Tested my Atari 1050's and Atari 850 floppy drives

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So today I finally got around to testing my Atari floppy drives I've picked up lately. The bottom 810 and the middle 1050 I picked up via Goodwill locations, the top 1050 I actually bought on eBay along with another 800xl (4 now and they all run like champs!!!) and an Atari 1027 printer (printhead is rotted, obviously) all in their original boxes with original cables and manuals. Sadly the top 1050 doesn't work, I get boot errors and there was quite a bit of what appeared to be rubber dust on the floppy after I took it out so I'll take it apart probably early next year once things slow down and see what I can do to get her back to life.

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Hey, 2 out of 3 of them work and that's honestly more than I could have hoped for. I was sure the 810 would be DoA as it originally belonged to a high school and presumably saw a lot of use, but man it works like a champ still! Mind you, I don't need these floppy drives to work as I have an SIO2PC and an Atarimax MyIDE-II CompactFlash Interface but it's just nice to have the functional drives, I also picked up 50 new-ish floppies (less than a decade old) from a manufacturer that handles legacy support for the U.S. Government (that's right tax payers, somewhere someone in the government is still using computers that need floppy disks haha).

The Ferguson, Missouri riots are a false flag operation!

So, as I write this the verdict in Ferguson is about 11 hours old... and surprise surprise within 5 minutes people were rioting. Guess what people... the violent protestors are plants. It's a False Flag operation.

False flag: False flag (or black flag) describes covert military or paramilitary operations designed to deceive in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by entities, groups, or nations other than those who actually planned and executed them.

That’s what special forces does best, Unconventional Warfare: In United States doctrine, unconventional warfare (abbreviated UW) is the term for guerrilla warfare that is conducted or supported by units in the United States Special Operations Command. Guerrilla warfare is one aspect of the broader term insurgency.

While I doubt it's any active duty members of the Special Forces community, these men are patriots and would hang before they did such things to our country, they are most likely contractors or even 'Army of North Virginia' (3-letter assets). Just wait, they'll likely use these riots to try and make a move aginst more of our freedoms... like perhaps Martial Law

Stay frosty America. 

What bothers me about most time travel

You know what bothers me about time travel in nearly all fiction… the Earth is rotating on it’s axis at roughly 1k miles per hour (at the equator, slower up here north of the equator), the Earth is moving 66,000 miles per hour through the solar system, the sun is moving about 43,000 miles per hour (relative to the local standard of rest) around the galaxy, the galaxy is moving roughly 483,000 miles per hour through the universe… 

 

Let's look at a common theory of ghosts for a second "perhaps it's bleeding through from another time" ok... so for something to bleed through for another time… it would be appearing into some random patch of space an absurd distance away from the physical location on Earth it is bleeding through from.  It’s why Wells’ time machine, Doc Brown’s etc just don’t work. If you went one second into the past or future you’d be 164.72 miles or so away from where you were a second before… in space. 

 

That's just a single second folks... this is why you need something complicated like the TARDIS that travels through time AND space. That's why you can't just walk into the TARDIS and push a button to get somewhere and somewhen. It's a process, a very complicated one... even with the TARDIS doing a lot of the work, it's still a complex maneuver on part of the pilot.

Fat, joules and iPhones oh my!

So my iPhone 5 has a 5.45Wh battery, 1 watt is 1 joule a second. So the iPhone 5 battery has a potential of 19,620 joules (new)... a kcal (big C calorie, what you see on a food label) is 4184 joules. A pound of fat has around 17,080 joules based on my math (joules per gram of fat sourced from google search, 37.656J per gram of fat)... Quick, convince my body to grow an electrical outlet!!!