Smart cat....

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Smart cat....

Yeah, right, Grace is smarter, so smart I had to baby lock the kitchen cabinets...

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Awww Vic, I was just kidding. You know me, always with the jokes...

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Awww Vic, I was just kidding. You know me, always with the jokes...

Is this better Celt?

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

http://www.cbc.ca/mercerreport/videos/clips/ricks-rant-refugees

Save them!

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http://www.cbc.ca/mercerreport/videos/clips/ricks-rant-refugees

Save them!

Trying to Celt, signed a petition..

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Thinking of flying, and that your suitcase might arrive, in one piece, at same destination as you.
'Toss the bag' and other games airport staff play with your luggage

Has any one gotten this in their mail?

I graduated from the University of California at Berkeley this past December with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. I got two job offers, one from SETI to work on high performance signal processing and the other from industry. One does not simply walk away from SETI, so I had the pleasure of joining the Berkeley SETI Research Center (BSRC) team this past June. I received a warm welcome and was promptly sent to West Virginia to help install a new SETI system at the Green Bank Telescope. There was a steep learning curve, but I was fascinated by BSRC's work and couldn't wait to actually understand what was going on. As it turns out, our group is looking to expand its computing power, providing the ability to look at more star systems with habitable planets, expand the involvement of volunteers and acquire larger volumes of data; in short, broaden the search and increase our chances of intercepting a signal. Now I'm working on setting up new servers, network hardware, and signal-processing systems at Green Bank. We're hoping to get data flowing and recording soon, and make it available for the interested public.

From the 19th-century idea of drawing a giant Pythagorean triangle in the Siberian tundra to signal extraterrestrials, to our current collection of servers storing and analyzing data, it is not hard to see how much progress has already been made. Funding from the Breakthrough Initiatives is spawning new projects that would not have been otherwise possible. SETI@home is planning to work with Breakthrough Listen to collect and distribute data from the Green Bank and Parkes telescopes. However, in order to sustain the whole SETI@home effort we could still use support from our devoted SETI@home contributors.

Recently, I spent a day at the Bay Area Science Festival talking to kids and their adults. I was fascinated by just how stoked kids are about SETI. Some came with prepared questions and showed incredible curiosity and intelligence. The BSRC team is hoping to inspire kids to pursue science careers and I think searching for life beyond Earth is a great way to get them interested and involved. I hope you continue your support for this fascinating endeavor, and keep your eyes on the stars!

Happy Holidays,

Zuhra Abdurashidova
for the Berkeley SETI Research Center team

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yes
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=78429

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Ya. Got it. That's a lot of email going out to everyone.

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Thank you.

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Oh yeah, I got one too.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

“Major Ian Hay, back in the "War to End War," described the structure of military organizations: Regardless of T.O., all military bureaucracies consist of a Surprise Party Department, a Practical Joke Department, and a Fairy Godmother Department. The first two process most matters as the third is very small; the Fairy Godmother Department is one “elderly female GS-5 clerk usually out on sick leave. But when she is at her desk, she sometimes puts down her knitting and picks a name passing across her desk and does something nice”

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So where in that organisation chart did the "Fire Breathing Dragons" reside?


(My mother was a self confessed member of that group, being capable of reducing three star generals to tears (at best) without saying a word, or moving more than an eye brow. As for lesser ranks, they were....)

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Gee my Mum was like that, but she was very sweet about it.

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I am feeling so much better lately? I have more
pep for the first time in ten years, and I can get more done in
an hour now than I could in a week last month? But, why
am I up? I seem to be able to go on only four or five
hours sleep per night?

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The Geminid meteor shower will be in full swing the nights of Dec. 13 and Dec. 14, and experts are saying it's going to be the best meteor shower of 2015.
http://live.slooh.com/stadium/live/geminid-meteor-shower-2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ_W22lnzLQ

The Geminid meteor shower will be in full swing the nights of Dec. 13 and Dec. 14, and experts are saying it's going to be the best meteor shower of 2015.
http://live.slooh.com/stadium/live/geminid-meteor-shower-2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ_W22lnzLQ

Unfortunately Thor is about to visit as nightfall approaches so I won't see that show, but a different one.

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'My client? She's a disagreeable old trout', says defence barrister

Mr Iles, defending, admitted his client was "a disagreeable old trout", whose behaviour was "persistent, outrageous and unpleasant", as he attempted to defend her before she was sentenced.

He said: "Her disastrous reputation precedes her. The net effect of that was local tittle-tattle. She was about as popular as a diesel Volkswagen.

"Everybody knew her and everybody was wary of her. It's very much 'engage mouth half-an-hour before brain', if indeed brain is ever troubled at all."

[face palm]
Electrician cuts wrong wire and downs 25,000 square foot data centre
Reader tried to scare his boss by warning of a one percent chance of failure. But his boss liked those odds ...

The existing facility sported a trio of 220KvA UPSes, but at the new bit barn it was decided to run with just two.

“The decision was made to save costs by relocating one of them to the new building rather than buying all new equipment.”

JF says he “begged the business to call a complete shutdown to remove the UPS. They asked me what the odds of something going wrong, and I made the error of trying to provide an accurate estimate of the risk by sayin there was about a one in 100 chance of problems.”

JF thought a one per cent risk of power failure across 25,000 square feet packed full of server racks, live, in production, would scare off the bean counters.

He was wrong.

.........

“The first thing I heard from management on Monday morning was, "I thought you said there was only a 1 in a 100 change of failure!”

“I just stared at him,” JF says.

JF handed in his notice about a month later.

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