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14 Year Old Struck By Meteor Is Full of Shit

I highly doubt this is real.

A schoolboy has survived a direct hit by a meteorite after it fell to earth at 30,000mph.

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First off, if the headline of the story was real, this kid would  either have had his arm ripped off from for force or be deader than a door nail(probably both). Small pebble at 30k mph? According to NASA, a fleck of paint can pulverize you. Here it is straight from the horses mouth:

Some of the bits and pieces scream along at 17,500 mph………

Some of the objects, baseball-sized and bigger, could threaten the lives of astronauts in a space shuttle or the International Space Station. As an example of the hazard, a tiny speck of paint from a satellite once dug a pit in a space shuttle window nearly a quarter-inch wide.

I don’t wanna jump to conclusions, but I will anyway. If a meteor really did land near to this kid, it probably just came close enough to scare the shit out of him and he got caught some of the dirt explosion from the crater in his hand. After pissing his pants, I’m sure he convinced himself he got hit directly. Notice there were no witnesses?

I’m calling bullshit on this one. What do you think? Who’s with me?


MiniStack Hard Drive Enclosure and Leopard 10.5

Got an old first generation MiniStack with a 250GB hard drive in it. Sweet, TimeMachine here I come.

timemachine

Yea, OSX no likely the USB connection. When I try to format the drive I get:

Error with partition: Input/output error

Turns out 10.5 prefers Firewire instead. Formatted  as that and all is happy with the world. Good thing or it was about to get the sledgehammer treatment.

If you still get the I/O error there’s something else wrong and frankly I could care less. My machine works.


Barcelona, 1908

Nice video of life in 1908!

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Ok, not so much, but our site is migrated to its new happy home.

BOW TO IT!

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Here’s a shot right after the install, there’s stuff everywhere.

 

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It’s like learning to play all over again (probably doesn’t help that I haven’t logged in since June). Behold Phosphor:


More Doom and Gloom

Check out this chart via Calculated Risk :

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Cliff Diving

Don’t forget, GDP is about 70% consumer spending/consumption. Start buying shit people, let’s go!!!

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China hacks Whitehouse

http://m.news.com/2166-12_3-10086732-83.html

Interesting little tidbit. I’ve written about cyber security in the past. My hope is that Obama takes this stuff a little more seriously than the current “decider” in chief.

(Posted from Blackberry at basketball practice)


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