Throwback Thursday! thanks Adam.
Category: pointless
Pointless
Happy April Fools everyone!
Pro Tip: Go ahead and air your dirty laundry or publish some bad news. Today is the one day that no one will believe it.
An Air Raid Siren Woke Me Up This Morning. . .
Seriously, at 6:30am approximately. I was ripped from my slumber more confused then annoyed. Trying to figure out what it was. Not a car alarm, no modern alarm at all, but the rolling wail of sirens past. The only thing I could think of was the cold war era air raid sirens that have dotted the San Fernando Valley landscape. It rang out again at approximately 10:30am. We also remember hearing something last night at approximately 11pm. I drove down to the nearest to have a look and snap this photo. It looked just as derelict as always. No sign of hooligans. I may never have answers. According to the internet this emergency system hasn’t been used since a test in the mid 80s. Anyone else have a clue?
Interested in these things? here is a great map:
http://wirechief.com/sirens/map.htm
Throwback Thursday – be3n’s boyhood home!
I found more pictures of my old bedroom recently. Below, I cleared out my bed to install a pull out sofa (seen in next frame). It turned my high school room into quite the hangout. Also on display were some art and other decorations from that era. If you look closely, you can find Pez, impressionists paintings, comics, Magic packs, and a Sun optical mouse/mousepad. I wonder what others will find. My room’s walls were quite the collage. I’ve added more pictures including this 4up from my Nickelodeon Photo Blaster. Can you find Audio/Video tapes next to the original Nintendo? enjoy.
Parking in Santa Monica is serious
This is how I find my car after the vallet parkers have gone. What were they trying to do? What purpose does that chain serve? I may never know.
How long does it take to register a Somali domain?
I thought of a great domain for a website Forest was planning. Perfect timing for a great present. . . or so I thought. This has thus far been the slowest registration processes I have ever endured. Hopefully I will have it this year. I have purchased so many domains that I am accustomed to measuring in minutes. It has been all day! where’s my .so domain! I have to find out eventually. I’ll certainly add more soon.
UPDATE!
Purchased Saturday 10pm.
Running by Monday 10am.
Achievement Unlocked: Bathed a cat!
At the recommendation of my vet, I bathed my cat. all in all, it went better then I expected.
Wowza! I just mined a block!
It finally happened! I have been mining bitcoins for almost two years now. casually. I joined a pool in the last year (after 6 months of nothing) I am not trying to make a living with this, I just had an OpenCL card in a system that is already on 24/7. I wanted some BTC to play with. I had a bet with myself once the tiny earnings from the shared pool started to come in. Would I earn 50 BTC with the pool before finding a block? In a shared pool, you don’t collect the blocks you mine, but instead share in the blocks of all contributing members. Blocks originally were worth 50 BTC. Just recently, the payout was reduced to 25 BTC for a block. This is particularly funny because I had already mined approximately 35 BTC with the shared pool before I finally hit up on a block. Obviously I squeaked out a victory in my little experiment, but it is really just a roll of the dice.
Achievement Unlocked: Corrected nearly 100 year old spelling error.
Today I finished the final steps in officially correcting the spelling of my last name. I only wish my grandfather was alive to hear the tale. It really was a surprising amount of paperwork.
