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Oh man! 

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A #diyproject  
MINI USB BATMAN SPOTLIGHT
It does require soldering skills..
Instructions here:http://bit.ly/qvu1Wz

#pinterest   #addiction  I am now outta here! xox

#batman  

How are all my fellow coders this morning? Get any coding done this weekend? I had to take a break from it all over the past week and look forward to getting my streak started tonight.

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:)

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A programmers twist to a classic quote. lol

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Hate it when this happens.

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Gonna get my geek on by attempting to dual boot my pc tonight. XP and Ubuntu. Any have some experience with that and have some tips?

Thanks to the @MLB dick move last night, I'll be selling all my MLB memorabilia on eBay over the next few days. The hell with them. If you know of anyone that likes the Yankees, let me know. I have some autographed baseballs, cards, etc... that I'll be posting.

#classic

#cat #threadless  

Finally got to read #Batman #13. How moley. So dang good. +Eric Moritz did you get a chance to read it, or any of the tie in books, yet?

So the best thing about the whole #Apple conference was The Foo Fighters?

I really need to ride my bicycle more before coming to work. Energy levels have been so much higher that there is no comparison.

Now that's what I'm talking about.

Cause I freakin ROCK!

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Hate it when this happens.
#code  

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Amazing and beautiful stories. #goodpeopleexist  

21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/pictures-that-will-restore-your-faith-in-humanity

The other day I saw that there was a badge for earning 100 points in one day. I can't even imagine doing that much. My top point total in 1 day is 61. How about you lovely people? What's your best "one day point total"? Also, motivation obviously has a lot to do with it. What do you do to stay motivated?

Happy Birthday to our own +Rotimi Oyewole :)

Finally a new phone. Samsung Galaxy #Nexus. Woo hoo!

Anything but Rainbow Rooooad! #mariokart

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Truth

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A Programmer... #SoTrue  

Why hasn't anyone thought of this before?! Love it!
#calvinandhobbes  

If I ever see this car in real life, I'm throwing a blue-turtle shell at it.
#pokemon   #weird  

Lovely view from yesterday's walk.

What app would you recommend for tracking billable hours?
Thanks!

For all you #breakingbad  fans:

Anyone know of a way to change the clock in Jelly Bean? I'e been playing around with the settings and there doesn't seem to be any options. #galaxynexus  

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#geekhumor  From snorgtees.com

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#starwarstuesday  

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A newborn Ewok puppy?!

Please vote to help my daughter's class get the microscopes they need. #SONICL4L http://t.co/2IFVwrZs - Thanks! :)

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New +Soundgarden music in The Avengers movie? How did this news escape me?

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Watch the official music video for "Live To Rise" featured in new movie "Marvel's The Avengers." Enjoy!

Just got 15 more of these little ladies. I'm a #chick magnet!

"Panic Switch" by Silversun Pickups. #musicmonday  

The fact that you have to go to COMEDY CENTRAL for truth, is a travi-sham-mockery! Good grief, our country is screwed up.

Gotta admit, possibly going to war with Iran is freaking me out.

My MO-stash is coming in good and thick now for #Movember. Please donate to help defeat cancer. http://mobro.co/PolishTom23

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This one is especially for you +Anthony Russo , but I'm sure this applies to many other friends as well.

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http://theoatmeal.com/comics/online_gaming

I hope all of my fellow coders are having a good weekend. Keep those streaks alive!

Must remember not to leave bedroom window open ever again. My rooster's "wake up call" is very loud.

So how's everyone liking this wonderful product?

Anyone else getting a "500 Internal Server Error"?

$50 for season 2 of #thewalkingdead  on blu-ray. Good grief.

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Leave it to +Brian Koberlein to break science down for us regular joes. Great information on #solarflares  and the #sun  

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X Factor

Solar flares are in the news recently, mainly focused on four recent x-class solar flares this week.  You can see images of these flares in the image below (http://goo.gl/LjHdG).  So why all the buzz?

A solar flare is an intense burst of energy released at the surface of the Sun.  It is caused by a process known as magnetic reconnection.  The rotation of the Sun occurs at different rates depending on latitude.  It has a rotational period of about 25 days at its equator, but about 34 days near the poles.  This means the equatorial regions of the Sun rotate faster than the polar regions.  Because of this differential rotation, the magnetic field of the Sun is twisted, so that over time the field lines of the magnetic field gradually wrap around the Sun.

You can visualize a magnetic field by thinking of field lines running from the North pole to the South pole.  For the Earth’s magnetic field, the lines basically run from North to South, similar to longitude lines.  The Sun’s magnetic field lines might start in a similar shape, but because the equator rotates faster than the poles, the lines twist around the Sun near the equator.

But the magnetic field lines would like to simply run North to South.  So when they are twisted tighter and tighter around the equator region, they reach a point where they snap back into place, which is known as magnetic reconnection.  When this happens a great deal of energy is released, causing a solar flare.

