With all the horrors we’ve seen from dashboard cameras, it feels appropriate to end a good week with something beautiful. Enjoy.
The World is Not Without Good People
10th Annual Gettysburg Remembrance Illumination
Some friends of ours went to Gettysburg last weekend for some much needed quality time, relaxation and checking out the sites. We live a short (1.5-2 hour) drive from Gettysburg, and decided a visit sounded apropos, given the November 19 anniversary of the Gettysburg Address and the release of “Lincoln” in theaters across of the nation. After a short dive into the Series of Tubes, we learned we could easily fill our Saturday afternoon and evening without too much expense beyond gas so on we went…
In Soviet Russia, Snow Clears You
In the spirit of winter, and all things snow, my wife sent me this video of a man cleaning the snow from his roof. This man clearly knew how to work smarter and not harder, by outsourcing the work to gravity.
How I Fixed My Mac Mini Headless Server From Showing Weird Display Errors
I’ve been using a late 2012 i7 Mac Mini as a headless server running Plex and other services for a few years. I noticed certain resolutions would be unavailable when I remote connected to it via OS X screen sharing and portions of the screen would often just appear black unless I dragged a window over them.
“The Histomap: 4000 Years of World History” is the Story of Civilization
Rand McNally, best known for their maps, atlases and globes, published “The Histomap: Four Thousand Years of World History” in 1931. It was created by John B. Sparks, and it originally sold for $1. The map measured 5’2″ tall. It was intended to “[dramatize] the great adventure of mankind.” It is the story of civilization. The colored regions represented the various empires throughout the last 4000 years.
If you are given a choice, you believe you have acted freely. This is one of the darkest of all psychological secrets.
The Today Show Goes Crazy, Al Roker Babbling
Dennis and I were watching The Today Show, and realized that the staff didn’t know the mic was still hot. We caught this gem this morning. Here’s some previous hilarity…
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