Archive for September, 2008
Reminder: Samsung Recycling
Samsung is starting a free recycling program for all of it’s products, well ahead of the curve of the laws under consideration to mandate this kind of behavior from equipment manufacturers. More information on Samsung’s Recycling Direct program is available at their website tomorrow, including all of the locations where this free recycling will be [...]
Heroes Season 3 Review
IO9 has a review of Heroes Season 3, and the fact that the premiere 2 hour episode lost 25% of it’s viewership to shows such as “dancing with the stars” and “csi: miami.” The language of the review is pretty harshly against NBC, but they make a few good points.
Season 2 looked to be spectacular, [...]
Garage door
Property owner finally put in an automatic garage door (and motor, to replace the manual/tilt garage door that was on the property I’m renting). The automatic garage door was in the rental lease, but it took too long to get put in.
Disney Archive: Dine Line
714-781-3463
For Disney Dining Reservations, reservations only taken 60 days in advance.
A toast to Stanislav Petrov
Little did I know that Stanislav Petrov is a world hero, and little did I know how close we all came to global apocalypse on Sep 26, 1983. That would have been just before my 10th birthday. All told, I owe this man 25 drinks, plus several billion more for each man, woman and child [...]
Hubble and the Universe
Gizmodo reported that Hubble made it’s 100,000th orbit of our tiny little planet, 3rd rock from Sol, and took yet another fantastic photo.
The universe we live in is such a beautiful place. But then, just about everything is beautiful from 1 million LY away.
Why I hate school
The Dean of Administration at Fresno City College once told me:
If the teacher has a book that says that War of 1812 happened in 1813, and they teach that in their class, and a test is given on the topic, any answer but 1813 will be wrong on that test.
As you can imagine, I lost [...]
“How” A Celestial Perspective Video
How – A perspective on the size of celestial bodies
Found this on MetaCafe, care of Digg. A pretty impressive perspective on the size of celestial bodies ranging from Pluto (the maybe-not-a-planet-planet) to VV Cephei, the largest known Star in our universe.
[the other] Palin for President
Found by Charles Stross
X11BARS v0.99.8 released
Change log
0.99.8 : 2008-02-05
Added outNPA and outNXX procedures to remove NXX and NPA programming quickly (for when the script fubars during entry)
Added OUT config menu to main menu
Added global variables to contain start/end number for NPA, NXX and string information for AC1/AC2 for NPA/NXX.
Updated all comments
0.99.7 : 2008-02-05
Updated menus
0.99.6 : 2008-01-25
Added alternate RLI programming for [...]