Solar flares are categorized by how intense they are at a specific x-ray frequency.  The most intense category is known as an x-class solar flare.  The smaller classes are further broken into a linear scale from 1 to 9.  Since the x-class is an open class, its number ranking is a doubling scale, so that X3 is twice as powerful as X2.  These most recent solar flares from from X1.7 to X3.2.  

While it is a bit unusual to see so many x-class flares in rapid succession, flares of this size are completely normal during the Sun’s active period.  While flares of this size can have an impact on satellites, the only impact for most people is a glimpse of northern lights if we happen to be at the right latitude.

Intense solar flares can have larger effects on us, such as causing power outages.  In 1989 an X15 solar flare triggered a regional blackout in Quebec.  So when solar flares hit the news there are the range of websites predicting the dreaded “big one”.  Theses sites often reference the “Carrington Event” of 1859, which was so intense it produced northern lights as far south as the Caribbean.  It also induced currents in telegraph lines.  The storm induced enough current in the lines that messages could be sent across them even while the lines were disconnected from their power supplies.

If such an event occurred today, it would likely cause massive blackouts worldwide.  It could cause trillions of dollars in damage, and would take several years to fully recover.  It would be a massive disruption, but it wouldn’t be the end of civilization.  Fortunately, studies of ice cores indicate that solar storms such as the Carrington Event only occur about once every 500 years, and there is no indication that such an event is likely to happen any time soon.  

Still, if you want to keep tabs on the Sun’s flare activity, check out the space weather website: http://www.spaceweather.com/

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Love this.
#css   #code  

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Amazing tattoo!

By the way, I like this piece of code too:

while(!(succeed = try()));

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TRUTH
#reading   #books  

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All.The.Time!

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No joke #twilightsucks

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#Truth  

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Even a  #stormtrooper  needs some r & r.
#starwars  

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Vacances pour tous

http://goo.gl/fcv5Z

BRAVO, Google! BRAVO!

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The correct way to teach physics: With plenty of  #batman  !

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Best physics school book ever!

This is exactly how we should teach physics at school! It would certainly raise all students attention in class.

source: University Physics by Young and Freedman 10th edition, page 263, 264 ~ http://goo.gl/CXiFx


#book #manual #physics #school #batman

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It's all #takeituesday  's fault!

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Dog sled!

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#gif

Happy Bike to Work day to everyone. Even if you didn't bike. :)

I love open air markets. Even if it does rain.

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Know your roll!

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Just so you know your place. #Zombies

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TRUTH!

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You got that right.
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My #freecomicbookday haul.

#batman   #hellboy   #batgirl   #100bullets   #darkknight   #axecop  

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COFFEEEEEEE!

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cracked up when i saw this.... and I guess am an addict!! #Coffee #GoodMorning  

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Get back in the water, wussies!

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I will say, I was a bit shocked by the hippo statistics.

People in NYC complaining that a monthly metrocard costs $104. Try buying a car/gas/insurance and see how much $ that will cost.

Vacation set for Savannah, Ga & Tybee Island's Piratefest. Can't get here soon enough.

Good morning people. It is hot as hell out there and I can see the smog already. Fall/winter can't get here soon enough.

The Big Bang Theory + LEGO = AWESOME!
#bigbangfriday  

Oh God! Not Euclid Avenue!
#bigbangfriday

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LOL

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OMG I LOL'd so hard at this one I snorted!
#StarWars  

I definitely need to get a telescope soon.

This is absolute HORSE SHIT.

The Dell Streak 7 (tablet) looks interesting. Seriously considering it.

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Nice!

#ingenuity   #cycling  

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Lost a bolt on the ride home. Fixed with a lollipop stick. Held for over 15 miles.

Beautiful #chicken   #coop  

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#programmer  's life

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A Programmer... #SoTrue  

Helping those in need. We helped install a ramp for a wheelchair bound person in our neighborhood.
#operationbackyard #knoxlifechurch  

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#science  + #design  = awesome!

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Brilliant
Artist: http://bit.ly/Y2PTtw

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So awesome
#calvinandhobbes  

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An adult will fit in this bed, right? RIGHT!? Awesome Calvin & Hobbes nursery with a sleep fort: http://j.mp/Yg79N3

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History lesson re: #pluto #ceres  

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Alas, Poor Ceres

In 1801 a new planet was discovered in our solar system.  Just twenty years earlier the planet Uranus was discovered beyond the orbit of Saturn, and was the first planet discovered since the dawn of civilization.  The location of Uranus agreed with a (now defunct) model of planetary distances known as the Titus-Bode law (http://goo.gl/wuLIr), which had correctly predicted the distances of the known planets.  But the Titus-Bode law also predicted the existence of a planet between Mars and Jupiter, which had not been seen until the discovery of this new planet.  The 1801 planet had a distance within 1% of the prediction of Titus-Bode, and it was named after the Roman goddess of agriculture, Ceres.

