High Frames Per Second Compilation
Amazing!
The video gets better and better. Some of the bullet shots at the end are phenomenal.
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Amazing!
The video gets better and better. Some of the bullet shots at the end are phenomenal.
The Astronomy Picture of the day, for today is pretty fascinating. First, nothing relating to Astronomy, it’s the first time that a flash movie has been embedded as the daily image. While I probably missed any previous flash movies, this is the first time I noticed that, cool!
Second, check out the oozing Sun!
Explanation: The Sun’s surface keeps changing. Click the central arrow and watch how the Sun’s surface oozes during a single hour. The Sun’s photosphere has thousands of bumps called granules and usually a few dark depressions called sunspots. The above time-lapse movie centered on Sunspot 875 was taken last year by the Vacuum Tower Telescope in the Canary Islands of Spain using adaptive optics to resolve details below 500 kilometers across. Each of the numerous granules is the size of an Earth continent, but much shorter lived. A granule slowly changes its shape over an hour, and can even completely disappear. Hot hydrogen gas rises in the bright center of a granule, and falls back into the Sun along a dark granule edge. The above movie and similar movies allow solar scientists to study how granules and sunspots evolve as well as how magnetic sunspot regions produce powerful solar flares.
Check it.
Blogging has been slow lately and part of my excuse has been that I’ve been so busy using technology that I forgot how much I liked to talk about technology.
Also, as my OS installs got refreshed and I continue my migration to the Mac (a rather extended process), I found that my blogging tools, or lack thereof, were inhibiting me from spreading the love.
There have been some advances to be sure. I replaced my old crappy phone with a Samsung Blackjack. My carrier changed, from Verizon to Singular, but I gained a key bonus. Aside from the increased reliability of the newer device, I now have a reliable Internet connection on the train.
That’s where I am now. Typing on my MacBook, using TextMate for blogging. My connection speed isn’t that good when the train is in motion using the Edge network, perhaps 7-40kbps, but I get the occasional 120kbs which is really nice. If I’m stationary and I get “3G” speeds, I can crank at a pretty comfortable 300kbps. Not bad for a little phone.
Oh, and this happens wirelessly using Bluetooth.
Work has been great lately, too. Very busy, but at the same time it’s been very rewarding. I’ve somehow found a means to spend more time working, getting more done, but still more time with the family.
My weekend gaming has been slow lately, but we played D&D for the first time in 3 weeks on Sunday. It was a bit of a rough session for me, being the DM, but it got me back into the groove. In my post on “A hybrid of tabletop role-playing and Internet play,” I write about how I got a remote player immersed in a standard tabletop D&D game:
http://d21-gaming.com/blog/2007/04/23/a-hybrid-of-tabletop-role-playing-and-internet-play/
I have lots more to talk about as my basement project has finished and I begin wiring and configuring my home network. I’ve done a lot with virtualization at home, facilitating TeamSpeak and GameTable servers available on the fly from multiple machines.
I think the train is a good time to blog.