Zombie Defense – 873 Bug Out Bag
You know you want it 😉
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/19c2/
Screen shots included below (click link above or any picture to go to the page)
Oh sure, real preppers may poo-poo this and say they can get better cheaper somewhere else. They may be right. If so please comment below. Everyone likes options. 😉
Copyright © 2014 by Christian Bergman, All rights reserved.
All people, places, and events are fictional … except when they aren’t.
Encounter – a short story
“Sir, Deep Space Radar reports contact with object entering the system. It has an unusually high radar cross-section. That is, it’s too reflective to be natural. It appears to be on a collision course with us.”
“Contact Orbital Defense. See if they can intercept. We need a better look at this thing.”
“Yes sir.”
So it began. We always knew it might happen – encounter with other life forms than our own. Reports had been made as long as anyone could remember of sightings, meetings, abductions, but these had always been explained away. This however had a different feel to it. This could be real.
“Sir, Orbital Defense can get a high-speed probe launched by morning. We will be able to get high-res images from it. I recommend you get some sleep while you can. If this is what we think it is, you will need your sleep now.”
“Yes I suppose you are correct.” I had special sleeping quarters set up for such things. I would not need to leave.
Every cloud has a sliver lining
I’m not talking about the cloud, I’m talking about real clouds … metaphorically. Bad things can have positive aspects.
Someone stole all my wife’s credit cards. But I haven’t reported it because he’s spending less than she did.
OK, it’s an old joke. No one stole my wife’s credit cards.
The cloud in question is the problems I documented in previous blogs concerning the 3.9 release of Automattic’s iPhone App.
In learning to compensate for the timestamp issue, I discovered scheduling.
Now that 3.9.1 is out, I am using it heavily. I have already scheduled through TNW – Day 45 every Sunday into the future.
I can also schedule in the future, save, and preview seeing it exactly how it will be … without your ever seeing it until I have discovered every last typo (well in theory at least).
I am writing this at 10:30 PM CST (UTC -6) on February 12, but it will post as shown below.
John Watkinson is an expert witness and on many occasions has had to deal with patent litigation. Here he describes the application of ideas in the art of invention both historically and currently from Galileo to patent trolls.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/15/tales_from_an_expert_witness_prior_art_and_patent_trolls/
I couldn’t have done it without you.
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This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
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News
The WordPress iOS app 3.9.1 should fix the timestamp problem with updates, which appears to be an issue with local time vs UTC.
I won’t do any more updates to older posts until 3.9.1 comes out. Until then, if you are a new reader, you will need search on ‘Day 42’, ‘Day 43’, etc. to compensate for the broken links.
Once the 3.9.1 app release is out, I plan to repost Day 42, 43, 44 etc. with revisions starting at some current future date. I will leave the original posts in place for historical reference.
I have chosen The Nudist War as the title of the novel with Day 42 still the first chapter. I think that I will title the first post The Nudist War with subsequent posts titled TNW Day 43, TNW Day 43, TNW Day 44, etc.
I am also eagerly awaiting the March(?) release of iOS 7.1, which is anticipated to have better memory management and bug fixes for iPads and iPhone.
Other than troubleshooting the timestamp/date/URL issue on iOS app 3.9 and loosing my sanity, I have been work aggressively on TNW Day 54. As they say … the plot thickens. 🙂
cb
The Nudist War, TNW, Day42, HZV Copyright © 2013 by Christian Bergman, All rights reserved.
Using an iPad or iPhone to maintain you site? Using the iOS app?
http://ios.wordpress.org is the site for you. Check out the blog and the forums.
You will (may?) need to create a separate account for the .org site. At least I did, but then again it recognizes me as ‘cb’ and displays my Gravitar.
This site saved my sanity
cb
Well OK … maybe a little bit
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This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
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But at least the WP folks are aware of the Timestamp/URL issue I have been troubleshooting with iPhone App 3.9
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/01/30/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-released/#comment-61129
This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
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If interested you may follow at:
http://ios.forums.wordpress.org/topic/timestamp-regression-on-update?replies=1#post-11606
This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
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… You can help!
Read the previous post or the previous several posts. Every time I update a post, the timestamp gets reset to an earlier time. Update enough and it gets reset to an earlier day – this changes the URL and breaks retrospective links.
Would you please repeat my steps, just update a post several times (add space, add a word, delete a word) and note the time stamp. If it changes, reply to this post.
