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{ Monthly Archives } September 2008

South Park Mac vs. PC
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2008 09 22 Nick Post Comments (0)

Jazz at Burning Man

One night, we found ourselves at this Jazz club constructed from a geodesic dome covered with a tarp. One of my campmates got up and hit the drums. It was classic.

2008 09 15 Nick Post Comments (0)

links for 2008-09-15

Temperature at which Coffee is Brewed
A great guide to brewing coffee. I now realize that one of my final life lessons in brewing the perfect cup of coffee is temperature control. More experimentation to follow.
(tags: coffee)

2008 09 15 Nick del.icio.us Comments (0)

Burning Man 2008

Lots of people have asked me what my experience was like at Burning Man in 2008. I find that it’s hard to explain. Really. Really, it’s HARD to explain!
I volunteered at Burning Man and learned a lot as a result. I met lots of interesting people. Then, in one of the “Burner” mailing lists, [...]

2008 09 10 Nick Post Comments (0)

Spore: Winky the Ass Pirate
Lots of folks at work have bought Spore and are having a great time with it. I’m a bit afraid to get it. I think my kids will love it and want to play all of the time, or enough that they will want a copy for their computer. I’m not [...]

2008 09 10 Nick Post Comments (0)

Dyson Shell

The Dyson sphere (or Dyson shell) was originally proposed in 1959
by the astronomer Freeman Dyson in “Search for Artificial Stellar
Sources of Infrared Radiation” in Science as a way for an
advanced civilisation to utilise all of the energy radiated by their
sun. (Link)
Dyson spheres have always fascinated me. I read Larry Niven’s Ringworld where the Dyson [...]

2008 09 08 Nick Post Comments (0)

links for 2008-09-07

Games » Bloxorz
(tags: games flash puzzle)

MathPages: Physics
(tags: physics science)

Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial - A Beginner's handbook
(tags: linux programming)

2008 09 07 Nick del.icio.us Comments (0)

Volcanic Lightning

Google “Chaiten lightning” and be amazed at some crazy photographs of lightning interacting with a pyroclastic cloud. I had a few of these photos mailed to me with this EXIF data:
The Chaiten volcano erupts during storms in the middle of the night on May 3, 2008 in Chaiten, Chile. The Chaiten volcano, located some [...]

2008 09 06 Nick Post Comments (0)

Wood Dragon

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2008 09 05 Nick Post Comments (0)

Flaming Balls of Fire

Ouch… 3 | NotNSFW - the most suitable blog for work

2008 09 05 Nick Post Comments (0)

Plug Whore

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2008 09 05 Nick Post Comments (0)

Copy + Paste

Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V | haha.nu - a lifestyle blogzine

Ha, ha.

2008 09 05 Nick Post Comments (0)

Turtles Hatching

Great news from my brother Tom, who lives on the water in Bellmore… his turtles hatched!
“We had a BBQ yesterday and JD reminded us the turtles should hatch soon. So I slowing started uncovering some sand. I went down about 6-8 inches and found nothing. Stated going down a little more when I felt something [...]

2008 09 03 Nick Post Comments (0)