They've been my ISP for 6 or 7 years now and I have found very little to complain about. Also, they've doubled the speed of the basic service twice without raising the rates, from 25 to 50 to 100 Mbps. Gigabit service is available, but I don't really have a need for it.
Throwing an exposed piece of apparently blank photo paper into a clear liquid bath and having a picture appear some 20 or so seconds later is about as close to true magic as you're likely to get. Its quite a thrill the first time you see it.
Yes! The trip to Kitt Peak is worth it just for the fantastic view of the surrounding countryside. And if you're in the neighborhood, you could also visit the nearby Whipple Observatory, about an hour south of Tucson. You'll need an appointment to take the tour at Whipple. Whipple Observatory Visitor's Center While in Tucson, you can spend a lot of time at the Pima Air and Space Museum if you're in to that kind of thing.
This is a very small flower I snapped in Dana Meadows which is just before you leave Yosemite National Park through the Tioga Pass gate. (I didn't know the small beetle on the left was there til I saw the picture.)
Here is a pic taken from Pier 39 in San Francisco that shows the bridge and the area the other two pics were taken from. This was taken in mid September when the days tend to be warm and the nights cool here in the Bay Area.
"A Fire Upon the Deep" is one of my favorite books but there's a reason it shared the Hugo Award with Connie Willis' "Doomsday Book". You might want to check out her writings too.
Well, you get a lot more out of it if you're familiar with Hamlet. Thats been a problem for some people I've recommended R&G to. I was so stoked the first time I saw the film to hear Pink Floyd during the opening credits.
I found this John Gribbon book very informative: Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality. Its a few years old (1995) so if someone has a pointer to something newer, speak up!
Well, it sure beats FTPing gigantic HOSTS files from SRI twice a week and hoping your updates got in there.
BTW, I have a feeling most DNS "bureaucrats" are overworked, underpaid sysadmins what have much better things to do than implement the latest poorly thought out naming scheme handed down by the PHBs.
They're a pain to manage manually, but if you've got a script/cgi interface to DNS they can make managing a large network much less painful.
Short stories probably make better movies
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To do a decent treatment of most books, the film would have to be many hours long. Some (but not all, of course) of the better transitions from print to film tend to come from short stories. A Boy and His Dog comes to mind as a good example, IMO.
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They've been my ISP for 6 or 7 years now and I have found very little to complain about. Also, they've doubled the speed of the basic service twice without raising the rates, from 25 to 50 to 100 Mbps. Gigabit service is available, but I don't really have a need for it.
Throwing an exposed piece of apparently blank photo paper into a clear liquid bath and having a picture appear some 20 or so seconds later is about as close to true magic as you're likely to get. Its quite a thrill the first time you see it.
They're trying this out with some electric buses in Chattanooga, Tennessee: CARTA's electric buses to charge on the go
Yes! The trip to Kitt Peak is worth it just for the fantastic view of the surrounding countryside. And if you're in the neighborhood, you could also visit the nearby Whipple Observatory, about an hour south of Tucson. You'll need an appointment to take the tour at Whipple. Whipple Observatory Visitor's Center While in Tucson, you can spend a lot of time at the Pima Air and Space Museum if you're in to that kind of thing.
Would have been REALLY nice on Apollo.
None of those nagging "1202" alarms.
This is one of the tiny snails that appear on my sidewalk after it rains. I was using the silver dollar as a platform.
http://members.iglou.com/mbl/snail0.jpg
This is a very small flower I snapped in Dana Meadows which is just before you leave Yosemite National Park through the Tioga Pass gate. (I didn't know the small beetle on the left was there til I saw the picture.)
http://members.iglou.com/mbl/tinyblue.jpg
Pretty amazing detail.
Heres an interesting article
about Stevens over at Salon.
Definitely gets my vote.
Maybe you had to be there to understand this one.
There's no doubt in my mind that I've lost far more data to the non-judicious use of wildcards than to any other culprit.
\rm * Wait a minute, WHAT directory am I in?
I'm sure many of you have shared the experience.
Here is a pic taken from Pier 39 in San Francisco that shows the bridge and the area the other two pics were taken from. This was taken in mid September when the days tend to be warm and the nights cool here in the Bay Area.
Thats the Pt. Bonita Lighthouse. Pt. Reyes is farther north.
This is the view toward the city. Alcatraz is on the left side of the picture in the middle of the bay. They have an interesting tour there.
This is the view towards the ocean. The Pt. Reyes Lighthouse is at the end of the point of land. Some nice views down there, too.
Of course sometimes all you can see from up there is the top of the fog bank.
"A Fire Upon the Deep" is one of my favorite books but there's a reason it shared the Hugo Award with Connie Willis' "Doomsday Book". You might want to check out her writings too.
This is a relatively new one from NZ. Kinda weird, kinda funny. The agoraphobic sheep dog was a hoot, runs around the pasture under a cardboard box.
Yes, great film. Fabulous cast. And when was the last time you saw James Gandolfini get beat up by a girl?
I concur, great flick. Plus, how can you go wrong on a film with a Raving Bitch in it? (check out the extended cast list on imdb)
Well, you get a lot more out of it if you're familiar with Hamlet. Thats been a problem for some people I've recommended R&G to. I was so stoked the first time I saw the film to hear Pink Floyd during the opening credits.
The bicycle was MS-DOS,
The luxury car was the Mac,
BeOS was the batmobile,
and Linux was the Tank.
I think that was how Neal Stephenson wrote it in "In The Beginning Was The Command Line" anyway.
I found this John Gribbon book very informative: Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality. Its a few years old (1995) so if someone has a pointer to something newer, speak up!
Well, it sure beats FTPing gigantic HOSTS files from SRI twice a week and hoping your updates got in there.
BTW, I have a feeling most DNS "bureaucrats" are overworked, underpaid sysadmins what have much better things to do than implement the latest poorly thought out naming scheme handed down by the PHBs.
They're a pain to manage manually, but if you've got a script/cgi interface to DNS they can make managing a large network much less painful.
To do a decent treatment of most books, the film would have to be many hours long. Some (but not all, of course) of the better transitions from print to film tend to come from short stories. A Boy and His Dog comes to mind as a good example, IMO.
Oops, you're right of course. I'd blame it on ADD but I can't remember what I was talking about.
I can tell you the meaning of life,
Probably my favorite book titles of all time. One of the Heechee books.
I can tell you the meaning of life,
Some decent barbecue (for those that don't have any locally).
I can tell you the meaning of life,