Am I the only one having this problem?
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This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
I am happy 🙂
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After documenting to my own satisfaction … and hopefully to your satisfaction … I need scotch. Smoky not chill filtered, no coloring added, single malt scotch.
Being unable to go back and edit my previous posts puts the kibosh on my ability to tidy up and standardize various grammatical aspects.
I am sad 😦
Mmmmm scotch
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This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
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I am editing and updating Timeline, my previous post. Today is February 2nd, but after my last update of Timeline it shows up as February 1st!
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This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
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Ok so I deleted Version 3.9 and I re-downloaded from the Apple iPhone App Store
The post was created @ 11:41 PM February 3rd 2014
1st update @ 11:44 PM 2014/02/03
Kill all Apps and relaunch the WP App. View the stats
2nd update at @ 11:53 2014/02/03
Note the change in the timestamp
3rd update @ 11:55 2014/02/03
4th update @ 11:56 2014/02/03
Note the date change. This will change the URL
5th update @ 11:58 2014/02/03
Note the post order has now changed
6th update @ 12:03 2014/02/04
Prior to the 7th save the URL for this post is
https://contrafactual.com/2014/02/02/wash-rinse-repeat/
8th update @ 12:09 2014/02/04
After the 8th update the URL is now
I hope that this clearly shows the issue I am seeing
😦
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This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
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… Troubleshooting Part Two
UPDATE – I just edited this and now the posting order is out of date! This post actually follows https://contrafactual.com/2014/02/02/ongoing-wp-problems/
I also just edited Timeline and now it is timestamped yet another day earlier with a URL of https://contrafactual.com/2014/01/31/timeline/
In my previous two posts in noticed that when I updated Timeline, the creation time and URL changed. If the URL changes every time I update it screws up all of my links!
So I took a look at the activity logs.
Really geeky debug stuff follows
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This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
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Created approximately 5:58 PM
Update @ 6:02 PM
Upload screen capture and update @ 6:04 PM
Upload image @ 6:06 PM and update
Upload image @ 6:08 PM and update
Repeat @ 6:10 PM
Repeat @ 6:11 PM
Repeat @ 6:12 PM
Repeat @ 6:14 PM
Repeat @ 6:16 PM
Etc.
PS the new link function does not work. I had to manually code the HTML for the above link. Below is what I saw when I clicked the link icon
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This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
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In 42 days of Pain and WordPress iPhone App FAIL I describe the problem I am having with the latest WordPress iPhone App by Automattic (Version 3.9, January 30, 2014)
Step 1
I go to Contrafactual and choose Menu > Topics and chose Day 46
This is the URL
Next I use the iPhone App to edit and publish Day 46
I click on Menu > Topics and chose Day 46
No problem ???
So let me go thru all of Menu > Topics and see what links are broken
Broken links: Day 42, Day 51, Day 52, Day 53
All posts I edited on Friday January 31
Below are the URLs for the above posts
Original https://contrafactual.com/2013/07/11/hzv-day-42/
Current https://contrafactual.com/2013/07/10/hzv-day-42/
Original https://contrafactual.com/2013/12/10/day-51/
Current https://contrafactual.com/2013/12/09/day-51/
Original https://contrafactual.com/2013/12/17/day-52/
Current https://contrafactual.com/2014/01/26/day-52-2
Original https://contrafactual.com/2014/01/29/day-53/
Current https://contrafactual.com/2014/01/27/day-53/
So, yesterday updates posted to a different URL, but today there are no apparent problems. ?????
Cue Rod Serling …
Look at the time stamp on Troubleshooting below. I published this at 3:28 PM
Followed by this
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This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
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In my previous post, I described the problem I having with the latest Version 3.9, January 30, 2014 release of the WordPress iPhone App.
When I go back to update older posts (in this case edits to the Day 42 / The Nudist War serialized novel), the update gets written to a new URL:
https://contrafactual.com/2013/07/11/hzv-day-42/ vs
https://contrafactual.com/2013/07/10/hzv-day-42/
This means that ALL of my links are now invalid. If you try to read the series you will get
Really annoying 😦
I am sure that Automattic will fix this, but it could be a while.
