Moving Time

well damn I really got to write in this more often.

for those of you who do not know I will be moving in the next week, good thing is it is still here in lawrenceville.  not that I like Ga but I have spent over 15 years here in ga and over 12 years in the place I am at now. 

I don’t think I am to sad about leaving this house, as much as I am about how many memories I have added up here.  but that happens I guess, it has given me a chance to go through all my old stuff and toss it out. 

there is a few things I still should get rid of, but I will deal with that when I have to.

for those of you who have seen my little room know just how much crap I have, 30 years of crap is a lot…yes I am a pack rat.  and damn the posters I have, I remember getting every poster and remember what was going on in my life when I got everyone of them. some I did throw out but most I kept. 

my room so far

 

I am starting to get better, I won’t go into details, but I am feeling a lot better. im moving around better, which means I can start tring to loose a little weight, don’t get me wrong I will still always be a big guy, I simply don’t want to be a “flippen” big guy. 

I still have a long long way to go, but I will get there. 

they still don’t know what’s going on but it is narrowed down to a few things.

my cats are doing great as is my brother, and my mom seems to be doing a lot better

 

I guess I shall end this here for now, ive got a few things to do

Lightning Strike Survivor Video: Real or Fake?

By Natalie Wolchover, Life’s Little Mysteries Staff Writer
29 April 2011 9:07 AM ET

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A new viral video shows a man getting struck by lightning during a rainstorm. The bright flash knocks him flat and scorches the ground beneath him. For about a minute, he’s out cold. Then his leg twitches, he comes to, rolls over, stands up and walks away. A few seconds later, he is struck again. And, again, a few seconds after that, he recovers.

However, lightning experts say the video, which appears to be security camera footage, is very likely a hoax.

The first sign that the video might be fake, according to Vladimir Rakov, electrical engineer and co-director of the University of Florida Lightning Research Group, is that people almost never survive direct lightning strikes like the one shown in the video. "The chance of survival in the case of a direct strike is essentially zero," Rakov told Life’s Little Mysteries. That’s because lightning bolts emanating from storm clouds convey a gigajoule of energy, he explained — which is about enough to melt a ton of steel.

The vast majority of the 240,000 people who survive lightning strikes worldwide each year do not actually get hit directly. "They are struck by ‘side flashes,’" Rakov said. "Lightning might strike a building near them, for example, and there’s a side flash that jumps to them carrying a small fraction of the original lightning bolt’s energy. In that case, they can survive and even walk away."

Side flashes are much less powerful than direct strikes, but they nonetheless convey a huge amount of energy. How do people survive getting struck by them? It turns out most of their electric charge passes in an arc around a victim’s body.

"This is called a flashover. The full lightning current doesn’t flow through the human body, because bodies have an extremely high impedance," Rakov said. Because the person’s body essentially resists the flow of current, an electric arc will form from the person’s head to the ground. "Most of the current will flow along that arc over the surface of his body," Rakov said. "Only 5 amps typically flow through him." Five amps — enough to run an electric heater — is a significant but usually nonfatal amount of current.

While it’s extremely rare that someone survives a direct lightning strike, those who do can typically thank this same flashover effect. People wearing slick wet raingear with the hood up, for example, have been known to survive getting struck when the current travels around them through their raingear rather than down through their bodies.

Real, or real fake?

The man in the video seems to receive direct lightning strikes rather than side flashes. "If it were a side flash, there should have been some indication of the direct flash which produced the side flash," said Bill Rison, an electrical engineer and lightning physicist at New Mexico Tech.

So is this an extremely rare case of a man surviving two direct lightning strikes? Probably not, the experts say. Instead, this may be a doctored video. "Each flash appears in only one frame of the video, with no saturation or blooming of the camera," said Rison, who specializes in designing lightning observation equipment "A lightning flash at nighttime, when the lens is wide open, would probably saturate the camera." If the video were real, then rather than appearing in one brightly lit frame, each bolt would cause the video to go white for a few frames.

"The images look very realistic, but the sequence of events is very hard to believe to be actually occurring," Rakov said. Martin Uman, an electrical engineer also at the University of Florida Lightning Research group, concurs. "There were trees and a bus to the left of the guy in the first strike that would likely have been hit instead of him," Uman said. "The video is probably a fake."

