Sure, it’s no $400 million weather satellite, but NASA’s test of the new Orion vehicle’s parachute system is certainly up there in the “ouch” department — the high speed fall from 25,000 with precisely zero successful chute deployments is downright…
What’s your Swedish furniture name?
The 6 string banjo: a weird hybrid of a guitar and a banjo. It sounds great, though, as the Page/Krauss album attests to. Give a listen:
Along the lines of yesterday’s efforts, Merlin Mann linked to a new artistic trend: placing baby/toddler faces in old yearbooks to comedic/frightening effect. Here’s my quick attempt using my children as guinea pigs:
By way of Merlin Mann’s linkblog/tumblog, I stumbled across Yearbook Yourself, a site that allows you to insert your visage into yearbook photos of years gone by. While the above-linked shots of Mike Monteiro are downright hilarious, I shall allow…
There she is, my little niece. My wife, kids and I climbed into the van yesterday evening and ran up to the Lehigh Valley to get our first look at our new niece My brother and sister-in-law decided upon “Laney…
Bwahahahhahaha!
It’s official: my brother and sister-in-law gave birth to their first child, a daughter, this evening. She’s a little under two weeks early and weighed a reported 5 lbs. 1 oz. She was delivered by emergency C-section and they had…
Whoa. Somebody got ahold of an extremely high-speed camera and captured footage of a lightning bolt, from cloud-borne inception to final strike. Dig it: I love how the initial bolts meander slowly until one of them makes contact with the…
Forget Rickrolling, you’ve been Barack-rolled! Bwahahaha!