I have submitted a public question about this at:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/iphone-app-39-saves-updates-to-a-different-url?replies=1
I don’t know if this is an iPhone-specific problem or more widespread, but if you edit an older post and the URL changes you now know why.
cb
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This issue has been fixed in 3.9.1
http://ios.wordpress.org/2014/02/12/wordpress-for-ios-3-9-1-released/
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The latest WordPress iPhone App by Automattic (Version 3.9, January 30, 2014) writes update to the wrong folder.
For example the first entry of Day 42 (The Nudist War) has ALWAYS been located at:
After editing and saving it is now located at:
https://contrafactual.com/2013/07/10/hzv-day-42/
Arrrrrgggghhhh
I discovered this after going back and editing earlier posts.
I thought the post had disappeared until I did a search on Day 42.
Next step … Contacting Automatic 😦
Possible propulsion source for long-haul trans-Martian and trans-Terran transport.
The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR) are purportedly safer (no harmful radioactive wastes produced), less expensive, smaller in size, does not use weapons-grade radioactive fuels and run on thorium-232, which is apparently an abundant heavy metal. The nuclear reactions in an LFTR can be started and stopped easily. The fuel does not have to be refined or enriched or made into pellet shapes. The reaction products are supposedly less harmful and have short half-lives.
Thus, I feel that the above qualities make LFTRs a potential fit for nuclear propulsion applications. LFTRs can be made smaller to fit an air/space vehicle. The controllability of the reactions gives us the ability to throttle power output on a vehicle. The reactors can be designed to withstand explosions. At present, aircraft black boxes are made tough and rugged, and designed to withstand crashes and submersion in water. So is the case with nuclear warheads…
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It wasn’t there before!
Mystery ‘doughnut’ materializes in front of Mars rover
Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are puzzled by a mysterious rock that has appeared in front of the Opportunity rover, Curiosity’s never-say-die older sibling.
“Mars keeps throwing new stuff at us!” NASA Mars Exploration Rover lead scientist Steve Squyres told Discovery News.
… and substitute my own.
I just saw it on TV and it made me laugh.
In case you missed it …
Yes, I am desperate to have you read this …
For background context on this story, you are encouraged to read: Phobos Rising and Jumper.
Rocket Man – a short story
Copyright © 2014 by Christian Bergman, All rights reserved.
All people, places, and events are fictional … except when they aren’t.
Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids. In fact, it’s cold as hell. – Elton John, Bernie Taupin (1972)
“Rocket Man, burning out his fuse, out here alone.” I recall the lyrics of the ancient Elton John song that has become the anthem of our profession, as I prepare for our deorbit burn. “Pressurizing the primary fuel loop … now,” I call out to my copilot.
“Roger that. Pressures coming up nicely,” Sam replies. “Prepping the igniters. I have New Masdar on the com. They have us in the flyway.”
“Roger that. Double-check the voltage on main B bus. I don’t like what I’m…
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Despite all the other fun bits that I include in my blog … my cats, the interesting YouTube video, various fun facts, music, history … my real reason for blogging is that I want to write fiction. I currently have two main streams of fiction: the Day 42 zombie saga and the Mars collection of science fiction short stories.
I recently wrote a new short story titled Rocket Man.
I included various supplementary material on either side of it. Prior to posting Rocket Man. I reblogged both Phobos Rising and Jumper. After I posted it, I included a history of the Rocket Man song. Intermixed with this was a variety of other video posts and a cat post.
The material on either side of the Rocket Man short story got numerous ‘likes’ … yet Rocket Man got only a single ‘like’.
I am perplexed.
• Did you read it and not like it?
• If you read it and did not like it, can you tell me what you disliked?
Be frank I’m a big boy I can take criticism.
• If you didn’t read it why not?
As always I am extremely appreciative of your feedback.
Thanks cb
So back on December 8th I posted my original iPad Air Fail post.
I had suggested reviewing the following thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5532206?tstart=0
It is a long thread
Despite the glowing reviews of the mainstream press and tech community, there are still many frustrated users out there whose iPad Airs have regular Safari crashes, App crashes, and even full reboots.
A history of Rocket Man through the decades …
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Man_(song)
1972
1978
2009
2012 (40th Anniversary)
If you enjoyed this, you might also enjoy my short story Rocket Man
PS I especially like William Shatner’s 2011 rendition of Rocket Man on Seeking Major Tom
Prerequisite reading …
[Author’s note: This is part of the Project Mars series of short stories.
To start at the beginning go >> HERE << ]
Copyright © 2013 by Christian Bergman, All rights reserved.
