Prineville is small town in Central Oregon about an hour northeast of Bend. Redmond, home of Lancair, is about 20 miles due west.
It used to home to Les Schwab Tires, but they moved their headquarters to Bend a few years ago. They still have a tire warehouse there. You can see it near the bottom left corner in the above image.
Facebook has a data center there now. They archive all the old cat pictures here. It's near the center top. Airport is to the west (left).
Facebook Data Center
The gray eggcrate looking things on the gray pavement confused me until I zoomed in. They're solar panels.
Rodrigo Canales: The deadly genius of drug cartels
Seems that not drug cartels are created equal. Who knew? Meanwhile, the only reason drugs are still illegal in the USA is because the majority of the members of Congress are corrupt pigs.
Proof That Computers Can't Do Everything (The Halting Problem)
Notice the way the walker twists its upper torso ever so slightly while it is walking (starts at 25 seconds, runs through 31). That little bit on motion conveys something, perhaps a little bit of sass? Don't bother watching the whole video, short as it is, it's an effing waste of time.
The Halting Problem itself is stupid. It's one of those philosophical questions that computer science wienies like to argue over, kind like the old "how many angels can you fit on the head of a pin" question that old time religious philosophers used to argue about.
Can you build a machine that won't work? Sure, easy. Pick up a rock. Declare that this rock is a rocket and can fly to the moon. Let go of the rock. Will it fly to the moon? No, it will not.
Can you build a machine that will count to infinity? No, you can't. You can't even build something that would hold the answer because it would have to be infinitely big.
Consideration of some of the fundamental questions about what computers can do have provided real insight into the nature of the universe and have led to real benefit. This is not one of them.
Left side of engine showing external flywheel right next to the rider's footpeg.
Wouldn't the American safety bureaucrats freak if they saw this?
Making the flywheel external meant the didn't have to build a case for it, which saved some weight. With a smooth finish on the flywheel and proper footwear on the rider (leather boots), there should have been was little chance for trouble. More pictures of the bike here. They started building it in 1939, but production was soon interrupted by the war. They resumed building it after the war and continued up till 1957.
