Wednesday, July 02, 2008 (0)
Our Turn
Hello Brooons fans.. wouldn't it be great. To bad they are cheap FiretrUCKS and we can't get real talent.
Chara 7.5 million? Come on.. Can't we get the crappy really tall defenseman Hall Gill back for his 2.1?
Manny Fernadez 4.5 to sit out
Tim Thomas 1.1 is probably a deal
Kessel $850k.. ouch
Zach Hamill $875k.. double ouch for Kessel
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Twits
Monday, June 30, 2008 (0)
How many bits in a byte?
First.. a little lesson.
There are 8 bits in a byte.
1,024 bytes in a kilobyte.
1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte.
1,073,741,824 bytes in a gigabyte.
1,099,511,627,776 bytes in a terabyte.
1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes in a petabyte.
Got all that?
Your collection of 260,000 songs takes up about 1 Terabyte.
20 Terabytes of photos are uploaded to Facebook each month
The Hubble space telescope has collected 120 Terabytes of data and images
The National Climatic Data Center has collected 460 Terabytes of Data
All the videos on YouTube consume 530 Terabytes
Ancestry.com's Genealogy database is 600 Terabytes
1 Petabyte is the amount of data processed by Google's servers every 72 minutes
.::. .::. Tuesday, June 24, 2008 (0)
Tuned Mass Damper
What?
The enormous steel ball is the world's largest 'tuned mass damper' and sits near the top of the world's largest completed skyscraper on earth, taipei 101 in taiwan. the idea behind a tuned mass damper is quite simple: as a building sways (resulting from high winds, earthquakes etc), its tuned mass damper, essentially a finely tuned and ridiculously heavy pendulum, will move in opposition to the structure's oscillations and minimise any movement.
See more pictures a video and the whole story here.
.::. .::. Thursday, June 05, 2008 (3)
What They Said:
LBF says HUH? on 6/6/2008
You are thankful..bout what?!
the wife says Gratitude for Men & Women in the Service on 6/7/2008
Interesting idea to say thanks to our armed services...
RantUser says Clicky on 6/13/2008
Click the the picture, or go to <a href="http://www.gratitudecampaign.org/">http://www.gratitudecampaign.org/
.::. .::. Monday, May 26, 2008 (0)
Memorial Day
Who?
.::. .::. Saturday, May 24, 2008 (0)
The Good Ol' Days
According to GasBuddy the lowest gas price near me right now is $3.74 / gallon.
Gas in October of 2006 was about $2.10 / gallon.
So, for 20 gallons $78 v. $42 only about a 45% increase in 18 or so months. $36 per fill up difference, let's say 1x a week / 4x a month = $144 a month. When you bought your car.. would you have bought it if the monthly payment was $144 more a month?
Depressing..
For an extra kick in the nutz.. I found a posting I made on Feb 29, 2000 complaining about gas at $1.69. one sixty nine?! As compared to today.. that's a 230% difference in 8 years. Do you make 230% more now than you did in 2000? I sure don't.
Exxon Mobil earned more than $1287 of profit for every second of 2007. Current Stock price is $90.70. I'm all for capitalism and all.. but an $11.7 billion profit is obscene.
Ok.. that's enough rambling. It's not going to change anything..
.::. .::. Wednesday, May 07, 2008 (0)
50 of The Greatest Life Has to Offer
Heres some positive mental nourishment for you:
The Greatest Things Are not things at all.
The Greatest Mystery Death.
The Greatest Gift Life.
The Greatest Work What you love doing.
The Greatest Recreation Based on the point above: Work.
The Greatest Feeling Happiness.
The Greatest Sorrow A broken heart.
The Greatest Sight A sight imagined, but physically unseen.
The Greatest Thought I can.
The Greatest Want Acceptance.
The Greatest Need Awareness.
The Greatest Trick Proving the impossible to be possible.
The Greatest Waste Hatred.
The Greatest Asset Your mind.
The Greatest Tool Your body.
The Greatest Smell A familiar smell.
The Greatest Sense Touch.
The Greatest Relationship Long-term friendship.
The Greatest Criminal A liar.
The Greatest Bankruptcy Lack of confidence.
The Greatest Mistake Quitting.
The Greatest Moment Now.
The Greatest Bore Repetition.
The Greatest Manufacturing Recycling.
The Greatest Companion One you can trust.
