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Every now and again I check the heavens-above.com web site. If the orbit of IIS is just right, a bit before or after sunset the reflection of the sun on the IIS makes for a beautiful sight. The IIS appears to be a fast moving very bright star as it passes over.  If the IIS passes over later at night or later in the day you can not see it since the sun is either blocked completely or the sun is

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Christopher Hitchens passed away 15 December 2011. Here is a link to a YouTube video where he discusses the 10 commandments.  At the end of the video he gives an updated version of them that do fit very nicely modern times.  Here is a link to to the text of the discussion on Vanity Fair. And here are the updated commandments. Do not condemn people on the basis of their ethnicity or color.  Do

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From the beautiful I440 overpass near Wade Avenue there will be a bit of greenway that extends down the inside of the beltway to Glen Eden Drive.  The greenway actually will have underpasses under Lake Boone Trail and Glen Eden Drive.  Once it goes under Glen Eden you can bike up to Glen Eden and cross over the beltway and pick up the new part again near Glen Eden Park then again parallel to the

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From a note posted by my nephew on Google+ We have an iMac. It's 5 years old. Recently, Netflix stopped working on it. The operating system (Tiger) was too old. We updated the OS to Snow Leopard. Now it works again. We wouldn't tolerate this kind of nonsense with a television or a stereo. Why do we tolerate it with a computer? The modern business model is to force the

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I do not have a lot of 'seat-time' this year and my recent 200K MS-150 Tour left my seat in 'sore-shape'. As luck would have it Evelyn just recently purchased a "Moon Saddle" so I borrowed it an put it on my bike to give it a spin. I just did a 25K greenway ride and stopped to adjust it four times (I had no clue how to set this thing because it's geometry is so wildly different from a standard

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National MS Society Eastern NC Chapter 2011 MS150 Cycling Tour (My 14th Year In A Row) To My Dear Contributors; With your help I am now only $20.00 away from going over the top in my fund raising goal for this year's  ride!!!   THANK YOU! Here are the details of the ride this year: SATURDAYSUNDAYITEM          (UNITS) 5:15:353:36:36time          (hh:mm:ss) 119:4679.19distance      (km

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Hear I am ... this is the first time in 14 years (all my years) that I have camped out at Union Point.  Back in the day when we biked from Clayton to Kinston then from Kinston to Emerald Island I did camp on the MS150 but never before in New Bern. This is a grand camp ground. Below is a picture of my tent and my number that I pinned to my backpack.  I've carted my bike to the 'bike-room' in the

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Being 'on-the-road' (in a car) the past few days and not being able to go to the gym or do any cycling was starting to concern me ... the MS150 is coming up next weekend.   So I decided to do a Labor Day Ride and here are the details: 36.27 km .... distance 19.10 kph ... average speed 54.90 kph ... maximum speed (going down Scotland Street) 01:53 hh:mm . elapsed time This was a 'greenway-ride'

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When I was a young school kid I used to think that Labor Day was when everyone had to go back to work after having the whole summer off. Back to work for me in those days was back to school. Now I think it is one day off after having the whole year of working ... Well perhaps not quite ... Since, I am just completing (as of today) an 11 Day Vacation that included:  A flight to Oakland CA and a

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Ginny and I put the bikes on the back of the car and headed out for "Albany Bulb" park.  We parked the car and headed west along "The Bay Trail" a bike trail that follows the San Francisco Bay. Here is the route "The Bay Ride" this morning the sky was overcast because 'The Marine Layer' had not yet burned off so we were in no danger of getting a sunburn.  The route is lined by Fennel which was

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After being slightly 'cooked' in the 80K "Cup-and-Cone" bike ride I did not want to repeat anything like that for this ride, so I opted for the 56K distance (vs the 100K or 160K distances). Instead of over 100F temps this Saturday featured rain showers.  I am much better riding in the rain than I am riding in 100+ temperatures.  I do not know if that means I would have been successful with the

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A nice ride. This ride featured "Helmet-Chips".  The organizer of the ride Bruce Bokish also runs a company that does sporting event timing.  Things like runs, and bike rides.  The RFID chip is embedded in some paper and stuck to the helmet of the rider or the rider's running bib.  As the runner or rider leaves the area to be timed an RFID scanner array reads each RFID tag as it passes through

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A day on the beach here is a video of the kite and some drip sand castle. And here is a slide show of some still pictures of the same scene.

