Evolution According to Jason Silva

Check out this glorious rant from Jason Silva: This one is quite controversial on YouTube… People don’t know how to take it, or even how to understand it. But if nothing else, I love how Jason Silva pushes the boundaries of social convention. He’s a dreamer, and societies always need such visionaries to keep shit […]

Space Elevators and Man-Made Rings

This incredibly cool rings-around-Earth visualization has me dreaming about space elevators and a man-made ring around the Earth. So, people are already making plans to build a space elevator. Check this NASA story, and this great Wikipedia article. Now, of course this is a huge undertaking. The counterweight-end of the space elevator would be some 62,000 miles […]

Venus Transit

2012/06/21: Final version. Mastered by Dell at Pep Ventura in Dallas. Nice loudness maximizing, man! 2012/06/20 (entry two): Okay. Calling it DONE. Spent all day trying to fix the clipping, but in the end just put a hard limiter on the whole mix. Rock on!!! 2012/06/20: Okay… I’m ’bout done with this baby! Did a […]

Selling Removable Hard Drives, Trays, and Carriers

One of my projects at DanitaDelimont.com is to prepare to sell about 100 hard drives and their removable trays+carriers. Nobody knows the brand, but there is one US Patent number on the carriers: 5563767. Google shows lots of patent sites with that record, and sure enough, the drawings included with the patent do indicate this […]

CrashPlan.com: Error Message

CrashPlan.com: Error Message, a photo by yugenro on Flickr. Looks like CrashPlan’s servers are experiencing disconnects… bummer. First time since I went all-out with them about 9 months ago that this has happened, afaik. https://crashplan.zendesk.com/entries/20660956-connectivity-issues-november-14 Via Flickr: What’s going on with CrashPlan.com? I’ve been unable to access the site all day, neither from a web […]

T-Mobile G1 Pricing: LIES!

Okay, what’s the deal with T-Mobile’s pricing for the new “Android” phone, the G1? Word is out that it will go for $179. Sweet!, I thought. I immediately went online to my MyTmobile account to snatch up a pre-order. But what happens when I get to the page where I get to pick which color […]

New Phone! Blackberry 8320 Curve

Ok, I was terribly bummed yesterday when I discovered my Blackberry Pearl had been crushed to smithereens on the 1-90 access road to Factoria: Yes, terribly bummed. But I feel better today… ?cuz I got a new Blackberry CURVE!!! Yes, the 8320: It does WiFi! Voice calls over my freakin? home router! If we paid […]