Steve Jobs
This man was a true visionary and really changed how people interact with technology.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do… — Steve Jobs
Humorous and touching talk about living through a life and death moment:
I saw this video a few days ago and keep thinking about it:
Last Moments Of Life from Paul Kroeker on Vimeo.
A friend and colleague of mine’s son was recently diagnosed with leukemia. This comic is pretty interesting on how some of the treatments coming down the pike are really strange and powerful when you look at them.
From XKCD.
From the Weather Underground:
Did you know that…
Over eighty aircraft were destroyed by wind gusting to 116 mph on this date in 1989 at Henderson Sky Harbor Airport and McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. Total damage was estimated at $14 million.
I totally don’t remember this.
I just spent the weekend at Defcon 19, a hacking convention here in Las Vegas. Defcon, coupled with my experience at the STS-133 NASA Tweetup, gives me hope for the future.
People are creative. People are amazing. We build. We make. We create. We break things and build them up again.
Although we are living through some of the worst economic times in almost a century, I have hope for the future. This country has some amazing young people that will get this country back on the right track again. They will do this with sheer guts, determination, and home-brewed engineering skill.
We are going to be fine.
Amazing video with clips from all of the Space Shuttle missions. Well worth a watch.
Been dazed and confused for so long, it’s not true
–Jake Grier Holmes, Jr. 1967 (not Jimmy Page 1968)
Biologists hunted through archives and Civil War era records, searched for specimens in jars in the back rooms of museums, and dealt with paperwork and stored specimens lost in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake to do a genetic analysis and establish that the desert tortoise of the southwestern US and northwest Mexico is actually two species and possibly more. The California and Nevada populations retain their original name, Agassiz’s land tortoise, Gopherus agassizi while the Arizona and Mexican population is named Morafka’s land tortoise, Gopherus morafki. The records were really spotty (heck, the date of the original species description was found to be off by two years) but the researchers appear to have really figured things out. I’ve helped get tortoise tissue samples for disease research for one of the authors, Kristen Berry, and she is a really incredible scientist.
The USGS has a nice article about the differences in the new species and the scientific paper is actually a really interesting insight into the history of scientific exploration of the West in the 19th century. Plus, there are really cool pictures of the specimens!
Got a good chuckle this morning from this comic. I did my undergrad thesis on conspicuous consumption in landscapes and lawns and based it on Thorstein Veblen’s 1899 book, Theory of the Leisure Class.
The Atlantic has a great photo gallery of Space Shuttle pictures including several unusual pictures such the Star Trek cast in front of Enterprise and Enterprise on the never used launch pad in California. Link.
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