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Stories of my past: My first earthquake

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - JANUARY 23: A Haitian...
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Today I had my first earthquake experience. I was on the first floor of a house and the entire house was shaking. It felt like a giant was pushing down on the roof. It was really surreal. I looked at my friend and he looked at me with an incredulous look on our faces.

Then it was over. The news gave us the details. Perhaps it didn’t seem such a big deal to me because I had experienced a ride in Disneyland where the floor simulated an earthquake. That also was fairly gentle but it showed the kind of destruction that could happen with things “breaking” all around us. It was kind of fun then too. When it was over I was like “This is it?” I don’t wish for destruction, but variety is the spice of life is it not?

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World record: 109 terabits per second over single optical fibre – Computer C… – StumbleUpon

World record: 109 terabits per second over single optical fibre – Computer C… – StumbleUpon. Kind of cool isn’t it? Brings things like a reality-based virtual world in the realm of possible.

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Fix, Refurbish, Recycle old Macs (via recyclemac)

Amazing that this guy fixes an Apple II. At some point the ability to play games or connect to the Internet would factor into my decision. I suppose that not everyone wants that. Hard to imagine personally. I started on an Apple II and it was wonderful for its time but I didn’t miss it when something better came along. Thanks Apple GS!

Fix, Refurbish, Recycle The first “personal” computer I ever used was at CNN’s original Washington, DC Bureau in what we called “Upper Georgetown.” At that tim … Read More

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Book Review: Women Who Make the World Worse: and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports 9781595230096: Kate OBeirne: Books

Amazon.com: Women Who Make the World Worse: and How Their Radical Feminist Assault Is Ruining Our Schools, Families, Military, and Sports 9781595230096: Kate OBeirne: Books.  This book was trash.  How can someone publish these half-truths?  I read this to consider both sides of the argument.  I have read another book like this that listed “bad people” and found them to be both badly argued.  I will avoid these books in the future.

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The Massive Infrastructure Behind Surfing The Net From Your Cozy Homes in Awesome Washington, DC (via Awesome DC)

Nice photos and details if you ever wondered about the underseas cabling used for communications.

The Massive Infrastructure Behind Surfing The Net From Your Cozy Homes in Awesome Washington, DC Next time you are sitting at one of those cute café in Georgetown or your cozy apartments in Dupont Circle surfing the Net or making a VoIP call to your family back home or getting the News about other countries, here are some photos to remind you of the hell the technologists and engineers like myself had to go through to make that happen. The photos are the undersea part of the game. The Internet connection over the radio waves is cleaner, but … Read More

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