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cold

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

not anything resembling cold now, but it once was. and before then, it was hot. it was about 20-or-so years ago, when the sun used to reveal itself and bounce off the ground. light bounced off the sidewalks, through the oak trees, and down the street. later we would have the whole sky, a nice [...]

Global Warm…I mean, Climate Change: Interesting story

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

From Science Magazine: Scientists studying sunspots for the past 2 decades have concluded that the magnetic field that triggers their formation has been steadily declining. If the current trend continues, by 2016 the sun’s face may become spotless and remain that way for decades—a phenomenon that in the 17th century coincided with a prolonged period [...]

A nice hot day…

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

…and now it’s time for rain.

Holiday weekend

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

Great weather out. Went for a walk. Just bought the new STP album, should be neat. Yesterday was nice too. Went out with a pad of paper and sketched a bit before it started to rain. Some more quizzes for you:     Your Creative Power is Your Logic You’re the type of person who [...]

very fun day

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

very nice day to go fishing at the lake. didn’t catch any fish but i caught a clam. took me forever to get the hook out of him.

1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

From Engadget: Since 1977, RSA public-key encryption has protected privacy and verified authenticity when using computers, gadgets and web browsers around the globe, with only the most brutish of brute force efforts (and 1,500 years of processing time) felling its 768-bit variety earlier this year. Now, [three people] at the University of Michigan claim they [...]