ANDREW PENG

Update: Edited the embed because the original video was removed.   When commercial space tourism becomes attainable (but not necessarily affordable), I’m going to have to see this for myself.

Estimate the mass of an Airbus A320 at about 170,000lb, start the accelerometer based dyno tool on the iPod touch, and wait for takeoff! For the record, the estimation based on a 170000lb aircraft was 28596 hp 60′: 4.71 sec@18.5 MPH 1/8 mi: 13.89 sec@ 66.5 MPH 1/4 mi: 19.40 sec@94.2 MPH A rather poor 1/4 mile time that [...]

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Yelling at your servers can measurably negatively affect their performance. No joke. Make sure to treat your servers with respect, and keep it quiet in the datacenter! Perhaps there is a “brown note” for disks (“rust note”?) – some harmonic that destroys their performance; although based on what we think is happening (disk heads being [...]

After filling up my memory card with pictures of Supras after Supras, I gave up. Here are some pictures of the night meet later that evening.

Here are some TX2K11 pictures from this past weekend. Many thanks to Hennessey Performance Engineering, Lonestar Motorsports Park, and all the events sponsors for an awesome weekend. Pictures of the night meet and videos are coming soon!

Pictures of Joe Nemechek cars at HostGator.com’s Houston office.

You have two standard three-dimensional cubes, each with six sides. On each side, you are allowed to inscribe one number. How do you represent all the ~31 days of the month, if each of two cubes have exactly the same six numbers inscribed on each side? Edit: if you’re reading this syndicated on facebook, twitter, [...]