The Greatest Deception Self-deception.
The Greatest Evil War.
The Greatest Fool One who thinks he knows it all.
The Greatest Sound Silence.
The Greatest Art Music.
The Greatest Love Thyself.
The Greatest People Family and Friends.
The Greatest Conversation One that inspires action.
The Greatest Hero A teacher.
The Greatest Laugh One that hurts.
The Greatest Encounter A pleasant surprise.
The Greatest Story A true story.
The Greatest Communication Eye contact.
The Greatest Wealth Love.
The Greatest Beauty Is an opinion.
The Greatest Compliment An unexpected one.
The Greatest Step The first step.
The Greatest Accomplishment Finishing what you started.
The Greatest Resource Time.
The Greatest Exercise Sex.
The Greatest Service Helping someone in need.
The Greatest Force Momentum.
The Greatest Space Uncluttered space.
The Greatest Expression A smile.
The Greatest Comfort Familiarity.
.::. .::. Friday, April 11, 2008 (2)
What are you looking at?
Is the reflection in Dick Cheney's sunglasses a naked woman? The full size photo from the official White House web site.
What They Said:
RantUser says Better Link on 4/11/2008
Full size here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/photoessays/outdoors/images/v081905db-0162.jpg
LBF says Whoa. on 4/11/2008
No wonder he is smiling...
.::. .::. Tuesday, March 04, 2008 (1)
HOLY CRAP!
... more holy crap....
It's 3 AM
The go to Daily Kos read the REAL Hillary 3 AM phone call.
"It's 3am and you're safe and asleep. But your husband is AWOL. There's a phone in the White House and it's ringing. Something is happening in a motel room in Washington DC. Your vote will decide who answers that call. Whether it's someone who already knows the best lawyers in town, knows the best spin-doctors. Someone tested by her husband's previous dalliances and ready to lead the damage control again in a dangerous world full of right-wing attackers.
It's 3am and you're safe and asleep. Do you know where your husband is?"
What They Said:
HECTOR says BULL CRAP on 3/12/2008
I'm the asshole who answers the phone at 3am... usually like this, "Yeah, be there in 30, No don't call the WH situation room, we'll handle it ourselves "
Then those SOB's wake up at 8 eat a full breakfast and read the dam report I wrote over and over again from 4-6 while eating yesterdays donut and drinking yesterdays luke warm coffee.
.::. .::. Thursday, January 10, 2008 (0)
Meanest Mom EVER!
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Jane Hambleton has dubbed herself the "meanest mom on the planet."
After finding alcohol in her son's car, she decided to sell the car and share her 19-year-old's misdeed with everyone -- by placing an ad in the local newspaper.
The ad reads: "OLDS 1999 Intrigue. Totally uncool parents who obviously don't love teenage son, selling his car. Only driven for three weeks before snoopy mom who needs to get a life found booze under front seat. $3,700/offer. Call meanest mom on the planet."
Hambleton has heard from people besides interested buyers since recently placing the ad in The Des Moines Register.
The 48-year-old from Fort Dodge says she has fielded more than 70 telephone calls from emergency room technicians, nurses, school counselors and even a Georgia man who wanted to congratulate her.
"The ad cost a fortune, but you know what? I'm telling people what happened here," Hambleton says. "I'm not just gonna put the car for resale when there's nothing wrong with it, except the driver made a dumb decision.
"It's overwhelming the number of calls I've gotten from people saying 'Thank you, it's nice to see a responsible parent.' So far there are no calls from anyone saying, 'You're really strict. You're real overboard, lady."'
The only critic is her son, who Hambleton says is "very, very unhappy" with the ad and claims the alcohol was left by a passenger.
Hambleton believes her son but has decided mercy isn't the best policy in this case. She says she set two rules when she bought the car at Thanksgiving: No booze, and always keep it locked.
The car has been sold, but Hambleton says she will continue the ad for another week -- just for the feedback.
[CNN]
So good..
Goals for 2008
I'm putting it in bits and bytes.. 2008 is a milestone year in the birthday department, and I am NOT hitting that milestone in my current physical condition.
So it technically started Monday, but actually started today. That's right.. a trip to the Gym. At least 3 times a week would be great.. but I'm a realist.. If I can get there on Tuesday and Thursday I'll be thrilled.
I might post progress, I might not. You'll have to check back.
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