In the country...

You know you're in the country when you see signs like this:

(And cropped)

On the way back from our grandparent's farm we saw this, and I just had to get a photo! 

;D

Don't mess with Marines

This is pretty old, but still good:

http://tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2011/05/messing-with-wrong-marines.html

Text reads:

Assailant suffers injuries from fall

Orville Smith, a store manager for Best Buy in Augusta, GA., told police he observed a male customer, later identified as Tyrone Jackson of Augusta, on surveillance cameras putting a laptop computer under his jacket. When confronted the man became irate, knocked down an employee, drew a knife and ran for the door. 

Outside on the sidewalk were four Marines collecting toys for the Toys for Tots program. Smith said the Marines stopped the man, but he stabbed one of the Marines, CPL. Phillip Duggan, in the back; the injury did not appear to be severe. after Police and an ambulance arrived at the scene Cpl. Duggan was transported for treatment.

"The subject was also transported to the local hospital with two broken arms, a broken ankle, a broken leg, several missing teeth, possible broken ribs, multiple contusions, assorted lacerations, a broken nose, and a broken jaw...injuries he sustained when he slipped and fell off the curb after stabbing the Marine." According to a police report.

From TigerHawkBlog.

Don't mess with marines!

Why Atheists are Irrational

This was another video I liked on YouTube.

Global Warming

The whole global warming thing is pretty ridiculous. I think people are starting to realize that, and it's quieted down some, I don't hear about it as much as I did a few years ago.

I think they've also labeled it 'climate change', which is more believable. A few years ago we had two snowstorms back to back that each dropped about two feet of snow, and the next year the temperature hovered around 50 most days. Still, trying to mess with the climate is rather pointless.

Good advertising

I was looking through my likes on YouTube, and noticed that I hadn't posted some of them here, so the next couple of posts will just be some of those.

Here's one that was interesting, this is also good advertising.

Something of how I feel about Windows 8

I hear some good and some bad about Windows 8, but I can't stand the interface, and I like Linux 

Another thing about Linux (at least most versions) is that it keeps its value.

If you want to sell it, it goes for exactly what you paid - $0!

Linux and its many flavors

Have you ever wondered just how many versions of Linux there are?

(apparently not enough!)

This chart from Wikipedia shows it nicely:

!!!

Just so you know- if you want to try Linux, there's no shortage of versions!

Too many options? I'm planning to do a review / comparison of some of the more popular ones soon

Facebook

Man, how do they know that? I'm not even on facebook! ;)

(Otherwise it could be rather more effective marketing!)

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Y'all!

Also, this is kind of fun: http://www.google.com/santatracker/

The end of the world (again!)

I really can't keep from laughing at the end of the world predictions, as they are really often quite ridiculous. (This is what, the third time this year?) For example, if the Mayan calender ends the 21st, at let's say 22:00, what happens when you move to a different time zone?! On that topic, this was rather amusing:

More chemistry...

Here's a normal comment from my chemistry course...

"The equation seems to suggest that the rate constant, 'k', is dimensionless since activation energy over the boltzmann constant times temperature is joules over joules in dimension. However, this problem and the book indicate that it's in inverse seconds. And all of this is confusing me in my calculations. Could someone clarify this for me? - saturnianalien

("All this is confusing me" -You're not alone!)

Someone responds...

"The dimension of k is 1/s. the exponential function is dimensionless (both EA and kB*T have the dimension of energies, but k0 has the dimension 1/s."

Also, zeroth is a word (It's in my textbook)

The elements...

While on the topic of chemistry...



And, more recently, something like I would love to do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cbgAELAX18

The Story of a Shared Gmail Chat...

{3:17 PM John: We have not lost our power yet, but it has been flickering. Glad to hear yours is back. Kristie

3:18 PM me: I hope yours stays on. Do you have a generator?

 John: yup

3:19 PM me: That's good, we don't but our neighbor does. Right now I'm watching my Harvard computer lectures.

3:20 PM John: Good you can get school done when the power's on!

3:21 PM I did my BB work this morning which is good.

  Edit: BB computer work

 me: Actually, I downloaded the lectures to the laptop, so as long as I have battery left I can watch the lectures, which is nice.

3:22 PM I'm glad you were able to work on the Bible bee

  What computer work?

