Redemption

Overview
      I'm dead serious: someone somewhere needs to send me a crappy book so I don't look like a free 5 star giver. I don't know if I am too easy on books, am not critical enough, or I just somehow get excellent books all the time. Well Redemption (as seen on the beautiful cover) is the added tales of excellent classic characters Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. Now older, better writers, and more mature they go from the Confederate army to different paths ultimately to meet up in Redemption, Colorado for 1 goal. Book sound amazing? Well probably because it is.

Review
     From the cover to the story the book was amazing. It flowed well, it read easily, and I loved the angle it came from. The book came alive, but felt more than a typical Western novel. It had a really good story to it and felt like a true Mark Twain story. It just felt so authentic I forgot Mark Twain has been dead a LONG time.

Rating
    5/5 Really loved the book and couldn't fine one thing wrong with it! I'm sorry people that I haven't been on some epic rant about why a book is bad because well authors are churning out great content.

Xbox One tech

Xbox One’s Powerful New Time-Of-Flight Sensing Camera

 

     I recently installed Visual Studio Pro for our robotics at school and one of the things we chose to add was the Kinect Software Development Kit (SDK). I have no clue if we will get to experiment with Kinect but we are very eager to try it out. I mean our class would have a hay-day figuring this thing out. It looks like it has the potential of also replacing our expensive and slow 3D scanner. With many features, this device is definitely on our wish list and to do list. Kinect would not only be educational, but also a fun way to experiment, problem solve, and even beef up on programming!

Pepe

Overview
    Books this good usually don't show up on my radar. Yeah, I get a LOT of good books, but this was in a whole different category. It had a story I could associate with. A poor kid who didn't know his true identity suddenly is thrown into something he never would have imagined. Thankfully I'm not poor, I know my identity, but this premise is something you see happening all the time. Anywho the book itself was well formatted.

Review
     Well the book was flat out amazing. From the storyline, to the plot, to the characters, to the writing prose. The book was simply amazing. No more to really say. One thing I must say is the cover is much too busy for my likings. I mean if you want to use it as artwork it be great but a much more simpler cover be nicer something less sci fiey. Still I must admit the book was targeted for nerds/geeks/other people.

Ratings
   4/5 Excellent nerd sci fi totally deserving your money.
http://www.amazon.com/Pepe-Robby-Charters/dp/1461073553
http://www.robbycharters.co.uk/

New York on 41 Mega Pixels

     This video shows you the power of the 41 megapixel phone. Yes, this video was shot on a Nokia Lumia 1020 through 41 blocks of Manhattan.

Nuclear bomb nearly exploded over NC in 1961

    

     You might be thinking, "what does this have to do with technology or books?" The incident was saved, thank goodness, to a low voltage switch that was the only thing between the US and a big catastrophe. It seems funny if you think about it, "how could we accidently nuke ourselves?" The story was from a declassified U.S. document published by a British newspaper.
     The incident happened in 1961 when two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped over Goldsboro, North Carolina, after a B-52 bomber broke up in midair, stated on MSN.  Because of the newer and more powerful technology, the explosion would have been 260 times more powerful than the device dropped on Hiroshima.
     According to MSN.com, when the bomb hit the ground, a firing signal was sent to the nuclear core of the device and it was only the final, highly vulnerable switch that averted a disaster. In the document, Parker Jones, a senior engineer in the Sandia National Laboratories responsible for the mechanical safety of nuclear weapons, concluded that "one simple, dynamo-technology, low-voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe."
     The bomb behaved like a nuclear weapon in wartime with it's parachute and trigger mechanisms engaged. One hydrogen bomb fell into a field near Faro, N.C., and the other into a meadow. So all is well and let's pray that that does not happen again. You can read the story and watch the video on http://news.msn.com/us/nuclear-bomb-nearly-exploded-over-nc-in-1961-paper?ocid=ansnews11&stay=1

Microsoft back at New York Fashion Week

     I'm not much into fashion but here is a short documentary of New York fashion week and technology. Technology, fashion, pretty ladies, etc.