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Here’s a geeky thing on this Friday, the 13th. This computer’s internal clock (based on Unix epoch time) just hit 1234567890. It does the same thing on my desktop running OS-X. RP:~ phil$ perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";' Fri Feb 13 15:31:30 2009 Unix time is defined as the number of seconds that have elapsed […] My toys The year is 1945 (or so I guess). The war is in its final stages in Europe. Dad is at an airfield in Belgium keeping B-26s flying. He hasn’t seen me except for a couple of days right after I was born. Mom and I live with her parents—Grandma and Grandpa. All […] I was scanning a few blogs for examples of great communicators and ran across a reference to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium. The following video was given as an example. I was particularly interested in the description of the asteroid Apophis and its close approach to earth on April […] |
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