…but the commercials are great sometimes.
While waiting for one of my programs to finish I found this…
Category Archives: Computers and IT
Guybrush Threepwood was here
I just noticed that Guybrush Threepwood visited my blog recently, which is quite cool since it is just a fictitious character (or is it not?)! And he claims to come by daily…
Anyway that reminded me on the good old times that I had together with Guybrush or just some weeks ago when I helped him solving some sailor problems. I even found an old picture of him…
Greetz old friend…
btw also greetings to Bernard Bernoulli, Dr. Fred Edison, Wendy, Hoagie, Laverne, Sam, Max, Zak and all the others…
Happy Birthday…
HARDDISK
For those who did not know: Today the harddisk (somewhat as we know it today) gets 50 years old.
In an IBM lab in Schönaich (Germany) the whole thing started out… 24 disks with 60cm in diameter could store fabulous 5mio characters… Sounds great, but isn’t! It’s 5MB!
Next month on ebay…
Suri Cruise’s First Poop”… yap, you read right! As we all know: art is a matter of definition! And now someone defined a bronze version of a child’s first poop to be art!
And now you have to excuse…
I gotta make some art…
One is enough!
Just for those who are interested in science (as everyone should be)!
The Carnegie Mellon University just published some pictures and videos of their “Dynamically-Stable Mobile Robot” called Ballbot.
It’s pretty impressive… have a look at http://www.msl.ri.cmu.edu/projects/ballbot/