I think this story teaches us:
- Have a good attitude and deliver excellence right now.
- Be ready.
- You don’t know what’s around the corner, so if you believe in something…DON’T QUIT.
- Giving someone a break can completely change someone’s life.
- Finding a regular place to call your own allows your fortune to find you. (a paraphrased Chinese saying)

While googling Robert Forster, I found this book. He has a story about Marlon Brando in it. Looks like it is worth a read:
The Tenacity of the Cockroach: Conversations with Entertainment’s Most Enduring Outsiders

Researchers at Lab42 wanted to know “what makes certain codes so scanworthy,” so they conducted an online survey via social networks of 500 Americans over 18, and found out that many people don’t even know what a QR code is.

via Why Are Some QR Codes More Scanworthy Than Others? [INFOGRAPHIC].

This is something that I’ve been thinking about when it popped up on a friend’s FB page.  Supposedly this was a list scribbled by MK Gandhi and given to his grandson, Arun on their last day together.

1. Wealth without work.
2. Pleasure without conscience.
3. Knowledge without character.
4. Commerce without morality.
5. Science without humanity.
6. Worship without sacrifice.
7. Politics without principle.

via Seven Blunders of the World – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Eric at the lab showed me this. The project is called CrazyCopter. It is basically a micro quadcopter built complete on a PC Board and four motors. The board is densely packed with 2 gyros and an accelerometer feeding a Cortex-M3 processor. The whole thing can be programmed via wireless…and it sends its telemetry data to the computer via 2.4GHz Radio as well.

I want to build one badly. Hopefully these guys will release the plans and open source the project. *Drool…*

This is a nice segment by Susan Hay of Global News on Story Planet. It goes a bit into not just what it is and how the programs are delivered, but also WHY the program is important.

Story Planet on Global from Story Planet on Vimeo.