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  • My favorite actress and how I would spend my day with them

    Hollywood has a way of making us feel real emotions that we don’t feel every day. Films are what bring us to life even more so. But what do they need to be truly successful? The writing, the score, action (if any), the editing, and the acting from the actors/actresses. Even if they have those, it must be done well. The actors/actresses are what really bring the characters to life and make the emotion of the dialogue. Without them, there wouldn’t be a film to begin with.

    With so many actors and actresses today, and great ones as well, it’s difficult to choose just one that I would consider my favorite and spend my day with. Robert De Niro is a great actor and has been in many successful films, but I don’t think I would want to spend the day with him. Same way of thinking with Michael Fassbender; great actor, don’t want to hang out with.

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  • Natural Gas brings end to Coal

                Coal is mainly used for electricity, but there are other ways to generate electricity including natural gas, hydro and nuclear power. Coal is dying though. How can this be? Why is this happening? Furthermore, why is it not coming back as an economic force in the United States?

    What is coal exactly? “Coal is a fossil fuel and is the altered remains of prehistoric vegetation that originally accumulated in swamps and peat bogs. The energy we get from coal today comes from the energy that plants absorbed from the sun millions of years ago” (World Coal Association). Basically, when plants die, their energy gets trapped because their “decaying process is interrupted, preventing the release of the stored solar energy,” and that’s where the energy gets locked in the coal (World Coal Association).

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  • Everyone Needs One

    The lighting in my office is crap so the photo dose not due justice to its greatness!

     

         I have unilaterally decided that everyone who is serious about gaming on the PC needs a screen this big right in front of their dam faces right now! Bask in the glory that is my new Samsung 50in 4K UHD LED monitor. Now I am off to fly my space ships!!! CIAO

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  • Long Time no Write

        

    My rack, getting ever so slightly more full...
    My rack, getting ever so slightly more full…

         So yes, it has been a very long time since I have written on here but from my last post I had just started my new job in Brussels Belgium. What can I say it has kept me busy and now has led to a promotion (cheers for me J). However as with all good things I have to take the bad also, which leads me to the process of getting ready to move so I can take the promotion. (Moving Sucks ASS!!!) So where am I going? Well it is a terrible place but I have to take one for the team ;). So soon I will be calling Vicenza Italy my new home as you can all guess it toke all of 2 seconds to say yes, I will take it to the HR rep.

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  • Yahoo, Email and Justin Ellsworth

     

    Once upon a time, there was a marine named Justin Ellsworth who by all accounts was a good guy, up till that day that he was killed in the line of duty.  So all the normal things happened after his death like the funeral, mourning and going through his things to determine what to save or toss out.  Well as these things were happening Justin parents wanted to also save his email so that they could know there son better.  This is where things got complicated, as Justin did not leave his password to his yahoo.com account or presumably, a provision in his will for his email accounts. (Monitor, 2005)

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  • My opinions on the Healthcare.gov rollout

    My first experience with healthcare.gov
    My first experience with healthcare.gov

                So, by now I think everyone in the USA and the rest of the world has heard about the epic failure of a website healthcare.gov was at launch.  To be fair I do admit that I understand the complexity of it as it has to tie into several government databases, all of which use different software and formatting.  From what I heard, they had to have the website reach into more than 100 of these government databases all over the United States.  Furthermore, in true government fashion none of these databases are located in the same data center. Continue reading  Post ID 318

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  • I feel like the mechanic some days

    To put it into an analogy;

    A man takes his fiat 500 to the shop to have it souped-up, two weeks later he comes back and is disappointed with the car. So, he says to the mechanic, “you said you could make my car faster.” The mechanic looks at the car and then to him and says, “It’s the fastest fiat in town, if you wanted it to go as fast as a Ferrari you should of brought me a Ferrari.”

    The morel of this story is don’t bring me a fiat and expect me to make a Ferrari out of it.

     

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