http://jdg2008.blogspot.com/
A great set of pictures and history about the Rochester subway system and old Aqueduct across the Genesee River.
I can't wait to see how it all turns out after they refill the canal bed and rip up Broad street. javascript:void(0)
Friday, August 27, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Damnit Wired!
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1
Have you all seen this? Wow, I tend to trust Wired for decent articles, but this is garbage. His graph actually implies that DNS and email are dying too.
He lists Facebook, Twitter, NY Times, Pandora, as apps, but they are all Web 2.0 apps, which are still hosted on web servers and 99% of people still access them via a web browser. If you look at what Google does, they are pushing to move EVERYTHING to a web browser. He makes it look like video traffic is the majority of what the internet is used for, even though the majority of that is through a web browser.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/17/is-the-web-really-de.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+(Boing+Boing)&utm_content=Google+Reader
Rob Beschizza makes a great point when he alters the graph in his article to better show the incline in total data usage. Like he says, the wired article is presenting this as a percentage of a whole. Pulling a web page is a very small amount of bits, so the total percentage of traffic is going to be much smaller when compared with video. But if you count the number of videos compared with the number of web page loads, it changes everything.
And he seems to assume that everyone on the planet has a smartphone/ipad/etc... That is very wrong, there are still plenty of people using dialup internet (http://www.chacha.com/question/how-many-people-still-have-dial-up)
Have you all seen this? Wow, I tend to trust Wired for decent articles, but this is garbage. His graph actually implies that DNS and email are dying too.
He lists Facebook, Twitter, NY Times, Pandora, as apps, but they are all Web 2.0 apps, which are still hosted on web servers and 99% of people still access them via a web browser. If you look at what Google does, they are pushing to move EVERYTHING to a web browser. He makes it look like video traffic is the majority of what the internet is used for, even though the majority of that is through a web browser.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/17/is-the-web-really-de.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+(Boing+Boing)&utm_content=Google+Reader
Rob Beschizza makes a great point when he alters the graph in his article to better show the incline in total data usage. Like he says, the wired article is presenting this as a percentage of a whole. Pulling a web page is a very small amount of bits, so the total percentage of traffic is going to be much smaller when compared with video. But if you count the number of videos compared with the number of web page loads, it changes everything.
And he seems to assume that everyone on the planet has a smartphone/ipad/etc... That is very wrong, there are still plenty of people using dialup internet (http://www.chacha.com/question/how-many-people-still-have-dial-up)
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Brewing Beer
Started another project the other night.
Brewing my own beer.
One more thing to cross off the bucket list.
My friends Chris and Utshob came over to the house and we drank beer and ate pizza and boiled water and made some beer.
First step was bringing 4 gallons of water to a boil, which took a very very long time. After that we added the amber malt and stirred while boiling for another 45 mins. After that we steeped the hops. We used 2 ounces of Fuggle hop pellets.
After steeping the hops in we had to try to bring the 4 gallons down to room temperature so that it wouldn't kill the yeast when we added it. This was the hardest part. We had the whole lot of it in my kitchen sink with cold water in the sink but it kept warming the water too quickly so we were constantly draining the sink and refilling. Using my grill thermometer we realized that even though it only felt a little warm, it was still over 100 degrees.
At around midnight we finally gave up and decided to call it a night and I planned to put the yeast in the next morning.
Yeast went in the next morning and I've been keeping an eye on it since. Last night I was surprised to find that the pressure had popped the top off the air lock. I don't think any air got into the carboy, I think it just pushed out so much air that the cap flew off. Hopefully it doesn't ruin the batch.
While we brewed the beer we watched the TERRIBLE movie Ninja Assassin. I already expected it to be terrible but it was definitely entertaining to watch it while we drank some beers and laughed. I think my favorite part was that throughout the whole movie, the ninjas killed everyone by cutting them to pieces. The only two people that they tried to kill by stabbing them through the heart, didn't die because they miraculously were born with their hearts on the wrong side. I'm pretty sure that getting stabbed through the chest/lung will still do some serious damage, regardless of where your heart is. And why did the bad guy suddenly decide to change his preferred method of murder just for the MOST important person for him to kill?
I love bad movies.
2 more weeks and we bottle the beer. Then another 2 weeks and it'll be drinkable deliciousness.
Brewing my own beer.
One more thing to cross off the bucket list.
My friends Chris and Utshob came over to the house and we drank beer and ate pizza and boiled water and made some beer.
First step was bringing 4 gallons of water to a boil, which took a very very long time. After that we added the amber malt and stirred while boiling for another 45 mins. After that we steeped the hops. We used 2 ounces of Fuggle hop pellets.
After steeping the hops in we had to try to bring the 4 gallons down to room temperature so that it wouldn't kill the yeast when we added it. This was the hardest part. We had the whole lot of it in my kitchen sink with cold water in the sink but it kept warming the water too quickly so we were constantly draining the sink and refilling. Using my grill thermometer we realized that even though it only felt a little warm, it was still over 100 degrees.
At around midnight we finally gave up and decided to call it a night and I planned to put the yeast in the next morning.
Yeast went in the next morning and I've been keeping an eye on it since. Last night I was surprised to find that the pressure had popped the top off the air lock. I don't think any air got into the carboy, I think it just pushed out so much air that the cap flew off. Hopefully it doesn't ruin the batch.
While we brewed the beer we watched the TERRIBLE movie Ninja Assassin. I already expected it to be terrible but it was definitely entertaining to watch it while we drank some beers and laughed. I think my favorite part was that throughout the whole movie, the ninjas killed everyone by cutting them to pieces. The only two people that they tried to kill by stabbing them through the heart, didn't die because they miraculously were born with their hearts on the wrong side. I'm pretty sure that getting stabbed through the chest/lung will still do some serious damage, regardless of where your heart is. And why did the bad guy suddenly decide to change his preferred method of murder just for the MOST important person for him to kill?
I love bad movies.
2 more weeks and we bottle the beer. Then another 2 weeks and it'll be drinkable deliciousness.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
The Origin of Consciousness
http://blog.plover.com/brain/
I am particularly interested in this concept because of how well it helps to explain the advent of religion. Religion makes sense if you're having constant auditory hallucinations that tell you what to do. Now that we have evolved beyond that; isn't it time that we dispense with it and use the awesome brains that evolution gave us.
I am particularly interested in this concept because of how well it helps to explain the advent of religion. Religion makes sense if you're having constant auditory hallucinations that tell you what to do. Now that we have evolved beyond that; isn't it time that we dispense with it and use the awesome brains that evolution gave us.
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