I am down in Orlando for a conference. Justin and I are getting ready for the evening of poker and drinking 🙂
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Storms were brewing…
We got rocked pretty good tonight. We were gone this weekend and missed 2.5″ of rain. I would say we got a couple of inches again tonight. Storms always make a night interesting 🙂
Earlier in the day at the cabin a few trees fell on the shed and the neighbors yard.
A conversation between a Customer and Bank of
America Bank: This is the Bank of America, can I help you?
Customer: Yes, I want to cancel my account. I don’t want to do business with you any longer.
Bank: Why?
Customer: You’re giving credit to illegal immigrants and I don’t think it’s right. I’m taking my business elsewhere.
Bank: Well, Mr. Customer, we don’t want to see you do that, but we can’t stop you. I’ll help you close the account. What is your account number?
Customer: (gives account number) Bank: For security purposes and for your protection, can you please give me the last four digits of your social security number?
Customer: No.
Bank: Mr. Customer, I need to verify your information, but in order to help you, I’ll need verification of who you are.
Customer: Why should I give you my social security number? The reason I’m closing my account is that your bank is issuing credit cards to illegal immigrants who don’t have social security numbers. You are targeting that audience and want their business. Let’s say I’m an illegal immigrant and you’ve given me a credit card. I have a question about it and call for assistance. You wouldn’t be asking me for a Social Security number, would you?
Bank: No sir, I wouldn’t.
Customer: Why not?
Bank: Because you would have pressed ‘2’ to speak in Spanish. We don’t ask for that information when calling in on the Spanish line.
CHECK THIS OUT ON SNOPES!!!!! IT’S TRUE!!!!!!
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/bankofamerica.asp
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More I-35 Pictures
A photographer took some very compelling pictures. They have been submitted to CNN and are being used by them. This is the link to his pictures. Although some of the photos have people in them none are of obviously injured persons. The pictures are aimed towards structural damage.
http://www.conphoto.net/collapse.html
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Video of the Minneapolis bridge falling…
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Photos of the Minneapolis bridge
A friend forwarded these to me. Click on the images to see the larger version.
I was keeping an eye on the Twins beating the Angel’s using my trusty Treo and Slingbox. What a pair 🙂
I’ve been an XM subscriber since August of 2003. In that time I have owned many different XM models. My latest one is the Pioneer INNO. It’s a nice and small device that I can carry in my pocket between work and the car. I even bought an arm band for when I do yard work and go biking. This keeps the unit high enough to get reception so I don’t block the signal as I would with it on my belt.
I can store 50 hours of XM content or even split that and include MP3 storage. I can schedule recordings or simply record a single song that I like.
Overall, I am very pleased with this new unit and have went from three radios to two for the simple fact that it’s so portable. I also have two car kits for each of our cars. Before I had units in each vehicle. This is nice because it cuts down on my subscription costs.
Rock on 🙂
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PS3 and the folding project…
 
Sony has bragged for a while about the power of their cell processor in the PS3. Well, it’s really showing it’s power with the Folding Project from Stanford. If you don’t know anything about this project take a moment to read about it here. It’s really amazing what can be achieved with this technology – cures for cancer, parkinson’s, etc.
Have a look at the stats page to see just how much more the PS3’s are doing that all the personal computers out there! Don, Sam and I are on a team for fun, there are a lot of them out there for Engadget, Joystiq and other communities but Don started one to honor his Wife’s Aunt which is a good team for me to be on 🙂
The stat that really got me in all of this was:
“It’s amazing that not only do proteins self-assemble — fold — but they do so amazingly quickly: some as fast as a millionth of a second. While this time is very fast on a person’s timescale, it’s remarkably long for computers to simulate.
In fact, it takes about a day to simulate a nanosecond (1/1,000,000,000 of a second).”
Now that’s a lot of calculations!!  If you have a PS3 run it overnight for a good cause!
Thanks to my Slingbox I was able to watch listen and glance over once in a while at the Twins game today at work on my Treo 700wx.
On another note, for those of you with Palm based Treo’s can now download a beta of the Sling player for Palm starting tomorrow! Go here for the download.
