Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
Careless Blazers Goofing Around With Basketball Shatter Greg Oden Into Thousand Pieces. Quoting the story:
PORTLAND, OR—Although Portland Trail Blazers coach Nate McMillan has repeatedly warned his team about using the basketball around “valuable” and “really fragile” center Greg Oden, several players accidentally knocked the seven-footer to the floor with a carelessly thrown ball Thursday and shattered him into a thousand pieces.
Thanks Josh for the link.
Some visual entertainment after the jump…
As I couldn’t understand a word they said:
John Hodgman has the solution:
I want to talk about bandwidth, throughput, latency, and capacity, and how each of these items relates to one another.
Let me start all folksy with analogies. For simplicity’s sake, let’s consider a medium-sized city that serves water to all its residents through one central reservoir. The reservoir’s capacity represents the total pool of water it can deliver at one time to residents through pipes of varying sizes and at different distances.
It’s actually a great explanation on how network bandwidth, latency, capacity, throughput and such work for folks who wouldn’t otherwise understand.
xkcd #576 is about a eBay-shopping bot that buys random $1 items with free shipping every day — and somebody has implemented it. You can follow what the bot is buying on its twitter feed.
First off: Cheap plug. I’m playing with the Central Oregon Symphony this weekend, and I’d encourage you to come out and see the show. The piano soloist we have coming to play with us is phenomenal, and it’ll be a great show. Concerts are free, click here for ticket info.
OK, enough of the plugging, let’s get down to business (videos are after the jump).
This guy also helped create the Subaru Mediocrity web site which is hilarious.
I mean, seriously, what has the guy accomplished so far (NSFW language, obviously)?
I’ve been so busy at both work and the minute I leave the office lately that I rarely want to turn on my computer when I get home. I’d rather just plop myself on the couch after going all frickin’ day and watch some TV. Even though we canceled our cable last month (we’re poor), there’s still plenty to watch with Netflix, Hulu, and the network channels (and a Windows 7 HTPC to allow us to do it all easily).
Just the same, this blog hasn’t gotten nearly the personal attention it deserves. I suck. I certainly wouldn’t deserve a Best Of Central Oregon nomination (but wouldn’t argue with you if you were to submit this site for a nomination). While uber-blogger Jon will probably get the nod (deservedly), it’d just be nice to knock that egotistical jerk off his high horse.
(Note: Before the hate mail comes in, Jon and I go way back, and anybody who knows Jon or I know that neither of us have egos, especially Jon. I just like to poke fun at him, as he would do to me.)
Anyway, back to the link dump for the evening:
More tomorrow, as I have a bunch of videos to share…