Thursday, February 18, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Iain's second PC (1996-1999)
First one was a IBM 486
32 MB of RAM
2-4 MB VRAM
Pentium at 100 MHz
20 GB HDD
Windows 95
It was a hand-me down and no Internet. My parents graduated to a Pentium II with twice the RAM.
The games
A Circle of Blood (7th game)
Diablo (last game)
Doom 2 (2nd to last)
Hoyle Cards (3rd game)
Kings Quest IV (first game)
Kings Quest VII (4th game)
Lode Runner Returns (packaged)
Monkey's Island 2 Luchuck's Revenge (6th game)
Secret of Monkey's Island (5th game)
Simcity 2000 (2nd game)
Simcity Classic (packaged)
I played Nintendo games on it with an emulator, mainly the Super Mario Bros. trilogy and Metroid.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Privatization of electricity is better combined with geothermal
Should the state take over public utilities? no. For decades, electricity prices have only gone one direction - up. Now, in those states that implemented true deregulation, prices have actually fallen - in Pennsylvania by up to 30 percent - due to competition. Exempt from the provisions of our flawed restructuring, they were not forced to sell their power plants or to give up long-term contracts, but they were able to make huge profits selling power to the rest of the state.
Everybody should have a geothermal heatpump and furnace inside their business and home. Heat pumps paid for themselves in 8 years. Geothermal is cheaper than gas! Gas is only needed if I live in Canadian/Alaskan climate when a miniature electric furnace is my failsafe.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Malazon Book of the Fallen
I didn't know what books to get other than Lord of the Rings so I went down to the top 5 and picked one at random. It was A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen. Amazon sells each book between $3 and $6.50 and there is nine cheap softcover books. I bought all of them at one time. Now I'm supposed to be more awesome than I was a day ago.
- Gardens of the Moon
- Deadhouse Gates
- The Bonehunters
- Reaper's Gale
- Midnight Tides
- Toll the Hounds
- House of Chains
- Dust of Dreams
- Memories of Ice
www.malazanempire.com/
- Gardens of the Moon
- Deadhouse Gates
- The Bonehunters
- Reaper's Gale
- Midnight Tides
- Toll the Hounds
- House of Chains
- Dust of Dreams
- Memories of Ice
www.malazanempire.com/
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Is this kind of humorious?
Homer: "You guys are commies? Then why am I seeing free markets?"
capitalist roaders...
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Joyriding Galaxy
Imagine all of your classmates are on a fieldtrip. They have traveled to Earth from the Centaurus Arm of the Milky Way. Introduce them to your corner of the Milky Way.
Centaurus Arm has the largest group of 26 Red SuperGiant stars known as the RSGC2 cluster. Then the RSGC1 cluster has 14 SuperGiant Red Stars only a few hundred light years away from RSGC2. We don't have many Red SuperGiant stars in our neighborhood. It is in the region where the Centaurus Arm connects to the central bulge of the Milky Way. Since all these stars are near death, all turning into supernovas. Astronomers don't know anywhere else in this galaxy with so many Red SuperGiants. You can see properties of stars that are ready to explode. Despite RSGC2 having all these old Red SuperGiants, it also has a gigantic cluster of new stars that are less than 20 million years old. The dust glows red with all the yellow-colored Red SuperGiants stars with a blue patch, a stellar nursery of newborn stars. The supernovas would appear to be pink outlined blue ovals in the sky.
What is it like "in your neighborhood" and how is it different from the Centaurus Arm?
The Solar system is in the Orion Spur, a minor arm. The Solar system is also in the local bubble of this Orion Arm which was formed by a supernova. This bubble has prevented flows of cosmic radiation and gas. Even though the solar system is safe now, it is moving towards the Local Fluff, a interstellar cloud with impact within 50,000 years. It has twice the gas of the local bubble Solar System is now in. Gases stronger than Solar wind can inter the solar system and affect Earth in a bad way. The Orion Spur has many nebulas including Cygnus area like North America and Pelican nebula. Then there is the Orion nebula, and Crab nebula (pulsar). There are stars including Orions belt, Polaris, Rigel, Deneb, Betelgeuse, kCas, uCap, pCas, yCyg. and SCMa. The outer edge of the Orion arm is the Gould's belt that is 150 light years. Gould's belt has many young stars in it and also has the largest stars in the belt similar to RSGC2 and only 30 million years old. Gould's belt looks yellow on top, red in the middle and bluish on the bottom. Gould's belt was created when a gas cloud full of dark matter collided with some Milky Way disk.
