Submission + - Police Chief arrested for stealing beer from FD
Kris_B_04 writes: According to the Salina Journal,
"The police chief for the city of Wilson[Kansas] was arrested by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation Wednesday for allegedly stealing beer from the Wilson Fire Department, according to court records."
And the question everyone wants to know, why is there beer at the Fire Department, but "He also declined to discuss why beer was being kept at the fire department office."
"The police chief for the city of Wilson[Kansas] was arrested by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation Wednesday for allegedly stealing beer from the Wilson Fire Department, according to court records."
And the question everyone wants to know, why is there beer at the Fire Department, but "He also declined to discuss why beer was being kept at the fire department office."
Submission + - 10 Common Home Theater Buying Mistakes (extremetech.com)
mikemuch writes: "Loyd Case has made all the mistakes: buying the wrong gear for the room, not bringing his own audition CDs, mismatching equipment, and quite a few more. In this piece on home theater buying mistakes, you can benefit from his experience and get the home theater that's right for you."
Submission + - Blogger Asks For New Ways For Terrorists To Attack 1
An anonymous reader writes: New York Times blogger Steven D. Levitt has raised a few eyebrows with his blog post, 'If You Were a Terrorist, How Would You Attack?'. He asks, 'what I would do to maximize terror if I were a terrorist with limited resources'. Levitt's terrorist plan is based on the Washington D.C. sniper attacks of 2002. He also invites readers to come up with better ideas: 'I presume that a lot more folks who oppose and fight terror read this blog than actual terrorists. So by getting these ideas out in the open, it gives terror fighters a chance to consider and plan for these scenarios before they occur.' Others argue that this is simply giving terrorists dangerous new ideas.
Submission + - Robot helps preserve ancient Japanese dance (newscientisttech.com)
Will writes: "I thought you guys might like to read about humanoid robot being developed by researchers in Japan to help preserve ancient dance routines. Motion-capture is used to record a human dancer's movements, and the HRP-2 robot reproduces these movements. It seems like a very practical application for robotics and perhaps one-day only robots will remember how to do the twist or the foxtrot.
Although the full article is behind the barrier, it includes a video of the robot in action. Also, there are some images here"
Submission + - Where Are the Invisible Galaxies?
Charles Betz writes: "Cosmology would predict a myriad of small galaxies made up entirely of dark matter that keep the fabric of space glued together. According to the increasingly refined theory, 85% of the matter in the universe is not the ordinary matter that makes up stars and galaxies, planets and people. Rather, it is elusive dark matter that so far has revealed itself only through its gravity. As the infant universe grew, the dark matter condensed into enormous filaments and clumps, or halos. These weighty objects pulled in hydrogen gas, which formed stars and galaxies. As dark matter cannot be detected by traditional means, the fundamental question to be solved remains: How to spot the invisible?"
Journal Journal: Existance of life != Water - Methane - Ozone 1
Why is it so important for certain chemicals to be present in order to discover "life"? I know Water is required for human existence, but why do scientists limit their searches for life on the foundation that all life must be carbon-based?
I mean, you always hear things such as:
Journal Journal: Forums Converted and LIVE!!!! :)
My conversion worked!! Everything is up and running!!! (I ran my conversion at the end of February... it didn't go live until last Friday..... why you ask? Hell if I know!!!)
Journal Journal: CMS almost in place!!
Sometime today or tomorrow!!!
My other conversions are "waiting on info"
But the new and improved site is almost LIVE!!!
Cept I still need to run my Forum Conversion on the old forums.. but they are waiting until the rest of the site is up and running, then the Forums will be implemented..
*fingers crossed*
I sure hope it goes smoothly!!!
TTFN
Journal Journal: Still waiting
Well, I finally got the specs on my new conversion assignment..
Now.. I am "patiently" waiting responses from the team who has created the program that we are converting to..
waiting and waiting and waiting..
Some customer service they have... I'm probably going to have to start emailing daily to see if SOMEONE will address my questions and issues..
*sigh*
Journal Journal: Conversion 1 complete
now starting on a new conversion.
Not as busy as I'd like to be, but I'm sure that will come in time...
Journal Journal: Yup.. Happy Friday the 13th
Yeah.. a good number of people were laid off on
But I'm baaaack!!!
Well, back into the realms of employment anyway.. *grin*
A whole month of downtime...
Damn.. don't want to do THAT again...
Journal Journal: I won't know until tomorrow late afternoon
*sigh*
It's the not knowing that is killing me... and everyone else who works here. The tension level is skyrocketing.. stress levels... oh hell..
There is a big black cloud over this building...
And being a small town, EVERYONE is talking...
blah.
I just wanna KNOW!!!!!!!
Journal Journal: Some people are asking..
I think I should go ask and see if Friday is going to be my last day...
Journal Journal: Friday, the big announcement. 2
Layoffs begin this week.
*sigh*
Time to really step up that job search!!
Wish me luck!
