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Optimus Prime, heroic leader of the Autobots, is on his way to help the US military in Iraq.
http://wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=3828
“Optimus Prime is heading out to the Middle East with his guard unit on Wednesday to provide fire protection for airfields under combat.”
My cousin is an Air Force pilot, flying mostly the larger cargo planes and such (as his vision’s not sharp enough for the smaller fighter jets). I had no idea if he was going to be shipped off or not. I guess he’s not, but because of luck more than anything else. The clipped letter from my aunt:
A lot of you have been asking about Mike lately. And I’ve been telling everyone that he is safe in Oklahoma. Well, he called today and said he was “almost deployed”. Rick talked to him and he said 4 guys were called in and they all were going to be deployed, but when they got there, they found out only 2 were needed. They couldn’t decide who should go. So they rolled dice. Mike is staying in Oklahoma! […] We thought Mike was safe from being deployed until December, but maybe not.
Regardless, he’s safe…for now.
Would somebody pay a ton of money to make a resort out this land. And they’ll have a golf course, I’m sure, further sucking up what water we have left. We already have nearly 30 18-hole courses in the county, but we have less people in the county than Eugene has in its city limits. But I guess that’s what I get for living and working in a tourism-driven area.
It was all a fundraiser to help their school. Amazing.
Adobe, makers of the popular Photoshop software and long a supporter of Mac users, has finally conceded that PCs are faster at running their company’s software (not better, necessarily, just faster). If I were Apple, I’d consider this a challenge.
Apparently on at least one server, so says Netcraft (which does, obviously, guess wrong now and again). Figures it would be something those Brits would do.
While Google News is arguably the best headline aggregator, it sometimes screws up when it tries to decide which news belongs together. Like this example from NTK
If you’ve forgotting all the little formulas from your math-class days (and I’ve forgotten all but the basic ones, despite my high-level math background), this site will help you figure them out again, as well as a bunch more complicated/fancy stuff like calculating the inverse hyperbolic cotangent. Note: There is no error checking on the site. So if you’re looking for the perimeter of the triangle (why you couldn’t remember that equation, I don’t know), you could plug in your sides as 90, 10, and 15, and it’ll give you a perimeter of 115, even though that’s an impossible triangle.
If you’ve been dealing with Microsoft products for any amount of time, you probably remember various product code names: Chicago (Windows 95), Memphis (Windows 98), Daytona (Windows NT 3.5), Whistler (Windows XP), etc… . But you probably didn’t know that nearly every product that has ever left those Redmond, Wash., offices has had a code name during the development cycle. And you can find nearly all of them here.