Butt-Head is Reading on I-405

This butt-head is reading a book while driving on I-405 (Washington) after merging from WA-520.

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Driving in the Rain

I love night time photography. Someday I'm gonna buy myself a real camera. But these cheap things do a pretty good job in the meantime.

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Glass

Photo by my daughter (age 14).

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Sysinternals proposal

I posted the following feedback at the SysInternals.com site:

Hi,

As the number of cores increases, we need Process Explorer and similar tools to display the CPU usage in a more readable format.  I would propose that the first core go half way up the graph and all remaining cores be scaled such that if all cores are 100% busy then the graph looks to be full.  Ideally this would exponential so if two cores are busy, the graph is 3/4 full, and three cores is 7/8ths full, then 15/16ths, and on until the final core fills the last little bit left (depending on the number of cores this might be just 1/32nd or such).

This will solve the problem where you have 16 cores and a process is pegged at 100% of one core but the graph is so small you won't be able to even see it.

Thanks,

-- Stephen Clarke-Willson

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A Model Day at the Park

Read about tilt/shift photography at Wikipedia.
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Sound Banking: A Capitalist Imperative - The Market Ticker

Sound Banking: A Capitalist Imperative - The Market Ticker:

"It is time to 'clear the decks' and talk about exactly what a sound banking system is - and is not.

It is time to identify that which is an exercise in capitalism, and that which is an exercise in fraud."

This is a really good article that describes how fractional reserve banking goes bad. Basically, it says that banks can loan out money they "create" as long as they have a hard asset to back it up. In modern times, of course, banks are making loans against things that don't exist: a building that isn't built yet, your ability to pay (or not pay) your credit card, and incorrect assessment of home values.

So there's lots of fraud and most banks, by this definition, are insolvent.

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Excellent

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Coffee Art

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Power

I had all but the first 10 editions of Nintendo Power. I gave them away to a young man from Spokane. His mom drove across the Cascades to pick them up. For several years Nintendo put a little slice of a picture on the spine of each edition and if you put them together you could see the picture. (The red one in the middle was a special Spider Man cover.)

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Mechanism

Hammering Man seems sad that I can see his mechanism.


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