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// January 21st, 2012 // No Comments » // Health & Fitness
I pride myself on getting pretty good sleep most every day, but there’s always room for improvement, in pretty much everything we do. Lifehackers list of ten tricks for better sleep is great.
Love the pic accompanying #6, by the way. Good night!
// January 20th, 2012 // No Comments » // Space Stuff & NASA
Yesterday evening from Central Florida’s Cape Canaveral, a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket lifted off, shortly after, deploying a U.S. military communications satellite to support battlefield troops and unmanned aerial drones in the Middle East.
Wish I had been there to see it launch. Oh well, I’ve always got my Delta II Heavy launch back in September.
// January 19th, 2012 // No Comments » // Cycling
This is pretty cool — next year and the year after, the cycling national championships are going to be just about our west of here in High Point. One of those two years, I’ve gotta take Tyler down there to check out all the cycling action.
High Point to Host 2013, 2014 USA Cycling National Championships
// January 18th, 2012 // No Comments » // Cycling
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything cycling related. Sorry, but here’s a nice way to end the cycling post drought.
Road ID put together a nice little set of videos and ordered lists all related to safely cycling on the road and for safely interacting with cyclists on the road.
// January 17th, 2012 // No Comments » // Film, iPad, iPhone
Saw this over at bttf.com. I’ve yet to download it to my iPhone, but will check it out in the morning. Seems like it could either be pretty cool, or pretty clunky. I’ll post a followup after I’ve downloaded and played around with.
But just so you know, I’m pretty much a sucker for anything Back to the Future related.
Update: OK, I can already tell you, this is pretty worthless. No video clips are included with the app itself. You have to buy credits to get clips. Then, the clips don’t have the original soundtrack, and most of the text effects are just total cheese. The flying DeLorean that ends Back to the Future and the Hill Valley clock tower getting struck by lightning with a custom message inserted just aren’t worth anything to me. I can’t see getting any utility out of this. Deleted within five minutes of installing. Don’t waste your time.
// January 13th, 2012 // No Comments » // Computers, Gaming
Oh man on man. This brings back a lot of memories — especially the X-Com series. Here’s a solution for playing some of these classic personal computer games of days of past on modern hardware.
I see some classic gaming in my future — especially the X-Com series.
// January 12th, 2012 // No Comments » // Cycling, Eco
This is pretty interesting — an eco-friendly power cell. This would be perfect for those endurance rides — both to ensure juice for those emergency call but also to keep your cell phone batteries topped off for GPS applications. I like to use RunKeeper Elite to allow friends and family to check in on my progress out on the road, and this would allow for the GPS to run on all day events with no worry for battery drain.
It could also be used to top off the Garmin 500 as well.
// January 11th, 2012 // No Comments » // Film
Wow. There have been 22 Bond movies. I’ve got a bunch of them on DVD, and had several back on LaserDisc. Recently though, MGM announced a 50th anniversary collection though of all 22 Bond movies to date on Blu-Ray. I tried to find what it’d cost to pre-order on Amazon, but nothing yet. This would be cool to have, but I’m thinking it may be cost prohibitive.
// January 10th, 2012 // No Comments » // Music, Van Halen
Here it is — the first single from Van Halen’s 2012 album. I dig the song, especially the guitar and bass work, but the video is crap — it’s that black and white video that’s been circulating in part on YouTube and on van-halen.com for the last couple weeks. As others have pointed out, the video and audio don’t even sync. Why? Is that supposed to be artsy fartsy?
I’m still hopeful for the new album and have pre-ordered it.
It’s nice to be able to write about new Van Halen stuff that isn’t a pair of flip flops or some other merchandise. New music is coming!
Van Halen – Tattoo from Van Halen on Vimeo.
// January 9th, 2012 // No Comments » // Music, Van Halen
Every guitarist should be a regular reader of woodytone.com. Great “inside baseball” type stuff regarding music and guitars especially. It’s got a bunch of gear-related stuff.
Love this new article about the recent Van Halen Cafe Wa appearance in New York City.
After you read the article, surf over to YouTube. There’s plenty of footage from the concert. They sound pretty good IMHO.
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