All people, places, and events are fictional … except when they aren’t.
http://en.almareekhwiki.org.mars/jumper_(spacecraft)
Jumper (spacecraft)
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From AlMareekhWiki, the free encyclopedia of Mars
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English Version | النسخة العربية | Русская версия | 中国版本 | हिंदी रूपांतर
Jumper, also known as ballistic jumper, is the primary short range transport vehicle for Mars. It is a variant of the lunar jumper in use since the mid twenty-first century. Like the lunar jumper, upon which it is based, it comes in three variants: ballistic crew jumper…
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Also the inventor of the Saiga shotguns
This might be useful during the Zombie Apocalypse
Guns, lots of guns
Earlier this year I wrote a piece of satire titled ATF, a post-apocalyptic strategy based on the stockpiling of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. Although satirical in nature, and intended to be humorous, there is much truth, I believe, in that essay.
Curiosity – a short story
Copyright © 2013 by Christian Bergman, All rights reserved.
All people, places, and events are fictional … except when they aren’t.
The traffic on the Foothill Freeway is particularly light today, due to the fact that almost everyone is taking the week of Christmas off. I am approaching an old pickup truck poking along what must be 45 to 50 mph in the far left-hand lane. At 80 mph, I am closing the gap quickly. Deftly sliding over one lane to the right, I punch the accelerator of my 12 year old ‘pre-owned’ Tesla Roadster, passing the pickup with ease. Inside the pickup truck an old Latino couple are arguing away, oblivious to the traffic hazard they present. I check my rearview mirrors left and right and realize that we are the only two vehicles on the road. My exit is coming up fast, so I let off the accelerator and ease over to the far right lane applying ever-so-light regenerative breaking to slow down for my left turn on to Berkshire Place. I swing under the Foothill Freeway and continue coasting and decelerating as I approach the dead-end ‘T’ into Oak Grove Drive.
The light is red. As I pull to a stop, I mutter out loud, “why am I waiting on a signal light when I’m the only car as far as the eye can see?” With that I check my surroundings one last time, swear under my breath, and pull deliberately into Oak Grove Drive heading north. I smile as I power up to the speed limit. “I am an outlaw,” I think to myself as I double check the radar detector and rear view mirrors.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory main entrance appears ahead. Once again, I decelerate as I pull up to the guard shack. I immediately recognize the guard on duty and show him my badge. “Hey Al, Merry Christmas. I thought you were off to see the grandkids.”
What’s an Apple fanboy to do? There seems to be a problem with a small number of the Apple iPad air models. I say a small number, I hope it’s a small number.
See below (note, I am NOT Lsmith123)
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5532206?start=375&tstart=0
Lsmith123
Re: Ipad air low memory crash
Dec 8, 2013 12:45 PM (in response to Yellowtail714)
Frustrated that another support email resulted in being told that Apple we’re not aware of this issue so I made a video of the problem to prove that I wasn’t doing anything unusual:
If anyone wants to see two iPad airs next to each other doing the same thing I will be happy to provide that video as well 🙂 for more fun I will make one of me at the Apple store doing this on their demo units as well – although I expect I won’t be allowed to do that 🙂
I am an Apple fan, but this is really starting to annoy me now. Not the so much the fault, rather the complete denial by all Apple support employees that this is a known issue.
I am an Apple fanboy, some have even called me an Apple apologist. Be that as it may, I am closely following a thread on the Apple support discussion site that suggests that there are problems in the Apple orchard. To wit, iOS 7 has memory management problems that cause the Safari browser and other apps to crash or the iPhone/iPad to crash and reboot. Both cases leave a ‘LatestCrash‘ and/or ‘LowMemory‘ log in
Setting > General > About > Diagnostics & Usage > Diagnostics & Usage Data
(You must have ‘Automatically Send‘ checked)
Additionally many experienced folks are suggesting that the mere 1GB LowMemoryof RAM found on the iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Mini with Retina Display is woefully inadequate to support the A7 CPU 64-bit architecture.
The Ipad air low memory crash thread on the discussions.apple.com site had 18,652 views and 280 posts at the time of this post.
I have had a handful of crashes on my new iPhone 5s, nothing too worry about, but others appear to have been less lucky. If you are experiencing problems since upgrading to iOS 7 or are having problems with your new iPhone 5s, iPad Air, or iPad Mini with Retina Display you are not alone.
