Anyone free the next few days who can help with various moving tasks?
I promise not to work anybody too hard. Even just hanging around can be beneficial.
The US Spends 20 billion for AC in tents in Afghanistan and Iraq. That's 2 bil more than all of NASA's budget
The cost breaks down to 90k per soldier, per year.
I'm not suggesting that the soldiers don't have AC. It's hot and miserable there. I'm suggesting that they figure out better building better temporary bases than canvas tents if you're going to try to put in air-conditioning.
It's also atrocious that we spend more on AC for this war effort every year than we give to NASA for everything that they do.
Sources: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil/personnel/MILITARY/history/hst0803.pdf and http://www.theworld.org/2010/07/28/military-base-close-to-the-front/
In Colorado
I drove one of my parents cars to Colorado for them this weekend. I'll be back Tuesday night
I curse the engineer that decided that USB and Ethernet ports should be the same width
Not only do I get it wrong when I'm trying to plug something in behind the computer, but I've troubleshooted more than one report of "the network isn't working" problem because of that exact scenario.
At today's Exchange rate: a 5.5 Magnitude Canadian Earthquake is a 5.3 Magnitude US Earthquake
FYI: There was just a 5.5 magnitude earthquake in Canada, near Ottawa, that was felt as far south as NYC and Ohio. No serious damages reported. http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/23/usgs-5-5-magnitude-earthuake-strikes-canada
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Trying to teach Apollo how to crawl
Spoiler alert: He hasn't figured it out yet, even though we've done our best to bribe him with his favorite toys.
Apollo likes playing with his babysitters hair
Let me know if the occasional baby post gets annoying. This is my first kid and I find nearly everything he does to be adorable.
Moving to Posterous
I was getting tired of updating Wordpress everytime there was a new
hack found, so I've converted my site to a Posterous site. I have to
say, it's pretty damn slick. I can email a single address and it posts
across all of my various social media accounts. If I attach pictures,
it uploads them to my various photo sites. If I post a video, it
uploads it to my youtube and facebook account.
and just pointed it to the service. I even got around to making
Resume.AdamScottBrown.com and whipped up a quick HTML resume that
looks pretty good. I just have a bit more content to fill in there and
a few changes to make. I'm totally happy with my job, even though I feel stressed and
over-worked lately, but I always feel that it's good to keep your
resume updated at all times so you are ready in case you need it and
so you don't have any difficulty putting down what you've been working
on.
