I Love Charts posted this graphic representation of the world’s population by latitude and longitude. Very cool.
Hat tip to Ken Norton for the link.
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Calvin and Hobbes was a wonderful cartoon by Bill Watterson. It was a must-read for me until Mr. Watterson stopped writing new strips many years back. Someone by the name of Michael Yingling has created a search engine for Calvin and Hobbes comics that is a lot of fun to play around with.
For example, you can read up on Calvin’s transmogrifier or see Calvin and Hobbes riding in a sled.
Very fun.
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A man in Russia was sentenced to 22 years in jail for assaulting a gypsy psychic who had told the man she saw jail time in his future. Here’s part of the story from the Moscow Times.
A man was jailed by a Kemerovo region court on Thursday for assaulting a Gypsy fortune teller who predicted that he would be jailed, the Investigative Committee said.
Gennady Osipovich tried to kill the unidentified female fortune teller, who told him she saw a “state-owned house” — a Russian euphemism for jail — in his future, the committee said in a statement on its web site.
I believe that psychic readings are a bad thing to have done and that most so-called psychics are nothing more than charlatans, but the irony of what became of this prediction is good for a grin.
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Water. Lots and lots of water. We’ve had rain like crazy this month – July rainfall is currently at 17+ inches, more than three times normal. When it rains hard, a creek develops out back. Thursday night, it was about 150 feet wide and within 20 feet of our house.
Everything in this picture is normally dry. The bird feeder pole more or less in the middle of the picture is about 18 inches deep in the water. The water was about 20 feet from our house.
The good news part one is that our basement remained perfectly dry throughout this, despite the basement floor being several feet below the water level. The good news part two is that the water has been going away fairly quickly – once it stops raining. When it is high like in the picture, there is a pretty strong current flowing along. A day or so after, the level has dropped and the current slows considerably. And two or three days later, the water is gone.
I’m sure global warming is to blame – this couldn’t be just weather variation. Never mind that it rained like this in June two years ago.
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I just added the WordPress app to my BlackBerry and am testing it out. It seems to represent the features of the blog well.
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It has been a long time since I’ve updated the list of creation science books that Answers in Genesis has posted for reading on their website. Here is what I believe to be the complete list of their books available for reading online:
There were three books that I had previously linked to, but appear to no longer be on the Answers in Genesis website, including in their online store. This should serve as a prompt to go to the site and read while you can, as things change. Here are the titles, just for reference, in case anyone knows where to find them now.
Thank you again, Answers in Genesis, for making these great resources available online.
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Via DealNews, Staples has a great deal on the APC Back-UPS ES 550VA uninterruptible power supply – just $39.99 after a $10 coupon is applied at checkout. It is a 330 watt battery backup and includes software to automatically and safely shut down the computer in the event that power is lost.
Given that we’re in the middle of thunderstorm season – at least here in Wisconsin – this is a good thing to have to protect your computer. My old APC unit finally died. The batteries go after some time, but this price for a new unit is the same as for the replacement battery for the old unit – and it offers a bit more power than my old one did.
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Just testing.
I've set up an account at Posterous, have linked it to my main weblog, and am testing the link with this post. There's a picture included with this post, though I'm not sure how it will be shown with the post.Filed under: General | No Comments »
I had thought of starting this post by stating that I cannot believe it has been two and a half months since I’ve posted here, but that’s just not true. I CAN believe it. I’ve just not made time to post here and I apologize for that.
This post really doesn’t break that cycle. I’m just posting to note that I’ve upgraded the weblog software, WordPress, to a major new version. I wouldn’t be surprised if I’ve broken some things with that update – or with the tweaking I expect to be doing over the next several days. If you find anything like that, just let me know.
Thanks, Gary
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