shape was it?
4. You're small enough to fit under the blades of a blender. Where can I get some of that weed?
5. I have a map and four colored markers. Write a program to paint each state so no two bordering states use the same color so I can go smoke this joint and do some real work.  

Rotary Encoder Circuit

Example Rotary Encoder Circuit.

Source and excellent video tutorial here.

VU Meter for Arduino

Source

Inside Logitech Labs - the Tech of Gaming Mice

Source: Tested.com

MIDI Merge with iPad, Arduino and Kontakt 4

Using Kontakt 4 player, click Options->MIDI, set HW MIDI interface and iPad to different ports. Then set MIDI input for the instrument you want to Omni.

Now you can add a Modulator for Volume with a MIDI CC mapped to Volume. This will get it all working....

How to Make a QRCode Readable on a Cylinder.

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/26268/qr-code-in-shopping-cart-handle

How to Assign a LFO to a MIDI CC in Kontakt4

MIDI Input Echo in Sonar from Wired interface to iPad ...

... is to set the MIDI input for a MIDI channel in Sonar to AllInptsOmni, and the output to the particular interface you want. In this case, the one exposed by the iPad.

Then click the echo icon untill it's both blue and has a little A on it.

Recharging your Phone in a Blackout

The phone company will be pushing power thru their lines in a blackout from their own generators.

Here's how you can tap into that and charge your USB device or phone from a phone jack with a 5v voltage regulator and no soldering.

Instructable here.