Distance: 48,000,000 mi (about 738,461.5 hours)
From the makers of Google Earth comes… Google Mars! Click on Spacecraft at the top to have it overlay all the touchdowns (successful and not). Sweeeeeet.
From the makers of Google Earth comes… Google Mars! Click on Spacecraft at the top to have it overlay all the touchdowns (successful and not). Sweeeeeet.
Oh please, please, please, Time Warner, follow in the footsteps of Comcast and start offering a Tivo. It’s nothing against your fabulous HD DVR (other than it’s lousy Atari 2600-esque interface, poorly designed remote, and the complete lack of features that make the Tivo great – like the ability to easily record only first run…
Last December, I was sitting in a hotel room in San Antonio flipping through channels on the TV when I ran across this guy shouting, throwing chairs, and banging on an array of sound effects buttons. That in itself isn’t all that peculiar in the age of Jerry Springer. What was is that he was…
Phigment turned me on to a new site – CodingHorror.com. I especially like this post on Egoless Programming: 1. Understand and accept that you will make mistakes. 2. You are not your code. 3. No matter how much “karate” you know, someone else will always know more. 4. Don’t rewrite code without consultation. 5. Treat…
For those of you who don’t venture down into ski country, this is what it looked like in my driveway just minutes ago: The WRX transforms into a snow plow as necessary.
A couple years ago, my father-in-law kept talking about going “leak hunting”. That sounded like what we do at the Terminal on rainy Saturdays to find drains that need to be repaired. What I didn’t realize was that he was talking about leeks, not leaks. You may be familiar with leeks that you find at…
Here’s a photo I took early this morning. I really wanted to go and take it from outside, but the the lone 8 on the thermometer discouraged me. Still not a bad photo. (click for full view)
This is cool….