Auto-Tune the News
Posted in General on Mar 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
I would like to thank Auto-Tune the News for so many hours of enjoyment. Finally something to make C-Span tolerable. If you haven’t seen them, you need to check them out now.
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St Louis
Posted in General on Feb 27th, 2010 No Comments »
We are in STL this weekend with Eric, Ana and David. We are going to the City Museum, the Science Center and possibly the Schlafly Tap room. Got up late and ready for breakfast. Looks like the start to a great weekend.
Romance
Posted in General on Jan 21st, 2010 1 Comment »
Xbox 360
Posted in General on Dec 15th, 2009 No Comments »
A couple of weeks ago, I purchased an Xbox 360. I have been sucked in, enough said.
Pearl Harbor Day
Posted in General on Dec 7th, 2009 No Comments »
Just wanted to take a moment and remember all those that died at Pearl Harbor 68 years ago. Their sacrifice will not be forgotten.
To all those who served on that day, thank you.
We honor your sacrifice and that of your families.
Chorus Concert
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Last night we went to my sister-in-law’s chorus concert. I learned something there, which surprised me. What I learned is this:
Don’t Stop Believin’ doesn’t need dancing, it only needs Steve Perry (or someone who sings in the same octave).
That is all I am going to say.
Dead Animal
Posted in General on Sep 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Ever wonder what you house would smell like if a opossum died under it? Well, just come over and I will show you what it smells like. I noticed the smell last night and narrowed it down to the sun room. After some investigation I found a break in the barrier under the sun room. [...]
Awesome space video
Posted in General on Sep 24th, 2009 No Comments »
I don’t even know what to say about this, so I will just post the link. Watch it all the way through.
Colorado Pictures
Posted in General on Sep 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
I just uploaded some pictures of our Colorado trip. Here are a few:
The rest of the Colorado pictures are here.
Dell computers
Posted in General on Sep 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
I received 8GB of Crucial RAM for my work Optiplex 745 today and when I installed it, Aero stopped working on Windows 7. Memtest86 also would lock up whenever you test. Weeeee! Why can’t anything be simple? After doing some reading, it looks like Dell PCs (at least the business line) only fully support Dell [...]
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“Downsizing? I have no problem with that. I have been recommending downsizing since I first got here. I even brought it up in my interview. I say, bring it on. ”
by Dwight Schrute, The Office- Snapshot of the International Space Station
On March 13, 2008, the International Space Station passed across the field-of-view of Germany's remote sensing satellite, TerraSAR-X, at a distance of 195 kilometers, or 122 miles, and at a relative speed of 34,540 kilometers per hour, or more than 22,000 mph. In contrast to optical cameras, radar does not 'see' surfaces. Instead, it is much more aware of the edges and corners which bounce back the microwave signal it transmits. Smooth surfaces such as those on the station's solar generators or the radiator panels used to dissipate excess heat, unless directly facing the radar antenna, tend to deflect rather than reflect the radar beam, causing these features to appear on the radar image as dark areas. The radar image of the station therefore looks like a dense collection of bright spots from which the outlines of the space station can be clearly identified. The central element on the station, to which all the modules are docked, has a grid structure that presents a multiplicity of reflecting surfaces to the radar beam, making it readily identifiable. This image has a resolution of about one meter (about 39 inches). In other words, objects can be depicted as discrete units--that is, shown separately--provided that they are at least one meter apart. If they are closer together than that, they tend to merge into a single block on a radar image. Since this image was taken, the station has expanded and is more than 90 percent complete, including a full complement of solar arrays. Image Credit: DLR
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