Square Root Day
In anticipation for Pi Day (March 14), happy Square Root Day (March 3, 2009)! March of 2009 is an especially good month for math lovers as a Square Root Day comes only five days before Pi Day this year.
Georgia Basset Rescue
The Basset Hound Rescue of Georgia, Inc. is a fantastic organization. We adopted one of our two Basset Hounds from this organization and she has been the the best dog. Bassets are great companions - I highly recommend them. If you live in or near Georgia, check out the Basset Rescue.
We’ve been waiting for Eight Years
Well it is finally over. Well, almost. McCain lost. Obama won.
Eight years ago, when Bush “won” the presidency, I was in Nashville, blocks away from where Al Gore was to appear as the winner. I was naive to think the win was in the bag. I was wrong. For eight years we’ve all been patient, waiting for the end while our country was torn apart. Wars. The economy. Foreign relations. Health care.
Obama will have quite a bit to clean up and it is going to be difficult. I know he can do it; he is exactly what we need. Finally.
Copied below is something I found, “I Didn’t Vote For Obama Today” by someone called eastside93 from Turtle Creek, PA - I’m copying it here in its entirety: (more…)
Concrete Countertops Finished!
Well I actually finished them a while ago but I’m just now getting around to posting my pics. Yes, the concrete countertops are finished. I’d say the whole process took 2 months or so. It was a lot harder than I expected - getting that much concrete poured, shoveled, and vibrated in the form is hard work - not to mention lifting the behemoth and installing it!
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A Dump in San Fransisco Costs the Same as a Castle
According to this article you can buy a dump in San Fransisco, LA, New York, Boston, etc. for the same price as a freaking castle in Europe, South Africa, Mexico, Sweden, etc. Really.
Open GPS Tracker
This is really cool. It is a very simple GPS tracker system you can build with minimal, inexpensive electronics parts (based around an Atmel Microcontroller and a basic GPS chip) and a $20 prepaid cell phone. You simply solder the simple circuit, program the microcontroller with the open-source firmware, and plug in the phone. The device tracks the GPS location and send you an SMS text message or an email periodically with updates. You can also request the current position by emailing or text messaging the unit. There are lots of other features as well. It is all open-source, inexpensive, and darn useful! BTW, I found this via Make Magazine’s blog (here).
What is Really Means to ‘Support Our Troops’
From Digg: Go ahead, slap THIS sticker on your gas-guzzling SUV. Click to enlarge.
Free Money Straight Off the Printing Press
Ahh the lovely government Economic Stimulus project. This has to rank up there as one of the stupidest ideas in U.S. History. Of course, that is not going to prevent me from accepting my check. Really, though, does anyone think this will actually work? It certainly will not do anything except make everyone happy for a few minutes. Then we’ll all go back to being miserable again.
I liken the Stimulus plan to simply printing out new dollar bills on a printing press and distributing them blind. It isn’t really new money. No one earned this money. You are just magically creating this money and giving it to us for no reason whatsoever. The only difference here is that the national deficit will just increase that much more.
Oh well. I’ll take it anyway. Who won’t?