Logos, Pathos, Ethos

This is my Ethos. while there are many like it, this one is mine. Without it I am nothing. Without me, it is nothing.

Jills Dictum

In regards to being patient when shopping for electronics;

"Hurry up and buy it now, before the price goes down and the quality goes up."

The Game is Over ...

Yup, the big game is over. The Seahawks lost and I like so many others in Seattle really enjoyed watching the game, except for those parts where I wanted to run outside and throw up ...

Other than that it was a great game. Hope to watch it again next year.

The Mohamed 'bomb turban' political cartoons.

The west values free speech. I 'believe' that the bomb throwing violent Muslims who would kill, arson, threaten, and commit other violent crimes are just that extreme radicals and NOT the average peace loving Muslim.

I want to point out that Muslims have been putting Mohamed's image on things for centuries, primarily images of Mohamed sitting backwards on a donkey preaching to his followers. It is therefor hypocritical to go into violent sociopathic hysterics over a couple of cheesy political cartoons. By going bananas like this they have only 'proved' the cartoonists political/satirical, point by acting exactly like the comedic caricatures they claim to despise.

YaaaaHoo Superbowl today!

Our office building in Seattle Friday was "Crrrazy" for SeaHawks!

Here are a couple of images;

Goalposts made from Fedex boxes

 Here is a pan of the office as seen through the goal posts. (Talk about team spirit!)

 

Steelers were not forgotten!

 Steelers fans were under represented but a few brave souls showed off their colors!
 

The Office building owners supported by giving free cookies!

 Check out the cookie spread provided by the office building managers in the lobby for the whole building.
 

Cookie Closeup!

 
 

What is the speed of Dark?

I always thought this was a cute physics joke and never really thought about it very deeply. Upon a small amount of consideration though you would think that the speed of 'dark' i.e. the lack of light would be equal to light's speed at vacating or illuminating a scene i.e. equal to c. In observation this is not 'totally' true. Due to quantum mechanics it could be calculated that the presence of light on a scene actually slightly precedes an illumination event and correspondingly the absence of light on a scene will succeed the illumination stop event.

Where does this go? It seems to go to the root of the time travel problem in that the speed of dark is not c but actually -c ... an interesting conjecture indeed in that it implies that dark would be an inverse time phenomena ...

Whether or not this is actually true it leads to some interesting ideas and thought experiments. Which came first, the light or the dark, depends entirely on your time vector.

Have fun and dust off those QM textbooks!

Something Interesting For Google Earth fans

If you take a look at at the Google images of Wright-Patterson AFB where the Air Musuem is you can find a seeing eye chart for satalite photographs, vertical and horizontal bars for resolution and a gray scale chart. Specifically at N38 deg 36.3", West 84 deg 07.3" I'm guessing that the little arrows on the chart mark 1 meter resolution, also a guess that the Google Earth image is about 6 or 8 meter res. Interesting that the chart seems to go all the up to centimeter resolution levels. I ca'nt really tell if it goes beyond that.

Stargate SG1

There once was Cornel O'Neil,
Who would step through the Stargate with zeal,
Goa'ould he would find,
and then kick their behinds,
Till a General's stars did he wield.

(Stargate Limerick)

Theres a little black spot on the Sun today ...

The little Sun spot that's been generating the X-class flares is much quieter today. It might stay that way and the current solar storm will drift quietly away. Wouldn't want my cable TV to go out :)

It only has to be quiet for a couple of days and we will have dodged a big satellite killing bullet.

Theres a little black spot on the Sun today ...

Yes there is. I set up a binocular projector (one lense covered) to see it for myself. Very interesting. If the sun seems a bit brighter and harsher today that's because it is.

Possible cable TV and power grid outages next week. This spots been throwing X class flares for at least a week. See

Space Weather
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&q=Space%20weather

Flood Enhancement Over City Image

This image is the below color flood enhancements superimposed on a Google-Earth image of New Orleans. The color shows some of the flooding as of 8/30. The flooding is probally more extensive by this time. 

I've strung all three together if anyone wants the full res version let me know. 

Image Enhancement of New Orleans Flood Areas

I took the before / after images of New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain blanked the clouds, and enhanced the difference which gives a good estimate of the flooded land around the lake, including New Orleans.

The satellite images originated on;
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ 

Difference Blue and Red are flooded areas, including New Orleans at the point of the arrow. 


Before ...
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ 


After ... 

Mer-A Spirit, July color view from the hill ...

This is a recent six image pan I just stitched together from the side of the hill overlooking the crater plain. Spirit has a good view. The original is about 2900 pixels across. Colors are shifted to the red a bit because the red filter was in the near infra-red. To human eyes the whole scene would appear a bit more tan and the rocks a flatter grey, the pinkish tinge would be gone from the sky replaced with the color of sand. Desolate and dusty. 

Sunset from Gusev Crater

The spirit rover (mer-a) recently took this color sunset shot from the hill it's been climbing looking out across the crater floor. This image was processed to merge the sun into a single image from the red green blue images. 

Same number 4 just south of I90. 

2005 Seafair, number 4 in a tight left wing over pulling multiple Gs just south of the I90 bridge. Shot with a Cannon SD400. I almost loaded up my full 1Gb card with F18 pictures. 

Five F18s go head to head over Lake Washington

Just about as many head to head F18s in one image I've ever seen. This is the 2005 Seattle Sea-fair Blue Angles last Sunday. 

Took this picture of Seattles' Columbia center last week. I guess its got a different name now though, Bank of America building or something like that. 

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