I had so many choices...

But I went with this, too weird/cool not to:

Make Monday Awesome

via GeekDad: This is great for a lot of reasons, Mario, Audio mixing, and a nice message at the end reminding us that we can still help out.

Happy Friday

The Aurora from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.

Wednesday is for Science!

I loved my science classes, I wasn't very good, getting a C in chemistry and struggling with the math in physics, but it was always fascinating, always inspiring and always fun when I figured something out. These kinda of simple demonstrations, where the concept is learned because of some work put into demonstrate it; my kind of science.

Special Report Tuesday: Happy Birthday Captain Kirk, uh..er, William Shatner

William Shatner is 80, and whether you love him or hate him, he did help create one of the most iconic sci-fi characters of all time, who may be actually be the focus of my lauding. Firefox (remember Firefox?) released a new version(thoughts later) and I want to go to here:

Monday: Breakfast for your brain

Happy Friday!

So, how many streets in the world do you think bear your name? Well now you can find out! Or any other name for that matter. Stephen Von Worley on his blog Data Pointed wrote a slick little program that displays all the streets in the world that share your namesake. It can also export a .klm file for Google Earth. I also wonder how accurate it is for popularity of a name, John St. vs. Bartholomew Blvd. for example. Pretty cool.

Please watch full screen...

Sometimes the Stars from The Audreys on Vimeo.

Special report Tuesday! Happy Birthday Dot Com!

Yep, 26 years ago today the first .com was registered. So here's to you symbolics.com, whatever the heck you are! If it weren't for you BBN.com(again??) could have been first in a line of many. And the rest as they say...

Monday is for...Pi!

This doesn't talk about Pi directly, but... 

Happy Friday!

There is a lot going on in the world today, so let me help add to/cut the tension with the following. The agony of an ink jet printer has never been so well captured, ever.

Special Report Thursday: The End and Beginning of "Boldly Going"

"Space shuttle Discovery made its final landing today at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Completing its 39th and final flight, the Discovery now retires as Nasa’s oldest and most flown space shuttle. It was a bittersweet touchdown as everyone witnessed this history in the making. Discovery still holds the record(among all operating shuttels) with 39 missions, 148 million miles, 5,830 orbits of Earth and 365 days spent in space. It will take several months of work to dismantle engine parts and drain fuel before the Discovery will be ready for its final resting place at the Smithsonian Institution.

The Discovery is still in top shape and its retirement is due to the closing down of NASA’s shuttle program in order to financially support new programs to send astronauts beyond Earth’s orbit. NASA is under presidential direction to make this decision and to shut down the shuttle program by this summer."

[via USA Today] (I added the Bold text)

I was ranting the other day about how I'm kinda sad that we may not see inter-stellar travel in my life time. But this.. makes me kinda tear up a little, to think that we are retiring an era in the hopes of a new one. It is thought provoking and fascinating. I followed the Mars Rover mission from day one, and was riveted by every facet of the mission conception to execution. Still, I want to go into space.. really. I, I just cannot imagine a more humbling, awe inspiring, self-evaluation provoking adventure than to see Earth from the heavens, with the stars as an infinite landscape, and the Sun burning ever bright in the background. There is so much out there we do not understand, so much we can observe and expand our knowledge of how our own world works. I'm aware that this may sound somewhat escapist, ignoring all the challenges we face in the hear and now; I say, don't stop innovating or pushing this important work. It is because of the space program that we have so many of technologies that we do, the medical advances and the sparks of imagination that our kids and youth need to overcome and surpass their current situations. So, I'm excited, thrilled and enthralled at what may be next, what is around the proverbial planetary bend. 

It keeps you running..

So.. I never posted this to anywhere although most of the tools I was using would let me share my progress to FaceBook or Twitter. I guess I didn't want to jinx it, but I just completed the 9th week of the Couch-2-5K running program(this is the 10th week, and have kept on schedule so far). Yeah, I know! It has been pretty awesome. And I have to admit I needed some conditioning and reward systems.  There are various apps out there for the iPhone, but  have stuck with two: micoach.com from Adidas, and a timer app from FeltTip. The first is GPS enabled, marking tracks and gauging pace and calories burned. The mapping feature played into my geekiness and getting stats and data helped motivate me. There were times the GPS lost signal, but I think that was more the iPhone 3G's fault. I did have to hit the treadmill a couple of times due to weather and stuff, so it kinda killed the accumulated miles, but getting an "achievement" like this:

Yeah, pretty motivating. So the next step, keep up the schedule, and look for a "local" 5k to actually run in. Know any?

Couple of routes I ran:

 

this will get you Up! on a Monday ; )

Happy Friday!

From Latitude 47: A killer rabbit, the Holy Grenade of Antioch and Monty Python’s search for the Holy Grail all intersected at one precise location in 1975. This Scotland location is  Tomnadashan Mine, but for fans of the British comedy troop Monty Python, and the movie “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” the location is best known as the lair of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

The geocache “Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Scene 21″ (GCP439) has brought more than 100 adventurers to the location since it was hidden in 2005.  Some geocachers even add their own makeshift props adapted from the movie, including their own “killer rabbit.”

The killer rabbit about to attack

The logs thank Snaik and a Deceased Parrot for placing the cache and keeping a small part of movie history from vanishing into the Scottish countryside. One entry reads, “I would never have known this were here if it weren’t for geocaching! I packed a holy hand grenade just in case, but the rabbit must be hibernating early. Thanks for bringing me here!”

The cache page for the difficulty 1.5, terrain 4 cache also details the non-cinematic history of the site as an abandoned mining operation. But it’s the reference to the Monty Python movie that has geocachers traveling deep into rural Scotland with their GPS device, a pen to the sign the log and a “killer” stuffed rabbit to pose in pictures.

Continue your exploration of some of the most engaging geocaches from around the world. Explore all the Geocaches of the Week on our blog or view the Bookmark List on Geocaching.com.

How many do you know?

I got about half. And I miss Night Court. Click here for the answers.