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East Nashville Tomato Fest August 9th, 2008
Aug 5th
Don’t miss the East Nashville Tomato Art Fest!
in Nashville, Tennessee. Saturday, August 9th.
While there, visit the Art and Invention Gallery
Facebook Surges Past MySpace
Jun 24th
Facebook has left MySpace in the dust. According to ComScore Inc., a company that measures the digital world, for the first time Facebook has more visitors than MySpace. In May, 2008 Facebook had 123.9 million visitors worldwide while MySpace lagged with 114.6 visitors.
MySpace is still ahead in the United States, but Facebook is ahead and surging in numbers of worldwide visitors.
Check out this on Web Traffic Measurement: Media Trend Reporting
IBM Super Computer Rules!
Jun 19th
IBM’s supercomputer – Roadrunner – is the fastest supercomputer in the world today. It has over 18,000 processors and sustained (not peaked at) 1.02 petaflops or 1.02 quadrillian calculations per second. A quadrillion is 10 to the power of 15 or one thousand times one trillion! (Reminder: a trillion is a one followed by 12 zeros.)
Roadrunner will be shipped to a National Lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico later this summer on 21 tractor trailers.
Of the top 10 fastest computers in the world, the U.S. has places 1 – 5 and #7. Germany, India and France hold the other spots in More >
Exercise Your MniD (a) FitBrains
Jun 6th
What do we Seek?
Jun 5th
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory…
It is the same in gambling, and the same in the search for truth….
We never seek things for themselves —
WHAT WE SEEK IS THE VERY SEEKING OF THINGS.
–Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
Like Salmon? Try Blork’s
Jul 29th
Blork is a Montreal blogger who talks about, among other things – food.
Check him out at: Blork Blog
or his newest blog,
Open Skies – Into The Blue
Jul 16th
In June 06 I flew in an open cockpit biplane (a Stearman Kaydet) out of Creve-Coeur airport near St. Louis piloted by Al Stix (back seat – that’s me in front seat.) What a thrill.
Take a ride: When in St. Louis, visit the Creve Coeur airfield (only 15 miles from St. Louis) – Rides are available in a Stearman WWII biplane trainer (or other biplane) and in a North American SNJ-5
I flew in both the Stearman Kaydet Biplane and the SNJ-5 “Texan” T-6
The airfield at Creve Coeur also boasts a very nice “Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum” with more than a hundred More >
Go Big or Go Home…
Jun 12th
An Anchor of Sanity
Jun 9th
Basic Principles –
That upon which everything else depends. That from which everything else flows.
Understanding basic principles provides an anchor of sanity in a crazy world.
Many people are never made aware of basic principles and are therefore casting about across the face of the ocean of life without a means to derive true north and unable to navigate through difficult waters to reach home port or their destination.
The Future
Jun 2nd
The only constant in life is change. Life flows through time. Time is a test of people and relationships. Life is a continuum of adjustments, usually fairly minor ones, but sometimes major, even once in a lifetime in scope.
Decisions made in the past which seemed right at the time were made at our knowledge levels of that time. Some of these decisions stand the test of time, others do not. As time goes on we learn, adjust and mature. Very little grows or changes at a steady rate. Usually things progress along then suddenly bump up to a new plateau, More >
Direct Your Destiny
May 21st
Watch your thoughts, they become words.Watch your words; they become actions.Watch your actions; they become habits.Watch your habits; they become character.Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw
Anger is Easy
May 21st
Anyone can become angry – that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not easy.
AristotleThe Nicomachean Ethics