How might the video have been created? "It could have been simulated with footage of laboratory discharges overlaying the footage of the person walking," Rakov suggested.

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Best criminal disguises of 2010 – Telegraph

 

The year 2010 had its share of bizarre moments, none more so than some, more unusual crimes and the even more whacky disguises. Here are the five best.

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Conrad Zdzierak, 30, used a £450 ($700) silicon mask in an audacious string of six bank robberies in April Photo: SPLASH NEWS

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A comination photograph showing a young Asian male (L) with his face partially obscured by authorities and what appears to be an elderly white man (R). Authorities said a young Asian male was intercepted by border agents in Vancouver after boarding a flight from Hong Kong disguised as the elderly white man. Photo: EPA

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CCTV footage released by police showed the 6ft 2in gunman dressed as the Star Wars bad guy complete with mask, dark cape and camouflage trousers. Photo: NYPD

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This man nicknamed the ‘Geezer Bandit’ wears prescription glasses and appears to be in his 70s, has robbed seven banks Photo: AP

By Andrew Hough 7:45AM GMT 01 Jan 2011

* A white bank robber is alleged to have attempted to fool US police by wearing a Hollywood special effects mask and gloves that disguised him as a black man. According to police reports, Conrad Zdzierak, 30, is alleged to have used the £450 silicon mask in an audacious string of six bank robberies in Ohio. Five of the robberies took place on the same day, April 9. Police in Springdale, Ohio released CCTV footage from the banks, appealing for public help in finding what they believed was an African-American male.

* An Asian male disguised himself as an elderly white man using a silicone mask and successfully board a flight from Hong Kong to Canada. The unnamed man boarded the Vancouver-bound flight on October 29. At some point during the flight, he went into the bathroom and took his mask off, emerging as the young, Asian man. Authorities said they were tipped off by the man’s hands, which looked too young compared to the rest of him.

* An armed robber was hunted by police after dressing as the Star Wars movie character Darth Vader during a bizarre raid on a New York bank in broad daylight. Police said the bandit entered the Chase bank branch on Long Island, brandishing a semi-automatic pistol before demanding money from staff. CCTV footage released by police showed the 6ft 2in gunman dressed as the Star Wars bad guy, with a costume complete with mask, dark cape and camouflage trousers. Customers and bank staff initially thought the raid was a joke, with one witness thinking the costume was so amusing he starting joking with the bandit.

* A man was being hunted by police in October after he raided a bookies in a Power Rangers disguise. The masked raider struck at the William Hill bookmakers in Sacriston, County Durham. He threatened two female staff members before making off with cash. The women were unharmed but left in shock after their ordeal. The robber, described as 5ft 2ins and 5ft 4ins tall, was wearing a blue tracksuit with a white stripe across the chest and a blue hood. His Power Rangers mask was silver grey below the nose and around the neck, and black above it.

* Then a more simple ‘disguise’. Police in California were in April trying to track down an elderly man who has robbed seven banks in the San Diego area. The grey-haired man, nicknamed the "Geezer bandit", waited patiently in line before approaching a bank teller at the California Bank and Trust teller in Vista, showing his handgun and passing over a note demanding cash. The FBI said that the teller handed over an undisclosed number of notes, which the placed in his personal organiser, and then calmly walked out of the bank. Believed to be in his seventies, the man wears prescription glasses and a baseball cap during the heists. He was described as roughly 5ft 10ins tall. It is not known if he was caught.

Best criminal disguises of 2010 – Telegraph

 

 

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Your 2010 year in blogging

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Newly Discovered Tree Looks Like Darth VaderDecember 2010
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Newly Discovered Tree Looks Like Darth Vader

Monica Garske

(Dec. 17) — "Star Wars" conventions are usually held in major cities, but from now on, devoted fans may want to gather smack dab in the middle of a forest — at Redwood National Park, to be precise.
Several weeks ago, the national park, located just north of Eureka, Calif., opened its first new hiking trail in 10 years, and it appears the Force is strong with the brand-new path.
Redwood enthusiast Richard Stenger, of the Humboldt County Convention and Visitors Bureau, told AOL News that a major surprise awaits imaginative visitors on the trail: a giant redwood tree that resembles Darth Vader’s iconic mask from "Star Wars."