How would the neighborhood change if your solar system started moving toward the core of the Milky Way Galaxy?
The neighborhood of the solar system would change when it was near the Galactic Center of the milky way, because it be closer to a super massive black hole. One parsec away from the supermassive black hole would be a collection of a million stars. The stellar density would be 100 million times larger than our solar neighborhood. This would allow frequent close counter collisions. There would be a large interstellar cloud of dust. Life as we know it on Earth should cease to exist when radiation and gas become greater than the solar winds can handle. The Galatic nucleus would have more X-ray and gamma ray activity that is 1033 watts (ie: million times that of the Sun). The sun would eventually start orbiting the supermassive black hole. The supermassive black hole in the galactic center already has the gravity required to separate clusters of stars. The local bubble would separate as it moves towards the galactic center for certain. Unless you're in a molecular ring which is filled with young stars, the more inside the solar system goes, the older the surrounding stars systems would become. The observers on Earth could see the galactic center better. When the Solar System moves to the galactic center, you would see a more dense display of brighter stars full of color. There would be more gases and star clusters near our solar neighborhood and life would be different with it breaching the solar wind.
Centaurus Arm has the largest group of 26 Red SuperGiant stars known as the RSGC2 cluster. Then the RSGC1 cluster has 14 SuperGiant Red Stars only a few hundred light years away from RSGC2. We don't have many Red SuperGiant stars in our neighborhood. It is in the region where the Centaurus Arm connects to the central bulge of the Milky Way. Since all these stars are near death, all turning into supernovas. Astronomers don't know anywhere else in this galaxy with so many Red SuperGiants. You can see properties of stars that are ready to explode. Despite RSGC2 having all these old Red SuperGiants, it also has a gigantic cluster of new stars that are less than 20 million years old. The dust glows red with all the yellow-colored Red SuperGiants stars with a blue patch, a stellar nursery of newborn stars. The supernovas would appear to be pink outlined blue ovals in the sky.
What is it like "in your neighborhood" and how is it different from the Centaurus Arm?
The Solar system is in the Orion Spur, a minor arm. The Solar system is also in the local bubble of this Orion Arm which was formed by a supernova. This bubble has prevented flows of cosmic radiation and gas. Even though the solar system is safe now, it is moving towards the Local Fluff, a interstellar cloud with impact within 50,000 years. It has twice the gas of the local bubble Solar System is now in. Gases stronger than Solar wind can inter the solar system and affect Earth in a bad way. The Orion Spur has many nebulas including Cygnus area like North America and Pelican nebula. Then there is the Orion nebula, and Crab nebula (pulsar). There are stars including Orions belt, Polaris, Rigel, Deneb, Betelgeuse, kCas, uCap, pCas, yCyg. and SCMa. The outer edge of the Orion arm is the Gould's belt that is 150 light years. Gould's belt has many young stars in it and also has the largest stars in the belt similar to RSGC2 and only 30 million years old. Gould's belt looks yellow on top, red in the middle and bluish on the bottom. Gould's belt was created when a gas cloud full of dark matter collided with some Milky Way disk.
How would the neighborhood change if your solar system started moving toward the core of the Milky Way Galaxy?
The neighborhood of the solar system would change when it was near the Galactic Center of the milky way, because it be closer to a super massive black hole. One parsec away from the supermassive black hole would be a collection of a million stars. The stellar density would be 100 million times larger than our solar neighborhood. This would allow frequent close counter collisions. There would be a large interstellar cloud of dust. Life as we know it on Earth should cease to exist when radiation and gas become greater than the solar winds can handle. The Galatic nucleus would have more X-ray and gamma ray activity that is 1033 watts (ie: million times that of the Sun). The sun would eventually start orbiting the supermassive black hole. The supermassive black hole in the galactic center already has the gravity required to separate clusters of stars. The local bubble would separate as it moves towards the galactic center for certain. Unless you're in a molecular ring which is filled with young stars, the more inside the solar system goes, the older the surrounding stars systems would become. The observers on Earth could see the galactic center better. When the Solar System moves to the galactic center, you would see a more dense display of brighter stars full of color. There would be more gases and star clusters near our solar neighborhood and life would be different with it breaching the solar wind.
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