Mike Woycheck

2001 - 2010 A Mac Odyssey Infographic

fuckyeahspace:

unknownskywalker:

The most detailed picture of a sunspot

The photo shows a sun spot at about 3600ºC, surrounded by a mosaic at 5800ºC. The image was taken on July 2 with the Big Bear Solar Observatory team; a 5.25-feet telescope that is able to resolve sun details as small as 45 kilometers in optimal conditions. The image itself shows details measuring 0.09 arcseconds, which is about 65 kilometers.

Source: Gizmodo

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inothernews:

ROCKY, KNACKERED   A squirrel sleeps on a shady branch outside the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Court House in Washington. (Photo: AP via the Baltimore Sun)

fuckyeahtransformers:

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“What? Fuck you, it looks cool.”

Dog Days (in photos) (http://todayspictures.slate.com/20100826/)

sportsocracy:

Muppet Name Etymology

laughingsquid:

Muppet Name Etymology

Conceptual redesign of United States currency - love the 10 dollar one.

(By Dowling Duncan)

theworldwelivein:

Bromo-Tengger-Semeru, Java, Indonesia
© tropicaLiving

buzzfeed:

Matt’s photo collection of nuns having fun is a constant reminder that whatever your doing would be much cooler if a nun did it.

And speaking of frisbee, I’m going back to school now. Thanks for a good summer, Tumblr.

[Nuns Having Fun]

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marjoree:

I love you, Tree. (via suitep)

rchel:

benjaminjtaylor:

This is true (via TOLA!).

Hungover owls - too awesome.

hungoverowls:

“Ugh…fucking…thing…just…I’m going back to bed.”

That’s a big moon.

fuckyeaheyegasms:

Full moon rising by Anthony Ayiomamitis

itsfullofstars:

A Milky Way Shadow at Loch Ard Gorge 
Credit & Copyright: Alex Cherney (Terrastro)

Explanation: Have you ever seen the Milky Way’s glow create shadows? To do so, conditions need to be just right. First and foremost, the sky must be relatively clear of clouds so that the long band of the Milky Way’s central disk can be seen. The surroundings must be very near to completely dark, with no bright artificial lights visible anywhere. Next, the Moon cannot be anywhere above the horizon, or its glow will dominate the landscape. Last, the shadows can best be caught on long camera exposures. In the above image taken in Port Campbell National Park, Victoria, Australia, seven 15-second images of the ground and de-rotated sky were digitally added to bring up the needed light and detail. In the foreground lies Loch Ard Gorge, named after a ship that tragically ran aground in 1878. The two rocks pictured are the remnants of a collapsed arch and are named Tom and Eva after the only two people who survived that Loch Ard ship wreck. A close inspection of the water just before the rocks will show shadows in light thrown by our Milky Way galaxy. Low clouds are visible moving through the serene scene in this movie.

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My God, it’s full of stars!

rchel:

secretjunk:

Guys, it was me.

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fuckyeaheyegasms:

Riding The Lights - Multiverse - Explored (by Elie R. (L.E. in L.A.))

fuckyeahspace:

Earth and Moon as seen from the Messenger spacecraft, May 2010.

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This is pretty damn depressing.

ellobofilipino:

Got this list from TIME.com. I don’t know if it applies to everyone though. But I think some of those listed are things I myself don’t anymore see much of these days.

1. Camera Film - Gone are the days of hearing the film rewind into its casing, transporting it to a photo lab and patiently waiting to find out how amateurish your snapshots look. 
2. Landline Phones - For most young folks, the only way they will own a landline phone is if cell reception is bad at home or if a cable triple-play package is more cost effective.
3. Real Books - More and more people are reading ebooks, with sales of electronic editions besting hardcovers for the first time this summer. The iPad is set to further challenge the physical book’s 600-year reign.
4. Being Lost - The days of asking for directions are done. Smart phones make life so easy. Now countless apps can utilize GPS technology to pinpoint your location and direct you to your desired locale with ease and precision. 
5. Music Videos on MTV - The television station once famous for forward-thinking music video shows like 120 Minutes and Alternative Nation — even the early years of Total Request Live — now can largely be summed up in three words: gym, tan, laundry. What happened?
6. Walkmans - Yesteryear’s Walkmans were indispensable, allowing us to take our beloved mix tapes everywhere. But the equipment was overthrown. First came the Discman, then the iPod. A new vocabulary developed—”MP3s,” “iTunes playlists”—and before you could hit pause, words like “rewind” had lost all meaning.
7. The Glory Days of Nick at Nite - Traditionally, Nick at Nite was the place for the classics: The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Munsters and later The Brady Bunch, Happy Days and The Wonder Years and more. That was then. Since, the network has made a switch to contemporary shows like George Lopez, Malcolm in the Middle and Everybody Hates Chris. Classics? I think not.
8. Tan M&Ms - If you were born in or before the 1980s and your parents allowed you to eat candy, chances are good that you encountered tan M&Ms. But for those of you who had your first chocolate experience in the mid-90s, you will probably know the current M&M color line up, which includes the color blue.
9. Czechoslovakia - Oh Czechoslovakia, we hardly knew you. You seem now a faraway land, your name tripping off the tongue. What kid these days will think of your triumphant soccer teams, your famous dissidents? Will they remember a time when an Iron Curtain fell across the West? Will they know what it was like when the battle for democracy was finally won? And will they lament the ethnic nationalism that, in 1993, ultimately cut you in half? No, they won’t. They’ll just visit Prague, pretend to read Milan Kundera, and drink all your cheap beer.
10. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator - Before he was elected Governor of California in 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger had a long history of being buff, tough and dangerous — at least on screen. The Austrian-born politician started out as a bodybuilder, winning four Mr. Universe titles as well as an amateur title in the contest. He was unforgettable as the Terminator (which of course got him his nickname the Governator).