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This morning at the cottage I was up in time to get out and do my Tai Chi form down on the beach.  It was a beautiful morning.  The wind was a little strong from the east and the moon was full. DANCING UP THE SUN ================== From Random Graphic Images This is the view looking toward the ESE. From Random Graphic Images Here is the view down the beach toward the WSW and the

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The beach cottage this year is around mile 14.5 on NC58 as you drive toward the west end of Emerald Isle. TUE 05 JUL 2011 - A nice ride. The wind was pretty strong so the stretch from Atlantic Beach to Emerald Isle was slow. Here are the stats: 01:26 hh:mm (time) 25.29 km    (distance) 17.50 kph   (average) 40.40 kph   (maximum) THU 07 JUL 2011 - Another nice ride. The wind was

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Finally, some time to apply the finish to this beautiful wood! I was able to wipe everything down with the 'Tung Oil' (or China Wood Oil) and let it dry for 24 hours. Then this morning I just fitted all the parts together and took the pictures below. I think I should give everything another sanding and another coat of the 'Tung Oil' and repeat until the finish looks good. This project was a

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This morning I did "The Three Peninsular Ride".   I leave Fisher Street and head up Bay Street to 20th then out to Blair Farms  Point and on to Country Club Road and on to the High School.   Next back toward town on the bike path to the hospital then across US70 to the boat launch place and down Evans Street to the Atlantic Beach Bridge.  Over the bridge then onto Fort Macon.  Once at Fort

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At least it wasn't stuck in the highest gear, see this post for that story.  I am wondering if I may need a new shifter since I took it to my local bike shop for a complete tune-up over-haul and this was the result on my first outing after that. This morning I took off on my North Raleigh Loop Ride and was feeling strong.  I was about 10 miles out getting ready to cross US70 on Ebenezer Church

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My sister, mentioned in an email that the college, where she is a librarian, has a baseball team that is doing well this year. She wrote in part: "... Mt. Olive College is doing very well in the national college baseball competition this year. If it weren’t so hot, I might almost be tempted to attend today’s game in person.  I understand it is on the Internet, tho’. I watched part of the Ken

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Now These Are Some Socks! From Random Graphic Images I got a gift certificate to REI from my sister (who wrote this card) When I did a search on the REI site for 'socks' it did not take long to make my decision. The way I see it, if you are going to wear socks and sandals your socks should stand out.My other pairs of socks that I wear with sandals are hand knitted (by Evelyn).

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Sunday was such a beautiful morning, Evelyn and I decided to load up the bikes on top of the car and head out to our favorite cycling path; The American Tobacco Trail Bike Path (A Rails To Trails Project).  I rode Robert's Trek 6000 mountain bike which goes very well on the crushed, packed limestone of the bike path. This bike path goes from around New Hill NC to downtown Durham NC.  We

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My 'Good-Old-North-Raleigh-Loop-Ride' I left this morning a bit before eight o'clock and everything went grand.  There was one small 'glitch' at the 35.5km point.  My rear derailleur cable broke at the shifter.  And I was at the intersection of Durant Road and Honeycutt Road.   I was at the bottom of one of the longest and steepest climbs of the loop.  And when the rear cable breaks the gears

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Awwww.... (See Pictures Below) Thank you for the sweet birthday card ... At some time on Sunday 15 May 2,011 CE  I will have completed 64 years of my life ... And you and I will be twins for the next 9 days ... And then you will have completed SIXTY-FIVE years of your life ... (sorry could not resist) But don't worry I'll be there next year this time ... And to close: When I get older

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This overpass was a -3.8 magnitude and was really bright. The ISS passed into shadow just after passing over the zenith. Here is a slide show: And here are two pictures that I took with our digital cameras set to 15 second exposures pretty cool: From 14_APR_2011_IIS_OVERPASS and: From 14_APR_2011_IIS_OVERPASS

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I earned a BS degree in Mathematics at UNCW. I also did a senior honor's project in the foundations of Computer Science and earned a Secondary Teachers Certificate. My extra courses were mostly in Physics. I did teach Mathematics and Physics at the secondary level for two years before entering graduate school I did earn a graduate degree in Mathematics and then went to on to teach Mathematics

