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NASA’s STEREO reveals the entire sun
How frickin’ cool is that? NASA can now see both sides of the Sun at the same time. Science is so frickin’ cool. I just love learning about all the new stuff they discover, and the internet makes it so easy nowadays.
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My geek cave
Currently in my geek cave I have two desks. The one I mostly sit at usually has three computers on it, sometimes four if I am playing around on my netbook . I have a Windows 7 machine, two Macs, and my netbook runs Ubuntu Linux.
Across the room is my Wife’s old desk. Once she got a laptop she didn’t have a use for it anymore. I have two more computers over there hooked up to a KVM switch to share the keyboard, monitor, and mouse. One is my main Linux system running Ubuntu, and the other is an old junker that’s running console video game emulators. If I ever have the urge to play Super Mario Brothers, or Pitfall, that’s where I do it. I can play any Atari 2600, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Nintendo, or Super Nintendo game I want. All the video game systems of my youth.
In the near future I am going to upgrade my desk. I’m getting rid of the two I have and getting one big one that should house all five of these computers. I have looked around town, and haven’t found crap for computer desks, but I have found some pretty sweet ones online. I am going to switch from a corner desk to a L shaped desk with two keyboard drawers. It should give me plenty of room after I upgrade that big ass 19” CRT monitor.
I am so eager to make the upgrade, but I kind of have to wait until I make room on the garage for my old desks. The garage is a pretty sloppy mess now being winter, and having the snowblower and other crap in there.
I hope I will be able to sell my desks quickly on Craigslist. They are both high quality and in pretty good shape. I love them both, but it’s time for an upgrade. Once my new desk is in place, then I will have a whole half of room to figure out what I want to do with.
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100 famous rock guitar riffs – one take
via reddit.comJust try to name them all.
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The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained
via reddit.comThis is a nice little video explaining the difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England. It’s something I have always been curious about, but too lazy to look it up myself.
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I’m no longer a “double-spacer”
I am kind of a grammar Nazi. Other people’s grammar errors drive me crazy, but I am sure I am guilty of many grammatical errors myself. I was never a fan of English class in school, and always struggled in English and writing classes. I envy people that like to write. I want to like writing, and I do now more they I ever have before, but it’s always been a struggle to get words from my head, to the paper — or computer screen.
One thing that I didn’t even know was a thing is the double spaces after a sentence controversy. It came up twice lately in a few blogs that I read. I now realize how pointless it is, and it is a little distracting. I leaned to type on typewriters in typing class. There we were taught to double space after ever sentence, so I just did it out of habit. I never really noticed if stuff I was reading was double-spaced or not.
Now that I know it’s a thing, I noticed that most things online aren’t double-spaced, and now the double spacing kind of annoys me. I am doing my best to train my thumb to only hit the space bar once now after a sentence. I added a plugin to WordPress that should correct any errors like the one after this sentence. If it worked there should only be once space there. I’m still on the lookout for a way to fix all my past posts. From now on I am no longer a “double-spacer”.
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The United States of Shame, what each state is worst at
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iPhone vs. Android
The iPhone announcement was over a week ago, and I haven’t blogged about it yet. How many other countries got the iPhone before North Dakota? It’s nice that it’s finally an option. I would probably be more excited if it had happened a few years ago. Now there are some very good Android phones that would be good choices too.My contract is up in March, and I have been debating over Android vs. iPhone for the past week. I have pretty much settled on the iPhone now though. I live in the Apple universe. I already have tons of apps, and don’t hate iTunes. I don’t understand all the iTunes haters, but maybe the Windows version is different.
Many people hate the iPhone for not having a physical keyboard, but my Blackberry has one and I hate it. I can type much faster on my iPod Touch. So that is another thing. I know I would like the iPhone keyboard, not as sure about the Android. Some people want removable storage on there phone so they can add more storage and have their entire much library with them. I don’t really care much about having music on my phone. That’s what my iPod Classic is for. It’s 120 GBs is actually enough to hold it all. Maybe my mind will change when I get a decent phone, but for now 16 GB is probably plenty and I would have no need for removable memory.
Now the problem is do I just get an iPhone 4 in March, or wait until the iPhone 5 comes out later this summer — assuming Verizon is going to get the iPhone 5 this summer. I’m not really a fan of waiting because you could wait forever. No matter what, there is always something bigger and better right around the corner. Honestly I don’t really see any big changes coming to the iPhone 5. What else could they really add? The only thing I can think of is 4G, but that’s not coming to Fargo anytime soon — Verizon says by 2013. I am sure something will come out, but all the iOS updates should all work on the iPhone 4 too.
I’m sure waiting is probably the right thing to do. I’ve waited four years for this phone, what’s a couple more months. I probably wont wait though. I suffered with a Blackberry the last two years, I’m sure I won’t be suffering as much with an iPhone 4. We will just have to wait and see what the iPhone 5 rumors are during the next two months.
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Fun with boiling water
via youtube.comI tried this last year, but either it wasn’t cold enough or my water wasn’t hot enough. It didn’t work. It might be cold enough this week for me to try again. I guess that’s one plus about cold weather — cool science experiments.
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Vacation 2011
So we have been lucky enough to have been able to take a vacation every year for the past ten years. I have been trying to think of a place to go this year, but not really sure where. The Broncos play in Green Bay next season, so we might try and get tickets, and go on a road trip to Green Bay, and then down to Ohio and visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I have always wanted to see Lambeau Field because of all the history there. If they play in December I might not want to go though. That would be a lot of driving on crappy roads.
I don’t know if that would count as our vacation though. I kind of want to go some place this summer. One of my Twitter friends mentioned that she only needs to visit ten states to have visited them all. So I though I would check to see what states I haven’t visited yet.
visited 32 states (64%)
Create your own visited map of The United StatesI still have 18 more to go. Maybe it’s time to visit the New England states, or maybe Vegas and the Grand Canyon? Something tells me no vacation is ever going to match Hawaii though.
