Select Photos from STS-125
Here are some great photos taken from Atlantis during the recent Hubble repair mission. Images courtesy of NASA.
Classic Dilbert
I about died when I saw Monday's Dilbert cartoon. Scott Adams and the people behind Office Space are genius.
Illuminated
I found this "teaser" while surfing through stumbleupon. This will make one trippy animated series. From: http://illuminated.com/
My X11 Configuration (Should It Help Anyone)
I've not posted about this, but I recently repurposed an ancient pc into an ubuntu linux box. All went well except the display configuration in the xorg.conf file. The old ATI video card I had for that system went out years ago, since then its only had crappyvia integrated video…
Long Hunter State Park
These pictures were taken at Long Hunter State Park on Percy Priest Lake. [nggallery id=16] View Larger Map
Star Trek Grosses over $75 million in its first weekend.
According to BoxOfficeMojo Star Trek earned an estimated $76,500,000 in its first weekend. That puts it above some totals of other Trek movies, already. By comparison, Star Trek Nemesis only made $43,000,000 when it debuted in 2002 (Figures once again BoxOfficeMojo). It is poised to easily become the highest earning…
Star Trek XI – The Reboot
This entire post is spoiler ridden. Click thru to the next page to read it.
How to tell if you're infected with Conficker
There is one really simple and easy way to tell if your infected with the Conficker worm. The following webpage uses hotlinked images from the various antivirus supplier domains to give you sort of an eye chart. If you have images that do not load, there is a chance you've…
Paid WiFi in Establishments
I have a particular gripe about businesses that charge for the wifi in their establishment. To me, it seems like idiocy to pay up to $15 a month for wifi access at a business. Evidently there are alot of people out there that do it because it seems to be…
Saturn V Model Rocket
Check this out. This guy has built a 1,600 pound /36 foot tall replica of a Saturn V rocket and intends to fly it next week (April 25)!
Source: http://www.rocketryplanet.com/content/view/2829/30/1/0/
I’ve included a video of it taken at the Toledo R/C show on page 2.