Mythbusters instantly paint the Mona Lisa. . .

Ok, so I like watching the Mythbusters and will commonly find myself watching reruns just because they do cool stuff. I was perusing the web and found a video where they demonstrate the difference between a CPU(Central Processing Unit) and a GPU(Graphics Processing Unit).



Now the reality is that with a CPU you just have one processor sending data to the screen, while with a GPU you would still have the CPU running the other application instructions with the GPU setup to just run the graphical side of the program. Cool video no matter what they were demonstrating.

Fire on the Mountain. . .

Wow. I just heard that they are battling a fire near where my parents live in Draper, UT.

KSL Gallery of Photos

Tireder and Tireder. . .

Well, as anyone that really knows me will attest, I do not get enough sleep. I never have and know that I suffer because of it. I was looking over CNNMoney.com and came upon another (there seems to have been quite a few in the past) article about how good regular and sufficient sleep is for our bodies. This article was very well written and I feel that it expresses a clear viewpoint and good facts to help understand our bodies need.

Click here for the CNNMoney article.

By the hair of his chinny chin chin . . .

If anyone is following the Olympics and saw some swimming, chances are they were watching Michael Phelps and his quest for 8. One of the races was between him and Milorad Cavic where the final result was stated as being a difference of 1/100 of a second. This is technically the smallest amount of time used in the Olympics.

Below is a picture released by Omega(the company in charge of the time keeping) showing a top down view of the finish. It is actually a picture just after Phelps (in the right lane of the left column) arrived and right as Cavic (in the left lane of the right column) hits the wall. Just as a side note, in case anyone wanted to know this was in the 100 meter butterfly final.

Arne Hendrik's Meatloaf Man

Some things are just too sacred to mess with. Well, on the opposite side of that scale lies meatloaf. Ever since I was a kid I did not like it. It may be that my mother's meatloaf has a strong onion taste to it or that I just do not like the thought of meat mashed up and then covered in slime.

Arne decided to be crafty and made a meatloaf man pictured below:



Pretty good craftsmanship actually. He even gave it a shoe on one foot.

Soft White Charmin type clouds of Projection Heaven. . .

For those people looking to get a projection screen somewhere in their 20+ acre estate, or for those of us that own less than one acre and just want a cool theater experience, Home Entertainment Magazine has put together a pretty good basic 101 on where to start.



The full article can be found here.

To start this off . .

I just read an article about the tallest skyscraper in the world. When you hear that you automatically think of the tallest building that you have seen, maybe in LA or New York and then add 20 or 30 floors right? Well, that is what I did.

Now, sit down and get ready for the reality.

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Blueprint and article by Gizmodo.com

The start of a blog. . .

Well, I was posting some interesting items to a prior blog that I had started a while back and my wife said that she could not send anyone to that site since it was a little nerdy. So, here is my less nerdy/geeky/whatever blog for all the world to see.

Hope you all enjoy it.