wbotd:

Satellite captures enormous 90-mile-wide storm that's UNDERWATER

Cool!





Facebook Parenting: For the troubled teen.

Watch to the end. This guy’s got it right. Follow Up.




With Martin’s system, each crewmember gets a cell phone that operates using a prepaid SIM card; they also get a two-week plastic pill organizer filled with 14 SIM cards where the pills should be. Each SIM card, loaded with $50 worth of airtime, is attached to a different phone number and stores all contacts, text messages and call histories associated with that number, like a removable hard drive. This makes a new SIM card effectively a new phone. Every morning, each crewmember swaps out his phone’s card for the card in next day’s compartment in the pill organizers. After all 14 cards are used, they start over at the first one.

Of course, it would be hugely annoying for a crewmember to have to remember the others’ constantly changing numbers. But he doesn’t have to, thanks to the pill organizers. Martin preprograms each day’s SIM card with the phone numbers the other members have that day. As long they all swap out their cards every day, the contacts in the phones stay in sync. (They never call anyone but each other on the phones.) Crewmembers will remind each other to “take their medicine,” Martin said.


The Mercenary Techie Who Troubleshoots for Drug Dealers and Jealous Lovers

Interesting article on a “mercenary hacker” or “renegade IT guy”.





Google Maps view of my office




Whether the currency a century from now is based on gold, seashells, shark teeth, or a piece of paper (as today), people will be willing to exchange a couple of minutes of their daily labor for a Coca-Cola or some See’s peanut brittle. In the future the U.S. population will move more goods, consume more food, and require more living space than it does now. People will forever exchange what they produce for what others produce.
Warren Buffett: Why stocks beat gold and bonds - The Term Sheet: Fortune’s deals blog Term Sheet




We’ve launched the beta version of Chogo.com!

If you’d like to try it out, give me a shout and I’ll get you an invite code.





The Georgia Transplant Foundation had it’s annual Spring Training event this year at the Delta Museum/Hanger. It was a really cool venu and Mary and I enjoyed helping out.





We got to see Dave Ramsey Live when he visited Atlanta.









Found this in some 3rd party code… I’m not the only one who has issues with IE (Internet Explorer)




She's holding the pole! Marc, it was a pole with four wheels on the bottom, and we're riding around this hospice, and you could hear the goddamn wheels jangling and banging; it was insane.

And then I pass the front door, and all these nurses are standing out front, and they're all crying. They're watching us, and they're crying. And I didn't know why they were crying. I was like, Why are they crying? I didn't get what they were seeing. I didn't know. Because I was just in it; I was living it. I knew my wife who had suffered, she was a prostitute, she was a freakin' heroin addict, she was beaten by pimps — this was her past — and then she ends up with AIDS, and she's dying, and all she wants is a goddamn ride on my motorcycle.

So the next thing you know we're on I-95, because women, it's never enough for them. We're on I-95, and she unhooks the pole, and she's holding the morphine bag over her head with her gown that's flying up in the air so you could see her entire naked, bony body with the morphine bag whipping in the wind, and we're passing by these guys in their Lamborghinis, and I'm looking at them like, What the hell kind of life are you living? Look at me, I'm on top of the world here.


The Lives They Lived (via kottke)



Regarding mankind, no theme is more salient in the Bible than the morality of personal responsibility, for it is through this that man cultivates the inner development leading to his own growth, good citizenship and happiness. The entitlement/welfare state is a paradigm that undermines that noble goal.

Aryeh Spero: What the Bible Teaches About Capitalism - WSJ.com

This is a fantastic article. I highly recommend you take a minute to read about what the Bible says about capitalism.





Fun with math!!

There's all sorts of magic to be had with numbers, and many mathematicians have made entire careers in finding these little tricks that are mostly useless, but fun anyway. Unfortunately, a lot of calculators are going to truncate the results of this trick, but if you manage to get a hold of one that doesn't, solving 1/998001 will generate all the three digit numbers from 000 to 999. And in order, no less. If you're a fan of this kind of math fun, solving 1/9801 will generate all the consecutive two digit numbers.





Part of the damage

(via Costa Concordia cruise ship runs aground off coast of Italy - The Big Picture - Boston.com)





For 50 years, presidential photographers have covered it all: upheaval, tragedy, joy — often developing friendships with the presidents they serve. Acting as both visual historians and key links between the public and the presidents, for these photographers no day is the same — whether they are aboard Air Force One, backstage at the State of the Union or in the heart of the West Wing.

This is an amazing documentary. You can watch the whole thing free online. I highly suggest it.





curiositycounts:

Every presentation, ever.





Goofing in a team meeting.





The cube of toys





atlantahistorycenter:

FROM THE ARCHIVES-

1970s view of Phipps Plaza.

Browse and order prints from our collection.




The video states “We have taken notice of a program that has been run for five seasons on the controversial channel, TLC.

Anonymous’s newest operation: Innocence | The Verge Forums

Hitting close to work.



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