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The weather event that swept through North Carolina last Saturday did leave some major destruction in it's path.  Additionally Raleigh, where we live was struck by a tornado.  It passed well to the east of our neighborhood (2-3 miles). Evelyn, and Robert are working each day with the Red Cross, yesterday they even drove a ERV (Emergency Response Vechicle) to hand out snacks and supper to folks

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Here in Raleigh, NC we get two very bright overpasses in the next ten days.  The first one comes up on Sunday night just after sunset. Below is a graphic that has a recap of each of the overpasses (click for a larger view).  Also at the web site (click here) you can visit and set up an account and put in your longitude and latitude and get ground tracks for each pass of interest.  Also here is a

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Here are the next few days. Tomorrow morning looks especially good since the magnitude is near the maximum for the ISS. From Random Graphic Images [ADDED 14 APR 2011 - Morning] And I did wave! That was "Something Wonderful!" I arrived at Shelly Lake just seconds before the overpass was to occur. As I was walking up the path to the top of the dam when I looked up and thought, "It should be

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This is something: "http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110413.html". Imagine that you could see the night sky in the radio wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum ... Then you woud see this specter rising in the sky each night. This extended astronomical object is the radio image of the galaxy Centaurus A.  This link: "Centaurus A" goes to a youtube video of a 'zoom-into' this galaxy. Your Radio

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My order number was 6367. Just as I completed the test divisions of all the primes up to it's square root, Determining that 6367 is prime, My order completed.

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Using the same sort of schema that the Math Jokes For Mathy Folks uses, I came up with my favorite number 705: 705 is the product of 3, 5, and 47 which are the unique prime numbers in the prime decomposition of the numbers 15 May 47 (5/15/47) my birthday. The 705th Strong Number (Greek) is "To Number" "ἀριθμέω" (transliteration - "arithmeō") 705 Is: The 4th 73-Gonal Number (72-gonal Numbers 1,

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Hi Rachel; TOMORROW (SUNDAY)================= Did you know that in Raleigh tomorrow night the sun will set at 7:26pm. And then just 5 minutes before at 7:21pm the Vernal Equinox will occur. So what is the Vernal Equinox?  This is the time of year when the length of the day and the length of the night are the same.  The sun rises and then 12 hours later (1/2 of 24) it will set.  So the night is

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Tau Day Tau is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its radius. Or approximately 6.28 June 28th.  I Love Tau Day. And here is a super comment on Tau: http://vihart.com/blog/pi-is-still-wrong/ (One of my favorite bloggers)

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To celebrate UNC completion of their participation in the ACC Men's Basketball Tournament - Sadly they could not beat Duke twice in one season, while Duke was up to the task of beating UNC twice in one season.  So now it is on to the NCAA BB Tournament. My ride was a repeat of the one a couple of weeks ago (A Complete Greenway Ride). Here are the stats 02:09:46 ..... hh:mm:ss .. elapsed

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Spring forward - into darkness - but take heart, as we progress around our annual ellipse our stalwart facing pole will again bring sun to these northern climes.

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Hi Everyone; This afternoon at 6:15PM Eastern NCSU plays FL State, the last game of the regular ACC season.  No matter which team wins it will not change their seed in the ACC tournament (I am pretty sure based on the standings this morning) So I filled out the brackets based on those standings and have also attached that graphic. Below is a text listing of those brackets, and additionally here

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If you sleep an average of 8 hours a day a quick calculation yields the fraction 1/3 when compared to the number of hours in a day, 24. So I am now 63 years old, soon to turn 64, and let's say I have around 21 years left. Another quick calculation yields 7 years, the number of years out of the next 21 that I will be asleep. So since there are on average 365.25 days in a year then another

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It is a beautiful day here in Central North Carolina. The temperature is in the 60s and 70s and there is lots of sun and not much wind.A perfect day for a early spring bicycle ride.I left the house around 10AM. I had my brand new 'Camel-Back-Mule' back-pack that I got for Christmas on, and it served very well. It is roomy but does not feel like you are wearing a 'back-pack'. I did not put any

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Yesterday was the third of six weeks for the project. Here is a recap of what I've done since week one. Between Saturday classes one of the instructors is available on Thursday nights and Friday afternoons to help the students with the project, So the sessions below include Thursdays and Saturdays.Click the image below to see some pictures of this project:A Simple 'Shaker-Style' Wall Cabinet(

