After all the waiting and a long plane ride, I’m finally in Europe! My friend, Johnny, and I will be staying in Denmark for one week prior to our 3-week class in Cyprus.
Pictures will be updated daily at this site: Scott and Johnny’s Cyprus Trip and Scott and Johnny’s Europe Trip.
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Wired 13.06: The Mad Genius from the Bottom of the Sea
….Craven’s system exploits the dramatic temperature difference between ocean water below 3,000 feet – perpetually just above freezing – and the much warmer water and air above it. That temperature gap can be harnessed to create a nearly unlimited supply of energy. Although the scientific concepts behind cold-water energy have been around for decades, Craven made them real when he founded the state-funded Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii in 1974 on Keahole Point, near Kona. Under Craven, the lab developed the process of using cold deep-ocean water and hot surface water to produce electricity. By the 1980s the Natural Energy Lab’s demonstration plant was generating net power, the world’s first through so-called ocean thermal energy conversion…..
Very interesting and exciting. I wish him and his company luck!
RUSSELL Crowe enjoyed a fearsome reputation when filming in Canada in the late 90s, according to co-star Burt Reynolds.
It’s pretty funny. I never knew that someone as famous as he would be banned from many bars.
Discovery Channel :: News :: Are Couch Potatoes More Creative?
We’re smarter and more creative lying down than standing up, says a researcher who believes this helps to explain Archimedes’ eureka moment.
Darren Lipnicki from the school of psychology at the Australian National University (ANU) found that people solve anagrams more quickly when they are on their backs than on their feet.
He said his research, which will be published in the journal Cognitive Brain Research, relates to how neurotransmitters are released.
From Reuters (Via YahooNews): Newsweek says erred in Koran desecration report.
Newsweek magazine on Sunday said it erred in a May 9 report that said U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, and apologized to the victims of deadly Muslim protests sparked by the article. …
[Editor Mark] Whitaker said the magazine inaccurately reported that U.S. military investigators had confirmed that personnel at the detention facility in Cuba had flushed the Koran down the toilet.
The report sparked angry and violent protests across the Muslim world from Afghanistan, where 16 were killed and more than 100 injured, to Pakistan to Indonesia to Gaza.
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Dates: May 27th-June 25th, 2005
The following is the complete itinerary for our trip to Nicosia, Cyprus:
Friday, May 27th – Appleton to Copenhagen, Denmark
We are flying out of Appleton, WI (ATW) on Northwest Airlines. We are connecting in Detroit (DTW) where we are on a Northwest flight to Amsterdam (AMS). We are leaving Amsterdam for Copenhagen (CPH) on KLM and arriving in Scandinavia at Copenhagen Kastrup airport on Saturday, May 28th. From there, we will meet my aunt, uncle, and cousins at the airport and take a commuter train to their home in Hellerup, Denmark (the train ride takes about half an hour because the airport is slightly south of downtown Copenhagen and they live on the north side of the city).
Saturday, May 28th-Tuesday, May 31st – Hellerup, Denmark
We are staying with my aunt, uncle, and cousins at their house in Hellerup, Denmark during this time. Hellerup is a suburb of Copenhagen with most of the Danish foreign embassies, but it is only about 3 miles north of actual downtown Copenhagen. During this time Scott and I have planned on enjoying the red clay tennis courts and doing some biking. Denmark has bike lanes on almost every single road in the country, which is quite nice. About 30 miles north of Hellerup is a city called Helsingor where Shakespeare supposedly wrote his play Hamlet. We are thinking of biking there and around the northeast coast of Zealand, the third main island of Denmark (where Copenhagen, Hellerup, and Helsingor are located). We also will take the train or ferry to Sweden which both only take about 30 minutes.
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After a third wildly successful Ironman Wisconsin which drew a record 2,188 competitors, Ironman North America officials said Sunday they likely will extend their contract and keep the event in the Madison area through 2009.
Good! I’m not signed up for this year’s Ironman but I’m thinking about training for it for next year. If you want you can read the blog post about my Ironman Wisconsin in 2004.
Found on Digital Grin
Warning – If you can read this whole story without laughing out loud, then there’s no hope for you. I was crying by the end.
Note: Please take time to read this slowly. If you pay attention to the first two judges, the reaction of the third judge is even better.
For those of you who have lived in Texas, you know how true this is. They actually have a chili cook-off about the time Halloween comes around. It takes up a major portion of a parking lot at the San Antonio city park.
The notes are from an inexperienced chili taster named Frank, who was visiting from Springfield, IL.
Frank: “Recently, I was honored to be selected as a judge at a chili cooking contest. The original person called in sick at the last moment and I happened to be standing there at the judge’s table asking for directions to the Coors Light truck, when the call came in. I was assured by the other two judges (native Texans) that the chili wouldn’t be all that spicy and, besides, they told me I could have free beer during the tasting, so I accepted.”
Here are the scorecards from the event: (Frank is Judge #3)
Chili # 1 Eddie’s Maniac Monster Chili…
Judge # 1 — A little too heavy on the tomato. Amusing kick.
Judge # 2 — Nice, smooth tomato flavor. Very mild.
Judge # 3 — (Frank) What the hell is this stuff?! You could remove dried paint from your driveway. Took me two beers to put out the flames. I hope that’s the worst one. These Texans are crazy!
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Photo credit goes to Jerry Hughes. Thanks!
Wow! Rubgy looks like a crazy sport.