Monthly Archives: July 2011

MacBook Air to Kick Ass, Chew Gum

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Apple has dropped the aging and sturdy line of just plain Macbook laptops. You can buy the mobile powerhouse MacBook Pro, or you can buy a MacBook Air. So with the new OS 10.7 “Lion” standard, the addition of the new thunderbolt port, and upgraded processor and RAM, the featherweight MacBook Air is all out of bubble gum.

These changes seem incremental and individually they are. After all, SSDs are not new, low-volt processors and thermal controls are not new, and one can hardly argue that leaving off the optical drive is some sort of improvement. Taken together, they represent most of a revolution in mobile computing. The MacBook Air, once the parlor-trick publicity stunt by an otherwise serious computer maker, has just become the standard laptop offering, … Continue reading →

Collapse of Talks Most Constructive News Yet

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The media refers to this as a “collapse”.  The only thing collapsing is the self-sustaining bubble of nonsense that to date has protected the media and their creation, Barack Milhouse Obama (h/t Mark Levin).  The unconstitutional machinations of the 111th Congress and their leftover President are being halted and will be rolled back.

I sincerely hope that conservatives are able to hold this door open past the laughable August second “deadline”, when the only thing that happens is the Democrats are exposed as a bunch of fear-mongering liars who want to boost the money under their control simply for the sake of boosting the amount of money under their control.

So call his bluff.  The unfortunate McConnell deal must of course be ignored if not shredded and burned, … Continue reading →

Apple Thunderbolt Display Non-Review

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Here’s a puzzling excerpt from a supposed tech review:

Are you ready to meet an Apple’s new Thunderbolt Display (27-inch) that costs $1000 and features 2560 by 1440 pixels solution and high speed Thunderbolt connectivity? Sounds really cool, yeah?!

These new displays boast the main feature that has already become a talk of the town – they have the Thunderbolt port and that is why they are called the Apple Thunderbolt Display.

I am ready to bet you will be genuinely happy to find out that the 16:9 displays use IPS panels that feature a 178 degree viewing angle. Each display has a built-in FaceTime HD camera, 2.1 speaker system, and integrated MagSafe charger.

It seems to me that these features turn the display into more than just … Continue reading →

Fallout Coverup Fallout

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GoJ knew about contam in northern Miyagi. Withheld info. Rice straw grown there fed to cattle, now 1500 contam cattle confrm sold as beef. Rice farmer said he thought his whole are was beyond the hazard area. Fair enough–Govt told him it was.
So the cattle fed that rice draw are a result of the Govt withholding that info.

Fascinating Weather Update

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This is one of the most interesting weather updates I have had the pleasure to read, especially since it concerns the fate of a system which used to be a menacing typhoon, and then a collapsing tropical storm, and is at the time of this writing, a mere tropical depression.  From reading the series of these updates, I get the feeling that there has been lively debate (possibly with thrown crockery) at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, which uniformly turns in a great product. I reproduce it here in full, and will likely refer back to this post from a more informed future post.

MSGID/GENADMIN/NAVMARFCSTCEN PEARL HARBOR HI/JTWC//
SUBJ/TROPICAL CYCLONE WARNING//
RMKS/
1. TROPICAL DEPRESSION 08W (MA-ON) WARNING NR 040
DOWNGRADED FROM TROPICAL … Continue reading →

Bring Me My RINO Gun.

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Sorry, bit of a rant coming on, I fear.  I’m so mad at the GOP shenanigans that I can hardly see straight.

This “gang of six” deal is a butt-rocket.  I could go on copying and pasting pros and cons and cons and cons, but the two facts I care about are this:

  • It’s a ONE TRILLION DOLLAR tax increase by any honest math
  • The plan “drew immediate praise from President Barack Obama.” (Wall Street Journal)

That’s enough for me.  Okay, one more, from the same WSJ paragraph:  “The plan would reduce the deficit by $3.7 trillion over 10 years.”  Gee, can you spare it?  That’s just the amount the Obama has added to the deficit SO FAR!  By the end of this year it’ll be $5T … Continue reading →

Typhoon Warning

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17JUL:

While anything is possible, this “prognostic reasoning” from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center is alarming:

MODEL GUIDANCE IN THE EXTENDED TAUS HAS REMAINED VERY CONSISTENT OVER THE PAST 2 DAYS IN REGARDS TO THE TRACK AND TRACK SPEEDS. DUE TO THE LACK OF A STRONG MIDLATITUDE SHORTWAVE TROUGH AND WESTERLIES, THE RE-CURVE IS UNUSUAL IN THAT THE SYSTEM WILL TRACK AT RELATIVELY SLOW SPEEDS (10-14 KNOTS), MAINTAIN TYPHOON INTENSITY STRENGTH PAST TOKYO; AND LACK SIGNIFICANT BAROCLINIC INTERACTION UNTIL IT MOVES EAST OF TOKYO.

Translation: No standing rain line means this typhoon will not be “scooted off to the east” like most are. It will also not be weakened by the wind shear associated with said scooting. It will be weakened only by dry air and cooler water, … Continue reading →

Time Mag v Constitution, Day 15: Patterico

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Patterico has a series of posts tracking the impressively dishonest and wholly anti-Constitutional views being pimped by Time Magazine’s Managing Editor, Richard Stangel. Stengel was once CEO of “The National Constitution Center”, now runs their Peter Jenning Center for the Political Rectification of Obama’s Praetorian Media.
Patterico (in a guest post and letter campaign by Aaron Worthing) wrote to the Center with a list of specifics and detailed refutations, chapter and verse as it were. The summary of their weaselly non-answer seems to be “Buy the magazine! Click the link!”

To find out whether Stengel made those claims, read his article. To learn what the Constitution says about those issues, you can find an annotated Constitution by clicking here.

So there’s a lot of controversy.  What do you … Continue reading →