Hiding behind

Like many of us, I'm just hiding behind the distorting glass.

I ponder to myself what squirrles with their fur are doing in 92 degrees outside... and then I shrudder at the breeze of American lifestyle... or is it just AC manufactured in China, and assembled in Malaysia... I ponder even deeper

Waterfall

I took this waterfall picture in New Hampshire. HA HA HA no one reads this.

Mountains

8 pictures composed to create this panoramic view which is seen from Cannon Mountain (~4200ft), New Hampshire.

Macro World

Me and my father were washing a boat in marina when we found this insect in the boat relaxing... We relocated it and finished working, and then I took few pictures of it.

Summer day

I was riding my bike in a middle of a hot summer day, on a busy street when I stopped to drink some water. Only then I saw that there were two swans swimming in a small canal. I whould have taken more photos of the location to capture the contrast of a busy street and a peaceful canal... Oh well.

The blog has been ressurected since blogger incorporated a way to upload photos directly...

Picture was originally taken in the summer of 2003 when me and my dad were riding around with bicycles and saw this bird in terribly polluted pond. Today I was goinf over all the pictures and I found this picture. edited with photoshop and here it is.

Found these few items near the water and though it'd be cool to arrange and take a photo. Jones Beach, Long Island, NY

Crysler Building

This photo was taken from Empire State Building, zommed and croped to catch this famous building.

And this is the actual tower.

This is a tower I designed and built together with my classmate for science olimpiad. It held 15kg, however the tower it self was kinda heavy.

I feel like a fish under the ice...

Try guessing how this picture was taken to get this effect. (Bronx Zoo)

Waking up at the right time, makes you see the right picture...

Neighboors....sigh...

Sorry I did not post anything for some time. I had problems with my internet connection. One neighboor on my netw0rk wanted to broadcast his music through the internet but he had to turn off the firewall on our router to make it work. Without knowing much he started playing with router settings and messed it up. So I will post some pictures tomorrow.

while wondering around central park we found this very nice place. It looks so surreal.

Here how it looked when you were walking around. Many people came to check this art out (some say its not art, I think it is art, but I would not have spent so much money on it).

This is me and my dad in central park, it was like a month ago. They had these orange flags all over the place, pretty cool. (now I wear a ponytail)

This is a 16 years old laptop (hey he's as old as me) My dad got me from one friend to whom I fixed small PC problem. ha ha can you believe it it is still working. Specs: 12MHz about 400 RAM/ROM 10 or 20MB Hard drive 10" monochrome LCD about 24 pounds.

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Sry not much today

I had so much work to do today that I did not post nothing too interesting (and recent) I guess I will just go search my archives and post some picture. It is 11:17pm and I have this really important english essay to write. I hope you all had I good day! Lets hope the spring is coming soon.

This picture is not edited at all (except "hello" resized it however with same proportions, not cropped) It was taken about 2 weeks ago. This is a view of a sunset through my home's front door.

My Science Research Essay

Hey guys and girls! I don't know how many of you will make it to the end of this boring essay but this is my 3months work so I though I should post it. When I started reasearching this field, I had to read half of wikipedia with a dictionary, translating everyother word, well it took me awhile to get it and now I though I should simplify the whole concept into an essay.
Here it is:

Quantum Teleportation: Fantasy Today, Routine Tomorrow (By Nimajus Bagdonavicius)

