At least some of the people who claim Snowden is lying are lying. To be fair, the Congresscritters charged with intelligence oversight are probably merely being duped by the spooks supposedly accountable to them.
| 3 Former NSA Employees Praise Edward Snowden, Corroborate Key Claims The men, all whistleblowers, say the 29-year-old succeeded where they failed. |
Apparently Vivint is out trolling our neighborhood. Any opinions on them? Not that I don't already have everything they offer...
(Book Review) A Quest of Heroes
I don't honestly recall where I saw this book , but I'm glad I picked it up. Morgan Rice does a good job of world building and setting up the series and introducing characters that you care about and situations you want to read about. I don't know that I'd compare it to Rowling or Martin like others have, but it was an enjoyable and engrossing fantasy read. The story pulls you in quickly and keeps you turning pages. Unfortunately, there simply aren't a lot of pages. I feel like Rice had a decently sized "epic" story and then signed a multi-book deal, so he chopped the story up into little bits. I hit the last page and was truly 'wait, that's it?'.
The story of 14-yr old Thorgrin will entice anyone that considers themselves a fan of the genre. All the key elements are here: royalty, class structure/struggle, knighthood as a means of escaping one's class, sorcery, intrigue, politics, and of course, the fair maiden. You could spend $3 on much worse (and let's face it, you have). I won't say much more as the book is so short I'd pretty much spoil the entire thing for you. However, the list of story elements above pretty much lays out the story arc in book #1. :)
★★★★✩
Yesterday Tina bought some new hair thing (curler/straightener/crimper/something. I dunno, I'm a dude). Apparently this thing gets so hot (400F) that it includes this little glove (think UnderArmour workout material) to protect your hand from getting burnt from your hair.
That's right, not from the device itself but from the /hair/ coming off the device. WTF.
How is this safe? Or sane? What's the ignition temp for human hair? Or hairspray? This just seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
If "Porn Star Dancing" is any indication, this should be damn good
Ellie did the song used in the God of War trailer. Can't wait to hear this album
Since Tina was nice enough to get me a Play gift card for Father's Day, I get to buy myself some music for once :-)
This is backfill. It's a shame the girls broke up.
New feature in CM which enables you to switch profiles based on the Accesspoint you are connected to #cyanogenmod
2013-06-15
I noticed an 'odd' behavior today and I'm wondering if it's myinstall or the app itself. I had multiple unread conversations when I opened the app. I tapped on one of them, read the messages in question, then hit the back button to go back to the conversation list. When the conversation list loaded, all conversations were now shown as read. I didn't slide from one conversation to another or anything like that. I simply entered one conversation and then backed out to the conversation screen. Shouldn't the other unread conversations have remained marked as unread?
Thanks.
I'm so used to just writing a book in my sms program on my phone and having it auto-break into multiple messages that I totally did the same thing in the Google Voice extension for Chrome. There's a character counter in the top right and eventually it turned into a bold, blue 'You serious?'
I actually lol'd
Anyone want to see the Ohio Roller Girls take on the ladies from Detroit this Saturday? I've got an extra ticket that I can leave at the "will call" box in your name. The double header this weekend is at the Ohio building at the Expo Center. Parking is $5 #rollerderby
| Ohio Roller Girls Ohio's First and Finest Flat Track Roller Derby League |
I'm using the 'pitch black' theme in version 6.22 on my galaxy nexus with the cm 10.1 nightly and I absolutely cannot find any visual indication of what conversation has unread messages in the conversation list. In the screenshot, only the text msgs from Emily have been viewed. The other two conversations are unread. Is this feature missing or am I simply missing something?
I identify with this so hard
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So aside from the PS4 being significantly cheaper than the XBox One (XBO), and looking better, and having none of those restrictions (crippling DRM, region locking, lending, selling, required to have active internet connection), it's also more powerful:
RAM-wise, they both have same capacity, but PS4 uses much faster GDDR5 memory (176GB/s) compared to the XBO's DDR3 (68.3GB/s). Also the XBO will require 3GB for the OS, leaving 5GB for games, whereas the PS4 apparently needs only 1GB for the OS, leaving 7GB for games, although the jury is still out on that one.
The processing power may look similar, but while the PS4 has 18 compute units, the XBO has 12. PS4 has a theoretical peak performance of 1.84 TFLOPS, XBO has 1.23 TFLOPS. PS4 has 1152 GPU cores, XBO has 768. I haven't been able to find concrete information, but the processors also appear to be clocked differently, with PS4 at 2Ghz and XBO at 1.6Ghz.
It's also reported the PS4 has a secondary custom chip to offload all downloading, streaming and social aspect work to. No mention of such for the XBO. The XBO does have a 32MB SRAM cache to help with graphics memory bandwidth, but apparently it makes things more complicated for developers to be able to take advantage of, and only goes so far to mitigate the shortcomings of the graphics memory bandwidth.