 John: Yeah. Battery on my laptop stinks. It has like a 6 minute life.

  Oh, I am typing all my cross references into quizlet

3:23 PM me: I added a external battery pack to this laptop, so I get a lifetime in the hours, which is great.

  Have you tried Anki? That's what I have to use for latin.

3:26 PM By the way, if you discharge a laptop battery below 40% it damages it.

 John: Translation please...

 me: for...?

3:27 PM John: last thing you typed.

  x-(

3:28 PM me: Most laptops have a battery status indicator. If is says 40% battery remaining (or less) than you are damaging the battery.

  Is that any help?

3:29 PM John: anki looks like it might be good, but since I already have typed 700 some crs into quizlet I think I'll stick to that.

  okay. that's what I thought you meant. So you should plug your computer in if it is at 40%?

 me: O.K. I like it because it's cross-platform, and you can share quiz sets

  yes

3:30 PM John: got to go. by

  cross-platform? shared across computers

 me: O.K., bye

 John: that was Mark

  ~Amy

 me: Who am I typing to ???

 John: Jessie

3:31 PM me: I'm starting to wonder here...

 John: nonono

  Kristie. truly

  Amy is telling you silly things.

  DONT LISTEN TO HER!!!!!!

  just we have 3 computers with gmail up and I'm trying to control Mark ~Amy

 me: O.K....

 John: I should get back to work now.

  Kristie

3:32 PM me: Me too, 73.

 John: FEAZLE DORP

  I enjoyed having this chat session. signed Kristie

  KRISTIE'S THE PROBLEM

  ~Amy

  Every weird thing stated is Mark aka Feazle dorp

  Its Amy

3:33 PM believe me

  Mark, quit!!!

  BY ~Mark

  Finally Marks off!!!

3:34 PM He is so annoying

 me: O.K., this was the most interesting chat I've had in a long time.

 John: that was Mark too.

 me: That's what I thought

 John: I am not off!!!!!

3:35 PM me: By the way, if you have three people typing to me, I have three people (Beth, Ethan and me watching this :D)

 John: next time dont fix Mark's copter. he keeps flying it into my head! x-(

3:36 PM me: So sorry, I taught him how to fix it on Sunday!

3:37 PM John: HEY I never flew it into your head!!!

 me: Wait.. is that how it got broken?

 John: as you can see, Mark easily gets bottled energy that he exudes on his sisters as they peacefully are walking through life.

  I didnt!!1

3:38 PM me: Oh yes, we don't have anything like that around here! ;)

3:39 PM John: That;s because Ethan's hair was sticking up last night!

  I might call Beth soon - Mark

  DONT LISTEN TO MARK

 me: You know he's watching this, right?

3:40 PM John: That is so off topic.

  ugh, Mark is making this all up himself. If you want to get any school done you might want to just close gmail completely except that you might find this too amusing. ~ actual Amy

  THAT IS NOT OFF TOPIC

 me: Who is off topic?!!!

 John: HER

  HIM

  Mark and Ethan of course.

  Kristie

  HER

  HEr

  HER

  Her

3:41 PM NOT ME

  Obviously the all caps things are Mark.

  her

  her

  her

  not me

  that is actual real live Amy

3:42 PM me: This has afforded quite a bit of amusement, but I really have to finish my Harvard computer class (next class: how to hack Google chat! ;), so goodbye.

 John: bye. Kristie

  BYYYYYYYYYYYYY

  Kristie's off

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Anyway, let that serve as an example to you!

By the way, a couple of notes: I changed all the names. I did some minor spelling/format corrections (I left 

most of it as typed), and, I was just kidding about the hacking as you can see from the ;). (Though I am taking CS50)

Also, the responses don't always line up with the questions, because I can only type so fast.

Enjoy!

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Oops, sorry, too much C programming ;P

The current presidency

When you do a Google search for "Obama is a ", here are Google's top suggestions:

Might that say anything about our current president?
Conversely, a search for "Ron Paul is ", has "Ron Paul is winning" as the top suggestion.

Somewhat interesting...

One of the many reasons I don't work in the kitchen

I complimented my sister on her nice smiley faces...

(can't you see them?)

And was soundly berated that it was piping, bunting and drapes!