The I-Sun is having a flare up. Sunspot 1082 is erupting with small flares. These flares are what scientists classify as “B-Class” flares. These flares explode with the magnitude of about 10 million atomic bombs.
The real nasty I-Sun sunspot flare ups are the “X-Class” flares. These flares explode with an intensity that is thousands of times greater then the “B-Class” flares, and are the types of solar flares that will burn off our ozone layer and cause us to have a really…really bad day. Scientists predict that the those type of flares will become more common once the I-Sun hits its Solar Maximum in 2013.
So start digging your underground I-Sun protection pod today.
I actually watched today’s winner live on CSPAN and I couldn’t believe my luck! Thank you Rep. Baton R-Tex. You have given me my absurd word of the day: SHAKEDOWN.
Here, I was thinking that BP got off relatively easy with the setting up of a fund (only $5 billion per year for the next 4 years) of $20 billion. Guess I’m more gangsta then the President!
Maybe this is how the Congressman from Texas thinks it all went down at the White House yesterday…
Are you wondering…”Why did that call go right to voice mail?” Space Weather thats why. The Earth is getting lit up by a solar wind storm that is kicking up some impressive geomagnetic activity.
The folks at NOAA, when not monitoring the oil spill, estimate a 60% chance of more geomagnetic activity tonight as the solar wind continues to blow.
From the above picture you would think that our President has BP against the wall. CEO Tony Hayward is making the quasi “fist face” and Obama’s got him on the ropes with his “I mean business” pointer thumb. But no. BP is getting off cheap. So just for the hell of it, I googled “what can I buy for $20 billion” and this is what I got.
Wow. The folks on the Gulf Coast will cost BP what Spam costs in terms of the loss of productivity per year. Hmmm. What else? The US Bank Bailout perhaps? A Microsoft Share buyback? Yep. It sounds like its a lot of money to compensate people who have lost their lively hoods, but its really not. It is only the tip of a multi-generational iceberg whose melt rate will overflow in that area for years and years to come.
Saw this in a training bit today. Could this be Ricky Gervais moonlighting as a beard and hair net model? “This is completely and totally mental!” He looks very unhappy about this whole scenario!
Well, as you all know, I got the job as instructional designer at a chicken farm in Lower Slower Delaware. I was given an office with no windows, so I decided to put a nice window view on my computer. I thought this captured the spirit of Lower Slower Delaware and the job at hand!
This sign was spotted on the Rehoboth Beach Delaware boardwalk. The arcade/amusement section of the park is called PLAYLAND and it lost a very important lighted letter. I think with the “L” blown out, the name of the business is more appropriate as “PAYLAND”. Go in, have fun, and PAY PAY PAY!
Doing a presentation on presentations this week. I found this comedy bit on PowerPoint abuse that I thought was very funny. I’m surprised more comedians don’t make use of PowerPoint. It is, pretty much, the adult version of an etch-a-sketch.
