A live demo with a pasta roller and raw ingredients on making fresh pappardelle and tomato sauce from scratch.
Tag: South Bay
Buying Used Cars
A car’s worth depreciates a lot over time, so getting a car used means you can get a decent one for cheap. Used cars you can search online for the ones you like, or even better you can hop dealer to dealer and compare.
In this talk, Xuehai addresses what are factors to consider when shopping for a used car and what to look for when you go for a test drive.
What’s the Deal with ISIS?
Who are they, how much power do they actually have, how did they get so much of it?
The Pixar Pipeline
Explaining the first steps in animation – story & art, modelling, rigging, simulation, sets & cameras, lighting.
From Servers to the Big Screen
The final step of animation: rendering. Turning ideas into pixels using math. Rasterization vs vectorization, raytracing, and several other concepts in the process explained.
Cool Shit About Headphones
A presentation on the various types of high-end headphones and what makes them different / good, along with many pairs to sample and try.
Jazz Theory and Improv on Piano
A demonstration of different sounds within jazz and how they’re mixed together in improv. A volunteer came up and pressed random white keys and Wen-Hao’s accompaniment turned it into a song!
Raising a Dog
From adoption to training a dog to high five, Ian highlights the way a dog thinks and how to go about raising one properly. Ian has previously trained several guide dogs and currently has a dog of his own.
Powerpoint Dropbox Link (contains many videos, is about 500MB)
How To Poker
Some basic strategies and terminology for actually playing poker (as opposed to just gambling).
Psychology of Getting People to Like You
A lesson from a Psychology course Rachel took – strategies for attracting others, and for defending yourself when you notice others applying the strategies on you.