I found this video at http://atomicinsights.com/
Forget everything you thought you knew about nuclear power and watch this video,
LFTR in Five Minutes – Is thorium better than a silver bullet energy solution?
Kinda makes you think, eh?
Kirk Sorensen http://energyfromthorium.com
(Courtesy of YOKS)
… per day!
Source: Boy Genius Report
Daily iPhone 5s production now matches Moto X’s entire Q3 sales
Foxconn has 100 production lines, 600 people per line and a total of more than 300,000 workers dedicated solely to building the iPhone 5s — and that’s just at one factory in Zhengzhou, China. How many iPhone 5s handsets can all those people build? According to the report, they’re pumping out a staggering 500,000 iPhone 5s units each day.
“Furthermore, the technology available to America a half century ago was vastly inferior to that of today. The men who designed Apollo did their calculations on slide rules capable of performing, at most, one calculation per second, not on computers doing billions. Yet in eight years they solved all the problems necessary to take us from nearly zero human spaceflight capability to landing men on the moon and returning them to Earth.
As this book will show in detail, from a technological point of view, we are much better prepared to send humans to Mars today than they were to get men to the Moon in 1961. Yet they got there in eight years. We’ve gone nowhere in the past three and a half decades.
So, the question is, what did NASA have then that it doesn’t have now?
The answer is Resolution.”
Excerpt From: Zubrin, Robert. “Case for Mars.” Free Press, 2011. iBooks.
This material may be protected by copyright.
Check out this book on the iBooks Store: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewBook?id=448231990
Also available at Amazon
A very good one hour documentary.
Follow up to ‘Transparent Aluminum’ …
Fast Forward >> more on the Ion Cannon
1986
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 ASF® furnaces and related equipment to produce the material at an Apple facility in Arizona where GT expects to employ over 700 people. Apple will provide GT with a prepayment of approximately $578 million. GT will reimburse Apple for the prepayment over five years, starting in 2015.
http://allthingsd.com/20131104/apple-inks-major-sapphire-supply-deal-with-gt-advanced-technologies/
Sapphire is currently used as the substrate for LED manufacture and is used by Apple in the lense covers of various ‘iDevice’ cameras as well as the fingerprint sensor in the iPhone 5s. The Apple – GT Advanced Technologies deal suggests that Apple needs an assured supply of Sapphire for current and future devices. Such future applications could include Sapphire screens and/or wearable products. (http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2013/09/apple-invents-a-fusion-process-that-will-add-a-sapphire-laminate-layer-to-iphone-ipad-future-iwatch-cover-glass.html)
From Pocketnow.com:
From GT Advanced Technologies:
Sapphire is second only to diamond in hardness (that is, scratch resistance). The formula for Sapphire is Al2O3.
Sapphire = Transparent Aluminum
See also (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire)
This Friday I’m taking today off from work and were going on a road trip to Austin Texas. And by this Friday I mean today is Friday.
As you recall I got one of the brand-new iPhone 5s models.(See bragging rights)
This post is an experiment in technology. And by this post I mean today’s post. For some reason dictation wants to use the work this when I say today.
This entire post is being dictated on my iPhone 5s. With the occasional delete for extra spaces or perhaps a type for punctuation it’s 100% dictated. You’re even getting the mistakes I’m just going back and clarifying them when I see something.
I am dictating it a sentence at a time. Because it needs to go up to the web to analyze what I’ve just said. And I don’t want to be too long string of words per dictation.
I’m learning about dictation it excepts the phrase single quote
Single quote for a carriage return. Okay that did not work let’s try something else it accepts “new – line “as a carriage return. That’s better.
Pretty slick, Anna.? Are you A a a RRR GGG HHH ask Glenn nation point!
A a a RRR GGG HHH! Did not understand our, Rather yar, But it didn’t understand “exclamation – point”! And by didn’t I meant did.
It is not perfect, but it’s pretty darn good. Backspace delete okay this commands don’t work okay those commands did not work. Return return sorry
One (space
One) I have been writing Contra factual using the iPhone almost exclusively since I got the iPhone
Two) I have been making a lot of progress on the day 42 series. There will be no date 48 teasers I hope to have it out complete in a day or two. Day 48 T-shirts. To sit up ha ha Ha. Ha ha ha day 48 teaser.
