Source: Rob Gonsalves
I’ve been completely satisfied with GoDaddy.com for a few years now, as both a registrar and a hosting solution. While other hosting companies have since followed suit, GoDaddy.com was the first to offer full DNS control in their admin tool. It’s what sold me at the time.
As a valued customer, I just happened to open up one of GoDaddy.com’s weekly e-newsletters:
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100 gigabytes of storage. Unbelievable. I can’t help but think back to 1990 when I spent about $1400 on a Mac Classic, which sported two megs of RAM and a 40 megabyte internal hard drive. Internal, mind you. That was cutting-edge stuff at the time. Then I spent another $60 to max the little monster up to a whopping 4 megs of RAM.
For perspective, I just did some math. With my newly upgraded GoDaddy account, I could conceivably fill up my old Mac Classic’s hard drive TWO AND A HALF MILLION TIMES (2,500,000) and store it on my GoDaddy account for no additional charge.
Today during our morning walk at Angels Gate we ran into what I can only describe as a delightful old woman and her dogs. She looked like somebody who’d be tending her garden in the Shire, albeit larger.
After our dogs introduced themselves to each other, the old woman, speaking with a British (or perhaps Irish) accent, looks at me and says, “Do you like spiders?”
Threw me for a loop.
“Spiders?” I replied. “Well, I know a few of ’em. I suppose we get along okay.” Laughing, I graciously add, “I guess they’re interesting. Why?”
She smiles and explains. “Today there was a big spider with its beautiful web stretched across my porch. I almost ran right into it before stopping. I coughed, and I saw the spider get scared and curl up into a little ball.”
“Wow,” I offer. I mean, what I am I supposed to say to this friendly old lady?
She continues. “You see, when it flinched at the sound of my cough, I realized it had ears. It could hear.”
“Aha,” I said, now genuinely interested in where she was taking me. “Are you sure it wasn’t just the vibration of the sound wave?”
“Good question,” she replied. “I thought of that too. So out of curiosity I blew on the web, moving it with the wind of my breath. The spider didn’t flinch. I then covered my mouth and intentionally coughed one more time. It curled up into a ball again. You see, it was exposed to a sound it hadn’t heard before, and sensed danger.”
“Fascinating,” I say. “Go on.”
“So I wait about ten minutes,” she says. “After my tea was done, I go back out to the porch, and the spider is now uncurled. I cover my mouth again and, for the third time, I cough. The spider didn’t flinch.”
“Hmmm,” I said.
She looks at me, trusting I’ve grasped the implied conclusion. “Learned behaviour,” she explains. “It took three times. When no real danger presented itself after the sound of my cough, the spider was smart enough to not be bothered by the sound anymore.”
“That’s awesome,” I said. And it was. “What do you do?”
“I’m a retired physician,” she said. “Opthamologist. Anyhow, I’ll let you and your dogs be on your way. Cheerio.”
“Have a great day, ma’am,” I said. “As a matter of fact, I do like spiders.”
This is the artwork used for the cover of Norfolk’s Virginian-Pilot newspaper for this year’s September 11 anniversary. It was designed by Sam Hundley.
Talk about a thousand words. I’m stunned.
o‧ri‧ga‧mi [awr-i-gah-mee] –noun
- The traditional Japanese art or technique of folding paper into a variety of decorative or representational forms, as of animals or flowers.
A really unique fusion of art, mathematics, and science. There are even engineering solutions to be found in its laws and algorithms.
