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Dad, can I have a BB gun?

25-Oct-07

I want one of these:

“Think of it as a 45-foot-long bb gun. Only in this case, the BBs are fired at 20,500 mph at spaceships. Sort of. All the gunplay takes place inside a physics lab at the University of Dayton Research Institute. The goal: to test the mettle of the composite fabric or aluminum [...]

Mass-produced elements emerging?

24-Oct-07

Wow. This is incredibly exciting news -

“Scientists Use Superconducting Cyclotron to Make Super-Heavy Metals”

This opens up the possibility of countless new isotopes that could be used in till-now unthinkable ways. Though it may sound as though I’m counting chickens that haven’t been conceived, let alone hatched, consider what this implies:
With the proper of [...]

Rockies World Series Ticket Sales - Update

24-Oct-07

Though ticket sales resumed Tuesday, it certainly appears that problems remained. Local media was not kind.
A Rockies spokesman on Monday had claimed that the site had been “…the victim of a deliberate attack”. When asked to provide details on this statement Tuesday, that same spokesman declined comment. It was noted that [thus [...]

World Series Ticket Sales halted after "…server blew up”

22-Oct-07

I’m driving this afternoon near the Tech Center in Denver when I hear on the radio that “…online World Series ticket sales have been halted this afternoon after the server blew up. There were approx. 8 million hits to the site & the server couldn’t handle it.”
Nice. Fucking idiots. MLB can [...]

Jerry Yang’s hair

21-Oct-07

I was having breakfast at Buck’s Friday with a buddy from Trinity, and near 8am I looked over to see Jerry Yang at the cash register.   If if wasn’t Jerry, it was his twin brother.
At the risk of sounding really snarky, it looked like he hadn’t (yet) combed his hair.  Funny.   For the record, the [...]