Three) I am simultaneously working on the ending of the series. But I don’t know how far to go before I start going into ending mode. As they say all good things must come to an end. They also say “this too shall pass”. Although in truth once I switched to ending mode the ending could go on quite a long time. I’m excited to get to the ending, but then endings are always sad.
Four)
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Four)(Finally!) again completely dictated no corrections mean made– ––– – now I have completely forgotten but .4 was supposed to be. And by .4 I mean line for by line for I mean four)
Pi equals 3.141?
Five (
Five) to WH EW. When last I looked I had over 80 people following this blog. But I think I really only have a quarter of perhaps I half-dozen loyal readers. And by quarter I mean core. You know who you are.
Six) ignoring this particular post., Do you think my writing is good enough to publish? Specifically would you pay real money for something I wrote? More specifically would you pay real money for a digital copy of day 42 in its entirety? And finally would you recommend day 42 to others? Use the reply option to answer.
Seven) this is what I am thinking; and by “; “I meant quote: “, And by quote: “I meant quote:”. It is curious to me why sometimes it decides to print quotequotequote and it other times just a single quote.”Eddie likes cheese”. That was interesting. The logic of this thing is “inscrutable”.
Eight”) okay so this is what I am thinking. I will continue to serialize a 42 on my blog. But once I get to the point where I think it’s finished or close to finished, I will work toward assembling it into a single e-book. At which point I will go back and embellish each of the days as I see appropriate, Such that the e-book will be a more complex version of the serialize story. So my question then to my readers is: what do you buy it or recommend that someone else by it assuming is at a reasonable price for e-book like a couple of bucks bastion Mark. Ha ha Ha. And by bastion Mark, I mean “?”.
Nine) why am I going to Austin today? Number one son is getting married on Sunday. I will be enjoying a long weekend. I will be reconnecting with white okay ES. And by white okay S I mean yolks open paren E old kid sister). Sorry.. Sorry.– – S I GH– – letter Y oh Kay S. Period. Period…. Wedding of number one son. I will also the room that reuniting with my wife’s sister. Period. I will also be we uniting with my wife’s sister. And her husband. Who I knew in college.
11) need more coffee! Standby…
12 open paren
12) just shot a video of Hillary and pickles. I’ll look for it shortly after this post
As number six would say “BCNU”. LOL
As number six would say “be seeking you”
As number six would say “be C C C in I give up
That thing that number six in the show the prisoner used to say
Meters, that is. (2,500 ft.)
This is the highest to date.
I’m dictating this again. The dictating really is very good on this machine. It’s good as long as I make short sentences. I find that sometimes with very long sentences it tends to get hung up. Other than that I think the dictation works really well and probably should be used more often than it is.
I have now had the iPhone 5s for over a week. I find that it works very well for watching videos whether they are YouTube or actual movies. As I mentioned the dictation is good. The typewriter is a bit small for my fingers. Also some websites don’t seem to scale to the screen in a easily readable fashion. I still find that the larger screen size of the iPad makes it much better for reading websites.
All in all I love the iPhone 5S, however I am looking forward to the next generation iPad and iPad and iPad Mini when they come out next month. I do hope that I will be able to afford to buy one before the end of the year. I think I will go back and read the Desiderata just in case.
If you recall, Eddie drives an electric car. I have been purposefully vague as to which electric car he drives. But it does have a backseat which tends to rule out the Smart Electric Drive. It might be a Tesla or it might be an electric car we don’t know of yet. Or it might be the Nissan leaf.
Ever since iOS 6, Apple has included a microphone icon on the keyboard.
Above you can easily see the microphone icon. Next to it is the icon for changing between international keyboards.
One of the things that I don’t like about the iPhone is the fact that the keys on the keyboard are too small for my fat fingers.
I’m testing what I can do with dictation. In fact this entire post has been dictated using my iPhone. It’s really very amazing; yet another example of Arthur C Clark’s “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
One of the things I’ve noticed is that the microphone for the iPhone is on the bottom and so I have to be careful about how I hold it otherwise I cover the microphone with my thumb and of course then it doesn’t work. I also just noticed that it doesn’t like the word “thumb”. I get “some”; I get “from”; but I don’t get thumb.
However I think it’s good enough. I plan to begin dictating all of my posts on my iPhone. I think I’ll use it on my next installment of Day 42 (DayZ of DiZeaZe).
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