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acute.org has some nice photos of the greenpoint gas tank implosions. Brooklynkid has some pictures of the tanks before hand, including one showing where the explosives were attached. Rumor has it that Steve has some film of this same event.
Here's two great resources I've found lately (well, they're great if you maintain macs and/or epson printers.) First is the amazing epson inkjet printer resource. If that's not more info than you could ever want then you are a serious geek and should probably take a vacation. And the macgurus tech support page is a great place to find answers to mac hardware issues. Their ftp software archive is breathtaking.
A brief history of @.
My sister Elisabeth and her husband Tom and my amazing niece Mary arrive today. Looking forward to a nice meal tonight.
Brunch here at noon on Sunday if anyone wants to come by.
Feelin' lucky today.
The BBC has a story about a new, and much more accurate atomic clock design.
Clocks have come a long way in the past one thousand years. In 1088, the Chinese developed a water clock accurate to about 100 seconds a day.So how accurate is it? Supposedly it is accurate to within one second over the lifetime of the universe. Cool short explanation if you click through.
In the 17th Century, pendulum clocks were accurate to about 10 seconds a day. By the 1930s, the most accurate clocks kept time to within a second over a three-day interval.
But it was with the introduction of atomic clocks, based on precisely measured microwaves emitted by specific atoms, that the precision of timekeeping became astronomical.
Atomic clock technology enabled scientists in 1967 to define the second as the period equal to 9,192,631,770 cycles of the radiation that corresponds to the transition between two energy levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom.
By 1995, the best atomic clocks were accurate to a second every 15 million years - and now they have become even better with the new NISTL timepiece.
Complete frustration. I just spent several hours weeding through my incredibly poor code to find a simple bug in the subscription function. I got it finally, but what a freakin' mess. I haven't looked under the hood in so long I'd forgotten. Hope I don't have to go back in there again. I almost threw my computer out the window. Going to go walk around for a bit.
New 49 Clinton pictures start here.
Well, I finally had the dream. I've been dreaming a lot lately (or remembering them in the morning at least) and it's seemed like it was coming, but somehow always just out of reach. Some people call it lucid dreaming. Anyway, I had a few almost experiences lately where I would be in the dream and something would happen which would make me think "hey, this is just like in a dream" at which point I would try to figure out if I was awake or not. What had been happening to me at this point is that I would either decide a) I really am awake (wrong answer Jim) or b) I'd just sort of forget what I was thinking and wander back into the dream.
Anyway, the other night it finally happened. I was talking to someone about some numbers and every time we would decide on something the numbers would change. Finally I thought "this is weird, the numbers won't stay put - it's just like a dream." And I think because I'd been talking a lot with MB about this event, and about how it might come about, I immediately realized, "I am in a dream right now." Nice. Except then I wasn't able to stay in there. I've read all these accounts of people getting to this point and then being able to take control of their dream narrative. Like you can just start flying around, or whatever strikes your fancy. All while being aware that you are in fact dreaming. I've always been a little suspicious of these accounts, but I'm sure it's possible for someone. Just not me. At this point anyway.
In my dream, after I realized I was in a dream, my surroundings just started to fade out. Everything became grey, blurry, and low resolution. I remembered reading something about trying to spin your dream body around in order to stay in the dream (like the sufi kind of spinning) and I even tried this, but it didn't work. In another moment I was awake. Still, I'm happy to report I got that far.
Do you ever wake up inside a dream and get to stay there? How do you do it?
I can't believe Kermit the frog is shilling for AIG. It's just not right.