Playing around with stop motion and tilt-shift video.
jQuery 1.5 released
January 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Post #500 on this here blog is to post a link to a jQuery 1.5 announcement.
Do I know how to party or what?
Winter storms are ripe for baby makin’
January 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Stay classy, St. Louis!
/via @bobbyautry
Disaster french toast
January 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Another hallmark of a St. Louis winter weather freakout is hoarding suplies to make disaster French Toast. There were reports last night on the local news that grocers were completely sold out of bread, milk and eggs.
Now, call me crazy, but what’s the worst this storm is going to do? Keep someone in their home for 3 days? How do you not have food on hand? Why are people stocking up for the apocalypse?
I’ve never understood this phenomenon, but people around here gobble it up. Someone on the St. Louis sub-Reddit even noticed that Bananas were sold out. BANANAS!
On winter storms in St. Louis and hyperbole
January 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
At times, I’m really embarrassed to be living in an area that absolutely loses it’s shit at the slightest mention of winter precipitation.
Here are two maps that I pulled from The Weather Channel of a storm that’s being billed as “the next blizzard of ’82!” by some local television stations:
Let’s be clear: this particular winter storm is going to be awful. Any time ice is involved, roads go to hell pretty quick. But the hyperbole slung around by the meteorologists in the area drives me crazy. I get this odd feeling that Dave Murray is in the FOX 2 WEATHER CENTER right now with a giant, crap-eating grin on his face thinking about interrupting a program to report on the storm.
Here’s a great example of the freakout: The Weather Channel has a story on their front page — Multi-Day Dangerous, Destructive Winter Storm — where the lede has you on the edge of your seat:
A multi-day, multi-region potentially historic and destructive winter storm will unleash its fury beginning Monday and will last through Wednesday.
When everything is said and done, the storm may very well impact a third of the population of the United States; approximately 100 million people.
100 million people? In flyover country? Suck it, East and West coasts! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Flat-Earthers are running the FDA
January 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
“Real Time” host Bill Maher asked Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) a fairly straightforward question: “Do you believe in evolution?” Kingston not only rejected the foundation of modern biology, he explained it this way: “I believe I came from God, not from a monkey.” He added, “If it happened over millions and millions of years, there should be lots of fossil evidence.”
Quantum entanglement is for the birds
January 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
European robins may maintain quantum entanglement in their eyes a full 20 microseconds longer than the best laboratory systems, say physicists investigating how birds may use quantum effects to “see” Earth’s magnetic field.
Pretty rad science.
Netflix plans to publish statistics about which ISPs are best at delivering “the best, most-consistent high speed Internet for streaming Netflix.”
January 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Good news for the Bolen household:
If you’re an executive at Charter Communications, you’ve got nothing to worry about. The only early tidbit Hastings revealed about tomorrow’s post is that Charter was the top-performing ISP. But for bandwidth providers further down on the list, the disclosure could prove embarrassing. How much do you want to bet that some of the poorer-performing ISPs are the ones giving Netflix the hardest time about streaming costs?
I bitch all the time about Charter’s lack of important cable channels (ahem – the NFL Network), but I’ve never had a problem with Charter’s internet. I’m consistently pulling about 29Mbps, and that’s just fine with me.