Of course technical specs are only part of the story, but it's difficult to see how Microsoft are going to win over gamers to their console at this rate. The problem with the PS3 was the Cell architecture, which was very difficult for game programmers to code for. They don't have any such problems now.
Just some random flowers we bought that I thought stood out against our tablecloth really well.
Our cat Gabby. She was just lying there soaking up the sun and let us get a good zoom on her. Converted to Sepia.
The Winchester House in San Jose, CA. The kids thoroughly enjoyed the 'weirdness' of this house while on vacation recently.
Pan view of the beach and ocean @ Stinson Beach, CA. Vacation was _so_ much fun
Stinson Beach, CA as seen from Highway 1 (coming from SF). Taken on my recent vacation.
A slightly overcast view of the Pacific as seen from Stinson Beach in CA during my recent vacation
Sea foam from the incoming tide @ Stinson Beach, CA during my recent vacation
Stinson Beach, CA as seen from Highway 1 (coming from SF). Taken on my recent vacation.
Pan of the SF Bay as seen from the marina on Sierra Point Pkwy. I swung by the office on vacation just to take this shot
The Pacific, as seen from the Santa Cruz boardwalk during my recent vacation
What kind of vacation in the Bay Area would it be without a trip to SF and a ride across the Golden Gate?
Monterey Bay panorama as seen from one of the outlooks in the aquarium.
Needs some work, it didn't quite stitch together perfectly, and then I had to scale it down for DA (original is 18624x2133)
The amount of bright colors in the aquariums at Monterey Bay amazed me all day long. This is but one example
One of the *many* types of jellyfish on display at Monterey Bay Aquarium during my recent vacation
One of the *many* types of jellyfish on display at Monterey Bay Aquarium during my recent vacation
One of the *many* types of jellyfish on display at Monterey Bay Aquarium during my recent vacation
More undersea life on display at the Monterey Bay aquarium (a recent vacation spot for us). The yellow just really, really popped compared to everything else in this particular tank
Some tuna (I believe) from one of the many aquariums at Montery Bay where we spent a day on our most recent vacation
Another view of Coyote Creek taken on my recent vacation. That's Fremont, CA and Mission Peak in the background. This was a couple of blocks walk from the hotel.
A view of Coyote Creek taken on my recent vacation. That's Fremont, CA and Mission Peak in the background. This was a couple of blocks walk from the hotel.
Standing at the entrance to the William Green building, downtown Columbus. Looking straight up it just seems like nothing but building, right through the sky
This is actually a shot of a 10 ft waterfall that feeds the stream that ends up being the main Alamere Falls. However, I wanted to focus on the cliff face in this shot. It has such an insane texture and coloring (the coloring was washed out in sunlight, but the shade here shows it). I'm not sure what kind of rock these cliffs are, but it was pretty hard, which was interesting because the cliffs are actually made up of tons of layers of it about 2 inches thick just laying on one another. We found this out when scaling the cliff face down to the beach as each layer tends to give out pretty easily under weight The whole thing reminded me a lot of shale and how it flakes in layers..
On our hike to Alamere Falls, the path gave us this really good view of Point Rayes. It was way off in the distance, which is the only reason it all fits into the frame. You can't see it in this shot, but that point is connected to the land mass in the foreground by a very long stretch of cliffs and beach.
This is a shot of the falls from 'beach level'. This is what you didn't see in Alamere Falls I due to the perspective. Hard to believe this size of falls is fed by such a tiny little stream of water...
A buddy and I recently went to the Point Reyes National Seashore park and hiked out to Alamere Falls. This shot intrigued me because of the perspective. This is the stream that feeds directly into the falls, which is a 50 foot sheer drop to the ocean. This picture makes it look like the land runs right into the ocean, when in fact you're 50 feet above it.
This shot was taking at my folks. I was visiting recently to attend some local craft shows, and on returning from the first show noticed that the sun had set behind the horizon and through the old pine trees that line their property into stark relief. I thought it was cool. so I took some shots and this was the best of them.
This is a pic of my step-daughter. This was just a random shot of her while we were watching her sister's softball game. There was no primping or planning or retouching. When reviewing the shots, this photo just screamed 'glam' to me, which killed me because she was only 11 at the time
Stephanie in position in the outfield. Suited up, gloved up, shaded, and prepared for anything
Stephanie's 8th grade softball team discussing a little pre-game strategy before taking the field
Gabby, being her usual 'too darn cute' self and hamming it up for the camera
Some of the more colorfull coral in the Ripley's Aquarium in Gatlinburg, TN. Shot from the moving sidewalk that takes visitors on a 'tour' around and under the tank
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