Saturday, February 7, 2009

Friday, February 6, 2009

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Snow Shovels

There are any number of different kinds of snow shovels

Snow Pushers
Bent Handled Ergo Shovels
Wheeled Shovels
Folding Snow Shovels
Even Backpacking Snow Shovels

Why can't they just make one with a long straight handle. Regular snow shovels force
you to bend way down to pickup a load of snow, then straighten up to toss it, over and over again. People have been making long handled spades for ever for a simple reason, they are better. What's the disconnection here? I suppose I could McGuiver one up.

How Fast is IBM's Newest Supercomputer ?

Well, according to IBM it will be faster than all the other Top 500 Supercomputers
Combined...

or

If each of the 6.7 billion people on earth had a hand calculator and worked together on a calculation 24 hours per day, 365 days a year, it would take 320 years to do what Sequoia will do in one hour.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009