I have finally found the elusive Bluetooth headphones for my iPod. This, after waiting patiently announced it, but I guess it was just vapor.
The same site also had some headphones that you can plug an iPod nano directly into. I know that a nano is small, but would it really be comfortable with one on the side of your head?
I saw this picture online of Bush shaking hands with an Albert Einstein-headed robot. The caption of the photo says the robot stands 54″ tall. So that makes the guy in the background all of what? Five feet tall?
Also, why did they put a head modeled after Einstein on top? To make it seem more human? All it looks like now is a robot with a silly head on top.
I have no clue how to describe this, nor know why it was created.
I normally use the NOAA site to get my weather information. I pay taxes, and my tax money does go to pay for the NOAA and NWS. And it doesn’t have any ads, either. Just the weather in a simple and easy to read format.
I did notice this on Weather Underground – combining Google Maps with personal weather stations that upload data. The result is pretty neat. Not terribly useful, but still neat.
Didn’t the President say the mission was accomplished a couple years ago? I guess it really wasn’t, since he says that our troops will stay in Iraq until the mission is complete, and we have “achieved victory”. What is he calling victory now? Treading water for the next three years so he can dump this problem on the next president?
At this point, we can’t afford to pull all the troops out, because chaos will probably break out. But we also need to know that there is a plan to bring the troops home. And right now, it sure doesn’t feel like there is.
A was surprised by these stats: Only 54% of students that enrolled in 1997 graduated within six years, and only 44% of Hispanics and 39% of blacks graduated.
This strikes me as surprising because I know a lot more than 54% of my classmates graduated in less than 6 years. The article also said that elite schools had higher graduation rates. So does that make RPI an “elite” school?
In any event, why do so few students graduate? I think that a lot of people who go to college shouldn’t really be going there. There’s also students who go for a semester, then decide they really don’t like college.
Sadly enough, when people don’t graduate in six years, the chances they graduate at all are pretty slim.
A British company called Dot Mobile allows people to get text messages of classic pieces of literature. The catch: they aren’t in regular English. They are “shortened” with the terms you see in text messaging. For example, Romeo and Juliet ends with “bothLuvrs kill Emselves.”
This is pretty silly idea. Why not just read the book itself? It would take more time to decipher the text messages than it would to actually read it. And why would you want to read a classic on your cell phone? I don’t see any value in that.
I was gassing up my car yesterday for $2.269 a gallon, amazed by how quickly the price of gas has come down. According to the AAA (as of 11/13/05), the average price of premium (turbochargers like premium) was around $3.30 a gallon just a month ago. Of course, there are several factors at play – lower demand, increased supply, warm weather, even perhaps public and congressional scrutiny.
Obviously, this is a good on our wallets. I’m sure we’ve all heard of the horror stories concerning SUV drivers spending over $100 to fill their tank when gas prices were at their highest during the summer. Well, when you buy a vehicle that gets 15 miles to the gallon, you’re going to be much more sensitive to higher gas prices. And the relief will be much greater when prices go down. My big question: Will people learn from this experience and demand more fuel efficient vehicles? All it took was a major hurricane to hit just the right spot, and we had gas stations running out gas, wildly fluctuating prices, and talk of gas rationing. At least, that’s the way it was here.
I fear that we will learn nothing of the experience, and the same thing will happen again. What do you think?
Forbes has a section where you can send an e-mail to someone and have it sent up to 20 years from now. Of course, this assumes you’re going to have the same e-mail address in 20 years. That might be a big assumption.
If you want to do this, you have until November 30.
What would you want to tell yourself in 20 years?
The Vatican seems to have come out against Intelligent Design. In fact, it endorses evolution, saying that Darwin is “perfectly compatible” with the Bible.
I’m glad to see some common sense in this whole “debate.” There’s nothing to say that evolution and the Bible are mutually exclusive. Perhaps the Bible is just being symbolic? Did someone supporing Intelligent Design ever think of that?
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