Saturday, August 31, 2013

Boomzilla Occurence in the 4 billion digits of Pi

search string = "boomzilla"
45-bit binary equivalent =   000100111101111011011101001001011000110000001
string does not occur in first 4 billion binary digits of pi 

:-(

http://pi.nersc.gov/

But there is an ass in position 130396475.....

Sunday, August 11, 2013

Space Needle


Of one thing I am confident; the Space Needle has been photographed significantly more than 8 times. Notwithstanding the ubiquity of it's image across the city (heck I can even buy Space Needle imprinted underwear) I felt drawn to take my shot and awesomize the heck out of it. Behold!

Kindle Fire as Secondary Laptop Monitor





There are plenty of times when I need additional real estate for my laptop: when I'm on a call using OCS and want to have the controls front and center; Amazon Cloud Player etc. Rather than hauling a monitor with me Ive been using the Air Display app for the Kindle Fire. It’s $9.99 and works over Wi-Fi ( both devices must be on the same network). You also need to download and app for your Mac or PC from the Air Display website here.  If you don't have a Fire you can use any Android device, iOS device, Windows computer, or Mac as your second monitor.