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The Easter-Fleece-Sweater Last spring (2010) Evelyn visited The Kelly Clement farm and helped with the spring sheep shearing. One in particular ewe was named, Easter. Easter was pregnant at the time and gave birth that evening after being shorn. Evelyn had the opportunity to purchase a "Fleece" and she choose Easter's fleece. A fleece is the entire product produced when you shear a

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So, think about what you see when you look up into the sky and see a full moon. Now, think about an object in the sky that spans the size of six full moons. Well, that is just a fantasy, right? Something that big would dominte the sky. Now imigine your eyes could collect all the light that falls on them for a period of thirty minutes as if it were just an instant. And there in the sky around

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The following "Tree Lobster" web comic made me think about thinking. Here is the comic "http://www.treelobsters.com/2011/02/233-answers.html"And here is my comment:Humans have the ability to hold in their minds thoughts that can be characterized as "Meta". Additionally they have the ability to think "Self Referentially". The human mind is quite comfortable with both modes of thought. The

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I have enrolled in a wood working class at The NCSU Craft Center Woodworking Shop.The shop has many tools (Here are the ones I used today):The JoinerThe PlanerThe Radial Arm SawThe Miter SawThe Table Saw (It has "Saw-Stop" technology - Which will stop/crash the blade within two teeth of movement when it detects flesh)A built in saw-dust vacuum (with floor vents you can open with your foot and

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I found the following in the comment section of the comic strip referenced below.This year has at least 4 unusual dates 1/1/11, 1/11/11, 11/1/11 and 11/11/11.So try this:Take the LAST 2 digits of the year you were born and add the age you'll be this year.And the answer you get is ...How about that?And when you do a little analysis it takes some of the 'wonder' out of it.I saw the above

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Here is the cartoon: http://xkcd.com/844/ and the best part of the cartoon is reading where the word HURD came from (see alt-text of the cartoon) the see the Wikipedia article on HURD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd.Really Good!

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Happy New Year?I was listening to the December 22nd SKU podcast (SKU = Skeptics Guide to the Universe) and afterward found myself wandering around the Internet trying to see just what the difference between a Sidereal Year and a Tropical Year is.Today's SpikedMath.COM comic: http://spikedmath.com/362.html addresses this difference.Here is an explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year#

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If the sky is not cloudy at 5:29PM Today I'll snap a picture of the Northwest Horizon ... Where according to http://www.heavens-above.com I will be able to see the International Space Station just above the horizon.Here is the web page for ISSwave "http://www.isswave.org/" Here is how you do it:[1] Go to http://www.heavens-above.com and enter your latitude/longitude and click on the link that

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The snow flakes that are '3-d' you open the image in a new tab then view full screen then 'un-focus-your-eyes' (sort of like looking at something 'cross-eyed') and concentrate on the 'MIDDLE' of the three images that emerge and that one is the 3-D picture.Here is the link to the page:"http://emu.arsusda.gov/snowsite/stereo/stereo.html"This one is my favorite:

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Some Pictures From The Christmas Season 2010If it snows this afternoon I'll add more :o)2010 Christmas PicturesAnd we got snow last night (and it is still snowing this morning) --- at the end of the picture album are snow pictures:Christmas PicturesWe were going to travel to Asheville today but the road conditions are not up to driving anywhere.Here is a video of the snow this morning:Snow

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This is really cool. I've been following this for years. Now we see the latest, the mechanism has been duplicated using legos. How cool is that?Here is a web page about the computer:http://acarol.woz.org/antikythera_mechanism.htmlHere is a video that discusses the computer (and the making of the video):http://blog.smallmammal.com/post/2156532687/behind-the-scenes-lego-antikythera-mechanism

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Here is a good article (and the comments are just as good)http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/12/security_in_202.htmlThat 'on-line/connected' devices will be ubiquitous is a given, this very event I think ---'Changes-Everything'.That 'everything-is-in-the-cloud' additionally 'Changes-Everything'

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A "Water Year" is defined as the period from October 1st to September 30th and its value is the same as the calendar year of the month of September, so the the year ending September 30th was the Water Year 2010Here is a recap of The 2010 Water Year at Davidson Street as I reported it to the http://www.CoCoRaHS.ORG web site.I do enjoy this activity.

