Jared Evans

"Barrios, Caracas, Venezuela. Caracas has grown enormously in the last 40 years, attracting people from all over South America, filling its narrow valley and climbing up the steep sides of the surrounding hills. These new districts, known as barrios or ranchos are home to more than 50 percent of Caracas's 3.8 million inhabitants." - Jared Evans via Bookmarklet

"The Athabasca Oil Sands, Alberta, Canada. These oil deposits make up the largest reservoir of crude bitumen in the world, and as recently as 2006, produced over 1 million barrels of crude oil per day." - Jared Evans via Bookmarklet

"Dun Eochla fort on Inishmore Island, County Galway, Ireland. The fort of Dun Eochla, rising above the close-cropped grass, was built centuries ago on this island some 30 miles off the Irish coast. The Aran Islands contain some of Europe's most magnificent prehistoric remains. This trio of islands - Inishmore, Inishmaan, and Inisheer - with their high rocky cliffs protect the Galway coast from the violent winds and currents of the Atlantic. For centuries, their inhabitants have helped keep the soil fertile by regularly spreading a mixture of sand and seaweed on the rock to produce the thin layer of humus needed for farming. To protect their plots from wind erosion, the islanders have built a vast network of almost 7,500 miles (12,000 km) of low walls, which give the land the appearance of a vast mosaic." - Jared Evans via Bookmarklet

"Sand dune in the heart of vegetation on Fraser island, Queensland, Australia. Fraser Island, named after Eliza Fraser, who was shipwrecked on the island in 1836, is the world's largest sand island." - Jared Evans via Bookmarklet

"The shadow of the Moon can be seen darkening part of Earth" - Jared Evans via Bookmarklet

"That's why they ask to have your "credit card on file." You don't return the iPhone to the hotel, no problem, it'll show up on your credit card bill next month :-)" - Jared Evans

"Yes, it'll work with iPod Touch. It depends upon WiFi, not cellphone functionality." - Jared Evans

"Why don't you stay there for a weekend and let us all know? :-)" - Jared Evans

awesome photos - Jared Evans

News about the stock market, but with attitude :-) - Jared Evans via Bookmarklet

creepy for those who hate spiders! - Jared Evans

Matrix one looks cool! - Jared Evans

O_O - Rochelle

It might also be called a moose knuckle - Lindsey Smith

the things you learn on the interwebs! - Faboo Mama

may help with getting Ubuntu domU on a SLES domO - Jared Evans

say again? - Jared Evans via Bookmarklet

Cuttin' edge technology! :-) - Jared Evans via Bookmarklet

My company made it to the front cover of Fortune Small Business - Jared Evans via Bookmarklet

"This happened because I skipped the step to disconnect all the hard drives on my system, which was really a precautionary measure for Linux newbies to avoid losing all the data on a hard drive if the loader was incorrectly installed on the wrong hard drive. If I had disconnected all the hard drives, USB drive would be detected as HD(0,0) and the reboot would have worked as expected." - Jared Evans

"It's because when I used the Ubuntu installer CDROM, during the installation, Ubuntu detected the hard drive on the computer as HD(0,0) and the USB drive as HD(1,0) and wrote grub to reflect this fact. Upon the reboot and booting directly off the USB drive, the USB drive moved to HD(0,0) hence the reason for the error above and needing to get grub updated." - Jared Evans

"Are you sure you know what an Acer Aspire One is? It's not a pager. It's a netbook (a bit smaller than a laptop). Anyway, the keyboard on Acer Aspire One is great. The construction feels sturdy and the size of keys isn't too small." - Jared Evans

"Thanks everyone for the comments. I went out of town for a short vacation and was unable to respond to the comments until now. It's obvious by now that I'm behind on the recent development work on cochlear implants. I remember a few years ago, I was told by others that the implanting surgery would damage the cochlear to an extent where the hair cells would be destroyed. At the time, it was also highly recommended that if a prospective CI candidate had residual hearing, it would be unethical of the doctor to recommend a CI since the residual hearing would be lost after the surgery. I appreciate all of your comments to clarify the current state of CI technology and surgical procedures. This is a great thing having my blog on an aggregator- taking advantage of the self-correcting behavior from a swarm of Internet visitors. I typed this post out of a concern for prospective CI candidates since they may be missing out on a more natural solution to the loss of hearing. I still stand by my..." - Jared Evans

I'm simply amazed that she spelled "Jeremiah" wrong, and "Owyang" correctly. That takes talent. The talent of a qualified "Analist". - Nathaniel Payne

anal! this should make it on Engrish soon :) - Dave Q

This was a result of outsourcing the spell checker to overseas :P - imabonehead

"Actually, this isn't too far-fetched as you think it would be. Mormons are big on genealogy as part of their religious beliefs. Facebook has many records of how people/family members are connected to each other. This is something Mormons would like to have in their hands as part of their genealogy project." - Jared Evans

":-) Happy Birthday, by the way!" - Jared Evans