Archive for February, 2007
45 minutes to go
I slacked off a bit today and now only have 45 minutes before I’m kicked out of work, thereby severing my internet connection. I looked for some news that I hope everyone hadn’t already found and decided there wasn’t anything exciting enough for here today. Instead, I’ll be treading the grounds of ‘livejournal, myspace, facebook [...]
Step 3: Self Limiting Pandemic
Today I found out that Moscow doesn’t have just a few problems with the bird flu, but many. I knew of about 3 or 4 sites that had found the virus and had begun to ‘destroy’ their birds. Now there are many more suspected sites, all of them within a few hours of [...]
Winter Olymics
Russia has very few cities that aren’t frozen over in the winter. This makes it one of the first places that is always ready to host the Winter Olympics. That being said, they are trying to get the Olympics in Russia for 2014. Its even in the winter. There’s just one [...]
The Immortal Game
I was introduced to chess at a young age. The earliest I would guess being about 5 years old. I had little patience for it then and getting down all the pieces and how they moved was a real pain. Once I mastered the basics, everything else came much easier. I’m [...]
If I owned a car, I would build this.
The Tesla coil is one of the coolest Sci-Fi come real inventions of all history. Free flowing, beautiful, human-bug zapping, electricity. Some guy in Australia built himself a Tesla coil on a rotating pole. He then put the coil on a car and calls it an anti-theft system. Check out the [...]