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What will happen Tuesday 21 December 2010 which last happened Tuesday 21 December 1638?At 6:38PM the Winter Solstice occurs, and at 3:17AM (nine hours earlier) a Total Eclipse of the Moon will have occurred. These two events last occurred on the same day 372 years ago.Here is a link to the totality graph for this event. And here is a nice discussion at the US Naval Observatory.The next total

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This morning the temperature was 40F and I walked out to the street to pick up the newspaper I could feel the the damp cool fog around me ... The ground was wet with yesterdays almost 0.20 inches of rain. The feeling was wonderful!I did enjoy my two weeks on the Tropic of Capricorn (São Paulo, Brazil). Since it is very near the solstice, the sun was almost vertical, the small shadow that was

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So... I am on business the first two weeks of December in São Paulo Brazil... And Evelyn is visiting her niece in Jupiter FL...So how far apart are we ...[1] We are both in warm places the first week of December, and bothsee lots of Christmas decorations when we go 'down-town'[2] Or Evelyn is located at 26.93° N and 80.1° W ... while I am locatedat 23.5° S and 46.5° W.[3] Or I am 1834 nm more

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Here are some pictures from São Paulo

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... and never even mind Biology :)Here is note about the article: "http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26059/"And here is the article: "http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.4125"So far, I've just read the note and the abstract ... but I've now downloaded the article and am going through it now.This really looks grand.

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Hi;In the course of thinking about the limitations of logic and mathematics I've read many posts. Here are three that seem to me to pull a lot of things together:"The Vagueness Paradox" - A post by Terence Tao that brings together a lot of stuff (in combination with a couple of Wikipedia articles - see the next two links.)"Tarski's Undefinability Theorem" - A link to this page is in the post by

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We had a grand time at the East Bay Mini Maker Faire. It was a little drippy but there were lots of people there anyway. I can only imagine what it would have been like had it not been the middle of a howling 'Nor-Wester' :o)Here are some pictures:

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Benoit Mandelbrot passed away on the 14th of October 2010. Here is a link to his obituary: "http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/18/mandelbrot_obituary/".The very first color graphic application I downloaded from 'the-Net' was FractINT an application that allowed one to 'zoom-in' on any area of the Mandelbrot Set. I spent hours and hours wandering around inside that set.Hear is a link to a

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A beautiful day at the fair, here are some pictures.

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We had a grand time this year and look forward to another grand weekend next year.Here are some pictures:

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Here is an email exchange I had with an old friend: From: Dear Old FriendTo: ZachDate: Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 09:03Subject: Re: Email Chain That Wound Up Wondering If Palin And Gingerich Are From Planet Earth You know Obama's grandfather (who basically raised him in his home) was a member of the UU church in Hawaii. OB's grandmother's memorial was there right after he was elected. His

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Just a simple sunrise over the bay. Since the date is so near the Equinox then the location of the sun in the first frame is very nearly due East.

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Day 2 started out very rainy. We spent the night in Morehead City at Evelyn's house on Fisher Street. When we were leaving about 5:50am the heavens opened up and a cloud burst rained down. We had to pick our way through street floods to get out of town.By the time we reached New Bern it was still very cloudy but the rains had stopped. No more rain fell that day and the clouds parted around

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Evelyn and I finished day-1 of the MS150 Cycling Tour in New Bern NC in fine styel. We had a very good ride. The sky was cloudy (no sun block needed) and the temperature was mostly in the 70s with light wind. A very nice ride.Here are the stats:03:03 hh:mm .... Time on rolling.52.43 km ....... Distance traveled.17.01 kph ...... Average speed.Here is a slide show of some pictures we took:And Here

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Evelyn was on duty so could not ride this morning so I tried my 'North Raleigh Loop Ride'. It turned out to be a beautiful day for a bike ride. Here are the 'stats':Time On The Bike hh:mm .. 02:22Distance Traveled km .... 45.30Average Speed kph ....... 19.20The ride is a bit longer when you go clockwise and you take Morning Dove Dr to Sawmill then to Longstreet then to the greenway. However,

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Evelyn received an invitation to visit the kiln opening at Hewitt Pottery. The pottery is only about 35 miles from Raleigh, out on US64 West toward Pittsboro just after you cross the Haw River. It was a beautiful morning for a visit and Evelyn found a pot to purchase.Here is a slide show of our visit. Everything was beautiful.

