Look What I Found
I just watched Nasa TV using realplayer and at 10:39a like clock work, the shuttle took off. That is engineering at it’s best.
Besides the take off, watching the shuttle peal off from the large external tank was amazing. There was a camera attached to the external tank to facilitate seeing the under side of the shuttle as the orange tank fell away.
Congratulations Nasa and Shuttle Crew! Welcome back to space.
Steven Vaught is walking to work down his weight. I am not talking about just a walk around the block or anything. He is walking across the USA from Southern California to Maine!
He says that he is doing it to get his weight down so he can be happy with himself once again, and get into better shape for his family.
Very commendable! I wish him all the luck…and I may take a page from this and do a little walking myself.
It uses HFX textures by Evil Lair, and the Quake 1 Darkplaces engine, and currently has 17 maps to frag in. You also can connect to our master server to play people from all over the world. The game’s content and source are GPL. Meaning, it is entirely free and any of it can be used in other free projects, even if modified.
Just when you think that Google can’t out do themselves…They go and pull something like this!
It is actually to commemorate the First landing.
Update: Zoom in all the way.
I have heard a lot of Podcasters talking about their surge in listenership since iTunes 4.9 was released. I am sure that is taking place some, but I wonder how much of the surge is not new subscriptions to podcasts as much as it is people “Previewing” their show from within iTunes. I believe that would count as a download…
Just thinking out loud.
Happy Birthday to Kevin Devin. He runs the In the Trenches Podcast, the podcast for sysadmins.
Happy Birthday Kev!
It seems that the Southern American English has been explained. Now you can understand me.
My southern accent comes and goes depending on who I am talking to. However, no matter what I can’t loose “Yall” and “Fixin to”. I can turn it up a notch if I am speaking to someone that is also genuinly southern.
I love to hear people that speak southern, but I can’t stand it when someone fakes a southern “Drawl” and tries to pass it off. I am sure the british probably feel the same when an American tries to fake a british accent too.
Visit the article to read the whole thing.
See yall. 😉
Do You Speak American . Sea to Shining Sea . American Varieties . Southern . Sounds | PBS
Some of the grammatical differences between SAE and other varieties are well known. For example, most Americans immediately recognize you-all and yall as distinctively Southern second person pronouns, and many would know that fixin to, as in “I’m fixin to eat breakfast,” is Southern as well. The latter represents a modification of the English auxiliary system that enables Southerners to encode an aspectual distinction grammatically that must be encoded lexically elsewhere: “I’m fixin to eat breakfast†means that I intend to eat breakfast in the next little while.
Deep Impact is a NASA project to impact a comet with a projectile, and have it expel gas and material into space so it can be analyzed by the fly by part of the Deep Impact.
This morning I was checking out NASA’s site to see how Deep Impact faired…and it looks like it did exactly what it was expected to, and this video shows it. Amazing.
I had to put something for my 100th post on my blog.
Is this for real? I think that this is hilarious if it is.
Weare, New Hampshire (PRWEB) Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeking to use this very law to build a hotel on Souter’s land.