Archive for the 'Off Topic' Category
Australian Couple Living on a Sailboat & Traveling the World
February 11th, 2016I’ve heard from a few Cryptogonners who have checked out of the rat race and are living on boats full time. A few more live very close to their boats and are ready to sail off into the sunset should the need arise. You might have heard of people who have bug out bags. Well, […]
Plastic Free French Coffee Press
February 10th, 2016Update: Found It Secura Stainless Steel French Press Coffee Maker $29. — My wife just broke my Bodum French press, so I thought I’d upgrade to one of the nice double-wall stainless steel presses I’ve seen on Amazon. One problem: they almost all contain some plastic, usually somewhere on the plunger. I can only find […]
Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet
January 20th, 2016Via: California Institute of Technology: Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than […]
Merry Christmas, Solstice, Krampus _____ (Fill in the Blank)
December 23rd, 2015I’m probably going to sign off for a couple of days. Whatever you believe or don’t believe during this maddening-for-some time of year, enjoy a brief pause in the firehose of doom that normally spews out of Cryptogon. We got our eight year old son a break barrel pellet rifle. He’s been doing the Ralphy-routine […]
SpaceX Has Successfully Launched and Landed a Falcon 9 Rocket
December 22nd, 2015Via: Reuters: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida on Monday with a payload of communications satellites before the reusable main-stage booster turned around, soared back to Cape Canaveral and landed safely near its launch pad in a dramatic spaceflight first. The successful mission, capped by delivery of all 11 satellites to orbit […]
Amazon Building Its Own Overnight Airfreight Operation
December 18th, 2015Via: Cargo Facts: Amazon.com Inc. is creating a logistics operation that will include overnight air operations in the US domestic market, potentially including the acquisition of at least 20 freighter aircraft, Cargo Facts has learned. Currently, Amazon ships most of its parcels through United Parcel Service, FedEx, and the United States Postal Service. The change […]
The Onion on Ergonomics: Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back
December 16th, 2015Ahhyep. Worked for me. Via: The Onion: In an effort to help working individuals improve their fitness and well-being, experts at the Mayo Clinic issued a new set of health guidelines Thursday recommending that Americans stand up at their desk, leave their office, and never return. “Many Americans spend a minimum of eight hours per […]
Animal Magnetic Sense Comes from Protein That Acts as a Compass
November 23rd, 2015Via: New Scientist: Quick – can you tell where north is? Animals as diverse as sea turtles, birds, worms, butterflies and wolves can, thanks to sensing Earth’s magnetic field. But the magnet-sensing structures inside their cells that allow them to do this have evaded scientists – until now. A team led by Can Xie’s at […]
Public Service Announcement: Asus Sabertooth Z170 Mark 1, Corsair DDR4 RAM and XMP
November 20th, 2015This is totally off topic, but maddening for the handful of people who are having the problem, so, all regular readers, please skip. — If you landed here looking for a solution to the “overclocking failed” error when trying to enable XMP with your Asus Sabertooth Z170 Mark 1 and Corsair DDR4 RAM (in my […]
SSI’s Shred of the Week: Hard Drives
November 19th, 2015Via: SSI: In the digital age, information is a powerful asset that must be protected. As computer systems become outdated and replaced, their hard drives, which can contain valuable or sensitive information, must be securely destroyed so their data has no chance of being read or retrieved. This requires a very specialized piece of shredding […]
