Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal
Very impressed w/Best Buy’s mobile website. Easy to find the item, choose store pickup, reset password & update address all from my phone.
Very impressed w/Best Buy’s mobile website. Easy to find the item, choose store pickup, reset password & update address all from my phone.
My internet connection is acting kind of flaky. Actually the connection is fine, but it…
My internet connection is acting kind of flaky. Actually the connection is fine, but it isn't talking to some content delivery network, so all the small-time websites load perfectly, but Facebook takes 20 minutes to load a 16×16 “share link” button, and I have yet to see more than the title on PayPal. *grumble*
Whenever my site gets hits from Google’s Italian site, my brain insists on reading it as “Google It!”
Whenever my site gets hits from Google’s Italian site, my brain insists on reading it as “Google It!”
Weird. I just read a comment where someone claimed that conservatives hate liberals for their…
Weird. I just read a comment where someone claimed that conservatives hate liberals for their “no reasonable person can disagree with me attitude.” In my experience, it's at least as likely to be the other way around.
Neptune Pool (Hearst Castle)
The main outdoor swimming pool at Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. Taken on a tour last February.
This was at least the third time I’ve been to Hearst Castle, and the second time as an adult. I vaguely remember visiting when I was eight, or ten, or somewhere around that age. Years later, in 2008, my wife and I planned a trip to San Francisco and decided to do it in stages, including a stopover at Hearst Castle. We only had time for one of the four tours, so when we planned another trip this year, we made sure to include another stop in San Simeon. This time we had a little more sense of how much time was involved, and managed to fit in two of the remaining tours.
At some point, we need to head back during spring or summer when they’re running the garden tour.
In a brilliant move, I have just twisted my shoulder funny 5 minutes before driving home. At least it’s the left shoulder. Still: Ow!
In a brilliant move, I have just twisted my shoulder funny 5 minutes before driving home. At least it’s the left shoulder. Still: Ow!
…1 day later…
Right shoulder seems OK. Left shoulder still recovering from whatever the heck I did to it yesterday. The dangers of…office chairs?
WTF? I just tweaked my *other* shoulder doing nothing more exciting than reaching for my mouse. Nowhere near as badly, at least!
WTF? 4-day passes have ACTUALLY SOLD OUT already! I was starting to think December…
WTF? 4-day passes have ACTUALLY SOLD OUT already! I was starting to think December maybe, but the first week of November? I'm glad we finally bought ours a few days ago!
Dark One’s Roast
A couple of nights ago, I dreamed I was Rand, inspecting a military camp and learning that the Dark One’s touch had destroyed all the coffee. ALL the coffee. And I/Rand immediately decided, “That’s it! We’re ending this NOW! Last Battle, here we come!”
The internet can affect your brain! (In a good way.)
Morning Glories
Morning Glories, originally uploaded by Kelson.
Last year my wife and I found some morning glories growing in our backyard, and decided to train them with twine to grow along the back wall. They did phenomenally well…and then produced a zillion seed pods, reminding us that they’re often classified as weeds.
They’re gone now.
One difference: the seasonal flu vaccine is based on…
One difference: the seasonal flu vaccine is based on predicting ahead of time which strains of flu are likely to circulate during the upcoming flu season and targeting those strains. Sometimes the predictions are accurate, sometimes they’re not. The H1N1 vaccine targets a specific strain that we know is circulating.
In RFC terms:
A seasonal flu vaccine MAY protect you from seasonal flu.
An H1N1 flu vaccine SHOULD protect you from H1N1 flu.
iPod train wreck of the morning was the Cardcaptor Sakura theme followed by Garbage’s Supervixen.
iPod train wreck of the morning was the Cardcaptor Sakura theme followed by Garbage’s Supervixen.
If you’re going to pin a doomsday scenario on a set of cultural beliefs,
2012 isn’t the end of the world, Mayans insist
If you’re going to pin a doomsday scenario on a set of cultural beliefs, it might be a good idea to check whether that culture actually believes it.
4-Day passes *with* preview night have sold out.
4-Day passes *with* preview night have sold out. Annoyingly, there’s no indication of how many 4-day passes *without* preview night are available, or what the percentage was, or anything at all to gauge whether the remaining memberships are likely to sell out next spring or next week.
Problem: Twitter trending topics are quickly flooded with in-jokes & spam. There’s no context if you don’t already know what they’re about
Problem: Twitter trending topics are quickly flooded with in-jokes & spam. There’s no context if you don’t already know what they’re about
How dare the big bad librarians silence those parents’ attempts to silence ideas that they don’t like! (Grr.)
How dare the big bad librarians silence those parents’ attempts to silence ideas that they don’t like! Won’t somebody please think of the children? (Grr.)
This CAPTCHA wants me to type “gosmut” O_o
This CAPTCHA wants me to type “gosmut” O_o
Tunguska Event
comment on the post “Flash Facts: Tunguska Event“:
I remember my first encounter with the Tunguska event was in The New Teen Titans, with the origin of Red Star. The weird thing is, I went back later and reread the issues with him and the story never actually states that the incident involved was the Tunguska event!
I must have thought of the origin story when I first read about the real event, and connected them in my mind to the extent that I was convinced the story had specifically referred to it!
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