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You be the judge ... (hint: The answer is obvious - and quite easy - and has nothing to do with 'force-of-arms').Here is the post that asks the question: http://snarla.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/if-they-hate-us-why-havent-they-killed-us-yet/After reading some of the comments on the post I anticipate answers that may come to mind, and give the answer to the largely rhetorical question posed above.

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Hurricane Earl approached the North Carolina Outer Banks today. When I left the gym this morning the dawn illuminated this beautiful arc of high/mid clouds that stretched from NNE to SSW. These clouds represented the leading edge of the NW quadrant of the outflow pattern from Earl. I stopped in a parking lot and took a video (just a few minutes earlier would have been even more spectacular).

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We don't walk around Shelly Lake as often as we used to. My recent battle with my knees have left me in a situation where an extended walk was quite painful. Recently, however I have changed my exercise pattern and I know my knees are getting stronger and so can tolerate walking much better. This walk was certainly proof that I am doing something right, my knees actually felt good after the

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I did an 'early-check-in' this morning and picked up my packet and Evelyn's packet. The packets include the T-Shirt (which is really nice) as well as the 'rider-numbers'. Below is a picture of my Cycling Jersey that I earned because all the folks who donated to the 2009 Eastern NC MS150 Cycling tour gave enough so that the final figure went over $1,000.00. I will be sending out announcements

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In this video the shadows cast by the two rocks are cast by the light from the Milky Way Galaxy (ours). Here is a link to a beautiful video of this: "http://vimeo.com/14054461" while here is a link to the APOD page that has a composite picture that shows the shadows and discusses them: "http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100823.html"Water Dance from Alex Cherney on Vimeo.

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The "Three Peninsular Ride" is a nice 45 kilometer ride that takes me about 2 hours. I only average about 20kph now a days.Here are the stats:Time ...... 02:07 hh:mmDistance .. 43.09 kmAverage ... 20.30 kphToday was bright and sunny, warm and windy. The temperature stayed in the mid to high 80s through out the ride and the wind was a pretty constant 10-20kts from the east. This made riding

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I do try to read John Baez's blog as often as I can. I hope to read his new one as well. Here is a link to the TWF - 300, and it is a good one!

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I just finished reading the Robert J. Sawyer novel, "WWW:WATCH" that was a sequel to WAKE and I do anticipate reading and enjoying the next one in the series WONDER coming out in 2011.I read the first novel "WWW:WAKE" in serial form in a science fiction magazine and did enjoy it. The idea is that a conscious entity emerges spontaneously from the Internet.Because I do understand a lot of the

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How Cool Is This?And here is a link to this widget on the Wolfram Site:http://developer.wolframalpha.com/widgets/gallery/view.jsp?id=2b0f658cbffd284984fb11d90254081f

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I took off early from work yesterday and went home and loaded up the car. Bikes on top and all my gear in the back seat. Evelyn left for the beach earlier in the week. Robert and I drove down starting about 12PM. We stopped for lunch at the Chili's Restaurant in Goldsboro and arrived about 4:30. Once the bikes were in the little house out back and all my stuff in the house it was almost

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Let's see if this works:

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http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.htmlJust left is a picture of the books. And above the picture is the web page for the books.I am really looking forward to reading these books. I'll post back to this entry when I find something interesting that I want to share.Here is the author's Wikipedia.ORG page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_KnuthAnd here is the Wikipedia.ORG page for

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Here is a Google Maps view of the route.View Larger Map

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Here is the post from Scot Adams Blog: http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/selfprogrammingExcellent, and it fits in with the idea that I like, that consciousness is what emerges from a motile organism's need and ability to predict the future so it can negotiate its environment successfully.The more complex and 'self-referential' such a modeling capability is the more we say that the organism is

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Evelyn got out to the place where we join the American Tobacco Trail Rails To Trails bike, walking, running, and equestrian path at 7:54AM this morning. The temperature was in the low 60's and it was beautiful.We headed north toward Chatham County and the nice paved part and rode the entire paved part and turned around and rode back to the parking lot where we got on. By the time we got home it

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Yesterday's APOD presented an interesting point of view.You know what would be cool? If you could create some glasses (perhaps fed by some sort of camera mounded on your head) that would give your eyes this view all the time. The human brain is adaptable to it's vision field being modified and I think it would adapt to this change too. I'm sure you would start to navigate quiet nicely. And if