Richard Stenger, Redwoods.info

If you look closely, imaginative minds might see Darth Vader’s mask etched into this massive redwood tree discovered on a new trail at Redwood National Park in Northern California. May the Force be with you.

"When you look at the tree from a certain angle, it looks just like Darth Vader. It’s a very big, dark redwood, too, so that adds to the visual. We think the tree is likely a survivor of fires and lightning strikes, which would explain its scars and dark appearance," Stenger said.
Stenger said the Darth Vader Tree, as it’s being called, can be found roughly halfway through the three-mile Berry Glen Trail — not too long a trek for die-hard "Star Wars" fans.
However, since the path hasn’t been open for long, not many people know about the tree yet.
"Maybe by next year, we’ll have ‘Star Wars’ fans lining up to take pictures with it," Stenger said with delight. "If George Lucas wants to take a look at it, I’m sure our park rangers would be more than happy to take him to it."
Though the Darth Vader Tree is certainly the latest lord of the redwoods, Stenger assured there are plenty of other odd and strange trees worth checking out in Northern California redwood country.
Stenger said that if you head 30 minutes south of Eureka to Humboldt Redwoods State Park, you’ll come across a bizarre breed of trees known as albino redwoods, or "forest ghosts."

Richard Stenger, Redwoods.info

Albino redwoods, which lack typical green pigmentation in their needles, are very rare around the world. Humboldt Redwoods State Park in California boasts at least six of these glistening white trees.

Like albino animals, these trees lack pigmentation, so their needles are snowy white instead of green. Stenger said albino redwoods grow in the deepest, darkest parts of the redwood forest, so they really stand out among the rest.
"They sort of glisten like a white Christmas tree. There are only 50 or so of these in existence, and at least six of them can be found at Humboldt Redwoods State Park," he said.
Stenger said Humboldt County is also home to the world’s tallest trees, including a reclusive redwood known as Hyperion, which towers high above at 379 feet tall.
"It’s six stories taller than the Statue of Liberty and is the world’s tallest living tree. It’s at an undisclosed, remote location that’s hard to get to, but that keeps the tree protected," Stenger said.
There’s also the 365-foot Tall Tree within Redwood National Park, which Stenger said used to be the world’s tallest tree before Hyperion came along.
He guessed that Tall Tree is about 900 years old, completely normal in redwood years.
"It’s not uncommon for redwoods to be 900 to 1,500 years old. In some cases, they even surpass 2,000 years. Redwoods are super trees. They can withstand almost any element."

While the Darth Vader Tree may be the coolest conifer you’ve seen today, the "Star Wars" redwood isn’t the only wacky plant to make headlines this year.
Back in August, a 100-year-old tamarind tree in Thailand became an instant Internet sensation. It supposedly boasted branches that looked like the open legs of a naked woman.
But after some serious sniffing around by locals, the sexually suggestive tree turned out to be nothing but a big, fat viral hoax.
Well, at least the Darth Vader Tree is the real deal.
And if you just can’t see it, try harder. As Darth Vader himself would say, "I find your lack of faith disturbing."

CHECK FOR ALZHEIMER’S – PRETTY AMAZING

The following was developed as a mental age assessment by the School of Psychiatry at Harvard University. Take your time and see if you can read each line aloud without a mistake.
The average person over 40 years of age cannot do it!
1.    This is this cat.
2.    This is is cat.
3.    This is how cat.
4.    This is to cat.
5..   This is keep cat.
6.    This is an cat.
7.    This is old cat.
8.    This is fart cat.
9.    This is busy cat.
10.  This is for cat.
11.  This is forty cat.
12.  This is seconds cat.

Now go back and read the third word in each line from the top down.
I betcha you cannot resist passing this on to any other friends.

