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June 29, 2006
Wow...
Here's a gallery of lightning pictures from near Sydney, Australia. Very cool stuff; there's even tips on taking your own lightning photos.
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June 28, 2006
Funny, funny, funny!!!
This is wicked funny man. A bit by comedian Dane Cook set to in-game video from Halo2.
WARNING: explicit language
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June 27, 2006
Windows might decide to stop working for you...
So there's this update for Windows, the Windows Genuine Advantage; it installs itself as an update and is supposed to validate if you have a legal copy of Windows and phones home to Microsoft to inform them. One problem with this is that it does this once a day or more even if the first time it runs it finds that you are indeed running a legit copy. Now reports are trickling in that come September it will be mandatory to have this on your machine and if you don't or it detects a pirated copy of Windows it will give you 30 days to fix the problem or your computer will cease to function.
I see this as a cause for a lot of people to "jump ship" and move to something else (read Linux).
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Extended exposure - Space Shuttle Launch
This is a 5-minute extended exposure of the Space Shuttle Endeavour launching:
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This one time... at Band Camp...
I can't make this kind of stuff up:
Fight song?Two 12-year-old West Allis boys were cited for disorderly conduct after getting into a fight at band rehearsal at Frank Lloyd Wright Middle School, 9501 W. Cleveland Ave., at 9:16 a.m. May 4. According to reports, one boy kicked the other several times and the other boy finished the fight by striking the first aggressor twice over the head with his trumpet.
Milwaukee, WI <link>4th story.
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June 26, 2006
Hole in One
Fuzzy Zoeller gets an amazing hole in one.
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Rubik's Cube Solving Robot
This is really cool, some university students designed and built a robot that can solve a Rubik's Cube in under a minute. It's really cool to see in action.
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Amazing WWII Fighter Plane Footage
This is some of the most incredible video footage I've ever seen!!! Recently desclassified footage from WWII fighter plane guncameras.
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June 16, 2006
MacGyver
Check out this great list:
List of problems solved by MacGyver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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June 15, 2006
World's Largest Camera, Picture
This is one of the coolest uses for a rundown building I've seen in a long time:
World's largest photo planned.
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June 9, 2006
DS Lite Booby-Trap?
Funny:
It wasn't until I removed the handful of shiny silver tinsel that I noticed the red and black wires and strange device taped to the bottom inside of the box.
Nintendo Booby-Traps DS Lite Press Boxes?
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June 8, 2006
X-Box Server
This is amusing: X-Box used as a server at a public university to save money on a server/pc.
The website is down because someone removed the X-Box
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June 7, 2006
Everything is Hot, Hot, Hot
Well Monday I wrote about it being really hot, and on the way home I drove by that sign near our house and it said... wait for it... 105°!!!! It was frickin' crazy man!! Yesterday was a little more cloudy and it was only 93°, but still warm. Then today it thunderstorms and we get torrential downpours for like 20 minutes. I get soaked walking out to my car to put my windows up so I'm not swimming home and now my feet are freezing because they haven't dried out completely. Oh well, these past couple of days have reminded me of New England, you never know what the weather is gonna do from one minute to the next, we had totally gotten used to it being hot every day and this was a curveball. I don't care much though, we needed the water so desperately.
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June 5, 2006
So you think it's hot where you are!?
So you think it's hot where you are huh? Well yesterday in Belen it was 101° and the high for today... yup, you guessed it 101° AGAIN!!!!! I went outside to go get something to eat at McDonald's and I decided that I'd eat there instead of getting back in my car with my hot food and sitting in the sun. Yeah, I've had to resort to using my windsheild screens to keep the car's internal temperature down so I don't slow-roast on the way home in the afternoon!! BUT... it's not soo bad becasue look at the humidity level..... YEAH BABY, only 8%!!!!
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A Bumpy Ride for a Smooth Vacation
Here it is... the long-awaited account of our recent vacation/trip to Alabama.
It all started on Thursday, we got up early and Erin dropped me at work and then went home. I worked the morning and Erin came by and picked me up and we went to lunch and then left the car at the parking location and got to the airport. We made it through checking our bags with American Airlines and security with no problem, we got on the plane and made it to Dallas without a hitch. Then we discovered that the flight from there to Huntsville was delayed about an hour. No big deal; we went and found something to eat... Oh wait! Everything closes at 8 except McDonald's!!!! Oh well. We got back to our gate and call Erin's mom to let her know that we're still waiting; she checks status online and sees "canceled!" WHAT!!!?? We ask another passenger and apparently they made an announcement while we were eating. DOH!!! Now we get in line to get re-booked. We end up on Delta the next morning at 7am because there aren't any flights after 10pm and that's the first one the next morning. We're given vouchers for the Marriot South and food (dinner/breakfast). And one more thing, you don't get your luggage. We go downstairs to wait for the shuttle (that's supposed to be there already) and manage to make it to the hotel an hour later. We got box lunches from the hotel, only there's no fridge in the room so our sandwiches spent the night on ice. We made it to the hotel around 10:45pm, the restaurant closes at 11pm and we weren't going to drink in the bar so we just went to bed.
Next day after the break -->
Friday we got up around 5am because we had to be in the lobby by 5:30am to get the shuttle to the airport. We check out and get a ride to the airport and then stand in line to get tickets/boarding passes since all we had were vouchers for tickets. We get our seats, they're not next to each other. We get stopped at security for an extra pat-down and then make it to our gate; we leave our tickets with the desk and they're going to try and get us seats next to each other. We find some breakfast in the form of weak coffee and a muffin. We get on the plane and make it to where? Oh that's right, Atlanta; not Huntsville. We make it to Atlanta and have enough time to ride the train/shuttle thing to the next gate and walk right onto the plane. We finally land in Huntsville, meet Erin's parents and then head to baggage claim to find out where our luggage is. American Airlines tells us to file a claim with Delta because it's not there yet and it will be given to Delta once it does arrive. We go talk to them and the earliest we could have it is that night, but probably not. Great! We give them the address in Tennessee where we'll be for the weekend and leave. We go to the PX on the arsenal and get a change of clothes and toothbrushes/deoderant, etc.
We get some lunch, head to the house and pack up some other stuff. Then we head to Tennessee. Have a nice time and hang out, then Saturday our luggage gets to Knoxville (the nearest airport) at some point and we get out luggage that afternoon around 4:30/5pm!!! So now we've been without luggage/medication/grooming stuff for: 50 hours!!!! WOOHOO!!!
NEways, our luggage had been searched and plopped back in the suitcases, but everything was ok inside. We were able to enjoy the rest of our vacation, but it was needless to say not the way we intended to start out.
I've got pictures and video from Tennessee that I will post soon once I put all the pictures together.
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