Until the mid-1800s, Ceres was considered to be a planetary body.  In less than a decade after the discovery of Ceres, three more planets were discovered between Mars and Jupiter, and given the names Pallas, Juno and Vesta.  In 1846, Neptune was discovered beyond Uranus, raising the total number of planets in our solar system to 12.  Within ten years of Neptune's discovery, dozens of new planets were discovered between Mars and Jupiter:  Astreae, Hebe, Iris, Flora, Metis, Hygiea, and the list continued to grow.  

While Uranus and Neptune were similar to the historical planets, these new planets were very different.  They all had roughly the same orbital distance (between Mars and Jupiter).  They were also significantly smaller than the other planets, even much smaller than our moon. Rather, they were more like Ceres, itself a small, rocky body.  It soon became clear that referring to all of these bodies as planets wasn't very accurate.  So they were put into a new category of Sun-orbiting objects: asteroids.  Thus, Ceres lost its planetary status, demoted to King of the asteroids.  The number of planets in our solar system was thereby reduced to eight.

In 1930 a new planet was discovered, and given the name Pluto.  While Pluto was a small world (smaller than our Moon), it seemed alone beyond the orbit of Neptune.  But in the 1990s more objects were discovered beyond the orbit of Neptune.  By the mid-2000s, trans-Neptunian objects of a size similar to Pluto were discovered, and in 2005 one larger than Pluto was found.  It was named Eris, and for a while enjoyed status as the tenth planet.

But by then it was clear that Pluto was not alone.  Rather there were lots of objects that, like Pluto were small, icy and beyond the orbit of Neptune.  Again it was clear that referring to all these bodies as planets wasn't an accurate description.  So in 2006 the International Astronomical Union formalized the definition of what constituted a planet.  They had to orbit the Sun, they had to be massive enough to be roughly spherical, and they had to be distinct among objects of their distance.  Pluto and Eris did not satisfy the last condition, being similar to other trans-Neptunian objects.  Like Ceres  before them, they lost their status as planets.

But the IAU also defined a secondary category for objects that satisfied the first two, but not the third.  They were given the name dwarf planets.  Under this definition, Pluto and Eris were categorized as dwarf planets.  Ceres was also promoted to dwarf planet status, as were two other trans-Neptunian objects, Haumea and Makemake.  So currently our solar system has 8 planets, 5 dwarf planets, and countless other small solar system bodies.

As our understanding of the solar system has grown, we have had to refine our naive concept of what makes a planet.  If you mourn Pluto's exclusion from the solar planets, you should also mourn Ceres, who suffered her loss a century earlier.   

Road trip?
#ALMA   #space  

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hahahaha!!

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HAHAHAHA!

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Mario cat. That is all.

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Good grief. So dang true.

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#GeekHumor   #Geek   #Humor  

#calvinandhobbes  animated gifs! 

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Now you know...

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Now you know.......mystery of the universe solved

I'll take one now and one for the road, thanks! #coffeethursday  

Very good breakdown of the #Surface  

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I hate cats, but this is hilarious.

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Lol too cute (=^.^=)

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Someone seriously needs to open one of these. #starwars  

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Annnnd good morning.

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Very cool. #geekstuff  

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Now all I need is my own Raspberry Pi

Didn't want a fish tank, till now: #supermariobros

Happy Birthday!

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#geekhumor

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Walking away from the computer now...

Unable to locate a "contact us" for the people @ #googleplay  so let's hope this works:

Is there any way that you lovely people @ #googleplay  would to space out the "open/upgrade" & "uninstall" buttons within the app? Somehow I manage to unintentionally click the "uninstall" button about 10 times, before my phone recognizes my intended "upgrade" click. Thanks!

cc: +Google Play 

Hopefully some of you will find this as motivating as I have.

If you're a coder, then code. Not tomorrow. But today.

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Thought some of you would find this interesting. 

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For those of you learning from #codecademy :

Nothing like taking the dogs outside, turning around, and seeing a 3 & 1/2 foot #snake hanging from the light fixture right next to the door.

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+Brian Meyers Jr. - Absolutely beautiful bicycles. Love that paint job.

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Niner Hotness

See a bike should look fast, like you don't even care what's hanging on it, or the reviews -- you just know instantly that you want it.

http://www.ninerbikes.com/air9rdo

Wife: Do you want to see Tower Heist? Me: Is that the movie with Ben Stiller in it? Wife: Yep. Me: Nope.

Amazing how much better I feel after a bicycle ride in the morning. #bicyclesrule

The Dark Knight Rises promo poster is so sweet - http://t.co/22ccSmu - Must own. #batman

Any one of my followers have information on raising chicken/chicks? Right now, I have a broody hen and I need to be able to tell which eggs are fertilized and which ones aren't. Thanks in advance.

My bicycle betrayed me this morning. Grrrr!

To all my tech peeps: What resources to you recommend for Microsoft Outlook/Office support? What about networking with Linux?

Due to my insane schedule & my poor planning, I won't B able to attend Baltimore ComicCon this year. :( But I am definitely going next year. Anyone want to join me?

3 hours of sleep. Work is going to literally kill me one day. I don't foresee getting much more than that again tonight. #Zzz