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Found out how long you will live here.

Just testing … Sending this from work phone. Found an app for posting -surprise- on this archaic OS.

4 Years – My dad can do anything
7 Years – My dad knows a lot
8 Years – Dad doesn’t quite know everything
12 Years – Dad doesn’t quite understand
14 Years – Father? Hopelessly old-fashioned.
21 Years – Oh, that man is out of date. What would you expect?
25 Years – He comes up with a good idea, now and then.
30 Years – Let’s find out what Dad thinks about it
35 Years – A little patience … must get Dad’s input first
50 Years – What would Dad have thought about it?
60 Years – I wish I could talk it over with Dad once more

From this year’s CES. Awesome.

Please know that this is one of my new, all-time favorite pics …

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After about 4 years, I updated the index over the past week. Will be updating subsequent directories shortly to match theme.

Okay – how can the tires make a skidding sound at 2:20 when it’s on dirt?

Answer me that.

5.5 Terapixels = 5.5×10¹² pixels

At a 16:9 aspect ratio that gives you: 3.127×10⁶ px by 1.759×10⁶ px.

Assuming this thing captures in 12-bit RAW format (pretty standard): were looking at approximately 8.25TB per image.

Really?

equals

and this one … not a console gamer, but this was new to me today, too:

Below is the excerpt from the new biography (published today – I’m reading it on my Android Tablet) of Steve Jobs – the iconic co-founder of Apple. It briefly explains his turn on Christianity as a youth …

One documented reason he went into over 40 interviews with the author prior to his death in August was so his children would understand why he wasn’t there for them. Sad, really.

But to the point of his move from Christianity to Buddhism …

The catalyst was his realization that this God let this happen to these children; yet, he grew his immense fortune from the child-workers in China (noted, as many tech companies do nowadays) with terrible conditions and labor practices – and never outwardly made a difference his youthful self was so disgusted by.

As iconic as his followers believe him to be, his humanistic legacy is quite pathetic. Once his shiny gadgets fade into obsolescence, I would only hope those that have built his current pedestal will see through the iEuphoria and understand that he ultimately failed with the tremendous opportunity he had to truly to Think Different for humanity.

the magazine cover that shook young Steve Jobs in 1968

This is what I’m spending my Sunday doing …

So the Pics section of the site is struggling a tad, of late. I attempted to upgrade to new coding, and it kind of threw everything off … oops.

I kind of had a heart murmur after that, because I wasn’t sure if by doing that tweak if I had lost all 3500+ photos I had uploaded to the site over the past 10 years were gone. But they’re still there.

So now I’m in the process of backing up those pics and rebuilding that part of the site.

Just an FYI.

So we have another Governor of Texas running for President … who is apparently more steadfast on Creationism than his counterpart in Utah, of all people.