A “large” US spy satellite has gone out of control and is expected to crash to Earth some time in late February or March, government sources say. So right now, everyone has a 50/50 chance of meeting this satellite up close and personal. Always look up, and park your car in an underground lot…
AKA: A Day In The Life Of…
It was 4 years ago today I first landed in Atlanta, at that point I had no idea how long I’d be staying, might have been a week, maybe a month… In the end it was 3 months, and after a month back in Scotland tying up loose ends, I went back for, what appears to be, good. Of course, if you met me you’d never know I’ve only been here 1431 days, my accent has all but been eradicated except for when I talk to my family on the phone (much to Robyn’s chagrin) and that for 2½ years I was one of the countries public emeries, an illegal alien… I joke that I floated in to Miami on a basketball but yeah, I’ve only been an official resident since June 2006…
Anyways, for some reason that sounded good way back when, I decided that on January 24th, to mark this auspicious date in my life, I’d document that day in my life, sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s boring, sometimes it’s indifferent, funny fact, this would be the first “day in the life” I’ve done that I’ve actually worked…
Nine D.C. government employees are being fired for viewing pornography on their work computers, including three who looked at inappropriate sexual images an average of about 200 times per work day in 2007, city officials said yesterday. Do the maths children, 39,000 visits a year, 200 times a work day, that’s one porn site every 2½ minutes… How can you do work if you’re visiting a porn site every couple of minutes?
Star Trek Teaser Trailer. Hmmm, only shows the Enterprise under construction… Definite tease.
Hollywood actor Heath Ledger has been found dead at a residence in downtown Manhattan. “He was found unconscious at the apartment and pronounced dead,” the New York Police Department said, adding that pills were found near the body. Man, that really sucks… Only the good die young
The Nominees for the 80th Annual Academy Awards. No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood lead the way with 8 nominations. Atonement and Michael Clayton not far behind with 7. But will there be a ceremony at all?
iRovr, an ultra-mobile community for iPhone and iPod Touch users. Yeah, so the clique can be more cliquey… But it’s actually quite interesting as it’s all handled through the mail.app.
I haven’t been to many basketball games in my time, 2 Hawks games, 4 Bobcats games and now I can add a UNC Tar Heels game to that list.
As I said earlier, I surprisingly won a nice weekend package as part of a competition a client of my work ran, 2 nights hotel, tickets to the North Carolina Tar Heels vs. North Carolina State Wolfpack game last Saturday, a hospitality brunch and a signed UNC jersey. Pretty sweet I thought, so off to Chapel Hill we headed on Friday night, we made pretty good time and arrived around 9pm to check in.
The next morning we went to downtown Chapel Hill to The Carolina Inn for a big, all you can eat brunch before heading to the game. Now I’ve seen college basketball on TV before, I’ve followed the last 3 or so March Madness’ pretty religiously (failing each time) but I had no idea what to expect. What I got was 2 hours of noise the likes I’ve not heard since the days of going to Ibrox to see Rangers play
I think it was a combination of the band in one corner, the very boisterous student section on the other side and us being so far back that noise reverberated off the roof, but my ears were ringing for hours afterwards. Yeah, also, for tickets that was part of a competition, you don’t expect to be in the 3rd row closest to god… But it was all good.
The game it’s self was a blowout in favour of UNC, NC State barely led for the first few minutes before UNC just burned them with defensive rebounds and lights out shooting, proving why they are ranked number 1 in the country. Enjoyable, well as enjoyable as a blowout could be.
While we had no affiliations to the game (Go Dawgs!) we enjoyed the people watching, and the near choreographed routines that everyone, except for us, knew… People watching at it’s best.
I would say you should go see a UNC game if you can, but apparently it’s a loooong wait for tickets, so nevermind.
We spent the rest of the weekend in Chapel Hill, Robyn compares it to Athens, GA. in terms of look and general vibe, you can take that how ever you want. It’s a college town with lots of bars and restaurants, and not a lot of parking. Hopefully this weekend we don’t have to head back to the Chapel Hill area, 3 out of 4 weekends was more than enough…
Tar Heels vs. Wolfpack – January 12th 2007 (set)
Originally uploaded by FLC.
After much anticipation (and precipitation) we got some snow last night, by this morning it had turned to freezing rain and slush. Still, I’ve seen more snow in my one year in Charlotte than I ever did in 3 in Atlanta…
Originally uploaded by FLC.
Flickr announces The Commons. It’s a pilot project created in partnership with The Library of Congress. The Library has an enormous photo catalogue, containing over a million photos. The Library team has chosen about 1,500 photos each from two of their more popular collections to show on Flickr and they invite the public to help describe brief moments in history by adding tags or leaving comments. Very cool if you ask me. [via]
How to make a webclip icon for the Apple iPhone. I’m sure you iPhone users have seen these now, now make your own… I’ve now added a Blossom webclip icon here, so she’s now a favicon, avatar, gravatar and webclip icon, what next?
Jason Kottke live blogged last night’s, presumably, now infamous episode of Mythbusters when an airplane on a conveyor belt defied conventional logic and took off. It’s a really complicated matter of physics going on here, but the jist is this… An airplane is not like a car, it’s wheels are not where the power from the engines goes. They are free spinning with very little frictional contact to the rest of the plane, the power from the engines pulls/pushes the air around it allowing forward momentum. The conveyor belt could have been going a million times the speed of light in the opposite direction to the plane and as long as the engine was going at “take-off” speed, the plane would take off… Awesome huh?