Lost My Info

so here i am writing once again in my blog here which i am not really good at or anything, but i am going to keep it up desperately trying to find someone to listen without making me feel like shit for thinking or feeling what ever it is i may be thinking at the time

i know i haven’t really filled this blog with anything of that content but i will give it a try here in one of my next entries

lately as i have been for the past year been playing the shit load of Final Fantasy 11 and i am really really enjoying it, i have had to take a break from it the past week or so due to my keyboard messing up like a mofo, essentially i can not type in the few commands i need to in order to do what i need to do, good thing i have a controller and all my macros set up where i can at least do my weekly events which i have a lot of them to do

i have been keeping in touch with one hell of a good friend of mine, if she is reading this she had better know how flippen awesome she is o shes gonna get it

outside of that, well shit a lot of crap is going on

my parents are getting a divorce, which is fine…it happens all the time.  but the thing is when you make a promise to someone, and nothing other than “oh i no longer feel that way” changes then there is no reasoning for it….you made a promise you fucking keep it, only cowards walk away from there promises

 

ive talked about other forums that i have been apart of, the one that i hold dear to my heart has changed gears and left the company that took over them.  i cant blame them at all the company sucked major ass….but i have great news the forums still live via a new name and back to its core…located here The Super Bar so stop by and see whats going on

The Super Bar is your one stop place for all your tech help needed stuff, even if it is a place to hang out with frinds then this is the place for you.  we answer questions about linux, mac, windows phones tv, networking, so on and so forth so stop on by and take a look

2010 Another Year Older, Another Year Closer To Death

so yeah here we are in 2010 the world is still here and we are another your closer to 2012 oh my oh my the dreaded 2012 is closer, lets all run around like chickens with there heads cut off.  if the world ends, then the world ends and there isn’t a damn thing we can do about it but shoot life the bird one last time.

so what’s gone on since my last entry???? not a whole hell of a lot. as a stated and as you all are well aware of is that the new year happened its a start of a new decade, yes a new decade that’s what 10 means a decade.  so out side of that i have had yet another crappy as birthday like all the others back on the 13th of this month, but at least i am not old yet, I’ll be old when i hit 30 so i still have one more year.

since it was a new year and it been about a year in a half since my last format/reinstall of my OS i figured id do that, i also decided on taking apart my computer piece by piece to dust it out, i also took the time to rig up a little cooling unite thing for it seeing as how it was getting on the almost to hot range, and wouldn’t you know it it has kept it about 40 degrees cooler so yay! me.

I’ve been playing a lot of my Final Fantasy 11 game and have made it very far… most of my jobs have yet to be leveled at all, cept for my Dragoon 70, Warrior 40, Dancer 25, Thief 25, Red Mage 43, Black Mage 20, White Mage 10, Paladin 69.  yes that’s all the same character. this game you can play every aspect of the game with one character. the only thing i wish i could do is pull myself away from the game long enough to get back into my forums because i feel like i am failing my friends there, and i feel like i am failing my cats because i am not spending a lot of time with them….well not as much time as id like

that’s that i guess just a little summery of what’s been going on with me…like anyone gives a fuck

Cleaning/Organizing

well guys, i have done some cleaning in my room.  i transferred my comic books into a new box and placed said box into my closet.  some would say this closet has no end to the amount of storage.

 

i have been playing more of D&D 4th edition and i still do not like it.  its like there telling me this is what you do and NOTHING else, if it isn’t in the power list you can’t do it

 

i have been listening to a lot of my netcasts and what not

 

i write this just to write it not that i had anything to say worth while, i am going to bed and will be writting more later this week

Random Boredom

i really have not got a lot to talk about today other than i am currently at my grandfathers birthday party.  yeah before you say anything about it, everyone is playing poker and other card games which is far from my thing.  i have never liked card games unless it is solitar

i really should try to talk to some of the other people here but i hate talking to new people……any way they all are old, that makes since, it is my grandfathers birthday party so go figure lol

this week has been one hell of a week for my tv shows that i watch. Smallville, Supernatural, Prison Break, Lost, Ghost Whisperer, Bones, House.  all of those have ether hit there series finally or season finally and i have to say this is the fist time i have been this excited for the next season to start, damn dirty summer time. burn hell as i piss on your grave

i haven’t seen to many movies lately, at least none that where new, i am really looking forward to the next Transformer movie not so much the Star Trek movie

as for right now i am bored off my ass, i can not get to the internet and i have cleared off my computer with all my stuff, movies videos movies and what not