I think I would add the following to the list of things kids today will never experience:

1. Rambo or Rocky series - These Sylvester Stallone movies, where the Italian Stallion earned his status and popularized the red headband, will be among those which kids these days may have difficulties relating to. The sight of Stallone sporting the Eye of the Tiger and holding an M-60 machine gun with bullets criss-crossing his chest is one image from the 80’s which will forever be etched in the memories of today’s older generation.
2. East and West Germany - A couple of years ago I had a difficult time explaining that there were two Germanies back then to my students. I had to retrace German history from the tense post-Second World War years, to the Cold War incidents, and the Reunification, just so I could explain to them the problems in the German economy. I guess it goes without saying that I also had to explain the the political significance of tearing down the Berlin Wall and finally being free from the threat and intimidation of the Stasi.
3. Baywatch - This is one of those TV shows which only a handful of kids in the future will be able to see. And they would probably wonder why the world tuned in to a show with lifeguards strutting down beaches waiting for people to drown. But maybe if they get to watch a few episodes of the series in the future, then they will understand why.
4. Word Star - I know many of you might be wondering what the hell this is. But for those who still got to use it, Word Star then is what is Microsoft Word is these days. It was the backbone of word processing in the early 80’s. I remember how my father and his officemates used this in their newsroom back then. In our computer classes at school, we got to use Word Star 6, and it was really weird considering that we were already using Microsoft Word 6 at home. But I still did see some newsrooms in Cagayan de Oro use Word Star 6 until the late 90’s.
5. The USSR - Much of today’s kids and maybe even those born tomorrow will, know little of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or USSR. This was very apparent when me and my girlfriend watched Salt. The teens beside us were wondering what the hammer and sickle over a red field meant. And they didn’t understand why the Russians wanted to destroy the US. I guess kids these days and in the future will also be wondering what the letters KGB mean and why it was feared in Eastern Europe and even in some countries in the West.

These five things are among those I think today’s kids will never experience or at least have a difficult time understanding when they encounter these things in the future. But of course, with Google and Wikipedia, the answers to their questions will be conveniently at hand for them in the future.

fuckyeahspace:

:’(

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fuckyeahspace:

The planet Neptune will be in opposition—when the sun, Earth, and a planet fall in a straight line—on Aug. 20. The planet will be exactly opposite the sun in the sky, being highest in the sky at local midnight. Usually this is also the point where the planet is closest to the Earth.

This opposition is special because Neptune will be returning close to the spot where it was discovered in 1846, marking its first complete trip around the sun since its discovery.

Coincidentally opposition in 1846 also fell on Aug. 20, although the planet wasn’t actually spotted until over a month later, on Sept. 23.

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samabernethy:

OMG: Golden Girls Nesting Dolls

samabernethy:

Plumbing Van WIN

“I pity the stool”

Trying to jump start the old Tumblr.

texburgher:

hereyougo:

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is running a story about Here You Go on the front page of its website this morning. What a wonderful thing to wake up to, and thanks to Jason Logue for bringing it to our attention at 7:21 AM on a Saturday!

Read the article here

Photo credit: Bill Wade, Post-Gazette

From the article:

Ms. Kresen has found that the umbrella giveaway works best “when it is raining hard enough that the person would be crazy to say no.” She’s also found that, for whatever reason, women are more successful than men at giving away umbrellas.

For whatever reason? I’d gather that the reason has something to do with oh man, check out the look on that guy’s face and why is he getting so close to me please god don’t let him hurt me!