Teleportation has been a fantasy until 1993, when an international group of six scientists demonstrated that theoretically teleportation is possible. Before 1993 it was through that teleportation was not possible since condition of an object could not be measured. However a way to avoid uncertainty principle was found—the possibility to apply condition or state from one object to another. This process of quantum teleportation involves transferring of quantum state from one particle to another. As a result identity of the original is destroyed while an exact copy of the original is produced in a different location. There has to be a connection between the two locations by which quantum state information is transferred.
This subtle kind of information, also called "Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) correlation" or "entanglement", has been at least partly understood since the 1930s when it was discussed in a famous paper by Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen discussed entanglement. In the 1960s John Bell showed that a pair of entangled particles, which were once in contact but later move too far apart to interact directly, can exhibit individually random behavior that is too strongly correlated to be explained by classical statistics. Experiments on photons and other particles have repeatedly confirmed these correlations, thereby providing strong evidence for the validity of quantum mechanics, which neatly explains them. Another well-known fact about EPR correlations is that they cannot by themselves deliver a meaningful and controllable message. It was thought that their only usefulness was in proving the validity of quantum mechanics. But now it is known that, through the phenomenon of quantum teleportation, they can deliver exactly that part of the information in an object which is too delicate to be scanned out and delivered by conventional methods.
Although teleportation changed its meaning only in 1993, the laws of physics and various processes that make quantum teleportation possible were analyzed and understood even in 1930s. Quantum teleportation relies on process called “entanglement” or “Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) correlation.” In 1930s Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen discussed entanglement. In 1960s John Bell demonstrated that a pair of entangled particles could interact directly even if they are far apart. One example of entanglement can be seen when an ultraviolet photons (490nm) pass through a nonlinear crystal and some of the photons decay. This results in two infrared photons with their sum of mass and energy equal to the original. After decay, two photons become entangled meaning that they are in direct relationship with each other. If for example, one of entangled photons of is spinning up, then other photon is spinning down. Photon spin axes have unchanging relationship with its direction in which the photon is moving thus making protons predictable. Using present day technology, scientists are able to alter entangled particles by changing the state of one entangled particle and by this action affecting the other particle instantaneously, even if there is a great distance between both particles. Albert Einstein described this effect of entanglement as “spooky action at a distance.”
Since 1993, many physicists from various universities performed experiments involving teleportation of light, single photons, and single ions. In 2004 research group from Austria at University of Innsbruck and physicists from United States at National Institute of Standards and Technology teleported atoms. Calcium and beryllium ions were teleported by transferring electronic quantum states from original ions to other ions of the same element. However, teleportation of complex substances cannot be performed in the near future. Another big step towards quantum communications systems was also made in 2004 at the Georgia Institute of Technology. A team two physicists, Alex Kuzmich and Dzmitry Matsukevich transferred information between matter and light. In the future, quantum teleportation could revolutionize communication systems by replacing present day technology with incredibly fast ways of transferring data. Successful physicist Alex Kuzmich predicted that practical applications of this technology are seven to ten years away. Long distance quantum communication became known as DLCZ protocol which is achieved by transferring a coherent quantum state from matter-bed qubit to a photonic qubit.
Although quantum teleportation appears to be a promising technology there is a controversy about the name “teleportation”, because quantum teleportation is not an instantaneous process due to use of classical information channel which is significantly slower than the speed of light. Some dictionary definitions of the word teleportation state that teleportation is an instantaneous effect therefore some individuals argue about the name of “quantum teleportation.” If to think about the meaning of the word teleportation we can see that it was strongly influenced by science fiction writers and movies. Although lately there were many articles in magazines about achievements in quantum mechanics, in order for major part of public to understand the meaning and potential of this still new branch of science, more simplified information should be distributed. Only when people will understand and accept new developing technologies, they will start contributing to its development.

I watched this movie today, "Matchstick Men." I was really surprised how it turned out to end. Although there were many attemts to produce similar effect on viewers in movies before, this movie specifically made viewers experience emotions really well. This was achieved by great Nicolas Cage's, Sam Rockwell's and Alison Lohman's performances. I highly reccomend you to watch this movie. If you haven't already...blink blink

Here is a picture I took today in the morning. Nothing too impressive, I just liked it.

Here is the closeup of the face so you could see the strokes. Corel Painter is one amazing program. Here is a link to see more artwork created by Corel Painter:

Here is a drawing I drew today, I got a picture of bill gates from the internet and then used Corel Painter IX to draw on the picture.

We had quite a snow storm today here in NY, that car took me home from school about 3-4 hours before the picture was taken. Now it is buried under the snow.

Here you can see most of components fastened inside the "case". My old 40 Gb maxtor is not working (damn pins, there should be only SATA =)) Also I will add two 35mm fans and I will have to think where to make the power, reset buttons and LED.

I have also bent the "fins" of the power supply so it would fit in the box. And hey I'm stil alive =)

And the corner shot of the case.

My server PC

Today I've been working on my server computer. The case I chose for it is a motherboard box. so far I've put a motherboard, video, sound and ethernet cards in there. Since the cards were too wide, I had to cut out a hole in the top of the box and cover it somehow.

This is the house where I live in. 

7:24 PM EST. I find myself creating a blog for reasons I do not see. Who would care what I write I think to myself. There are millions of other blogs, there are billions of other people. But I still write it, not knowing if someone is reading. If someone is there, well hello then! Welcome to nowhere. I wish you will not be depressed just because you wasted few minutes of your time. How do these blog things work.. hmm... help would be gladly accepted.