This a laser hit from a moving aircraft at altitude. AMAZING!
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Random thoughts and observations from a guy with a lot on his mind…
This a laser hit from a moving aircraft at altitude. AMAZING!
Full story here.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica’s ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whisky that has been on the rocks since a century ago.
The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whisky that were shipped to the Antarctic by British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton as part of his abandoned 1909 expedition. [MORE]
A 19-year-old New York City man arrested on robbery charges has been exonerated thanks to his Facebook page. Rodney Bradford was held for 12 days on suspicion of robbing two people on Oct. 17 in the Brooklyn public housing complex where he lives. [MORE]
Things sure were a lot less dramatic 20+ years ago!
IndyScan.com used to be a site that cataloged radio scanner frequencies for the state of Indiana. While I still like to listen to local Police & Fire radio traffic, I’m not as into it as I once was.
Steve over at Kremer.com sent me a link to an iPhone app that he thought I would like. You can now take your scanner with you & listen to radio traffic from all over the world!
If you are interested in a free alternative the folks at RadioReference.com have a very extensive list of on-line scanners all over the U.S.
These tools are great to have around when things are happening in your neighborhood or in the case of severe weather!
I realized the other day that I really was not using Twitter as mush as i used to… I realized that following 250+ people just created to much noise & no matter how hard I tried I just could not keep up with the noise.
So, in a last ditch effort to keep my Twitter activity alive I decided it was time to thin the herd. Reviewing all of the people I was following made me realize i just was not interested in a lot of these people. I started un-following with abandon & managed to trim things down to a more reasonable 100.
I’m going to make it a point to keep the number I’m following on Twitter to 100. if I want to add someone, someone has to go…
Anyone else find twitter to be unusable over a certain number of “friends”?
Being hooked by the ability to stream videos from NetFlix on my laptop, I purchased a refurbished X-Box 360 to do the same in the basement (as well as play games). After using the streaming ability on the X-Box for several of my daughters slumber parties (do they still call it that?) and a few movies for the family I decided it was time to bring the streaming functionality to the family room.
Enter the Roku. This $99 device does one thing & does it VERY well! It streams select content from NetFlix, Amazon & Major League Baseball. With rumors circulating all over the internet of additional functionality coming soon $99 was a small price to pay for a new toy!
Setup is as simple as plugging the device in, hooking it to the TV using one of several wiring methods (I chose HDMI), and setting up your network connection. The Roku supports wired and wireless connections. I’m currently using it with my wireless network with great results but I plan on hard wiring it to the network soon.
Overall I have to say the device was well worth the $99 (one time) cost of admission. I’m hoping NetFlix will release their entire catalog for streaming soon as well as the rumored new features (YouTube, Revision3, etc.). If you are a current NetFlix subscriber and want to take advantage of their “free” streaming media offerings, check out the Roku, I think you will really enjoy it!
The 1918 flu epidemic was probably the deadliest plague in human history, killing more than 50 million people worldwide. Now it appears that a small number of the deaths may have been caused not by the virus, but by a drug used to treat it: aspirin. [MORE]
In this day and age of technology are you kidding me? How in the world are we losing these people?
From the New York Times:
DALLAS — Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors have left the country. [MORE]