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Wind Map
I could watch this wind map all day. This is from today, April 3, 2012, when a series of tornadoes ran through the Dallas-Fort Worth area. You can see a spiral hovering over Texas. This is amazing technology!
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An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future.
This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US.
The Great Delmar Divide
The BBC covered St. Louis in one of its Altered States specials.
Delmar Boulevard, which spans the city from east to west, features million-dollar mansions directly to the south, and poverty-stricken areas to its north. What separates rich and poor is sometimes just one street block.
March Madness: Sex vs Chocolate
Jezebel is holding a March Madness bracket race again this year. In 2011 it was Cats vs Dogs and in 2010 it was Cake vs Pie. This year it’s Sex vs Chocolate and the competition is intense!
Here’s my 2012 bracket. Click for full view.
I am picking Oral Sex as the overall champion. It has been a tried-and-true contender and worthy of the championship title. If anything is going to take chocolate down, it’s Oral Sex.
Gotye – Somebody That I Used to Know
Listened to this album. Good stuff. Single is on the radio now. Sad face.
“I guess that I don’t need that though…
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know”
Bat Embryo
Stevie Wonder – Funerals
Whitney Houston’s funeral was today and I watched Stevie Wonder’s performance of a modified “Ribbon in the Sky.” It reminds me of him giving an amazing performance at Michael Jackson’s funeral.
At which funeral will he sing next? More importantly, who will sing at his funeral? Who is going to give the “Stevie Wonder performance” at Stevie Wonder’s funeral?
February > January
Is January over yet? I have things to do and they are all taking place in February. You see, first is my birthday which is next week. Birthdays are always good. The following week I am heading to Seattle for a few days to visit a friend. I am staying on Bainbridge Island this year which will require a short ferry ride. I understand that Bainbridge Island is a nice place with a shopping area and stuff. I am more excited about the ferry ride than shopping, though.
I am moving into a house at the end of February and I am currently spending an enormous amount of time planning and dreaming about this house. It’s a 3br/2ba house with a fenced years which means I might be able to get a dog. Might.
I am obsessing about some things I want to do, including rehabbing the bathrooms, building a workbench in the basement and then making other things. I like to make things and this house will give me the space to do so. I want to be the queen king of DIY. Of course, I can’t do anything until I close on this house. AT THE END OF THE MONTH. I hope I can make it the next 30 days.
For now, I am stuck in January, about to begin packing, and dreaming about February.
Define: gauche
gauche adj \'gõsh\
Definition of gauche
1.
a : lacking social experience or grace; also : not tactful : crude
b : crudely made or done
Examples of gauche
-Would it be gauche of me to ask her how old she is?
-His loud talking at the opera marked him as gauche and uncultured.
-Among élite scientists, it was usually considered gauche to be obsessed with anything so tangible or immediate: brilliant discoveries were supposed to percolate. —Michael Specter, New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2007
-We were suburban housewives and mothers. As poets we took a respectful backseat to the male poets. We did not talk about our husbands and children in public; that would have been gauche indeed. —Maxine Kumin, In Deep, 1987
Fridge Triage Box
Here’s a handy way to cut down on produce loss, food waste, and the required cleaning out of the science experiments in the fridge. I tend to eat what I recently bought as opposed to what is soon going to expire so I could definitely use this!
Via Lifehacker.
Whiskey and water trick
via Kottke.org
iMac will not sleep
I have had an issue with my iMac sleeping for the past few days and had to shut it down last night to keep it from waking up as the hum from the machine drives me crazy. My machine does not wake fully: There is no display but the fans turn back on and just run endlessly.
Here’s what I did to determine what is waking my machine.
In Lion (OS X 10.7) fire up terminal and type:
syslog |grep -i "Wake reason"
You will get something to the effect of this:
Jan 11 14:37:36 imac kernel[0]
Jan 12 16:26:15 imac kernel[0]
Jan 12 17:05:52 imac kernel[0]
Jan 12 18:55:58 imac kernel[0]
Jan 13 07:53:58 imac kernel[0]
Jan 14 09:35:07 imac kernel[0]
Jan 14 13:20:19 imac kernel[0]
Jan 14 15:29:27 imac kernel[0]
Jan 14 23:01:55 imac kernel[0]
Jan 15 08:47:20 imac kernel[0]
Jan 15 19:53:30 imac kernel[0]
Jan 16 08:35:03 imac kernel[0]
Jan 16 14:58:12 imac kernel[0]
Jan 17 22:17:45 imac kernel[0]
It would seem that UHC4 is our culprit but we don’t really have any information about what UHC4 is so we have to dig a little deeper.
In Console, check the kernel.log and filter using “wake”.
You will see something like this:
Jan 14 15:29:27 imac kernel[0]: Wake reason: UHC4
Jan 14 15:29:27 imac kernel[0]: The USB device BRCM2046 Hub (Port 1 of Hub at 0x1a000000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup (2)
Jan 14 15:29:27 imac kernel[0]: The USB device Bluetooth USB Host Controller (Port 1 of Hub at 0x1a100000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup (3)
UHC4 appears to be my BT Keyboard. Checking more, all the recorded times look legit and it would seem that this is not the rogue waking that I am researching but me manually bringing the machine out of sleep by tapping the spacebar. What’s stranger, it does not seem that my Macintosh is recording the other waking periods that I am complaining about.
To the web. After more research I came across this post and tried doing the steps here.
Ultimately, disabling all of my sharing preferences and enabling them fixed the problem.
So… if your Mac is waking randomly and you’re getting no display then try the “sharing fix” first. If your machine is waking fully, display and all, try some of the steps above to determine the cause and you should be a few steps closer to resolving the issue.
Doodling in Math Class
Part 1
Part 2
Robyn – SNL, Cover, Swoon Face
Robyn was on SNL over the weekend and performed Call Your Girlfriend and Dancin on My Own from her 2010 Body Talk album. She killed it!
After checking that out see her do a cover of Alicia Keys’s (s’? ‘s? s’s?) Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart for an iheartradio performance.
And if that’s not enough, watch Who’s That Girl? over on YouTube. The feeling I get when I see the face she makes at :16-:17 confirms I have a crush on this girl. Swoon!
Portlandia – My Top 3
I am waiting for Portlandia on IFC to start in the new year. Here are my top 3 clips from Season 1.
Put a Bird on It! (1:41)
Did You Read? (1:53)
and my absolute favorite, featuring Aubrey Plaza, House Sitter (2:34)
I can’t get enough of this show. Portlandia’s intro, featuring Washed Out’s “Feel It All Around,” is one of the best I’ve seen. (:38)