Yarrrr … Cat-Beard the Norwegian π-rat has a theme song 🙂

An email of a Russian dashcam video leads to the discovery of music by Two Steps From Hell and their Archangel album.

Song # 13 is Norwegian Pirate:

It is currently my 3.14159th favorite song of all time.

WordPress for iOS 3.9.1 is out and now available to download from the App Store.

Some of the fixes included in this version are:

• Added: Ability to dismiss commenting by tapping on the background.
• Fixed: The last tab you selected is now loaded when returning to the app.
• Fixed: Timezone is now correctly preserved after updating a post.
• Fixed: You can now add links to longer posts.
• Various other improvements.

Full list of changes in version 3.9.1.

What’s next?

We are currently hard at work on the next major version of the app (4.0) where the major feature will be changing the stats feature to be completely native, which means they will load faster and look great too. For a sneak peek of what’s coming, take a look here.

A huge thanks to the contributors who worked on this release:@koke, @sendhil , @astralbodies, @koke,

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_aluminum#Transparent_aluminum

[Transparent Aluminum] was notably mentioned in the 1986 film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Panels of ultra-thick acrylic glass were needed to construct water tanks within their ship’s cargo bay for containing two humpback whales and tons of water. However, the Enterprise crew, without money appropriate to the period, found it necessary to barter for the required materials. Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott exchanges the chemical formula for transparent aluminum for several sheets of the material from a manufacturer called Plexicorp. When Dr. Leonard McCoy informs Scott that giving Dr. Nichols the formula is altering the future, the engineer responds, “Why? How do we know he didn’t invent the thing?”

From MOVIECLIPS.com:

2013

MERRIMACK, N.H., Nov. 4, 2013 — GT Advanced Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:GTAT) announced that it has entered into a multi-year supply agreement with Apple Inc. to provide sapphire material. GT will own and operate…

Woo Hoo

Cool, thanks! So much in so little. So terse. So Scalzi.

…

So I sent John Scalzi the following email

Hi John,

Attached is the second post from the blog I started last month. I blame you.

Cheers,

Chris Bergman (aka cat-beard)

PS I have been managing to post semi-daily and already have a small following.

with my second ever post attached (John Scalzi)

What great four-week anniversary present. 🙂

Cool, thanks! JS … YES!

This blog is currently dedicated to John Scalzi. He is the reason I am writing this and as such deserves some of the blame for what I may soon be inflicting upon you, my dear readers. For those of you who do not know of John Scalzi, I direct you to his blog Whatever and his Wikipedia page. There you will find more info on him than I could ever hope to catalog here.

Scalzi is an accomplished professional writer (by his own account he makes a good living at it). I discovered him via Red Shirts and continued on through the Old Man’s War series. If you like sci-fi you probably already know of him. I highly recommend him. His books and eBooks are available at all of the usual places.

In addition to writing sci-fi and non-fiction, he is one of the web’s earliest bloggers. His blog Whatever

For all three of you that have been waiting on the sequel to my last post, I apologize this one’s taken so long to get out. Who knew writing TL;DR posts take a while? Anyhow, that being said, I wanted to pick up where I left off on my last post and start to dive into some of the findings from the books I read and continue with this series of posts on some of the harmful effects that result from how most of us use technology. For the next few posts we’ll be focusing on David Sousa’s book, “Brainwork: The Neuroscience Behind How We Lead Others”. One of the first things he addresses is the subject of multitasking and it’s detrimental effects (I hope my title was a hint).

Apparent Productivity

Multi tasking is everywhere these days, there isn’t a single person who doesn’t have several things going on at…

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While I continue to read and write, I will leave you with a family portrait of Pickles, Hillary, and their other two siblings before I rescued them. Sadly I only caught Mr. P and Sir Edmund. The other two eventually disappeared.

Pickles is one the left, Hillary is second from the right.

… and me.

Pickles is on top.
Sir Edmund Hillary is on the bottom.

It’s not every day I can say tomorrow I have a book releasing. It’s not as if I write a book every day. That’d make me one fast writer, for sure. It would also make me an incredible genius. Believe me, as much as I’d like to punch myself in the arm, no way would I consider myself an incredible genius. Not by a long shot.

For instance, I mess up directions whenever I go anywhere with my GPS. Somehow, the voice-assist stating, “800 meters, turn right” sets off a chain reaction in my brain that propels me to want to take the next right turn instead. Even if there’s 400 meters remaining for the turn. Also, I sometimes put on two different socks. But maybe you can forgive me in that respect since I do wake up at 5:00 A.M., and different shades of blue all look the same…

Now that World War Z is part of movie history, perhaps this is a good time to have a heart to heart talk. I don’t think I’m spoiling anything if I were to ask a simple question. Some folks might have their opinions, and quite frankly, I’m interested in hearing what those opinions are. After all, I write my Monday Mayhem series hoping to understand what you, the audience, finds exciting about zombies.

Therefore, without further delay, here’s my question: What do you think of fast zombies?

You didn’t really think I’d pass up the opportunity to discuss these speed demons, did you? They’re a terror to the masses. They flock like birds evading a predator. Only, they are the predators. I would find it horrifying if one would come after me. But fifty? A hundred? A thousand? Time to bring out the big guns.

As many of you…

I adore you.

I love you despite your imperfect points

Your bad habits, your flaws.

In my eyes, they do not exist.

 I am devoted to you.

I am faithfully yours,

No matter what happens

Whether or not you get that job

Or what the future might bring.

I am protective of you.

I would lay down my life for you,

If you were in danger

For my life is empty and meaningless

Without you in it to love.

I love our everyday adventures,

And every new experience

All the time we spend together,

Even if we don’t go anywhere at all.

I miss you when you are away.

I watch the door anxiously,

Or wait at the window

Listening for the sound of your car

Or the jangling of your keys.

And when it is time for me to leave this world,

I am a happy, positive person for the most part. I don’t worry about things I can’t control. It would be nice not to have experienced the effects of two major illnesses, especially the herpes zoster. I live with many more after effects from that disease than I do Wegener’s granulomatosis, which, ironically, is the more serious (potentially fatal) disease of the two. But live with those after effects I do.

The charge doctor at the regional hospital where I had initial treatment for shingles told me, “You’ll wear a beard after this,” in reference to the scars. I mumbled some obscenity under my breath at his blunt comment, which he delivered with a smirk. He was right, though it isn’t to hide scars so much as to distract others so they don’t bring up the reality I live with 24/7, something I am aware of without outside reminders!

It…

I understood that the postherpetic neuralgia (source of the “pain in the face”) ended after a time, but that the longer from onset of herpes zoster till treatment began, the more nerve damage there was. The more nerve damage there was, the longer the healing time. Oh, yeah. And some people never got over the pain. I predicted I was one of the latter! I mean, I tend to attract the worst, the least common, the most unusual manifestations of what can go wrong with the human body!

By August of 2007, the continuing pain affected my ability to work. I left work early on some days because of pain attacks, and the frequency alarmed me, although it all fell within my allowed sick time. I had a total of five weeks vacation a year plus holidays by that stage of my work life, and often I used vacation time…