I’m so thankful all over again to all you guys who helped make this a reality, and I’m so proud of Julie for running with it all. She had a late night last night, so she hasn’t seen the article yet. I should probably go wake her up and tell her the news.

In so many ways and with great feeling - I love this photo.

hortenseg:

(L-R) President Kennedy walking hand-in-hand w. daughter Caroline on St. Patrick’s Day at the White House.

Taken by Paul Schutzer for Life Magazine, March 17, 1961.

I’m doing that crazy thing where I ride 150 miles on my bike over two days. Why would I do such a ridiculous thing which last year included a first day of murderous hills that nearly tore my legs off? I do it because its what I can do to help find a cure and treat folks who have MS. If you don’t…

etourneau:

happythings:

applearts: 9GAG - What The Fun!

texburgher:

hereyougo:

Spring is here and so is the rain. 

If you want to help us give away free umbrellas to people caught in the rain, the time is now!

Come join us for a cup of coffee (our treat) and become an official Here You Go Hander Outer, next Saturday morning at Espresso a Mano in Lawrenceville.

We’ll be there from 8 AM until 12 noon. Come whenever you can. We’ll get you caffeinated, signed up, and stocked with umbrellas.

Where: Espresso a Mano, 3623 Butler St. Pittsburgh, PA 15201
When: Sat, April 17, 8 AM-12 noon
We will be able to be reached by SMS or phone on the day of the event at 412-567-7844 or, as always, by email at hereyougopgh@gmail.com

If you’re in Pittsburgh and want to help us give out a thousand umbrellas, come join us next Saturday morning at Café a Mano!

Pac-Man, Saw-style.

Run Jesus Run: aka the 10 second gospel

Made in 4 days for the Experimental Gameplay Project - theme “10 seconds” 

Instructions: click on the Flash object to start. 
You have 10 seconds to redeem the humanity. 
Arrow keys: Run. Space: Do Jesus Things. 

(Available in Mac and Windows)

RELEASE THE CRACKLIN’ OAT BRAN

TECMO. BOWL. THROWBACK.

I’m a big fan of this, for more than one reason.

Impaling bears with a tree? WIN.

deantrippe:

Barack Obama Looking at Awesome Things #4: Hoverboard.

Cuuuute!: Minimalist ‘Up’ Scene In LEGO - Geekologie

magdalina:

Geoff Manaugh at BLDGBLOG on what might have been The Road’s world-ending disaster:

The only glimpse we’re given of what violently ends the known order of things is this brief scene; I have left McCarthy’s original spelling and punctuation and intact:

The clocks stopped at 1:17. A long shear of light and then a series of low concussions. He got up and went to the window. What is it? she said. He didnt answer. He went into the bathroom and threw the lightswitch but the power was already gone. A dull rose glow in the windowglass. He dropped to one knee and raised the lever to stop the tub and the turned on both taps as far as they would go. She was standing in the doorway in her nightwear, clutching the jamb, cradling her belly in one hand. What is it? she said. What is happening?

I dont know.
Why are you taking a bath?
I’m not.

After this, the landscape outside—everywhere—is described as “scabbed” and “cauterized,” heavily covered in ash. McCarthy memorably writes: “They sat at the window and ate in their robes by candlelight a midnight supper and watched distant cities burn.”

… McCarthy’s end-times scenario sounds, to me, remarkably like nuclear war, but in his Wall Street Journal interview McCarthy entertains, even if only casually, that it could also have been the caldera beneath Yellowstone National Park finally exploding. McCarthy:

A lot of people ask me [what caused The Road’s apocalypse]. I don’t have an opinion. At the Santa Fe Institute I’m with scientists of all disciplines, and some of them in geology said it looked like a meteor to them. But it could be anything—volcanic activity or it could be nuclear war. It is not really important. The whole thing now is, what do you do? The last time the caldera in Yellowstone blew, the entire North American continent was under about a foot of ash. People who’ve gone diving in Yellowstone Lake say that there is a bulge in the floor that is now about 100 feet high and the whole thing is just sort of pulsing. From different people you get different answers, but it could go in another three to four thousand years or it could go on Thursday. No one knows.

It was thus amazingly interesting to read that no less than 1,799 earthquakes have occurred beneath Yellowstone since January 17, 2010—a so-called earthquake swarm.

sportsocracy:

Mike & Bob, Max Talbot, and Tall Cathy magic time!

Sound words.

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Sadly, this just reminds me that I need a vacation.

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Rejected Donnie Darko prop?

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Post-it couple in the rain: I really, really like this.

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The Walrus: It’s Like a Vampire, But Awesome

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HANG IN THERE

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A dog as the epicenter of the Universe.

robot-heart:

Winnie Au, Dog Portraits on the Behance Network