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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.

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)

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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)

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 [...]

Wood Dragon

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Flaming Balls of Fire

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Plug Whore

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Copy + Paste

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

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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 [...]

links for 2008-08-31

Green Man Downloads
(tags: burningman screensaver)

Welcome to LiMo | LiMo Foundation | Limo, Industry, Mobile, Foundation - LiMo Foundation
(tags: mobile sdk platform)

NVIDIA responds to Intel’s Larrabee GPU | The Apple Core | ZDNet.com
(tags: larrabee nvidia gpu gpgpu)

Android
(tags: sdk mobile web2.0)

Burning Man

Today, I start my journey to Burning Man 2008. By the end of the day, I’ll be having a cold beer at 4000 ft., under a hot sun, wearing goggles to protect my eyes from the wind-swept sand atop the pre-historic lake bed. 40,000 other people will be here with me, forming the short-lived Black [...]

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Beach Ride

Today, I took my three sons on a ride along Wantagh Parkway, which leads to Jones Beach. This path is a local favorite and one of the perks of living so close to the South Shore. My youngest is 4, so I knew this was not going to be as an aggressive ride as last [...]

In Wow, Phelps has been farming gold

Third and last contribution from my friend Kevin. So clever…

Tags: wow, humor

Alien Invasion! See Twitter for the blow by blow

Thanks Kevin!
Tags: humor, aliens, twitter

Zombie outbreak as chronicled by Twitter

Thanks Kevin!
Tags: zombies, humor, twitter

FaceBook In Reality - idiotsofants.com and BBC’sThe Wall
This is very funny, particularly if you’re familiar with Facebook… scary, actually.