This is Ryan O’Malley. He’s my trainer at the Boston Sports Club at Downtown Crossing.
In this picture, Ryan is encouraging me by telling me that I’m his #1 client.
Seriously, if you’re looking for an excellent trainer, he’s your guy.
For the second year in a row, I was lucky enough to see the USS Constitution out in Boston Harbor while aboard the commuter boat from Hingham. “Old Ironsides” is towed out into the harbor twice yearly and is subsequently brought back in facing the opposite way so that it can weather evenly.
Unlike last year I had my trusty camera phone with me and managed to take a blurry shot while we slowly passed.
Here’s a better shot from 1997:
The ignorance that still abounds in the 21st century never fails to amaze me.
One SPACE.com reader asks: “Will it be dangerous when Mars gets that close to Earth? It has me a little worried.” Others have e-mailed to say they heard there would be earthquakes or other disasters. One of the many rumors going around says the two planets will collide.
C’mon, people. Instead of using your fancy new computer to play solitaire or surf joke-of-the-day web sites, why don’t you spend a few hours (hell, even a few minutes) actually *learning* instead of spreading ignorance.
From The Independent:
In 2001 Laura Buxton released a balloon in Staffordshire. It was found 140 miles away – by a girl called Laura Buxton. Neville Ebin died in Bermuda when a taxi knocked him off his moped. A year later his brother was killed on the same moped in the same street by the same taxi driven by the same man and carrying the same passenger. And, best of all, in Massachusetts in 1965 Roger Lausier, aged four, was saved from drowning by a woman called Alice Blaise. Nine years later Roger saw a man drowning on the same beach, dived in and saved him. He was Alice Blaise’s husband.
I finally got sick of carrying around my overly large Kyocera 6035 SmartPhone. Good timing, too, as Verizon is finally selling a low-cost camera phone — the LG VX6000. So far I love it, with the only bad features being the obnoxious polyphonic MIDI ringtones (do you *really* need to have tinny, bombastic classical music for your ringer?) and the lack of PC cable (USB cable to be released “soon”).
Here’s some sample pics:
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| Arch Street in Boston | The lobby of 101 Arch St. | View from the commuter boat |
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| Another from the boat | Tommy | Unsafe driving |
Space.Com‘s picture of the day is a view of the East coast blackout from space:
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Google never fails to amaze me. Their site is not only the best search engine around, but it also includes additional useful functionality – maps, phone book, stock quotes, etc.
It now even has a built-in calculator.
Want to know the mass of the sun * pi as measured in stones? Pounds? Grams? Atomic Mass Units? How about pennyweight?
How about converting 3,737,844,653 to hexidecimal? Binary? Octal?
Very handy.
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