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This is a test of an application called "Google Voice"Not quiet sure how it all hangs together but here is a test:

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I registered at Project Euler some time ago but never seemed to take the time to work on any of the problems.That changed some months ago when I installed a new version of the IDE that I use (Microsoft Visual Studio 2010). I also became involved in a project that was using some of the latest and greatest programming languages and technologies from Microsoft (C#, WWF, WCF, WPF) and I found using

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Every one who has communicated with a child and everyone who recalls from the 'Why/Because Loop' knows that as we age we tend to avoid this kind of thing.We not only teach ourselves how to avoid such loops but I think we also have built in 'resolution-circuits' in our minds that keep us from getting stuck in an infinite-regress/recurse loop.Here is a link to an earlier post that discusses

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This Is A Formal "Opt-Out" StatementI Hear-by Do FormallyThis Tuesday The 8th of June 2010OPT OUT Of This OrganizationNote: I do understand that this Opt-Out-Statement does excuse me from being the candidate of any "Death-Boards" that will be organized under the new health care plans based on the membership lists of this organization.From Random Graphic Images

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Some thoughts.I usually just treat Memorial Day as another holiday. For some reason this year I find myself thinking more about the meaning of the holiday. This morning one of the internet sites I monitor "The Big Picture" has a photo essay about Afghanistan.I've heard talk about comparing Afghanistan and Vietnam. One comparison is that it has now exceeded the length of time we were engaged in

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Here are some pictures of our brand new "Terry-Turtle"

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I think I read every column of his in Scientific American. Here is a link to a page at that publication: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=profile-of-martin-gardnerAnd here is his Wikipedia Page: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=profile-of-martin-gardnerI recently purchased the CD ROM "Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games - The entire Collection of His Scientific

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"The Life and Times of First Baptist Church, Wilson, North Carolina 1860-2010" Dear Siblings,My copy of "The Life and Times of First Baptist Church, Wilson, North Carolina 1860-2010" Arrived in the mail today (I took it out of the mail box just 45 minutes ago).And if Chapter 17, "A mission is Born and a Ministry Ends" 1912-1916 (T. Williams Chambliss) is any indication of the quality of the rest

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We got an early start and headed out for the White Oak Church Road entrance to the ATT Bike Path. This entrance is about six miles from the southern end of the trail.The nice part of this entrance is that it is pretty close to the Chatham County part of the trail, and this part is paved! Wow we were really impressed with that part of the trail.We continued on into the Durham county section (

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This was a beautiful morning for a ride. I was going to just do the greenway but found it a bit crowded as I started making my way toward Shelly Lake. So I headed up North Hills drive toward Crabtree Valley Mall and got back on the greenway and scooted under Glenwood Avenue. The greenway cuts behind the mall, but I left it at the "Crabtree Tavern" and headed up the hill. This short connector

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We got exactly 0.37" of rain last night. And it did fill up the 55 gallon rain barrel! NOTE: There are 231 cubic inches of rain in a gallon.When I measured the size of the roof section that drains into the barrel I got 15x27 feet or 405 square feet. If you do the math you get 144x405 square inches of area. If 1.00 inches of rain fell over that many square inches that would amount to 252

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Rain Barrel - 24 APR 20010Ginny And Joe, when visiting us week before last found the barrel at a brewing store. It is just a used beer barrel and they sell them for $20.00. When you go to the garden store they charge $100.00 for the same barrel. Joe and Ginny did figure out a system for getting the rain out but it started leaking and so when I visited Burke Brothers Hardware today and asked

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Today Evelyn headed out for a sheep farm somewhere around here and I decided to try my old 'North Raleigh Loop Ride'. I've not done this ride for a couple of years and I felt it. but it does fit in with my new exercise plan so I was up to it. Here are the stats:Distance .... 49.47 kmTime ........ 02:50 hh:mmAverage ..... 17.40 kphThat average was not 20kph which is what I do on flat land but I

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Last Sunday I stopped by Mount Olive on the way back to Raleigh from Morehead City and took these pictures of Gwin's Azaleas. She was on her way to the library and we only got in a brief visit. Some weeks ago on Easter Sunday we had a longer visit.Then this morning on the way back from the gym the sunrise was so beautiful I stopped and took two pictures. The color was not quite right by the

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