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Just some random ramblings from my head. Friday, January 20, 2006. Retro sci-fi or reality? Just seems kind of weird to have your ultra-high-tech wireless cellphone/pda/music player talking to . a blimp! Posted by: jbp4444 / 5:56 AM. Links to this post.

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Just some random ramblings from my head. Monday, November 07, 2005. In theory, you could push fiber (-optic networks) up to 150 trillion bits per second - a rate that would deliver the text of all the books in the U.S. Library of Congress in about a second." - unfortunately, the U.S. greatly lags behind the entire rest of the world in fast network access:. Broadband lines per person in 2004: South Korea - 25; U.S. - 12. Annualized rate of broadband growth, 1Q2005: Turkey - 263%; U.S. - 34%.

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Just some random ramblings from my head. Friday, July 07, 2006. I'm almost embarrassed to mention this, but I hadn't seen this before . but they have photos of Mars weather! In particular, "dust devils" or mini-tornadoes. This photo is from the Tau Beta Pi link (see previous post), the original is at NASA's site:. Http:/ photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/PIADetQuery.html and search for 'dust devils'. Posted by: jbp4444 / 10:38 AM. I didn't know this either! Links to this post:.

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Just some random ramblings from my head. Monday, December 12, 2005. Death . No Problem! Words of wisdom from Ian Pearson:. Realistically, by 2050 we would expect to be able to download your mind into a machine - so when you die, it's not a major career problem.". Posted by: jbp4444 / 4:11 PM. Immortality at last. bwah hah hah. excellent. Links to this post:.

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Just some random ramblings from my head. Friday, January 20, 2006. Retro sci-fi or reality? Just seems kind of weird to have your ultra-high-tech wireless cellphone/pda/music player talking to . a blimp! Posted by: jbp4444 / 5:56 AM. Hee hee - perhaps blimps are not so low tech after all. Maybe some things can not be improved upon - like peanut butter. Links to this post:.

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Just some random ramblings from my head. Wednesday, July 27, 2005. Space Shuttle is Aloft Again . And a piece of foam insulation breaks off again. It's a good time to remember the danger that still surrounds space flight and the courage of the men and women who are flying in our Space Shuttles. Recent memories of the Columbia, and Challenger, don't even tell the whole story. Apollo 1 was destroyed on the launch pad. Several Soviet cosmonauts also were lost on various Soyez missions:. Links to this post.

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Just some random ramblings from my head. Tuesday, July 18, 2006. From Ed Nisley at Dr. Dobbs Journal:. Here's a useful number: with electricity priced at $0.12 per kilowatt-hour, an always-on device dissipating 1 watt costs $1 per year. That wall-wart cell-phone charger that you leave plugged in under your desk costs $5 per year and your fancy LCD panel burns $8 a year when it's turned off.". Touch one. If it's warm or hot to the touch, then electricity must be going through it. Links to this post. I don...

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Just some random ramblings from my head. Monday, August 29, 2005. My sister's blog got hit with some blog-spam (not sure if there's a new name for that or not). The problem, of course, is that since it is free to sign up for a blogger account, anyone can do it including spammers. And if you shut down one spam-username, they'll just start a new one (since it's free). Posted by: jbp4444 / 4:04 PM. Links to this post. Stupid People and the DMV. Seem stupid, but I really just can't. Yes folks, that's what I ...

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Just some random ramblings from my head. Wednesday, September 21, 2005. This is by far the coolest picture I have ever taken in my life! It was a few years ago, I was walking down to the Eno River through some back trails when I heard a "WHAP! On the water, like someone slapping their hand on it. I knew some beavers had built a dam nearby, so I ran down to the water's edge with my camera in hand, expecting to see some cute little furry critter coming downstream towards me. Errrr, not so much. I got a fly...

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Just some random ramblings from my head. Saturday, June 16, 2007. US falls to 20th or 24th in high-speed internet. Wow, I haven't posted in almost a year . it's been a busy year, but not THAT busy : ). Http:/ www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0607/ - says we're 20th. Http:/ business.guardian.co.uk/story/0, 2102304,00.html - says we're 24th. Neither report seems to talk about the cost of access, which, as far as I can tell, the US is not doing so well. Come on, $40 per month for a cable modem? But yes, somet...