Word: drift
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...them. For those of us who choose not to fall into the standard perfume, flowers, or candy routine, however, the quest for an expression of love and affection never ceases to be difficult. It was in the course of brainstorming for a gift that my mind started to drift, and I began to wonder—what do other guys get their significant others for Valentine’s Day? I thought of jewelry, electronics, and fancy dinners—and then an interesting thought came to me: What if everyone got their significant other the same thing for Valentine?...
...mile was a very strategic race—the first half went out in 2:50, the second half closed in 2:25—I took it out slowly and waited for someone to pass so that I could drift off her, but it didn’t happen until halfway through,” Maludzinski said...
...getting enough of the math right to fool the eye. Because computers don't have enough horsepower yet to simulate, say, every flake of snow in a drift, academics like O'Brien attempt to figure out how much we need to see to believe a scene is real. That's appreciated by animators and video-game artists who want simulations that look good but don't take a weekend to run. (It can take hours of computer time to generate one second of animation, but video-game players want things to happen in real time.) O'Brien's programs have...
...hours without sleep, your reaction time begins to slow from a quarter of a second to half a second and then longer. If you're like most people, you will start to experience bouts of microsleep--moments when you zone out for anywhere from two to 20 seconds and drift out of your lane or find that you have to keep rereading the same passage. Your...
...Caley's wilderness is not as remote as it once was. Sydney's suburbs lap at the range's feet, and at night the sound of trucks several kilometers away drift faintly into tents. On one ridgetop a mobile phone rings. But these are small intrusions into a stern wilderness. There are few walkers out here, and standing on one of the many ridges, the view in every direction is of implacable bush. There are still unexplored gullies out there; in one such nook, north of Caley's route, the Wollemi pine, which Wyn Jones helped identify, made international headlines...