I went to visit Chicago. To make life easier my dear friend Emily gave me one set of the keys to her home. I left Chicago with these keys still in my pocket. I met Emily back in Cleveland (she had to comeback for various reasons) and I entirely forgot that I had her keys in my pocket. So, they still had to be returned. But at this point it had taken so long that simply mailing them was far to boring an option. So I made this card.
I submit this as the cutest way forgotten keys have ever been returned.
The first million dollar winner of Deal Or No Deal (from 9/1/08)
I can’t explain why I like this video, but I was lol-ing throughout it. Biggest highlight:
I’VE GOT TEXAS GUTS Y’ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Interesting note: The suitcase the player was in possession of had a 1/26 chance of being the million dollar case. The suitcase the model was in possession of had a 25/26 chance of being the million dollar case.
This was not a 50/50 bet she just took. I am glad luck was on her side.
Don’t believe me? Google the “Monty Hall problem” and get ready for a headache.
Between October 2007 and August 2009, a new digital all-sky mosaic image was assembled from more than 3000 individual CCD frames. Using an SBIG STL-11000 camera, 70 fields (each covering 40° × 27°) were imaged from dark-sky locations in South Africa, Texas and Michigan. In order to increase the dynamic range beyond the 16 bits of the camera’s analog-to-digital converter (of which approx. 12 bits provide data above the noise level), three different exposure times (240 s, 15 s and 0.5 s) were used. Five frames were taken for each exposure time and filter setting. The fields were photometrically calibrated using standard catalog stars and sky background data from the Pioneer 10 and 11 space probes. The new panorama has an image scale of 36 arcsec/pixel (approx. 3× the resolution of the old, film-based mosaic), a limiting magnitude of approx. 14 mag and an 18 bit dynamic range. At full resolution and bit depth, it is a 648 MPixel, 7.7 GByte FITS cube. Unlike the old image, the new panorama was carefully calibrated to preserve the large-scale star and dust clouds.
US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet trick or treaters at the North Portico of the White House as they celebrate Halloween in Washington, DC, on October 31, 2009. The First couple welcomed more than 2,000 children from Washington, Maryland and Virginia schools and their families to celebrate Halloween. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
