Happy Mardi Gras, everyone!

And for those who aren't celebrating it, Happy Chinese New Year.

Well, a few ladies. Ok, not really. But it's interesting ( Read more... )

I wonder if there's some way to get leather that's both tanned and tattooed ( Read more... )

Literally tons of snow. It has actually lightened up a bit finally, we used to get about an inch of snow on the ground in the time it took to shovel the driveway. But even so, it's well over two feet deep, over 30 inches in some places ( Read more... )

Yeah, we got tons of snow coming our way. So far they've practically shut down the airports, with only a few international flights coming into Dulles, BWI mostly closed, and National entirely closed. We're in the band that's looking at 30 inches of snow. It would be not quite up to my waist ( Read more... )

Turns out we got more snow than people were expecting this weekend. There was always the risk of the system moving north, and the area getting hit harder, but I don't think anyone was expecting it to be quite that much harder. Even so, I went out to Gainesville to meet people for stuff at BW3s, to do a guys day out thing while a bunch of the ( Read more... )

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Anyone want to catch a movie tonight? Late notice, I know, but I figured I'd check. Probably best to gimme a call, if so.

People are always trying to calculate Pi to the furthest decimal point. Some guy just did it on a regular PC, and beat the previous record, taking 131 one days to do it. It takes over a terabyte of space to simply store the number. And he did it on a regular computer, compared to a supercomputer, which was used to calculate the first 2.6 ( Read more... )